Starting solids...

Well, Adelyn has started rice cereal and she absolutely loves it! She leans forward out of her highchair and tries to grab the spoon her self already! Below are some pics of her eating as well as a picture of Lily eating her salad...(she told me to take a picture of her eating too :) I will post some video soon! Next up on her menu is sweet potatoes!

Adelyn's eating cereal!

laughing

Adelyn laughing 4 months

Ok...one more funny/cute story...then I will get back to posting pictures

Yesterday Lily got her pumpkin bucket from halloween and walked around the house collecting random things to put in it. After she filled the whole thing she came running up to me and said "Merry Christmas Mommy, I got you something special!" Then she had me sit down on the floor with her and she said "Open it up Mommy, let's see what it is!"

funny Lily stories

Well, Lily is just at the age I guess where she just cracks us up multiple times a day. Here are a few funny recent stories...

Every morning we go into Lily's room when she wakes up and say "Good morning my little Roo! How was your sleep?" Well, a couple days ago she responded (very matter-of-factly)
"Hi, good, I was sleeping for a couple days."

Yesterday, Lily and I were playing out in the living room doing a puzzle when Adelyn woke up from her nap. Adelyn always starts talking talking talking in her crib when she wakes up. When Lily heard her she jumped right up and started running down the hallway saying "I'm coming Pooker, I'll be right there!" She then climbed up the side of the crib to look in at Adelyn and said, "Hi my little fweetie pie (she has a little trouble with s's) you had such a great nap today."

The other night at dinner Lily wanted to make sure we all were closing our eyes and holding hands while daddy prayed. She made sure each of us said "Thank you Jesus" Then we started talking about who made the sun, moon, stars, animals, and who made Lily. She then proceeded to say "and God made mommy too, and daddy too, and adelyn too, and tara too, and jeff too, and carson too, and lexi too, and austin too, and parker too."

He Loves Us, Oh

The other day Lily, Adelyn and I were driving in the car and when we pulled up to where we were going the song "He Loves Us" by David Crowder Band came on the radio. Lilyana said to me, "Mom, we cannot get out yet, we need to listen to this song." "We love this song" Then the song started to play, and when it got to the chorus I got goosebumps because I heard her little voice in the back singing "He loves us, oh, how He loves us, oh, how He loves us oh, He loves us...It was the most precious thing in the world. Joel and I have both been praying that she would come to know the Lord at a young age since before she was born, and it is awesome to see little glimpses of this here and there.

Adelyn Eden's Baptism

Adelyn was baptized October 25th, she slept through the entire church service, and then when it was her time in the sun she cried the entire time! She is such a sensitive little sweetie pie, she did not like her hair getting wet one bit. Here are a few pics from her big day...

A few extra pics...

Lily playing

I can't remember if I posted these pictures or not, but they are so funny. Here is Lily playing with one of her very favorite toys that her cousins got her for Christmas last year! She has this pink princess castle, and she plays with all her little animals and all her cars. She takes them all in and out the door and up and down the castle stairs. It is so fun to watch her play with this! Thanks cousins...great gift!!!

Too funny

here is a pic I snapped of Lily the other day...she lines all her cars up on the back of the couch and then she drives them all over the couch. She has the best imagination these days. She will play with her cars every single day for like an hour at a time. She has all the cars talking to each other like they do in the movie "cars". Yesterday, they were all going to the piston cup to see lightning mcqueen race. She also takes the cars two at a time and drives them next to each other and pretends that they are mcqueen and sally going for a drive together. mater is her favorite, and she has this little brown pickup truck that sort of looks like him, and she takes him all over the place. I just love watching her little personality develop day by day. Her other favorite thing to do recently is listen, sing, and dance to Christmas music! Yesterday while we were driving in the car the song "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" came on the radio, and she said:
"Mom! WoW! I like this song. Where did this song come from?" -exact quote- she just cracks me up. she really thinks every day is the best day of her life. you can never be in a bad mood around her.

Lily jumping in leaves

This morning Lily, Adelyn, and I made pumpkin shaped pancakes for halloween! We had so much fun together. Lily really loved the pumpkin shapes. Tonight we went to a few different trunk or treat festivities in Overland Park. Lily dressed up as a cowgirl and Adelyn was our little pumpkin. We also took Lily around our neighborhood when we got home and she was laughing the whole time. She loved looking at everyone's pumpkins glowing with candles and seeing all the other kids in their costumes too. She is such a joy to be around.

Pumpkin Pancakes!