Adeline is 11 months old!

We now have a full-fledged crawler on our hands! She started really crawling while we were on vacation at the beach. She goes everywhere now and nothing is safe! I have to put up a barrier now to keep her out of my craft room!

It is so amazing how much they change from one month to the next! She just pushed her 6th tooth through, and believe me...we could tell she was teething. If I don't put her amber necklace on her, it is very obvious. It helps so much! And of course I just remembered I didn't put it on her today! Yikes for tonight. But since that 6th tooth came through she's been a very happy baby and she took 2 2 hr naps today!

Adeline loves her bus! I bought these overalls when I found out I was prego since Alan said he had a pair when he was a kid. This is her first time wearing them.

What a face!

She is so long! Wearing a pair of legwarmers I made!

Adeline has gotten so many toys that the bins weren't doing a good job holding it all and she just dumped the boxes out anyway. So proud of myself - I asked Alan to drill holes and to attach the shelves to the sides so that she couldn't pull them off. Well....he's been pretty busy at work and going hunting so I did it myself! I want to paint the bookshelf, but didn't have time today. So I just went ahead and put it out. I knew I needed to anchor it to the wall, but hated to put holes in the wall so I tied it to the couch! Probably not as effective as anchored to the wall, but I pulled on it and it was pretty stable. I'll use the top as my side table. Like my Kettle Corn?

Longwood Park Day

I believe Longwood Park is our favorite park right now. It has baby swings and other play things for Adeline - most parks have nothing for babies. So today we went! Prepare for the photobomb.

DIY Baby Shoes

Yesterday I went Olde Salem Days and while there bought some super cute shoes from Crazy Leggies and they inspired me to make some for Adeline. I used the Modern Baby Bootie Tutorial from Tao of Craft. These are my first attempt and I am a beginner sewer so they are not perfect! But they are wearable and hopefully I learned a lesson or two so I can make more for Adeline!

Any recommendations on how to sew a straighter line in the curve of the shoe? That was my worst newbie mistake!

Hairbows! DIY

Adeline doesn't have enough hairbows, I can never find one to match certain outfits. So I decided to make some of my own. Michaels had their Fall Stems on sale last week for $0.99/each - which is a great deal! Here is how I made the flower hairbows:

1 - Pull the flower heads off the stems - they came off very easily for me and I just cut off any excess stem with scissors so the back of the flower would be as smooth as possible.

2 - Cut out felt circles dependent on the size of your flowers. You can buy pre-cut circles, but I had felt already and didn't want to spend extra $$!

3 - Using your glue gun connect the hair clip to the felt. I put a line of glue then clamped the clip down, then added more glue on top to attach flower to.

4 - Once the flower head is attached it will look like this:

5 - Add hot glue and finish attaching felt to flower:

6 - And you are done! I made all 6 in about 30 minutes.

If anyone would like for me to make some for them let me know.

Claytor Lake - Impromtu Photo Session with Adeline!

While at Claytor Lake we decided it was too cool for Miss Adeline to go swimming so we went down to the water and decided to watch the boats go by. We were down near the Gazebo when I spotted this beautiful tree with gold moss and decided Adeline needed some photos taken!

This is my favorite!

Claytor Lake - Adeline's First Camping Trip

This past weekend we went camping at Claytor Lake with my parents and brother in their RV. This was Adeline's first camping trip! She did great, the first night took some adjusting and by the second night she slept great. It ended up being a pretty cool weekend so we didn't get to take her to the beach on the Lake, but we still had fun.

PHOTO BOMB!

Yes, it's a Bumbo on a table!! There are 5 adults right beside her. NO worries!

Where we spent 90% of our time this weekend!

My brother...ugh...

Chillin' on mommy's bed!

Happy Baby!

Fell asleep on her walk - love her socks? They are mine! Forgot hers of course.

Daddy and Adeline munchin on some goldfish

The boys fishin'

Adeline with the guys fishing behind her at the Gazebo

She had soo much fun!

Scott grilling the corn

Nap time

Let's go!

Campsite

"Mommy, here's the keys - let's go!"