6 Months, Baby Milestones, Cancun, and a Trip to the Emergency Room!

Wow! A lot has happened since the last time I posted...amazingly enough! Addison is still doing great with solids. She's made it through all the stage 1 fruits and I tried to introduce her first veggies this week, but I'll get to that later. She's now starting to sit on her own like a tripod, not for very long, but it's a huge step for her! She's also rolling over several times in a row...looks like we're going to need to get a railing up and a gate for the stairs! She also got her second tooth while Adam and I were on vacation! She's quite the biter now with her new little chompers :)

We had her 6-month appointment Tuesday of this week and everything looked great! The doctor was very impressed with her, as usual! She's a tall, skinny baby with a big head just like her mama :) Here are her 6-month stats, her 6-month picture, and a link to her full 5-month web album:

Weight: 17lbs, 7oz (75th percentile)
Height: 27.5in (>97th percentile)
Head Circumference: 17.5in (90th percentile)

6-Months Old!!!

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Baby Addison: 5 Months

I've been working from home all week and spending time with Addison since her daycare lady is on vacation. Thank goodness because this week has been a doozy! As I said earlier, I started to introduce peas as of Monday. She loved them the first night, but was pretty iffy with them ever since.... On Tuesday, I got some sort of bug that had me laid up sick all day. Whether montezuma's revenge or the flu, it was not a very fun day. Thank you to Adam for working from home that day so I could get some rest! Then yesterday, Addison and I had an appointment at Babies R Us to get her 6-month pictures taken, so we had to get up a bit early. After showering, I had Addison sitting in her boppy chair and I heard her sneeze. When I looked over, she was absolutely covered head-to-toe in puke!!! Looking cute as ever with puke all over her face, I did my best to get her ready for her pictures so we could head on our way to Babies R Us.

On our way to her pictures, I called Adam to tell him that his daughter puked for the first time ever! What I thought was puke before was nothing compared to what I saw yesterday! While on the phone, I started to hear her dry-heaving in the back seat, so I let Adam go so I could pull over and check on her. Sure enough, she puked again! What in the world was going on with my little pumpkin?!? She seemed happy enough, so I continued on our way to her pics. Let me tell you, Babies R Us got some pretty awesome pictures of Addison! No matter how sick she was, she didn't let it show and looked absolutely adorable! (see the thumbnails of her pictures below)

After getting her pictures taken, Addison and I headed to my work for a visit and then headed home. Once again, her evening solids feeding with the peas didn't go very well. She didn't seem interested at all...so I gave up! Addison hung out for a little while in her Bumbo seat while Adam and I ate dinner. All the sudden, her face got really red...anyone who has or has babysat a child knows what that look means...get ready to change a diaper! Sure enough, blow out central! Although this time, it was more diarrhea than anything else...not a good sign after the day she had. After dinner, Addison and I headed to "The Wedding Chapel" to pick out my "best man" dress for Andy's wedding in October. She seemed to do fine, so I wasn't worried at all.

When we got home, it was time to get ready for bed and have her "nigh nigh" bottle. She got through about 3 ounces and then wanted to take a break. If only I had known what would happen next. While burping an coddling her close, it happened.............she puked for what seemed like forever and what seemed like gallons all over herself, all over me, all over the chair, and all over the floor. YUCK! No more messing around, it was time to call the doctor and head to the emergency room. The doctor called back and agreed. It was best to bring her in and make sure she wasn't getting dehydrated. So off to the ER we went. Let me tell you, the crazies definitely come out at night! We were probably the most normal people there :)

After tell 5 people the same thing over and over again about the kind of day Addison had, the doctor gave us some pedialyte to give her to see if she would keep it down. The doctor wasn't willing to diagnose what caused her awful vomitting and diarrhea, but it could have been a bug, the veggies, or a sudden aversion to her formula. There's really no way of knowing. By the way...she weighed a pound less last night than she did on Tuesday at her doctor appointment... Anyway, before sending us on our way, the doctor asked us to give her pedialyte for the next 24 hours and then slowly reintroduce her bottle and solids. Thank God our little one was ok nonetheless! After going to Cub Foods, we got home at about 12:30am...well past Miss Addison's bedtime. Just to be safe, our pumpkin slept in our room in her pack-n-play so we could keep an eye on her. She slept for about 6 hours before wanting more pedialyte and going back to bed. So far today, she's been doing really well and peeing a ton! A good sign for a baby who barely peed at all yesterday!

Now, on to a brighter topic! Last Wednesday, Adam and headed off to Cancun, Mexico with our friend Pat for 5 days of relaxing on the beach without a care in the world! This was our first trip away together without the baby and also a celebration of the two of us being together for 10 years!!! How fast time flies!!! After mechanical failures on two different planes (an oil leak and a cracked windshield), we got to Cancun 7-hours late and the fun began! We spent every day relaxing by the pool and beach, drinking some frosty beverages, and eating some amazing food! The highlight had to have been my 50-minute massage in a hut on the beach on the third day! The lowlight had to have been Adam getting second-degree burns on one of his hands that he apparently missed the sunblock on for an entire day... We checked on Addison at least twice a day to confirm that she was being a dream for everyone who was watching her. I say "everyone" because we had quite the babysitting schedule while we were gone.

