More Addie pictures, taken about a week ago. Darling little girl.

Happy six months to this beautiful girl!!

She is our favorite! I can't believe that she is already six months old. She has such a fun personality and smiles all the time. She is so happy and her happiness is infectious. She makes every day brighter and better.

She has what we call a scrunch face smile (above picture). Its when she gets so excited she can't contain it anymore and her whole face scrunches up with happy emotion. It is adorable. Her eyes have a light in them and sparkle. You can't capture it with the camera.

She is so curious. She picks things up with her hands and studies them so closely. She isn't very interested in putting them in her mouth. She plays peek-a-boo now, and giggles non stop while the blanket is over her face. She reaches her arms out towards you when she wants to be picked up, it makes us feel so loved.

Oh my goodness we love her so much! We are so blessed every day to have her in our lives. We are so grateful for this little girl.

Because everyone always needs an Addie fix...

She is getting so big now. She rolls over without motivating her with toys, the props herself up on her arms and knees and is so close to crawling, it'll probably be any day now. If you help her hold herself up she will move her arms and legs in crawling fashion. She just needs a little bit more strength to hold herself up, and she's got it!

She's got the prettiest smile that instantly make any day better. She is so smart, figuring things out. She has really good coordination with her hands, passing one toy to the other and and back. She will grab moving objects in front of her, and she can put her own pacifier in- the right way! But only when she wants to. Most of the time she is just content to chew on the side. She can feed a herself a  bottle, but again only when she wants to. She gets tired of it quickly and is content to let mommy finish.

She loves board books and will let me read her books for almost an hour straight. She follows my finger and looks at the pictures. She also loves her reindeer book that her Grandma and Papa Hansen got her. It has a little reindeer finger puppet attached to it, and she giggles when we read it to her.

She recognizes faces really well now, and has a fun time with her aunts Jenna and Jamie- they are identical twins! When they are together she looks from one to the other and back again, trying to figure them out. We went to my cousin's wedding reception earlier this week and she was also quite taken with my Uncle Allen, my dad's identical twin. She recognized him (or at least my dad) and was happy to see a familiar face.

We've also started separation anxiety. Especially if she is tired, she does not want to be away from those she knows! She will cry and look at me with a wounded expression like I gave her away. She also doesn't like me to be out of sight, even if I'm just behind her. I have to keep talking to her to let her know I'm there, or she will fuss until she sees me again.

We are in love with this little girl, and we thank our Heavenly Father for her every day!

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She is so grown up!!! She's been sitting up really well by herself for about two weeks, so we decided to try her out in the grocery cart. Take a look:

She is so proud to be big!! She looked like this the whole time we were in the store.

This is actually the second time I put her in the cart. The first time I was the cautious mama and had the seat belt so tight she couldn't move, no chance of falling there! This time she wasn't having it. She wanted to be sitting up and holding onto the cart and free to look every which way! She was so excited.

Five months old, and strong enough to sit up in the cart. She is growing up too fast. And we love her so much!

Happy Halloween from the cutest little puppy!

Addie continues to grow faster and faster each day. She rolls over all the time now, has discovered her toes, and we have started her on solids. She is still the happy little bundle of energy and giggles all the time. Yesterday she woke us up at 5am, with her just giggling to herself. I wonder what happy stories she was telling herself. She talks and babbles all the time now too. Our little baby is growing up!

Getting ready to go for a walk in the cold. The mittens and socks are from Russia, courtesy of Aunts Jenna and Jamie. 

These pictures are from the first time she tried solid food. As you can tell, she was not impressed. And her opinion has not improved over time. She has tried rice cereal, bananas, peaches, applesauce, and oatmeal. 

She actually doesn't like food in general. She fights her bottle, and mostly eats in her sleep because that's when she's take it. What kind of baby doesn't want to eat!? She has a tired cry, a mommy cry, a hurt cry, but no hungry cry!

Look at that disgusted face. She makes it each time something is put in her mouth! The one thing we found that she likes is chocolate frosting. Some accidentally got on her toys without us realizing, and we found her furiously licking it all off her toys. Guess this girl likes chocolate!

I was in the middle of changing her diaper and getting her dressed when I needed to leave the room real quick to grab something. This is what I found a few moments later after coming back.

She's discovered her toes! It's a fantastic toy that is always attached. Works for me!

Last few pictures, I promise. This little baby is a momma's girl, hard core. She has a "I want mommy cry" that sounds like she is saying "mom". I wonder when she will realize that she is actually saying the name of the person she wants.

Just look at that face! Oh my goodness, doesn't your heart just melt? And look at that hair!!! She was on a fleece blanket and I was trying to get her to go to sleep, so I covered her eyes with the blanket. Baby girl wasn't having it so she was turning her head from side to side. When I uncovered her this is what I found!

She's got some pretty awesome hair.

Adelynn wants so bad to be big and independent, and wants to feed herself the bottle. So so darling, but she has some trouble aiming for her mouth. It sure provides some entertainment for us on this end though.

She is such a fun little thing and interacting with us so much now. She laughs, giggles, screeches and squawks, and lifts her arms towards us when she wants to be picked up. She's our little bundle of energy and is always always smiling. Except when she is teething, which she has been recently. Look at this picture...

Poor baby girl was having a rough afternoon and just wanted cuddles from her daddy. Her gums were swollen, cheeks flushed, and just all around miserable. We gave her some tylenol just before this picture was taken, and as soon as it kicked in she fell asleep. Poor baby girl has been doing better, that was a bad day for her. Teething is so cruel for little ones!

A personality trait we have noticed is that Addie loves loves loves to watch tv. It doesn't matter what it is. Star trek with papa, general conference, or whatever we happen to be watching at the time. She will zone into it, stare at the tv, and stay like that until it is over. This girl loves her some tv! A few times I have used it as a babysitter, I'm ashamed to say. When she's needy but I need to do something where I can't hold her (like shower or use the bathroom) I turn on bubble guppies on the ipad. She will stop wriggling and crying and let me to whatever it is I need to do. I come back in the room to find her laughing and giggling along with the show. I think she can recognize the sound of laughter.

This was taken while Jaron and I were away and his parents were babysitting Addie for us. I believe they were watching Blind Side. We received this picture in a text caption "couch tatoes x3". We laughed so hard when we saw it. Notice how she is leaning forward to watch? Gotta love that little girl!

In other news, I have to take a moment to brag about how awesome my husband is. Jaron got accepted into The Ohio State Medical School! Not only is it an amazing and competitive school, it is tied for our number one choice! I'm so proud of Jaron and how hard he worked through undergrad, MCAT, shadowing, volunteering, and everything else required for medical school applications. We are so excited and, as Jaron keeps saying, "I'm going to be a doctor!"