Growing Up

Addison has been learning a lot of new skills and tricks lately. It's amazing how much she can do compared to just a month ago. This last week we started eating rice cereal. She loves it and yipes when we don't load it in fast enough.

She's learned how to put those big brown eyes to good use. She's quite the flirt already. Watch out Dad.
And she has most defiantly learned how to smile socially. She is such a turkey. She knows when you are frustrated or when she isn't suppose to be doing something, she'll just turn on the charm and smile at you until you give in and can't help but smile back. She wakes up happy and smiley and a lot of people comment on what a happy baby she is. She smiles at people she knows and strangers she's just met.
She is learning how to become a body builder by reading Muscle and Fitness with her Dad. She know what to do with her hands now and grabs her toys.

And she has discovered her mouth. Everything she can grab goes straight into her mouth with ferocity!

She is learning how to sleep better. She takes at least several 30min. naps a day and sometimes and hour plus. We lay her down, swaddle her up, and give her a pacifier and that's it, she's off to dream land. It took a long time and several tricks to get us through, i.e. hairdryers, swings, white noise, but now we've arrived and it's so nice to lay her down and be able to walk away at least for a half an hour rejuvenation.