In between the big events, we've also just been living it up with the small events. These are some shots from playgroup at the pool.
My pumpkin = my melon
Calamari anyone?
Ava playing with her zoo
McKenzie in her float
There's also been some serious soccer action in this house. We love the World Cup around here, and we just had to get Adelaide an appropriate viewing outfit.
Our "big move" wasn't actually that big of a deal. We just decided to move our bedroom downstairs. This was a good idea for a number of reasons. First, Addie is going to continue to wake up at night as long as I continue to feed her. Now that she's eating solids for dinner on a regular basis, she doesn't really need the nutrition of nursing. She just likes the comfort and the closeness, and honestly, so do I. However, I can feel that after six months of never sleeping more than a few hours at a time, I'm starting to deplete my store of energy. So it's time to AT LEAST drop the 1 A.M. feeding. The new "rule" in our household is that I don't get up with Addie at night unless it's after 4 A.M. She still wakes up often at night, and it's hard to listen to her cry, but she's getting better at soothing herself back to sleep. I just have to keep reminding myself that she very rarely nursed for more than 30 seconds at the 1 A.M. feeding. She would just cuddle up and go right to sleep. So she isn't missing anything except...well...me. Which just breaks my heart to type, but I know that at some point, I have to start caring for my health and well being also.
And interestingly enough, moving our bedroom off the main level makes it feel like more a "retreat". Our bedroom is now on the ground level and most of our daily life takes place on the kitchen and living room floors. So at night, we literally "wind down" by moving from the two top floors down to the bottom floor. It's a nice process when a metaphor becomes an actuality in your life.
The other plus is that I have my own closet now. Formerly, Tim was using the closet in our room and I was sharing a large walk-in closet with Addie. However, this had a severe downside in that if she was asleep I was effectively marooned from my clothes. Laideybug is such a light sleeper that there was no way in hell I could open up the closet, turn on the light, and root around for clothes without waking her.
So, I guess that's really enough about the move! Except that in typical fashion, I decided that if creating one mess (moving our belongings) was good, creating ten or twelve was better. So in addition to re-arranging our bedrooms, I also decided to gut our downstairs den in favor of moving my bookshelves upstairs. All well and good, except that I also decided that they were too crowded. So I have drastically reduced the books on the shelves in favor of more pleasing displays with my collection of bowls, baskets, and candles...which means that I have piles of books EVERYWHERE now. Oh well, it's a work in progress. And I'm finally becoming pleased with our living room upstairs. That's worth celebrating!
I don't think I can do justice to Addie's half birthday and Tim's Father's Day tonight, so I'm just going to post a few pictures of the Pumpkin and leave it at that. That's bound to be an emotional post, and I want to do it justice. In the meantime...
She's growing up!
Addie with her guardians and best friends, Indiana Jones and Rocky Balboa. They nearly always plant themselves close to her when she's down on their level.
She's starting to think about crawling!
Addie still loves avocado. I couldn't resist getting some shots of her making a mess with her dinner tonight. I feed her with a spoon but at the end, I usually let her experiment with feeding herself. The results are predictable, but I think it's good for her and I just pop her straight into her bath, so it's not a big deal to me. She obviously enjoys it too!
Mmmm...delicious fistfuls of guac!
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