The Lilly Pad

Here I go again - another attempt to start blogging on a regular basis. I never intended to stop in the first place but life has been a little full...and I'm definitely still learning/trying to figure out this whole 2 kid thing. We've had a really great start to the summer. At the end of April we took our first Family Stay-cation. We rented a house with a pool here in town and took a few days to get away and relax. We even went to Disney and of course had a lot of fun! Mimi & Grandpa came to visit in May and thanks to our very generous friends we got to go to Disney again! Preschool wrapped up at the beginning of June which was exciting and sad all at the same time. If you love a good flashback like I do check out our  post from the first day of Preschool. Lots of changes that's for sure! We started a Kindermusik class a couple of weeks ago and other than that we've just been busy playing. We were all feeling a li...

A few weeks ago we did Caiden's Baby Dedication at church. We are so humbled that the Lord chose us to be Caiden's mommy and daddy. He is a blessing and a joy and it is our prayer that we will point him toward Jesus in all we say and do. Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago. Isaiah 25:1

I don't really need to state the obvious...it's been awhile since I've blogged. Over 2 months to be exact. It's hard to know where to even start and I feel so bad that I haven't blogged much about Caiden's first year of life. So I'm going to have to do some backtracking, but for now I'm just going to start with this month because I have to say...it's been a pretty great month! We started it off right with a National Championship win by the Kentucky Wildcats!! Celebrated Easter, started swim lessons, had a special house guest, celebrated a milestone birthday, and got so close to trying a first french fry! It's been a busy month, that's for sure! Easter and swim lessons are going to get their own post but the high light of Adelyn's month was definitely dog sitting Winston for Aunt Corrie. He stayed with us for about a week and was a good little puppy dog. He did not however convince me or M...

The Adamson family has been blessed with another little girl! Darla and Rob welcomed Makayla Alexandra at 10:20 am on February 8th. She weighed 8 lbs 6 oz and 20.5 inches long. Her mommy and daddy were so relieved that they made it to the hospital in time. This little girl was in a hurry to make her appearance! (She must get that from the Catoe's)   Caiden and Makayla are 6 months and 6 days apart. They're going to have a lot of fun playing together one day! And, if they're smart, which they are, they're going to stay out of the way of these two goofy big sisters... "Ok Kinsley, you go first."  " Ahh, this is the most fun I've ever had in my entire life! Ahhh !!" "Mommy, I could use a little help here...mommy?" "What? What did we do?" Does anyone else think that Caiden and Kinsley look like the brother/sister combo? Me too! Adelyn is all Lilly & Caiden is an Adamson. In my ...

A few weeks ago Adelyn helped her best friend Brody celebrate his 5th Birthday. He had some exciting but scary special guests attend... You brought a what?!? Once she held the tarantula there was no going back! This bearded lizard also brought his scorpion friend but we didn't get a picture of him. Here's a baby alligator... and Adelyn holding his older cousin. She didn't even hesitate when given the chance to hold him. (I just love the kid in the orange shirt. He's got his super hero pose down if you ask me.) I even took a turn holding the alligator but I draw the line at this guy... Yuck! 5 kids long and you still can't see the end of him. He was Adelyn's favorite animal. She thought he was so soft and smooth. The guy with all the animals is a Gatorland wrangler. He did a great job and the party was so much fun. I hope Caiden doesn't get any ideas though. I'm terrified of the "little, harmless" sna...

We hope that you had a great Valentine's Day! Our week of love has been a little bittersweet you might say... Adelyn went to a Valentine's Party at Gracyn's house on Monday. She shared lots of sweet treats with her closest girlfriends and made a Valentine for her daddy.   It wasn't too surprising that it soon turned into a Princess Party! The little brothers and sisters had fun just being themselves. On Tuesday morning we found ourselves at the doctors office. Matt had his own appointment on the other side of town and between the 3 patients we came home with 5 prescriptions. Unfortunately we were back today and the official diagnosis is brochialitis for these two sweeties. Thankfully my Valentine knows that chocolate keeps me happy. via