Marissa stayed at our house the night before we left since we were leaving early in the morning and dropped her off at daycare on Wednesday morning. My mom picked her up on Wednesday evening and she and my dad stayed at our house that night. Then my mom dropped her off at daycare on Thursday, whereby Marissa then picked her up and stayed at our house Thursday night. Then, Marissa dropped her off at daycare Friday morning and my mom picked her up and brought her back to Bloomington for the night. Then, Saturday morning, my mom dropped off Miss Addison at Adam's parent's house where she stayed until we got home Sunday evening. Where were the dogs you may ask?!? They stayed with Adam's parent's the whole time...that was the only constant the entire trip :) Thank you to everyone for watching Addison and our pups! It was nice to get away, but we missed our princess like crazy and were happy to come home! Here are a couple of pictures from our trip and the link to the entire web album.

Libby, Adam, and Pat in Cancun
Surf & Turf!!!

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Cancun 2009

Addison's First Tooth!

Well, I can barely believe it...Addison is getting her first tooth! Last night after I picked her up from daycare, I did what's been a daily ritual for a while and felt her gums for any signs of teeth. To my astonishment, the beginnings of a tooth could be felt that was not there the previous day! My baby's a big girl now!!! So far, the new tooth hasn't upset her at all, so let's hope it doesn't anytime soon. I would hate for my sweet baby to be in pain or upset by her new teeth! I'm not holding my breath...I'm sure she'll start wailing soon :)

Boston & Addison Updates

Well, it's been a while again, so I have lots of updates to share! From 2/18-2/21, I finally left Addison home alone with Daddy while Meredith and I went out to Boston to surprise Erin for her 30th birthday. I thought I would take leaving her a lot harder than I did, but I knew she was in good hands. My sisters and I had a blast and I can't believe we pulled off the surprise after keeping it a secret since Thanksgiving. Nat was quite the trooper and had the whole thing planned for us...I must say...he's either really good at keeping secrets or really good at lying :) Here are a couple pictures from our trip. To see all the pictures, visit the link to the full album just below.

Sissies outside "Cheers" Eno's birthday dinner at "The Melting Pot" Pooped after a long trip
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Boston 2009 (Eno's 30th Birthday)

Addison did great with Daddy while I was gone, though her schedule was a little messed up when I got back. Adam's more of a pushover than I am when it comes to "giving in" to what the baby wants :) Thanks to Sandra (her daycare lady) she was back on schedule within a day or so. Since getting home from Boston, we've been preparing for our trip to Cancun that we'll be taking with our friend Pat on 3/18-3/22. It may sound stupid, but our 10-year "dating" anniversary falls on 3/19, so we're excited to celebrate our being together for 10 years! I think it's pretty incredible since we starting dating in high school and Adam was gone quite a bit for the military.

Anyway, in getting ready for our trip, we've also been trying to get Addison ready too. Since she'll be home with Auntie Rissa and both sets of grandparents, we want to make sure that taking care of her is as easy as possible. To do that, we've officially transitioned her to her own room (it only took 5+ months) and we got her eating solids at least once a day. She is such a trooper that I can't believe how well she's taken to all the changes!

She started eating just rice cereal on 2/25, but really wasn't very good at it. We thought maybe physiologically she wasn't ready for solids yet...that is until we realized that she didn't like rice cereal alone all that much. On Monday of this week (3/2) we introduced apple sauce in her rice cereal and she absolutely can't get enough of it...that is until she gets full :) She still doesn't eat much quantity, but the amount she eats she takes pretty quickly and constantly has a gaping mouth waiting for more. I can't believe our little girl is growing up so fast!

After solids came moving her out of her co-sleeper in our room and into her crib in her own room. I knew this would definitely be harder on me than it would be on her since I've grown so used to being able to roll over and look at my little sweetheart anytime I want. We started her in her crib on Friday night and were suckers to her crying for 3 nights in a row. Either Adam or I would go upstairs, change her diaper, rock her a little bit, and then put her back down once she was sleepy again. This definitely had to stop!

After seeking advice from more a experienced parent (AKA my sister Meredith), we knew it was time to "cry it out". So, on Monday and Tuesday night, that's exactly what we did. She would wake up at 1:30am and we'd hear her on her monitor crying, but we wouldn't move an inch. After crying for an hour each night (which seemed more like an eternity), she successfully put herself back to sleep.

However, I knew something was a little fishy about why she was waking up crying. Each morning that I went to get her, she would be turned 180-degrees in her crib, laying on top of her blankets with her hands, legs, and feet super freezing. So, on Wednesday night, we decided to bundle our little baby up before bed and see if that would help. We kept her in socks and put her in her sleeper, then we put her in her fleece "sleep sack", and then we put her blankets on top of her. It sounds like a lot, but it's really not. And guess what?!? It totally worked! For the past two nights, she has slept perfectly! She barely moves from the position I originally put her in and she doesn't make a peep all night! Who would've thought that we didn't need to "cry it out" with her...she was just cold?!?

Here are some pictures of our big 5-month old...Enjoy!

"Baby Grumpis" home with daddy
She says, "Get me out of this tiny bed!" Cutest baby ever!!!So pooped from playing...she couldn't keep her eyes open!
(Looks like she takes after mommy...see the picture of me above from Boston!)