Meeting Santa

We took Addison to meet Santa last night! She looked adorable in her Mrs. Claus outfit. And she did so well. We were expecting tears and screams - but had none of that. She was more interested in grabbing the holiday decorations and Santa's beard.

Jet Photos

We had family pictures taken in front of/in Charlie's jet on Saturday. I am so pleased how well they turned out. I have sent them out on snapfish, so feel free to take a look. Hope you enjoy them!

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixon. Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen. But here is Santa's newest reindeer!

Christmas Shopping

Chuck and I went Christmas shopping yesterday for Addison. It was soooo much fun. We went to Toys-R-Us and it was extremly hard to not go crazy! And it was hard to tear ourselves away from all the fun toys. Essentially we bought her things that we wanted to play with. Gotta take advantage of that while we can because we won't be able to do that forever. It won't be long until she is VERY specific about what she wants.

Oh, and check your email today. Schuck family update email coming today!

Happy Monday!

Jenne

Here is Addison Sitting Up...

As promised, here is the picture of Addison sitting up by herself!

Sitting up...

Well, Miss Addison is now officially sitting up by herself. She has been able to do it as long as we are within inches of her for support, but last weekend, she decided she didn't need help any more. She can sit for a long time playing with toys and looking around. We now like high chairs when we go out to eat, like to sit in the cart at the grocery store and sits fully up-right in her stroller when we are out.

The first few days she was doing it by herself, she would fall over after a few minutes. We noticed that when she would fall, she would lay there and look around. If she saw we were looking at her, she would start to fuss and cry. But if we weren't looking at her, she would just lay there and eventually roll over.

I have a few cute pictures of her sitting up, but haven't uploaded them yet. I will get to that - HOPEFULLY - this weekend.

Addi's 6 month check up

Yesterday, Addison had her six month well baby check up. (CAN YOU BELIEVE SIX MONTHS ALL READY?) She weighs 15 lbs 12 oz. and is 25 1/2 inches long. She is in the 50th percentile - so she is average size. The doctor thought she looked good and was right on track developmentally. It was a good check up for the little princess!

Christmas Tree Farm, and last blog for the night

Charlie and I thought it would be fun to start our own little holiday family tradition by heading out to a Christmas tree farm to get our tree. We dressed her up in a VERY cute holiday outfit and headed up north of Williamsburg last Saturday. The weather was good and pretty warm - but I wish it would have been a little colder so it would have felt a little more like Christmas. We walked all over the farm and found a great tree. Because of insurance concerns, the farm wouldn't let us cut it down ourselves but we got to watch the man do it. (?) We got it home, put it up, and decorated it the next morning. That sucker is sooooo much bigger than we thought. Don't get me wrong, it still a good tree and it looks great in our front window - but it does take up a lot more room in the front room than we had planned. It is a great first tree for Addi, even though she will never remember it...

Just a side note - this is my last blog tonight. I made some pretty good progress on getting caught up, but now I am pooped. Have to work tomorrow so it is best that I head off to bed.

Our Thanksgiving

We had a very quiet Thanksgiving this year. This year was the first year since we have lived in VA that we haven't had Thanksgiving at our house. Last year we had 12 people and it took all weekend to recover so we decided to hand the reigns over to Valerie and let her have it at her house. She did a really good job. Way to go, Val!

Getting caught up

So my goal over the next few days is to get my blogging caught up, my pictures from November sent out to our family and friends, and new pictures posted to myspace. (Sorry facebook, Iwill get to you later.)

I will be sending out multiple "albums" in snapfish because when I went to send out one for November, there were over 200 pictures. PROOF THAT WE HAD AN ACTIVE MONTH! Rather than doing it that way, I am breaking it down into events and sending an album out for each. I thought it would be better to do it this way so people could take their time and look at one album at a time, rather than sitting down for hours to get through just one that has so many pictures.

I am also HOPING to get out a Schuck Family update email, but don't hold your breath. We have yet another busy weekend ahead of us.

Addison Meets Great Grandma Shirley

The first weekend in November, Charlie's grandma drove to VA from Illinois to meet Addison. She got to Valerie's in Richmond on Friday night and the following day, Chuck took Addison to meet up with them at Val's. I was working at the Kiln Creek Craft Show, so I did not join them that day. It was really nice for them though to have a day, just them. That Sunday, Val and Chris brought Shirley to our house for dinner. Chef Schuck made is famous ribs... YUM YUM YUM We had a very nice afternoon with her and that evening we had "Christmas" with her. It was fun for us all to watch Addison open gifts for the first time and true to baby form, she was more interested in the paper. We were all so glad that Shirley was able to get out here and meet her.

Addison's first Halloween

Obviously, Halloween was quite a while ago, but we have had such a hectic few weeks and our internet has not been working right. Halloween was a busy day for Addi - even though we didn't do nearly as much as we had planned. We only ended up going into my office so she could "trick or treat." She looked adorable in her little penguin outfit, but it was really hot that day so she didn't stay in it long. We ran errands most of the day and she didn't nap so by the time it was time to actually go "show her off" she was really crabby and the traffic was terrible. Needless to say, we ordered Chinese food and went home. Enjoy her pics!