Addie's Nine Month Pics

I thought I'd better get these on here considering Addie turns 10 months in 3 days! She went for her check-up and weighed 16 lbs. 8 oz. and measured 27 1/2 inches long! May has been a very big month for her! She has learned to clap her hands, hold her own bottle/sippie, has her first tooth FINALLY emerging and is ON THE MOVE!!!! She is crawling everywhere and getting into everything!! :) No new words yet, just dada but I keep trying! I've started weaning her off me and she takes formula now once a day and I nurse her four times. I'm getting ready to switch one more nursing over to formula. She's losing interest and I'm getting tired of all the biting and scratching! She doesn't eat much baby food anymore, which is helping the budget a lot! She takes two good naps a day and sleeps from 8pm to 6 or 7am then goes back to sleep for another couple hours. She loves her big brother and is a complete joy to us!!

April for the Athearns

Oh my goodness, I've never been this behind in my blogging before!! Here's a recap of what we were up to in April:

Jonathan turned THIRTY!!!!!!!!!
And as part of his birthday present, we decided to take a trip to Chicago. We haven't been back since we moved four years ago. While we were there, we saw our old place (anyone remember that tiny tiny thing??):
We got a great deal on a four and a half star hotel! (Thanks Priceline!!)
We spent a day downtown enjoying the Lincoln Park Zoo...
and the Museum of Science and Industry. Luke LOVED the model trains!!!!!

And best of all, we got to see great friends again that we have missed tremendously!!

Also in April, we went to the Grand Rapids Children's Museum where Luke had a lot of fun!

Addison met a new friend there!
And Luke did some serious shopping!

Uncle Jacob came to visit, which meant lots of reading...
and Memory!!

Earlier in the month, we had the Athearn family Easter Egg Hunt Extravaganza!!
Addie didn't get to hunt for any eggs. This is what she thought of that:
It was a successful day!
And last but not least, we went to our last Griffins hockey game of the season and got great seats--for FREE!!! Some guy just gave them to us. What a blessing!

We're Baaaaack!!!

So after a ridiculously long absence, we are back on our blog!! We ran into some major computer problems beginning with a virus that totally destroyed most everything, including ALL our pictures and videos. We tried to recover them on our own but weren't able to so we took it in to a computer guy who saved the day and was able to retrieve everything. Praise the Lord!! But he also informed us that our hard drive was going bad and we'd need to look into getting another one soon. We didn't realize soon would be about two days. So then we spent another week or so without a working computer while Jonathan debated about whether to buy a new hard drive or just get a whole new computer. Our final decision: purchase a new laptop!! I'm happy with it (although it does take some getting used to, especially with the typing) and just really glad to finally be able to have internet again! I know now that I can survive without facebook, email, etc. for weeks at a time, but I'd rather not if I don't have to! :)

Stay tuned for lots of pictures as we update you on the last month or so!!