Edwards Haps and Mishaps

Our little Ada is 7 months old today! I love taking pictures each month…I wish I would have done this with Preston!!

She now has two little teeth, says “dada” (not really to Shaun, though we like to pretend she does), fake coughs after someone coughing, crawls and pulls herself up onto furniture, loves her brother and thinks he is hilarious, and she is just a doll and we love our Sue! (She has many nicknames at this point…names revolving around “Sue” come out most these days!)

Here is our Christmas in a few pictures…

I would write more but

a) it is almost 1 am (why am I still up?) and

b) I rarely read all of what people write anyway! Oops…I mean…I do…….read some…

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! We missed all of our family that we didn’t get to see!!! And New baby Jack who we really want to meet!

We have been attempting to take full advantage of this Christmas season! Well, Shaun has been studying for finals for the better part of the month (and they are finally done…YEEEEEAH!) but Preston and I have been hard at work trying to be creative and crafty. Ada has been growing way too fast. She is starting to pull herself up on things-mostly low objects like the stairs, bath tub, laundry baskets, etc. but I am SO not ready for this moving and crawling business. She also just had 2 little teeth poke through! These kids…growin’ like weeds.

Preston’s gymnastics holiday show:

Lights at the Folsom Zoo:

Christmas is fast approaching we we are very excited to celebrate the birth of our Savior. We are grateful for His life, which He gave for us and is the greatest gift we will ever receive! As much as I can this Christmas season, I am trying to remember that.

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!

Today is our little Ada Sue’s half birthday! 6 months old already?! Yep, it’s true. Here is a video from the other day. I can’t believe how well she gets around! I’m not ready for this but oh well. Ready or not here she comes.

(The video showed her climbing up the stair but apparently the file was too big so the hosting site chopped it off. Oh well, you still get to see her crawling!)

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! We had a nice one! We went up to Redding with the Strazzo side of the fam. Preston had fun with his cousins and Jami did a cute Thanksgiving Turkey feather hunt. Ada was loving all the attention.

My lovely, wonderful, favorite mother had a birthday this week and turned half a century old :) Though I don’t have any pictures of the day :( I love you mom! You do SO much for me…SOOOO much, I don’t know where I’d be without you! Probably in the loony bin :)

Ada is almost 6 months old and is crawling! What? Not yet girl. Please. I had video but I think I deleted it today!! I’ll get some more and post it. I really can’t believe her. She also tried some rice cereal the other day and LOVED it. She was grabbing Shaun’s hand trying to get more.

We have decorated for Christmas and I am loving it! Our home feels so nice and cozy. We also decorated Preston’s horse, just for fun.

Shaun is doing LOTS of studying…finals start on Monday (we are praying that there is no wave of the stomach flu in the middle of his test this time…)

And now onto the pictures!

Oh yeah, and there are a few from the fish hatchery! Fun, inexpensive entertainment! The salmon ladder is up and the salmon are jumping!

Here we are playing. My mom wanted a picture of Preston in his “rocket ship” and “gobbles” so we went outside to see what we could get. Here is Preston looking like such the little boy. I love it! On Saturday we watched Toy Story 3 and for a second we thought, “Hey! There is Preston’s rocket ship!” because there was one that looked almost exactly like this one. I guess we all start getting creative with kids…even to the point where we use garbage for entertainment :)

And below we have Preston with his adorable preschool class! This was their Thanksgiving feast and they made special hats and sang some songs for mom and dad! It was so cute.

Ada went in for a doctor appointment yesterday and here are her stats at 5 months:

Height: 25.5 inches- 75th percentile

Weight: 17 lbs 8 oz- 90th percentile

Head: 16.25 inches- 25th percentile

She has her mothers pea head and carries her rolls quite nicely under her clothes.

Apparently she and I have the same baby bod. Mine was pretty similar to this!

P.S. We’ll get some crazy Preston up here soon too!

Yes she is. Can you believe it? I sure can’t!  And I will continue to say that every time I am sure. Until I am an old woman.

I have been meaning to post this for AWHILE now! How cute is this little dress and headband that my sister-in-law MADE.  Yes, she made it. Yes the same one who makes amazing cakes, Yes it’s not fair that someone can be so talented!

Looks even better off the ground and on the girl :)

We had lots of Halloween festivities this time around…we got good use out of the costumes. Preston was set on being Batman (no idea when he learned about Batman…preschool probably…) so we found a costume on Craigslist. Though, when it came time for the actual day of Halloween he had already wore it to at least 3 other events and that day at church a sweet lady in our ward gave Preston some clothes and in the bag was a Buzz Lightyear costume so he ended up wearing that over to my uncle and aunt’s where we set up our own little family Halloween Party. I think the kids had a lot of fun and definitely got PLENTY of candy.

All dressed up for preschool:

All his Halloween art projects from the month:

Trying on Ada’s 80′s aerobics instructor outfit:

All the cousins:

Pathetic Preston:

We only got one picture with Preston in his “gobbles”

Fun and games:

Ada…she sucks her middle and ring finger…I think it’s the cutest thing…just don’t be doing it in high school girl!