Twenty Two Weeks

This girl is Twenty Two Weeks old, oh my! It's bedtime at the end of week twenty two and we must remember to take some photos of this lil nugget before she falls fast asleep.

As you can see she starts off very relaxed and snuggly,

Then she is all about the photo shoot! 'Look at me, I'm cute!',

Then, as most of you may not believe, things can turn ugly quickly!

Looks like we've got ourselves a serious case of the miss crankypants.

Adalyn, Matthew, and I visited the Mighty Mo this week for a VIP tour of the USS Missouri. If you watch the new Hawaii 5-0 on Monday nights, you'll be seeing a lot of this ship. It was a very hot tour as I was 'wearing' Adalyn on this ship with a serious lack or AC in cramped quarters, but we stuck with the tour the whole time and learned lots about the Mo's long history.

I finally broke down and bought the must have item most mom's seem to all rave about. The Baby Bumbo! All you mainlanders might be surprised to hear that here on the islands this seat will run you 50 smackaroos brand new. I wasn't about to spend that much money on a hideous rubber seat, so we ebayed it for half the price. That's why it's blue instead of pink or purple or some other girly color. Maybe it'll come in handy if somewhere down the road number two is a boy.

Twenty One Weeks

Here's our little girl at 21 weeks. The dress she's wearing I picked out 41 weeks prior, right after I found out that our lil bun in the oven was a girl bun. She's such a little cutie!

Matt's wonderful three week vacation ended during this week and he had to go back to the ship, so Adalyn and I enjoyed time together at home taking it easy after all the vacation fun!

As you can see Miss A has quite a bit of personality. I think she would look great with blue hair. Don't you?

Adalyn received this cute as a button dress from her Aunt Brooke at her (my) baby shower. She finally fits in it. Well, it's a tad big, but close enough. I even had the perfect matching headband to accessorize!

Adalyn had her first experience swimming in the blue Hawaiian waters. She HATED it! Guess we'll try again next time.

Twenty Weeks

Little Miss A Rae turned twenty weeks old. What a big girl!

This was the last week of vacation and we spent most of the week in Washington visiting with my family.

Adalyn sure loves Grandpa R.

Matt and I spent one day of our vacation in beautiful Island County 

We started with some shopping and a lunch of clam strips in La Conner.

Then we headed over to spectacular Deception Pass

We enjoyed some beach time at the state park. This definitely ain't the swimsuit type of beach.

We're all smiles!

Adalyn loves her daddy!

Deception Pass Bridge

Puget Sound

We ended our day trip at Tim and Brooke Story's house for a wonderful homemade meal made by the hostess with the mostest!

 We spent a couple beautiful afternoons at the Northwest Washington Fair

Enjoying a little down time in the shade on the fairgrounds.



Adalyn's first time on a tractor

 

Matt and I enjoyed two different grandstand shows. The infamous Demo Derby and superstar Kenny Rogers

We were sad to go, but we were happy to be able to spend the last day in Washington with the family

Getting a pic with Uncle Tim. Breakfast at Arlis's before we hit the road to Seattle

Then we made the rounds at Pike Place Market. Matt and I took this same photo of the two of us after we had been dating for four months. Crazy how four years changes things.

Love, love, love the flowers!

Grandma and baby love the flowers too!

I've got to get into the photo op action too.

Then we hit the Aquarium! The last time Matt and I were here was the day before we moved to Hawaii.



Mesmerized by the fishies



There's some big ones in there!

Adalyn digs the sea otters. They're my favorite too!

Finally we made it home to Hawai and we hit the beach in a hurry!
What do you think? With or without the shades? Either way she's dang cute!

Nineteen Weeks

Adalyn turned nineteen weeks old! We started the week off in Montana and then headed west to Washington for the second half of the week.

Adalyn went shooting for the first time. Well, I went shooting for the first time. Adalyn napped in the air conditioned truck while Matt taught me how to shoot a pistol.

Our first activity in Washington was beautiful Whatcom Falls Park. It was so fun to take Adalyn to one of our favorite parks. Matt and I used to spend a lot of time walking the trails while we were dating. The sun was shining, the air was crisp and it was soooo green and lush!

Me and Adalyn by the falls

We saw gorgeous hydrangeas (you don't see these in Hawaii)

and Adalyn's first duck sighting

Over the weekend we went to Whidbey Island and headed straight for Coupeville. Our favorite little town right on the water. We were so lucky to have headed down that weekend because they were having their annual arts and crafts festival. There must have been hundreds of vendors there. There were so many unique housewares and gifts. It was a fantastic way to spend the afternoon.

We even got to see two tall ships in a mock battle. Cool!

Our last stop of the day on Whidbey was to Rosario Beach. I love this pic!

Grandma Rockwell and Adalyn

Me and Matthew

Time for kisses

Rockwell family photo

On Sunday we had lots of family and friends over to see Adalyn

Adalyn loved cuddling up with her Great Grandma Ada!

and smiled for her Great Aunt Donna

and was very curious about buddy Oliver and his mom Kristen.

Eighteen Weeks

Eighteen weeks old and boy has it been quite the week for her.

Miss Adalyn started off the week with a trip to the doctor's office for her four month well baby. Her doctor was quite impressed with her. She is in the 50th percentile for weight and the 25th percentile for length and head circumference. Way to grow girl. You're getting so, so big!

And then before she knew it she was on her first airplane ride. All the way to the wild west in Montana. She did super duper great the whole way. She enjoyed the comfort of a Flye Baby sling in the airplane, which made it nice and cozy for Adalyn and me while we relaxed.

After a very short twelve hours of travel she was in the arms of Grandpa and Grandma Felton. Oh, this is the good life!

It didn't take us long to visit the infamous Staggering Ox for a delicious one of a kind sandwich. This is one of Matt's absolute favorite places to eat. We stopped in several times during our stay in Montana.

Here is Matt with a full tummy of sandwich heaven.

Adalyn was super excited to meet her wonderful Uncle Clayton

And her Auntie Julie and Auntie Billie. That girl is getting love from all sides!

I was excited to be able to see my sweet niece Haylie again.

Adalyn's first ride on the swings with her cousin Haylie. We had a lot of fun. I think there were some definite giggles!

We visited The Museum of the Rockies and Adalyn had her very first dinosaur experience.

Father-daughter love in beautiful Bozeman.