Flashback

Sweet Adalyn was just 6 weeks old during Christmas last year. She slept thru most of it so I am really excited to see the excitement on her face while she plays with the wrapping paper, tissue, and bags, oh, and maybe a few toys. ;)

Merry Christmas! Hold your little ones... they don't stay little for long!

Bath Time

This kid LOVES taking a bath. We will ask her where the bathtub is and she will walk straight to it. This particular night she was hamming it up for Adam and I. Such a personality I tell you! We laugh at her all the time!





Aside from being a ham, it seems as though she is leaning something new everyday. This past week she has put 2 signs together and now signs "more please" when she wants something. Sometimes she skips the "more" and says "please" over and over. It is so neat to watch her. She is also signing giraffe, monkey, and hat. We have been practicing/singing "head, shoulders, knees and toes" as well. She does her head and toes, but skips shoulders and knees. We still have to work on that some more. Other than that, she is doing something new just about every single day. Her appetite is really changing. She is wanting to eat all day long. We are constantly trying to come up with big, healthy snacks for her. Growing, growing girl!

Snow!

We actually got snow in the month of December. That rarely happens. I was so glad I was able to be off when Adam was off from school, too! We bundled Adalyn up and took her outside. Last year when it snowed, she was a little over 2 months old.


Oh what a few months will do!

Pink Eye

Thursday, December 9 we headed to North Coffee to see Santa! Memaw teaches there so it was nice to see her and the other teachers. They were reading Christmas stories to the children, doing arts and crafts, and having their picture made with Santa. Adalyn could have cared less about the reading portion of the evening. She was however on her best behavior though. All she wanted to do was eat her grapes and crackers and sign "baby" at every baby we saw. We finally took her into the hallway so she could have more room to roam around. After roaming for a little while, Santa finally came. As soon as we put her on his lap she started crying. All I could do was laugh! You always see pictures of these kids screaming with Santa and I figured she would do the same thing! ha. Maybe next year!




While at North Coffee we noticed her eye was somewhat pink and lazy looking. When she woke up the next morning it was pretty eveident what she had. Pink eye. It was puffy and pink. We called the doctor and he wanted to see her. Adam was working that day and luckily I was off. He loaded up and headed to Murfreesboro. First, making a pit stop at Hobby Lobby. After that, we went to the doctor and of course, she cried as soon as he walked in the door. He had barely looked at her. ha. Thankfully we weren't there too long. He prescribed some eye drops and home we went. Those drops worked within 24 hours, but on Sunday morning, it was in her other eye. No church for her. Adam stayed home with her and let me go to Church.


It took a week, but I finally got it this past Friday. Thankfully we still had some of her drops left. It was gone within 24 hours. Thank goodness. Now I'm just waiting on Adam to get it.

Looks like I slacked off on blogging again. Oops. I hate when I do that! SO much goes on and if I don't blog about it, I will forget about it! So, I am going to do a quick re-cap on whats been going on with the Clark's.

Let's see, it's been a few weeks but Adalyn was sick for 3 days with a fever. It was pitiful! She had no side effects, just a really high fever. After a 2 day fever and after we couldn't get it under 102, we took her to the doctor. He checked her out and said it was probably virul with no side effects. No runny nose, cough, etc. He did say not to be alarmed if she were to break out in a rash. He said when that happens, her fever is breaking. Boy was I glad to see a rash on her. All she wanted to do was sleep. I happened to be off on that Thursday and she slept SIX hours during the day! and then slept the rest of the night. I was so glad to have our happy, energetic Adalyn back.
See how pitiful?

A few days after that we headed back to the doctor for her 1 year check up. It was so much easier going to the doctor for her check-ups when she was much more of a baby. She would just lay there or sleep the entire time. Now, as soon as Dr. Eastham walks into the room, she immediately high tails it to either Adam or myself. She hates when he even looks at her. She frowns and lays her head right on my chest. She weighed 23 lbs-80th percentile and is in the 97th percentile for her height. See, I can't even remember how long she was! This just proves a point that I should blog immediately after an event. It is obviously written in her baby book, but off the top of my head, I cannot remember. 30.5? Eh, i give up. After that, she fell asleep in the car so Adam and I took advantage of piece and quite and headed to Sonic for a greasy, fattening snack. Cheese fries and cheese sticks.

thankful.

A little late in posting about our Thanksgiving festivities, but I must do it anyway. Thanksgiving weekend was so busy! We spent Thanksgiving day at my grandparents house. We ate, took lots of pictures, and put up my grandparents HUGE Christmas tree that takes a few hours to complete. It was such a nice, relaxing day!

