Busy Bee's

Bryan's grandmother (Sherri's mom) passed away Monday night. She had alzheimers disease. So we are headed down to St Louis Thursday morning for the funeral and visitation. We will head back Friday afternoon b/c on Saturday is my 5 1/2 hour long coding test. This test is a really big deal for my new job. I have to be certified and this is it. I am nervous about it because it is soo by the books. no talking, eating, etc for 5.5 hours!! should be interesting.

Our little miss Adelyn is doing wonderful. She has done a couple new things this past week. She waves bye bye @ us now. (which is so stinkin cute) she has also started a little attitude problem rather quickly. When we take something away from her she gets mad and started pushing off of us (if we are holding her) and making like a loud grunting sound. I was changing her diaper last night and evidentially she didnt want me to do that and started kicking away from me and grunting real loud. I'm not soooo sure I like that, but how do i stop a 7 months old w/ an attitude?! lol she didnt get it honest or anything?!?! LOL. She is also talking up a storm. She is constantly babbling. we are trying to coach her into saying dadadada, but still hasnt yet. she still saying mamamama quite often in which i just eat up :) well I had better get back to work. Hope everyone has a good rest of the week.
Stay warm
The Klokkenga's

A couple of new things..

hey whatcha cooking, mom?

Bella is her new best friend
I think I kinda like this carseat

looking out the window in my new rice

Well our Addy has done a couple of new things since we last posted. The first big thing is she sais, "mamamamamamamama" and reaches for me ALL the time. It is soo cute. She just started doing that this week. she has said mamamama for a while now, but has now associated the name with me. She babbles all the time. yesterday for the 1st and ONLY time she got up on all fours and started rocking back and forth then after about a mintue toppled over on her side and rolled the rest of the way over. It seems as if she is doing something new and fun everyday. AND another big change is she is now in a "big girl" car seat. I must add, she LOVES it. She just looks out the window in amazement like what is all this new stuff. So before leaving the house now we have to add a little extra time to get her all bundled up in her snowsuit. @ first she didnt like being in it, but now it just seems to be routine for her. THANK GOD no more fighting her to get it on. She does look really cute in it. I will post a few pics. well we are off to the mall to spend our gift cards and birthday money. Bryan's bday is monday and mine is Friday. we are having a small get together with our immediate family and a few friends to do a little something for the both of us turning the big 2-5!!! OH BOY!! well hope everyone stays warm. I know i hate cilco this time of the year as I am sure everyone else does too. our bill was $400 for last month!! GRR have a great work week.
Love the Klokkenga's

holidays have come and gone! :(

well our babies 1st Christmas was amazing. She is one spoiled little girl. She gots, lots of money for her bank account, lots of clothes, sleepers, toys, teethers, sippy cups, bowls, and baby puffs (food). She looked sooo stinkin cute in her dress. She LOVED the wrapping paper. She was all tangled up in it like the whole time. She was a trooper all day long too. We didnt have hardly any complaints from her @ all even when she was passed around like crazy! We defenitely took millions of pictures. (mommys is like the paparazzi.) Poor adelyn.

So our baby is 6 months old alraedy. so you know what that means.. we had our dreaded 6 month shots. I couldnt be there this time (oh darn) so daddy had to take her all alone. he said she did really well. she screamed for the initial stick, but was then fine. evidentially she gave the nurse a pretty nasty look after she stuck her. Bryan said is was quite funny. We are also starting meats this week. I am not so sure she will love these, but we will mix with fruits and veggies so she gets her nutrition.

For the new year.. we rang it in @ Sherri and Mike's with all of our friends and their babies. It was a good time. It was like baby central there. Of course it was us, The Howard's, The Murphy's, The Garza's (minus Dustin who is in Iraq), and the Buxton's. It was a really good time veggin out and hanging with our friends... and our babies hanging out. We actually made it past midnight... Shock Shock... i didnt think I'd make it.

I also started my new job this week. It is quite the change from Medical Records. I work with alot of older women now.. so i feel really really really really young.

Speaking of young... B and I's birthdays are around the corner. We will both be the BIG 25!!!! I am a little uneasy about this. Why... I'm not sure.. I just feel like I'm getting old REALLY fast.
Well I'm going to cook some dinner. Happy New Year to everyone!!!