Happy Thanksgiving!

We have so much to be thankful for this year - a beautiful 6 MONTH OLD baby, our health, our wonderful families, a place to live, food to eat... we truly are blessed.

From our family to yours, may today be filled with love, close family and friends, and delicious food. Happy Thanksgiving!

Adelyn in Thanksgiving garb, a gift from Auntie Mikaela. Her shirt says "Thankful for Mommy" :)
She says Happy Thanksgiving!

Too cute for school.

6 months old.

Can you believe it?

Adelyn is 6 months old today. It just shocks us how quickly time has gone by. She is half of a year old. HALF A YEAR! What?!?!

Stayed tuned for a letter to her from us. It will be posted when we get back from visiting Derek's parents and sister in Florida for the holidays. :)

Hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving, and enjoy your turkey!

Eww.

This morning I put Addy down on a mat in the living room and went into the kitchen to get breakfast. When I looked back over, she had rolled over to the rocking chair (no big surprise there), and had grabbed one of Nova's cat toys and was CHEWING on it. The same part of the toy that Nova chews on. Blagh. Yuck. Ew. Sick. I was grossed out. Addy didn't seem to mind, I guess it was seasoned just right for her.

Adelyn has been getting really good at eating rice cereal now! She loves the apple and rice flavored cereal, and can put away a decent amount. As soon as I raise the spoon from the bowl, she opens her mouth expectantly, like "Would you hurry it up, Mother? I've got things I need to play with, stuff I need to chew on. C'mon, let's speed this up."

Pics from our walk yesterday. We stopped by the pool for a bit and I showed Addy the waterfall. She liked it.

Just chilling by the pool. Typical thing to do in November, right?

I'm like a little doggy, putting socks in my mouth.

Zivney Energy

I'd like to take a moment to brag about my husband :) As I mentioned earlier, Derek started his own oil production company, Zivney Energy. He has wanted to own his own oil wells for ages... since he was a little boy! A couple weeks ago, he bought an oil lease and last week he put up "Zivney Energy" signs so everyone knows who the lease belongs to! :) I'm just so proud of him for reaching his life-long goal! Here are a few pics to show you the signs. They look great! Thanks to my sister Mikaela for making the awesome logo.

Welcome to the entry gate of Zivney Energy's first oil lease.

Sign on the tank battery.

The proud owner of his first oil well!

Yippee hurray!

I defended my Master's thesis today and passed! :) Whew!!!! What a great feeling. Now I just need to make a few final revisions to the thesis before I'm completely finished with it.

Ahhhh, I will sleep well tonight.

And the sleep verdict?

All that sleep on Wednesday night must have been a fluke...
::yawn::

Sleep, glorious sleep!

Adelyn slept from....

7pm until 5:15am!!!!!

Ahhh, it was so nice. Mind you, I didn't go to bed until 10:00pm. And I woke up at 3am with a headache and expecting Addy to be hungry, but I was happily dissapointed. She woke up at 5:15am, I fed her, and then we went back to sleep until 8:30am. :) I'm so proud of her! I can only hope that she will do it again tonight and that it wasn't just a fluke.

Other news: she sits up almost all by herself. She's still a bit wobbly and if she leans over to the side, she wipes out, but she's working on her balance. She's also tucking her little knees under her body more often, practicing for the big lunge into crawling.

A definition

Roly Poly:
ro-ly-po-ly (noun) - an object that sporadically rolls back and forth without warning. May shriek, squeal or holler while rolling. See "Adelyn Zivney".

Hahaha, our sweet girl is getting so mobile! This morning, she rolled over several times in a row, right up to our tv stand. I guess we need to think about baby proofing our apartment! This morning, my Grandma asked if Addy was making any moves to crawl yet and I told her she'd gotten up on her knees a few times, but not lately. Shortly after I got off the phone with her, Adelyn got up on her knees and then tucked her toes under and tried to make an A-frame with her body! I think crawling is not too far off in the distance.

We bought a new toy for Adelyn. It's a "Jenny Jump-up" and we think she likes it! It's a doorway jumper (attaches to the door frame) and it gives her a chance to bounce up and down and get a good leg workout. She's a wee bit small for it... only her head and legs show. Ha! But she will grow into it, we're sure.

Jenny jump-up, take 1! After first putting it up... (5 mos, 2 wks)


Jenny jump-up, take 2. Fixed the height. (5 mos, 2 wks)


Just being a tweety bird, shrieking and blowing bubbles. (5 mos, 2 wks)


More fun! (5 mos, 2 wks)

It's about time.

Okay, it's about time I update the blog with something other than pictures!

Adelyn is just growing and changing so much, it's incredible. She loves to roll. She grabs everything in sight and puts it in her mouth. She can even put her pacifier back in her mouth all by herself (with the right side in!). She is showing a real interest in food and enjoys "gumming" apples and bananas, but she hasn't quite mastered the art of swallowing so she doesn't really eat people food yet. No sign of teeth, but those will come soon enough.

In other news, there have been some big changes in the Zivney household lately. Derek has started his own oil company, Zivney Energy, and he officially bought his first oil lease on Friday! The lease is in East Texas, in the Tyler/Kilgore/Longview area (that's why he's been up there recently). As soon as I defend my thesis, we will be moving to that area! We're pretty excited about this, it will be an exciting change for us. Speaking of my thesis, if all goes as planned, I will be defending in 2 weeks. 2 weeks!!! I can't wait to be done. Then I can focus on Adelyn, Derek and moving. Wheee!!!!

Okay that's all for now. Enjoy a few more pics from this weekend :)

Addy and Grandma Lo in Austin. Addy is still in her PJ's, being a lazy girl. She's wearing a hat that her Great-Aunt Joan knitted for her.

Snacking on an apple slice. Mmmm, delicious.