Anderson Family: 1 month shy of 1 year old!!!

Really? WOW! This month has been one of the busiest I think we have had. I feel like I just wrote your 10 month letter yesterday! Well, where to start…Hadley you are a RIOT! I can wake up grouchy, and you will make me smile in the first 5 minutes that I see you!

This past month took me to Denver, CO for a week for a continuing education course. I left you for the first time EVER! It was hard, but our good friends, Chris and Lindsey Kurz, took awesome care of me and kept me super busy! And I survived being away from you and YOU survived staying home with daddy! Oh….and daddy survived! Shortly after that trip, Grandpa and Grandma Anderson came and visited for a few days. Immediately upon their departure, came another house full…and I mean FULL! We had mommy’s entire family here along with some of uncle Jason’s friends from California. There were 16 total staying at the house!

You had your first trip to Chico when Grandpa and Grandma Anderson were here! You got to taste your very first soda pop at Chico. On the drive home we stopped at the Pop Stand (best ice cream ever!) and got some milkshakes. Grandpa and I were in the back seat with you and I was sharing my shake with you. Well, every time grandpa looked over at you, you would stop gobbling down the ice cream and freeze, like he caught you doing something bad. It was SOOO FUNNY! Grandpa played that game with you for a while-and you even started hiding your face into the corner of your car seat!

You are in LOVE with rocks. If we walk outside or are on a hike, you need a rock! And you are so proud of your rock when you get it. You are constantly on the move and you love to climb. You climb up onto your red lawn chair that I got you, climb up and over the side of the couch/futon, climb over the side of the tub and anything else that can be climbed. You are doing awesome on the stairs. You go up with no problem and also go down great. You are pretty cautious and turn around way before you need to to go down backwards, but sometimes you still need some supervision (and our stairs are big-so someone is always there for safety)!

You loved having all of your cousins around and you definitely long to be able to walk like the rest of them. You are pretty good with sharing your toys, but if you want something you make it known by either screaming really loud at whom ever has the toy you want, or you will wait till they drop it and snatch it up really quick before they even know that they dropped it!

We have had a few flies in the house lately (with leaving the doors open for Maggie and everyone else to come in and out). And one night at dinner, one fly was bugging us and I and your daddy swatted at it and said “shoo fly” and waved our hand…and boy let me tell you….this was the funniest thing you have ever seen. You were laughing so hard and now you wave your hand and we say “shoo fly” and you laugh and laugh!

Mommy had a little scare with you. I got a text from daycare saying that you were having a hard time breathing. That is not a text anyone ever wants to get. So I took you into the doctor, and you were fine. You have a really bad cold and we have been super smoky from all of the fires around us I think that you just had some mucous build-up that you could have been choking on, but best to take you in to be safe-especially since you had RSV as well!

Chico