January Fun

Luckily, our January is rolling along quickly!  I was afraid it might drag a bit being 9 (it feels like 9,000!) months pregnant combined with the normal post-holiday slow down, darker days, and cooler weather.  But here we are, already half-way through.  I am certainly trying to enjoy the time (before the chaos??? of having two cuties under our roof) but also so looking forward to meeting our second child face to face.  What sweet joy that will be!

In the meantime, Adelyn just keeps getting more adorable (I'm allowed to be a proud Mommy, right?) and more little girl and less baby every day.

We had snow on Sunday the 9th and enjoyed watching a winter wonderland form in our back yard.  You can also spot our new bird feeder in the background.  More on that in a moment...

The last time it snowed here, Addy looked like this:

 And our house was still under construction!

 My two favorite people!

 One of our favorite Christmas gifts this year (well, it was Brian's gift, but really it's been a treat for all of us) was a birdfeeder for the back yard from Mimi and T-Pa.  For a few weeks, we watched and waited thinking the birds would never take notice of the free buffet.  But then one day, it happened, and now it is Bird Central... they have found the motherload!  Brian can tell you all of the different birds that now visit on a regular basis, but suffice it to say, there are many different bird families now frequenting our little bird house.  Some of our favorites are the beautiful male red cardinals.

 We have been experimenting with Adelyn's hair lately... I'm really trying to avoid cutting it again, especially the bangs, because they are easier to pull back in a clip the longer they get.  This weekend, we experimented again with pony tails!  I don't know where my baby went, but now she truly looks like a little girl!!!  And that look on her face, well, let's just say I've seen it somewhere before... in pictures of myself!

 The cutest thing was watching her recognize herself in the mirror! 

 We couldn't stop laughing at her making faces at herself!

 One of the sweetest things she does is help me on some mornings (if she wakes up early enough!) with "makeup" time.  She wants to sit in my lap and examine all of the different kinds of makeup.  She especially loves to say "mascara".  It is so endearing... especially since she can't open anything yet and doesn't know how to make a mess :-) (I'm sure that time is coming!)

Finally, I leave you with this video.  After 20 months of singing and playing/listening to music, Adelyn is finally starting to sing on her own... and interestingly, her first song is the alphabet song.  She has heard us sing it over and over, and begs every day to listen to U-Tube and Sesame Street versions.  It is so cute to hear her little voice... listen at the end when she restarts the song from the beginning.  Also, when she says "dinosaur", that is her word for the letter "W"...  Hmmm....

Happy January to all!  Hopefully in the very near future, there will be a post with a brand new baby boy or girl in it!