What's in a (nick) name?

Almost from the moment I gave birth to Adeline, I was asked, "Do you call her Addy?" Too in love with her precious name, and not yet acquainted with the little creature well enough to know what suited her, I gave very tentative, vague responses ... kind of along the lines of, "No, but I won't be offended if you do." (And really, what kind of a response is that?)

Now after 9 months, the little dare devil has earned many a nick name. Some of these were short-lived and are now retired, some are still in rotation. In no particular order ... here's what she'll answer to!

• Adel-lion
• Pumpkin
• Punkin
• Punkin pie
• Addy Lou
• Lou Lou
• Little Girl
• Big Girl
• Love
• Lovey
• Sweet Pea
• Baby
• A
• Little A
• Dinosaur
• Sack of Potatoes 
• And of course, Addy!

My First mmm (Mother's) Day

I made a pretty big stink about Mother's Day last year, insisting that because I was "with child," and enduring myriad inconveniences and irritations, that I deserved special treatment that day. But because I was hungry, hot and tired, our Sunday brunch was a bit of a bust.

Which brings us to last Sunday - my FIRST REAL Mother's Day! And it was lovely. Jared and I made bellinis for breakfast and then he booked a massage for me (and for extra brownie points - DURING the baby's bed time routine, which he handled fabulously).

Here's a sweet card from baby and Daddy. :-)

High Roller

After at least a week of hiatus, our little roller is back in action! She timidly rolled over here and there - and only when we weren't looking ... until about a week ago when she rolled over about 15 times! She was rolling over so quickly though -- super hard to catch on video! Here's a glimpse. (And who is that lady in the background????)

 

Well then she was too cool to roll over for about a week, until today - when she was definitely in the mood to show off again. She was SO proud of herself! :-) Wait for it .... wait for it ... weeeeee!

I always feel like, somebody's watching me ... !!

Here's a video of the first time we put Adeline in her Jumperoo. What did she think? That the rainbow was going to bite? This girl cracks us up!

Playing Catch Up

Baby girl is GROWING!

I so haven't been good about keeping this updated as I've been keeping Facebook pretty updated, but all of those updates are fleeing and THIS is what I'll be turning into a book, so I'm going to try and be much better about it. So here are my favorite 1, 2 and 3 month pics so you can how much she's grown (4 and 5 month pics to come -- YES she turns 5 months tomorrow!)