July 4th at the Lake

Only a few weeks late,  I thought I'd share our fourth of July vaca to Traverse City :)  We had SO much fun hanging out with family all weekend, really enjoying some down time and a weekend being unplugged from the real world. And I say unplugged because my in laws house is literally in the middle of the woods on a lake and we had minimal cell phone coverage ;) The babies loved riding around on the pontoon, the grandparents enjoyed playing with them on it and the parents really enjoyed a day of wine tasting throughout the country side.  Getting up every morning and having a warm coffee on the deck overlooking the lake was pure heaven. We had bonfires and smores at night and our clothes smelled of campfire. The best smell ever. We watched the fireworks on the pontoon in the middle of the lake, went kayaking and fought off angry water snakes ;) All the fur babies made the trip up as well and they sat as close as humanely dogily possible to us in the fenced in area-Except for Major, the new baby of the family, the inlays Boykin Spaniel.  Our long weekend was up before we knew it and we had to head back 2.5 hours into reality.  If you have never been to the Traverse City area, you must! It is one of our favorite places to go and we love visiting at least once a year :)

Our drink of the weekend!

Captain Adelie!

July 5th marked the 7 year anniversary of Brandon proposing to me on a beach in South Haven :)

13 Months - & Lately

So it has been almost one month since my last blogpost, and I promise it has been for a good reason :) This past month we have been insanely busy. On top of several big changes (more on that later) and during my busiest season,  my mac decided to give me a heart attack and crash.  Thank god Apple was able to retrieve all my pictures stored on it! ayiyi.  Back up your pictures people!! So being without my computer for almost two weeks set all of my editing back two weeks which was even more unnecessary stress. Needless to say, anyone need any empty wine bottles? I have a few dozen in the garage.  

But now onto the main attraction :)

Adelie is now 13 months old! (I absolutely hate when people say that-I say she's One-but for sake of documenting, she is 13 months;)

Height: 32"

Weight: 22lbs

Food: Currently she has a sippy of 2% milk at breakfast and at dinner. Apple juice and water in between and for snack.  She loves cheese and bean quesadillas, pizza, Alfredo, chicken nuggets, toast and grilled cheese.  For snack she loves goldfish, teddy grahams and yogurt :)

Milestones: She now has 12 teeth! She cut all four molars at the same time and it was so terrible! Poor girl broke 5 fevers :(  She also is not walking still. She will take about 6 steps but sits down quickly.  Her balance is so much better when she has things in her hands.  At her one year dr apt. She cried more at the Dr. trying to examine her than she did for the shots. Surprisingly only a few tears! (6&9m were much worse!) She says hi and waves to people, and just today figured out the correct way to wave-she had been waving to herself for the longest time ;) She also got her first-"What beautiful GREEN eyes you have!" score.

Funny things: Now a days she squints her eyes and tips her head up when she smiles and laughs-she thinks she's SO funny:)  She also has started to feed the dogs her leftovers-it's so hard not to laugh because she knows she not supposed to, and does her best to sneak it to them-looking out of the corner of her eye at me.

Uhohs:Adelie fell face first off our bed and came up with a huge goose egg, which later bruised :(  She was okay but scared us half to death! She is starting to know NO FEAR! She climbed the whole stairs for the first time last week!<-she laughed the whole time ;)

Randoms: She is currently in size 4 diapers and wears size 18m clothes-even though  18m is slightly to big in the waist for her-she needs it in the top.  

I have decided to do a monthly update from here on out, with weekly posts about toddler related topics 

Until itty bitty baby beck #2 

;)

We also had to move her crib away from the curtains.......

This sums up how we we've been feeling lately ;)