Our family participated in the Step Out Walk to fight diabetes in memory of my Mom on Nov 6th. It was a nice day and enjoyed having our friends and family's support. We raised over $2,500 this year. It was a very successful event! We hope that a cure is found for diabetes soon! Also, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday. Our stetson family got together at our home for turkey day. It was lots of fun to get together and with our kids too. It was a great time seeing everyone. We had Addison's baptism at St. Margaret Mary by Father Pat on Dec 22nd. It was a beautiful service and Addee looked beautiful. She was so good during the ceremony and loved listening to Fr Pat. Blain and Loretta are her amazing godparents. They flew in from Toronto for the holidays. We had a small reception afterwards at our home. It was a wonderful day with close family and friends.
Addison's 1st Christmas was extra special too. She enjoy opening gifts but, most of all enjoyed the wrapping paper the most. It was pretty funny how she wanted to eat it more than anything. We enjoyed being with Blain and Loretta...it is so fun being with them. Our visits are always special and our family really enjoys being together. We mainly enjoyed playing with Addison, eating lots, catching up and prepared hors d'oeuvres for Fr Pat's Christmas Eve service (always fun). It has been our family's tradition for many years each Christmas. Also, we enjoyed being with Kirk's family during Christmas too. Kirk's parents were here and also Mark, Terri, Spencer and Grace. So, Addee was able to meet her Aunt, Uncle and cousins from Denver. We also did the holiday fun with food, games, family pictures and catching up. It was really nice being together with the Cooper family.
Addison has come a long way since I last posted. Her colic finally stopped at the end of 4 months. She is very happy baby now and shares lots of smiles. She still has the reflux but, she is doing well with thickening her formula and the prevacid. That seems to help her a lot. It seems like the reflux is improving and she is starting to grow out of it. Addee is rolling like a roly poly and is doing a scooting crawl...like an army crawl. She is all over the place...we know its just beginning. She loves to crawl/scoot over to her toys so she is moving a lot in the family room. She loves it! Addison loves her walks. We just put together her jogging stroller so she can join her Mommy on some walks/runs. We started veggies at 4 months. She has always had cereal in her bottle for reflux plus now she has solids....fruit/veggies each day. We are making all her baby food in the beaba baby food maker. So far she has enjoyed sweet potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, zucchini, string beans, peas, bananas, and apple sauce. She loves everything so far! Addison is talking some saying baa baa and other sounds. She recognizing her name when you call her. It is truly a joy to have her in our lives. We are truly blessed with our beautiful girl. Some say she is starting to look a little like her Mommy but, she definitely looks like her Daddy more. We certainly adore our amazing baby girl!!! ;o)
Life has been busy but, going great. I am still recruiting from home part-time while taking care of Addison. I am now the logistics chair rather than committee walk chair for the Step Out walk for Diabetes. I am also still active on the board for ADA in Orlando. My Dad comes to help take care of Addison when I am on my calls...he is a lifesaver and awesome Grandpa. Kirk just started a new career with Pricewaterhouse Coopers in their advisory group. It is his dream job and he is enjoying it so far. He just started on 1/31. So happy for him...he really deserves this!
Wishing you all a wonderful week! We will keep posting soon. xoxo
Here are some pictures to catch you up since November...Addee's 6 month dr appt is 2/9 so more updates to come!
Love,
Katee, Kirk and Addison
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