Zivney family visit

Derek's parents, Dan and Nancy (or Pops and Gram-Z) are visiting us in White Oak right now and it has been an interesting few days.

They arrived on Thursday afternoon and we had a good visit for the rest of that day, but come Friday morning, Dan was sick as a dog. A stomach bug from the airplane, we think. Oh it was bad. He was sick all day Friday, he was feeling pretty weak Saturday and he's getting better today, but he just hasn't been able to eat much of anything. And now, poor Nancy has caught the same thing. She has the rest of today and all day tomorrow to get over the stomach bug before they leave on Tuesday morning. What a way to spend the weekend... They haven't seen us in 3 months, and they don't even get to cuddle and love on Addy. :( They've been admiring her from afar though, and Dan has managed to take some great photos! Enjoy!

Big smiles when Gram-Z and Pops first arrived!

Happy Addy. You can see her little tooth!

Just thinking about how I don't want to crawl.

Such a sweet face

I get to unwrap a present??!?!

I love wrapping paper!

Checking out my new outfits from Pops and Gram-Z.

Look at my beautiful new hat!!

Isn't it nice??

Hellloooooo!

Eating dinner with my new hat!

When was the last time I posted a video?

Or six?

Bath time in Tucson! Addy loves playing in the bathtub, especially when she has fun toys like her turtles. (2/2/10 - 8 mos old)


Ringing a wind chime, aka. the breakfast bell (2/3/10- 8 mos old)


Playing in her drinking water (2/3/10 - 8 mos old)


Snow in White Oak! (2/12/10 - 8.5 mos old)


Having a delicious, nutritious snack. (2/12/10 - 8.5 mos old)


Addy's snowman. (2/12/10 - 8.5 mos old)

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)

Video of her big roll!

This is it! Adelyn's big roll!

10/08/09 - Helping herself roll over by pulling on the blanket. (4 mos, 1 wk)


10/08/09 - Roll over, take 2. She's pretty proud of herself (0:35 sec)!! ( 4 mos, 1 wk)


10/09/09 - She's getting quick! (4 mos, 2 wks)


Now that she can roll, she has been practicing a lot. She even sleeps on her side in her crib (she started doing that the past week or so). This morning, I placed her on her back on the living room floor and went into the kitchen. When I looked over the counter at her, she was laying on her tummy, just staring around. It's very impressive! :)

Video

9/27/09 - Adelyn got tired of trying to roll over and gave up... (4 mos)


9/28/09 - Eating her toes, yummm yumm! (4 mos)



Unfortunately, the only video that I can post from our trip to East Texas when we visited Derek's grandparents is the one blow. Our video editing software didn't recognize the other files for some reason, so I can't shrink them down small enough to post on the blog :( We had nice ones of the pumpkin patch and Adelyn being a "tweety bird" (giving happy shrieks and squeals)... I'll see if I can solve the problem, but no guarantees.

10/05/09 - Baby's got dancing feet! Visiting Adelyn's Great Grandparents in East Texas (4 mos, 1 wk)


10/08/09 - Playing with a ball of paper. That's a cheap toy! (4 mos, 1 wk)


And a few pics to round out the post...

Concentrating verrrry hard on the paper.

Thanks for the fun toy Daddy!

You caught me playing with my bib.

Bundled up, ready for a walk with my friend Mortimer the Moose!

I like walks!

I'm starting to sit up in my stroller.

Me and Momma!

2 more videos and a couple of pics

9/21/09 - First time eating "solids". Guess what? She didn't like it. (4 mos)


9/26/09 - Daddy loves his baby girl soooo much. And baby girl loves her daddy soooo much too! (4 mos)

Check out my hair-do! Grandma Lo made some pretty bows to put in my long luxurious locks.
This is called the "waterspout"
Momma likes to give me funny hairstyles in the bath.

I like to chew on my toes :)

Video

We're trying to consolidate our photo and video libraries, so I figured this was a good time to add some video that I've been neglecting to post.

9/1/09 - Playing a version of "Peek-a-boo" with Daddy. 3 mos, 1 wk


9/10/09 - I'd like to roll over but... 3 mos, 3 wks

Time to laugh!!

Adelyn had a great time with her Daddy today! He raised her high up in the air and brought her back down. She had so much fun she started laughing. And I mean laughing, not just giggling!!! Here's the tail-end of their play time today :)

8/16/09 - 2 mos, 3 wks old


PS. I've also made a new sidebar on the webpage to record Adelyn's milestones. Enjoy!

More video from the past few weeks

* Please excuse my annoying baby voice... I just can't help it when I see her!

8/6/09 - Playing with her rainforest bouncy chair (10 weeks old)


8/5/09 - Mesmerized by the moving lizard (10 weeks old)
Her thought commentary around 0:11 sec:
"Get that camera outta my face Momma, I'm trying to focus here!"


8/2/09 - Being a happy baby, as usual (9 weeks old)

8/8/09 - Adelyn talking to Daddy and Great Grandma Zivney (10 weeks old)

Video

A few videos for your enjoyment!

7/22/09 - Adelyn talking to her Mommy. 8 wks old



7/26/09 - Just got home from the Dollins family reunion, getting some exercise. 8 wks old

Another cooing video

She sure is a social butterfly. We went for a walk this evening and she seems to be feeling a bit better than earlier today, not quite as fussy.



As mentioned in the video, we saw a kitten on our walk and it literally followed us back to our apartment. He was meowing and meowing the entire walk home. Poor little guy was starving, so Derek gave him a little can of food and he scarfed it down pretty quickly. He was still meowing when Derek came back inside, but I think he's gone now. I wonder if we'll see him around tomorrow?

Chatty Cathy... or Addy!

Here is video of Adelyn "talking" to us last night. She sure was vocal! And happy too, lots of smiles :) She starts to get really excited around the 1:25 mark (but I think you should watch the whole thing anyway!).

We love our baby girl!!!!

I just can't help myself...

One more video from last night... :)

Can you blame me?

More video

Three more videos to post, all from tonight. Make sure you look at them all! :)

Nova getting to know Adelyn



Another tummy time... she's getting so strong.



A VERY EXCITING TUMMY TIME!

Tummy Time!

We filmed Adelyn during her "tummy time" yesterday morning. Her neck is getting nice and strong! And she's cute :) Notice Nova in the background. She wants some attention too! What a good cat.

We have a few photos to post from the 4th of July weekend, so I will post those soon.