the shelton family.: 5 months in review

It's a little tough to recap 5 months worth of Adeline's adorableness, but I'll give it a shot. I suppose it is best accomplished with photographs. Here we go (in chronological order)...

Day 2 of life... Gee-gee and Papa were still around for Addie's second day in the 'outside world'. We ate Christmas leftovers and watched Addie sleep. What a great day.

Our new little family

Gee-gee and Papa

First week... Robert, Addie and I were on our own for the first week. All the family went home and we spent the week getting to know our little girl and falling madly in love with her.

After her first sponge bath

Sleepy time in the bouncer chair

Week 2... Grandmommy came back to Austin to stay with us for the week so Adeline had yet another set of arms to spoil her rotten. :) At the end of the week we went to visit Adeline's great-granny and great-granddad at the farm.

Getting ready for the first 'real' bath

Sleeping with Daddy

Lazy mornings with Daddy and Grandmommy

Great-granny and Great-granddad

Week 3... Robert had to go back to work after 2 weeks off so Addie and I were spending our first days home alone together.

Sleeping with Mommy

Watching the big game and Jonathan & Kristin's

Boy did she hate getting out of the bath!

Weeks 4 - 7... This was Addie's seriously fussy period. She made her first trip to The Woodlands to meet her cousins (who adore her!) and during the trip she showed Grammy & Papa how she had found her voice and her talent for fighting off sleep at all cost. It was at this point that Papa started calling her "Nataline" after her Aunt Natalie who has always shared the same mistrust of sleep.

Cranky... who, me?

Heading to The Woodlands

Cousin Abby

Cousin Noah

Little angel

Meeting 'Aunt' Mindy

Getting used to the baths

Sleepy... gotta fight it off!

Aunt Natalie and Uncle Mike

That Gee-gee is so funny!

Two months old... Addie stared to calm down a bit at this point. She was still a major mama's girl, but she wasn't nearly as cranky. We made a trip to Denison and Addie and Paige went to Gee-gee and Papa's new house in Winter Park, Colorado (Robert had to work... poor daddy!). Gee-gee termed the week "Learn to love your Grammy week" since she kept Addie during the day all week so I could ski. They stayed at the bottom of the mountain at the lodge so I could ski down and see her at any time, but it was still so hard to leave her for the first time!

Out to dinner with Daddy and Grandmommy

Actually enjoying bath time a little bit

Sleeping in with Daddy

Hanging out with all our friends from childbirth class

A visit to the river to see Grandmommy and Uncle Lindsay

Uncle Lindsay loves Addie so much

That belly just keeps growing and growing

First trip to Colorado - Gee-gee and Aunt Sarah

Our little ski bunny

On the slopes with Mommy

Three months old... By this point, Addie was a fairly happy baby. We made another trip to Colorado to ski (this time Daddy got to come along) over Easter weekend. We also started hanging out with the other moms and babies from our Bradley childbirth class a lot.

With Daddy on a picnic

Addie loved her new Bumbo seat!

At the Wildflower center with our Bradley friends

Easter morning in Winter Park, Colorado

Adeline's first shower

The new jumper... so fun!

Lovin' Uncle Lindsay

Wow... she really hated tummy time

Pout face

Four months old... At last... Addie becomes social! Around this time Adeline became quite a social butterfly. She also learned to roll over! At the end of the month, 'Aunt' Julie had baby Emmy, so we went to Stephenville to see her... I could not believe that Adeline was that small just a few months ago!!

Laughing at Mommy