Ho Ho Ho!

We had a great Christmas this year. Eve was spent with both grandparents at my parent's house. Christmas day was spent at both grandparents house, brunch mine and dinner Michael's. Addie was again spoiled rotten. I can see that Decembers are going to be a very good months for her.

Christmas Eve outfit from Auntie Katye

First Pig-tails thanks to Auntie Christi

The happiness when she saw her new toys

Waiting for Dada to open her new baby, she loves her new toys

We went to Hawaii

Our moms watch Adelaide and we don't pay them, therefore we decided to take them to Hawaii as a thank you for all the help they give us. It was a great 9 days. The weather was awesome after tantrums thrown by both Michael and meself on day 2. We visited all the little towns (Lahaina was my favorite), went to Mekena Beach, played in the water, hiked a mountain, and ate some yummy fish tacos. Adelaide was in bed by 6:30pm nightly, allowing us time for nice sit down dinners at the condo.



All the ladies together, and yes my mom does have a black eye.



Chasing my walker down the beach


In true Hawaiian spirit


Dawn looks terrified in this photo




Just trying some sand. She never did a whole mouthful so that was good.


Mikey watching one of the many amazing sunsets we got to see nightly at the condo.



These photos are from Adelaide's Birthday night. She turned one during our visit. Dawn's friend Candy was on the island and joined us for dinner and brought a book for the birthday girl. She is now into books thankfully. I still cannot believe a whole year has passed. It makes me sad/happy that she is growing up, but its hard to see my baby go. There is no crawling anymore, she is all about walking and is getting quite good at it. I cant wait to see what year two brings.

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Baby Cake

Many more photos to come. It was a perfect day!

1st Thanksgiving

Life is good for The Gits family right now. I no longer have to bring a pump to work, Addie is eating foods without reactions and took to whole cows milk without issues. Thanksgiving was low key and relaxing and spent with my in-laws. Yay for the holiday season!

Here is a photo recap








I love this time of year. We have quite the weekend ahead of us. A visit to Santa at Storybook Lane is first on the list. I cannot wait to take Addie here. I think it is going to be so special to share it with her. Saturday we have a little birthday party planned for her. We will be in Hawaii on her real birthday. Only 12 days until then!

Walking Walking Walking

This is only a short display of how good she has gotten in the last week. At one point she walked all the way across my parents living room to Bum-Bum and gave him a kiss. It was the curtest thing I have ever seen.

Friday I gave into the television for the first time. I am pretty sure that both grandparents have let her watch TV at some point, but I felt guilty about letting that happen on my time. However, after an hour of annoying needy-ness from her I gave in. Yo Gabba Gabba stopped her dead in her tracks. Thank you OnDemand for providing me with commercial free options even if they are insanely creepy.

Saturday Mike and I had a nice day-date while Adelaide spent the afternoon with my parents. Sunday we went to a little surprise bridal shower for a friend. She was a great baby the whole time, and never freaked out about random people holding her. I really love having such a social baby. It makes life much easier.

11 months old!

Adelaide took 7 steps this week. She is kind of a big deal! She also went to bed on Sunday night and woke up with two new teeth. That equals a total of 8 teeth now. She enjoyed her first piece of toast with cream cheese in celebration of said new teeth. I am becoming much more positive about her food intake. Wheat posed no problems, so I think a birthday cake is going to be totally fine. I am really looking forward to the celebration we have planned for 12/3/11, and have ordered a few gifts that I cannot wait to give her. A mini baby jogger might be on its way :-)