Thanksgiving, short, but sweet

Amidst the moving and hectic schedule, we escaped for the eve and day of Thanksgiving out to MT to the Cornett "homestead". We were blessed to spend Thanksgiving with Sam's Uncle Mark and his fiancé Nancy along with Gma and D-dad. I think Addison would have been happier if she had gotten her hands on some mashed potatoes (like cousin Sarah), but she still enjoyed her Thanksgiving nonetheless.

Addison's great Uncle Mark just won an award for the Beas blues bassist of the Inland Empire Blues Society, and sI am sure she would have nominated him too! Addison spent much of the evening watching G Uncle Mark and Daddy as they played guitars and just enjoyed every second of it.

As usual Gma adorned the table with delicious Thanksgiving delights and I contributed by making Phillips style deviled eggs. I didn't get the eggs prepared until almost time for dinner so only about half were eaten by the end of dinner. When I went to bed around 10, there were close the same number remaining. Much to my dismay, when I woke in the morning... Around 9, there was not an ounce of deviled egg remaining. I am thankful that the Cornett family enjoys a bit of Phillips cooking!

Baby's are tough

This morning Addison woke up at 4am. I attempted to return her to her slumber for.two.hours. Maybe I have been lucky, but, typically she goes back to sleep fairly quickly. By 6am, I asked Sam what he would do. He took a large blanket off the bed, placed it on the floor, put Addison on it and came back to bed himself.

Note: we cosleep, so she was in bed with us before this.

Addison, wide awake, played until she fell asleep! Wow. There are few and far between times she falls asleep on her own. Nice job Sam!

I returned to my own slumber to drem of Addison crawling and walking on her own. I am not ready for that yet!

Chicago here we come!

Off to Chicago for work training. I wasn't able to attend training this summer bc it was in CA and I couldn't fly 9 mths prego. So, I get to go to a different training in Chicago this week. Pretty excited for the training, but sooo hard leaving behind my beautiful family. My mom is taking care of Addison the next two nights and wish Sam luck in the overnight feedings! It's no easy task taking care of an Addy in the middle of the night.

First snow

How can you not love that little face??! I am one proud mama. Addison is getting stronger by the day and has no problem keeping her head up to peer at the world. She assumes this position as she watches mommy & daddy pack an ready for the upcoming move.

We also got her a wanna be Bumbo, so she can sit upright. She is so cute staring at the world from an upright position.

Today was her very first day of snow. Daddy took a video of her looking out the window mystified by the white blanket covering the once green and brown foliage. Hopefully I can get a link up to the video soon!

In other milestones, she rolled from her back to her front on Wednesday, and she is started to really try to scoot along. Crawling is closer than we think!

Sickie

Family has been battling a cold the last few days. Poor Sam sounds like a little girl :P.

Between trying to get the house finished, packing, trying to keep up school/work, and taking care of our little one, I think Sam and I have been struggling to figure out what to do when we do get a second of
downtime. See below for Sam's favorite downtime activity - pocket planes on his iPhone in bed. (Sam has respectfully requested that I remove the pic - fail.) Me, it's been shop and swap. There is this super duper awesome group on FB called CDA shopandswap. It is set up like Craigslist: people within the area post pics of items they want to sell or trade. The best part though is that it is a stream of items you didn't even know you needed! ;). It's addicting, so be careful! We have sold a number of items on there as we try to consolidate and move. Unfortunately (for Sam) we seem to buy as much as we sell. Today, we picked up a imitation Bumbo...

Oh, and did I mention Addison is now rolling over regularly?

First Halloween!

Unfortunately, Daddy had to be in class doing his midterm test, but we enjoyed Halloween nonetheless. Addison was able to spend her first Halloween with cousin Lizzie, Auntie April, Uncle Richard, and Nana. She dressed up as a puppy and was quite adorable. We traversed the EWU campus in our new jogging stroller and Addison was as happy as could be, of course, until she got hungry and Mommy wouldn't let her eat the candy!