Adalyn and Autumn checking out Herc
Already digging in before we even ate
Annual Christmas picture for my grandparents
The famous face
One of my favorites
Christmas Tree!

Just for fun.


Clark Thanksgiving-Friday--- We have a house full everytime we get together! 3 one year olds, 1 two year old, and 1 three year old. Never a dull moment! =)I took lots of pictures so here are some random shots.








Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We all have so much to be thankful for.

The end.

December 1, 2010 is officially the first day I have not nursed Adalyn. If we do the math, that's 382 days I went breastfeeding her. 382! Gee whiz! I must say, I am pretty proud of myself for sticking with it. For those moms out there who have breastfed, you know how difficult it is in the beginning! I had a personal goal set for myself and I was determined to not give her an ounce of formula. Nothing wrong with it, it was just something I chose to do. To each their own, right? Adam was so great the first few weeks of trying to figure everything out. I definitely can see how easy it would have been to just give her a bottle during all those night feedings. I would have been able to sleep longer while Adam gave her a bottle, but I chose to do it so it was me up with her for every single feeding. Looking back, those sleepness nights were so sweet. I loved the fact that I was the one she depended on. I am very thankful that I was able to met my goal of nursing for her first year of life. I kind of cringe thinking about nursing/pumping with our next baby for another full year. Ah! haha. Lets just say I am glad I am DONE!

One proud Mama

This will be a quick post, but I just wanted to share!
It seems like since Adalyn turned one, she has figured out so many new things!

She signs all done, more, dog, and baby. Im so glad she knows all done; it makes it so much easier for Adam and I to know when she is full. She just waves those hands so fast! Ohhh, and her signing baby is the cutest thing. She grasps her hands together and just sways those arms back and forth so fast. She also says mama, dada, uh-oh, and wow.

When we say "arms up", she throws her arms up as high and she can reach.

She now knows where her nose is and will point at it. We are doing "My Baby Can Read" with her and let me just tell you, it is amazing!!!

Today I was watching her tear up an envelope from Farm Bureau and when she finally got a piece torn off, she stood up and walked straight into the kitchen to throw it away! I know my mouth dropped. I was shocked so I asked her to come back in the living room and to throw something away for me. She grabs it out of my hands and walks back to the trash. I may like this game ;)

She also loves helping me put clothes in the washer. She picks ONE thing up AT A TIME and will put it in the wash. Yes, it takes FOREVER to finally get the load started, but it just makes my heart smile seeing her helping me and being so in tune as to what I am doing.

We also gave her scambled eggs for the 1st time last night. We could not put them on her tray fast enough! She LOVED them.

She has also shown interest in turning a front flip. She kneels over and puts her head and hands on the ground, but she cant quite figure out how to get her body over. I hoping we have a gymnast on our hands.

Monday the 22 was her 1 year check up! Gah, I still cannot believe she is one. Anyway, she weighs 23 lbs-80th percentile and is 30.5 inches long-97th percentile and her head is also in the 97th percentile. (ha) She is just like her daddy. The only thing she got from me were blue eyes. Maybe our next kid will look like me...

No pictures to post tonight. Just wanted to share the exciting accomplishments happening in the Clark household!

I thought little boys did this...not girls!

HAHA I have been meaning to blog about this but just got a chance to sit down and do it. Adalyn absolutely LOVES bath time. When it's time for a bath, we ask her if she wants to take a bath and she immediately walks straight to her bathroom and peeks over the tub. As I am fixing her water and moving toys out of the way, I (or Adam) start taking off her clothes and diaper to get her ready to plop her in the tub. We do this everytime and for some reason she decides to pee all over the floor! Before I knew it, she was bent over with her little hand rubbing it back and forth like she was finger painting. We couldn't help but to laugh! I quickly cleaned it up, got her in the bath, and went on about our business. Well, this happened on a thursday, and Saturday, she did the same thing again. Expect she was standing on her pretty pink rug. I guess it's our fault for taking her diaper off too soon, but again, we laughed and laughed. She hasn't done anything like that since she was a newborn! So for now on, no more taking off the diaper before we put her in the bath. Lesson learned.

Aside from peeing on the bathroom floor, we celebrated Adam's birthday this past friday, the 19th. We clearly remember his birthday last year... Adalyn was 6 days old and we were both VERY tired. This year was a lot better. We went to Elmo's and stuffed our faces with Mexican. Even Adalyn had a cheese quesedea and some bites of avocado. She even wore her 1st pair of skinny jeans.


Saturday we went to Memaw and Papaws and played with the cows, napped, and ate a big birthday dinner.