New blog

We are officially not using this blog anymore. Now that we have 2 kids, we thought it best not to have a blog called "Addie May." So, if you are interested in following our family of 4, check out our new blog at http://angovefamily.blogspot.com/.

Thursday

For those of you who are not aware, we have a scheduled c-section for this Thursday, August 12. At some point, we will post pictures on the blog (on a new blog, actually), but in the beginning we will probably just send out a mass e-mail to announce the birth and send out some pictures. If we have time, we will also post pictures on the new blog and send that blog address out via e-mail and also post the new blog address on this blog. All that to say, if you would like to be included in that mass e-mail (for the birth announcement and such), please leave your e-mail address in the comments. Or, if you don't want to (or don't know how to) leave a comment, send me an e-mail at abigail.angove@gmail.com. We look forward to introducing our little boy to you in a few days!

Cousin fun...and an announcement!

Last Sunday, Nana was gracious enough (and brave enough) to drive up to visit us with Olivia, one of Addie's cousins. They stayed Sunday night, then Nana kept Addie while I had to go for a doctor's visit. Addie really enjoyed playing both with Nana and Olivia-and hopefully they enjoyed it as well!

Addie was definitely happy to have someone (especially her cousin) sit with her to eat at her little picnic table. We thought they should have an eating contest, but Olivia is not competetive enough for that-she willingly lost, and even offered more food to Addie when Addie had cleared her own plate:

Bath time (as you might be able to tell, Addie is in a phase where she will not smile for pictures...or even look at the camera a lot of times):

Addie and Olivia really enjoyed playing on the "Sit and spin" together:

And for the big announcement....exactly 2 days before Addie turned 16 months old, she busted out her first tooth! Nana actually was the one to discover it (it was her bottom right tooth) and confirmed that it really had broken through by putting a metal spoon in her mouth to see if it clanked...and it did! Since then (this was a week ago), Addie broke through another tooth-bottom left. But, she does not let us look and the teeth have not been coming up quickly, so who knows when the world will actually be able to see them. But, I promise they really are there! For a while, it looked like Addie was going to have a brother before she had a tooth, but she snuck it in there right before his arrival.

A proud Nana:

Waterfall time

A few months ago, we ventured out to see a couple waterfalls nearby and really enjoyed it. Somehow, in the busyness of summer (and the heat) we have not been to any more waterfalls since...until this past Saturday. When we woke up Saturday morning, we saw on the news it was going to stay in the 70's all morning and be beautiful, so we quickly decided to go check out a waterfall. We went to a little town called Saluda (it was even smaller than we realized it was going to be) and took a short hike to a waterfall. It was a lot of fun and we were really glad we did it!

Daddy carried Addie since she would have made the hike much longer than it really was if she had been walking:

Addie seemed intrigued by the waterfall and kept wanting to get closer to it:

Smiling up at Daddy:

Showing us the waterfall (in case we hadn't noticed it yet):

And there it is:

Pretty cool background for a picture:

Bob wanted to take this picture since he hasn't really taken any of me (side view) since I've been pregnant. So, here is me at almost 39 weeks:

Who needs toys?