Watch Out! She Bites!

Wow. Babies do grow too fast! Hadley now has two little chompers on the bottom. She looks like such a sweet angel- but the other night when Daddy tried to put her down to sleep she got angry and lunged. She bit him! I wouldn't believe it, but my sister, Alyssa, who came to visit, agreed. She was here to witness. Where did she learn this?


My sweet sister, Alyssa was driving with my brother and some friends from Kentucky back to California a little less than two weeks ago. They stopped in to stay the night since they were only about an hour and a half away one evening. I was so excited! Well, Alyssa and I got to talking and we thought it would be fun for her to stay for awhile. She just left today, but she got to spend a lot of time with Hadley. And I must say, Hadley loved her! Alyssa made her laugh so much, and we even had to talk to Alyssa a bit about spoiling the baby too much! But every baby deserves a little spoiling now and then- right?

Alyssa and I actually got to have a day out to ourselves also! We played mini-golf here in Lubbock and got to enjoy some quality sister time!

And as for Chris and I we are plugging along. We live for the weekends- when we have a little bit of family time. With Alyssa here we actually got out and went on two dates! (Actually, I missed Hadley a lot during the second one because I hadn't gotten to be with her much due to work). I am now half way done with the coaching of one sport for the year. The more demanding of the two.

Some new things with the baby that we are having fun with here:

-Outdoors. Hadley loves to be outside. That is always the quick fix to grumpiness. Alyssa and Hadley spent a lot of time on a blanket outside on the lawn.

-Her new fun center on loan from Marissa (our friend who watches her). Her favorite is the musical keys that she hits to make noise and light up.

-Watching Hadley try to crawl. I don't think it will be too soon just yet, but it isn't too far off, either!

-Eating baby food! She started on some rice cereal a few weeks back, but mostly just in the bottle. We have done baby food for a few days now, and Hadley gets real excited to eat it! It is nasty when she pukes that up, though!

Back to the Real World...

Wow- do I miss summer! But reality has to return sometime, right? Well, since my life is not that fascinating right now I don't have a lot to write. It consists of working, working more, sneaking off for my lunch break to feed and visit with Hadley for an hour. But not to complain, because this is what I have wanted for a very long time! But, my baby is just much more interesting to write about than I am.

Hadley is now nearing five months. People have told me many times before that babies grow way to fast. I truly do feel that I have cherished every moment so far, but I never realized truly how fast they do grow. I just start getting excited about one aspect of her growth and development and then it passes and she moves on to something new.

She had her blessing day at church the last weekend of August. Chris' parents came in from Colorado to spend time with us and attend. I had games out of town that I had to coach- so Chris got more time with them, but it was really enjoyable to just have family here again. And Hadley really enjoyed playing with her Grandma Lisonbee. She wore a dress that my mom smocked and I sewed. I have yet to really learn to smock. But it looked lovely, and Hadley didn't cry during her blessing. She was pretty good. I have had requests to get those pictures posted ASAP.

Hadley changes so much, and each day I marvel that she is ours!

Right now she grabs her feet and just about gets them into her mouth. She LOVES to roll over and when she gets on her stomach and I can see she is trying to get her bum up into crawling position.

She still loves her baths. She can be in a horrible mood and then a bath makes everything wonderful again. She loves to kick and splash and try to catch drops of water in her mouth. I have to watch her head carefully because she tries to turn to the side and get to the water to sip some.

She has a little bumbo seat that she sits in while I get dinner ready and just whenever she needs to sit up. She loves it! She looks like such a big girl sitting up in her seat, looking around and grabbing things off the floor.

Hadley loves our little mirror game we go through before her bath, too. The smiles we get out of this are some of the best ever! We just hold her in front of the mirror- all undressed for her bath. We ask who that cute baby is and she stomps her feet on the counter like she is dancing and laughs and giggles. She likes to see herself in the mirror. And I like to see her smiles and hear her giggles from it.