Lots of Visitors and an Early Thanksgiving

This week has been very crazy. On Tuesday Addy went in with Derek to the booth to vote. Although she had no idea what was going on...she loved to play with the curtain while her daddy attempted to fill out his ballot with one hand while holding his very active daughter in the other. She even got an official "I voted" sticker. This week I also checked parent teacher conferences off of my list of things to do. On Thursday and Friday I held 21 conferences with parents. That amounts to a whole lot of talking! I am so glad to have them out of the way!

This weekend Addy's Grandma Freihaut, Uncle Cory and Aunt Courtney came to visit for an early Thanksgiving celebration. We were really glad to see all of them! It had been quite a while since Addy had seen her aunt and uncle and she gave them a warm welcome. She certainly enjoyed all of the attention! Cory even gave Addy her lunch. However, Addy didn't give him the opportunity to change a dirty diaper, which really disappointed us!

Adalyn is really becoming a mover and a shaker. She is crawling at alarming speeds and is getting into everything and anything. Recently she has taken a liking to an empty diaper box, which has caused me to consider taking back all of those Christmas gifts to exchange them for a large refrigerator box! She is also pulling up on anything. She recently started standing up against flat surfaces and she no longer needs anything to latch on to in order to pull herself to a standing position. On Saturday she began to pay more attention to her baby basketball goal that her mom has been faithfully placing in front of her for months now. She made her first unassisted basket (with her left hand!) and them proceeded to make many more over the weekend. I'm not sure that I have ever cheered so loudly:) It was a proud mommy moment! I have a attached a video of one of the baskets below. Note: it is not the very first basket as I was not prepared and did not have the camera out at the time.

I do have Monday off of school. Derek will be leaving for a business trip to Buffalo. He will be gone until Wednesday. Derek's mom has been nice enough to stay until Wednesday and watch Addy while I work on several papers and attend class on Tuesday. Thank goodness for all of our visiting family members and close friends who have helped us out during our crazy busy schedules! I don't think that we would survive without them!

AIR ADDY!

Addy and her Aunt and Uncle

Lunch with Uncle Cory

Addy's fancy new toy!