I have not updated pictures of Addy for a while, so here is the past 4 months. Addyson is getting such a cute personality. She thinks she is much older than she is...she is crawling, jabbering/screaming, and almost WALKING (although each time she tries she does not know how to fall so she usually ends up hitting her head or face on the floor)! It goes by way too fast.




Addyson at 8 months

Addyson at 7 months

Addyson at 6 months

Addyson at 5 months

Christmas with the FAM...some of our family came up from Texas and Arizona to visit for Christmas. We decided to have the get together at our house because it required less traveling than my parents house. So, we had 13 people cramming in our home. It was a blast though!!

Some pics from the fun times.

Addy with Gran and Gram (her great Grandparents)...


The cousin stare down! Plotting future disasters already...

Addy with Great Uncle Joe and Aunt Joannie

Addy and I with Aunt Tori and cousin Coleman...

Addy with great Uncle Mike (Pops)...who she was infatuated with! She could not stop staring at him all weekend. She definitely would not have cared if he took her home!

Thank you all for coming; it was so great to see you.

Addy loves to fall asleep at the drop of a hat!! Here she is sleeping in her exersaucer...when she finally woke up she had a nice indent on her head from the beautiful turtle shown in picture.

And here she is sleeping with Nana...


And sleeping with Papa...

And of course sleeping with Mom and her best friends (dogs) Emma and Chloe...

Addy not only sleeps like a professional, she also plays her daddy like a professional!!! I always knew all girls had a "thing" for their dads...but I did not know it started so young! Travis is in big trouble; a few things Addy already does (may I mention, to only Travis)...

1) When Travis sets her down and walks off to do something she will start to scream, yes scream, so Travis will walk back to her and as soon as she can see him again she will immediately stop crying and smile at him. She is just testing to make sure she still has him wrapped around her finger...and she does every time, so she smiles in his face.

2) She won't eat if he is in the room within site, unless he is the one feeding her. All she does is stare at him and bat those big blue eyes so he will give her what she wants. PROFESSIONAL...I thought I was good...she has me beat already!

3) Monday nights are football night with daddy and she glues her eyes to the TV and pretends to like football, so once again she can get him wrapped tighter around her finger.

...the sad part is Travis thinks its cute; he has no clue what is in store for him in the future!

Addy looking so innocent!

Finally updating blog and sending it out!

Okay, last March I was taking, as I called it, the blogging plunge! Funny thing...I wrote on it once (about my house) and never sent it out or updated it again. I am going to try to be better at this stuff from now on; I have made a commitment to Sabrina and I am sticking to it.

SO....
We did finally finish our home last April. We love it! It is so nice to be able to call something our own...even though the bank has control.

A few months after we moved in we had our first little one...Addyson Lynn Hamilton. She entered our lives on July 23rd; 8.4 lbs and 21 inches long. To me she was huge! I was induced on the 22nd because she was not coming and my due date was the 23rd. I was planning a beautiful labor with all the drugs I could get to make it peaceful! What I got was...a not so beautiful, drug free, big baby, painful -me making a few noises- labor. Needless to say, my pain meds wore off and the doc did not care! He was just focused on getting my baby girl out after her heart rate jumped. But, the one cool thing is, I can say I gave birth all NATURAL and I will never do it again. Unless of course I don't have a choice again.





She did not have a good trip either, here are her battle wounds from being suctioned out...



Here are some pictures of Addy over the past 3 months...










Family pictures, my brother had a little boy (Coleman) 3 months before Addy was born.





Loving cousins already!!!




















Addy was a Little Lamb for her first Halloween.



Some highlights of Addy arriving...

First of all, Travis has been the best Dad. To preface my story, he has never been around a baby, so everything is new to him...changing diapers, feeding, bathing, etc. He is also very squeamish about baby poop and throw-up.

The second night we were home I was in bed trying to get some sleep and Travis was taking care of Addy. Well, Addy decided it would be a good time to have a BM. Travis, being the man he is, decided changing a diaper can't be that hard. So, with out any training, he decided to change his first diaper...poopy and all!!! He opened the diaper up with one hand, while holding his nose with the other, and stood as far back as possible trying not to lose his dinner. Addyson started kicking her feet all over in the diaper! So now he had more of a mess than just her bum. All along he is trying to clean all of this up with one hand because he can't take his other hand off his nose. By the time he was done he had a pile of wipes 30 high, but Addyson was actually clean! Good job Dad, first diaper out of the way.

Before his next diaper change I gave him some lessons on how to hold the feet and keep things clean. He had all the steps down to be a professional diaper changer now....

Next BM that Dad had to change...he goes into the room more confident than the first time, knowing what to do this time. He starts taking off the diaper, while holding her feet and following the "steps". He has her butt in the air getting the next wipe and Addy thought it would be funny to finish pooping!! I am clear across the house and I hear "Oh my hell, Tiffani HELP me...help....help". I thought he had killed our daughter, so I go running into the bedroom almost in tears at this point and see him with her legs in the air and poop every where. All he could say was, "I followed all the steps, I did everything right and she shot poop everywhere". I was rolling on the floor about to pee my pants...I was no help to him because I could not compose myself. He waited patiently while I got my laughs out so I could take over. As I assessed things, I found poop on two adjacent walls, the doll on the changing table, the wipe warmer, and...his face! Needless to say, he ran to the shower and was very reluctant to change another diaper. He has changed many since with no troubles!!! Great job Dad!

Our new home!

Well, ladies and gents...I am taking the plunge...the blogging plunge! I decided since everyone else is doing it, I might as well try it out.





Update on the Hamilton's...


After a long year of slaving away we are almost done building our home. Yes, for those of you who don't know, it has taken us a full YEAR to build a home. We started out splitting an acre lot into two half acres. Oh what a mess that was; 7 months later, and every one of our neighbors hating us, we finally had a building permit. Needless to say not one of our neighbors were happy that we were splitting the lot so, they all took us to countless city council meetings to fight the issue. We were approved to split the lot so...now we are keeping our distance...waiving as we past is as friendly as we have gotten.


We finally got started with the building process last September. Travis, being the great hard working husband he is, decided he wanted to do a lot of the work himself. He wanted to general it himself, which saves lots of money but, is a lot of work and follow up. That is not all, he used to make cabinets for a living so, he wanted to build our cabinets and do all the finish work. WOW, what a project we took on there. Working his full time job then coming home to do his house duties was more than I expected. I never see him any more! He goes to work before I wake up and comes home after I have gone to bed. That has been our life for the past 6 months. We can't wait until this is over! Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure.