Paris

We took a trip to Paris, TN last weekend to visit Nathan's Great Aunt Sue and Great Uncle Vance. It was a busy weekend! Nathan's sisters, mom, and uncles came, too. The pictures posted are not in chronological order like I usually have them, but I'm too lazy to put them in order (plus I don't know how long it will be before Ada wakes up from her nap).


Ada in Josephine's fireman's hat. Behind her is a house that used to be in the Carter family, but they lost it during the Depression.



Josephine fearlessly petting a boa constrictor. One of Aunt Sue's sons was working at Oktoberfest that weekend, so we went there to see him. One of the booths was this woman and several of her pets. Not sure why she was there, but Josephine enjoyed it.


Nathan with Josephine and Aunt Moug with Naomi in Sue's backyard.


Granna Lynda with Naomi and Ada.


Our first family picture since Ada was born!


Ada Potata in her Swaddler. She loves the Swaddler, she sleeps so well in it. She looks like a potato in it, so she got named Ada Potata. Josephine isn't too keen on the nicknames.


Ada looks so much like Nathan when he was a kid in this picture, so I had to add it.


Uncle Vance is in assisted living, so all 19 of us went and surprised him. Brian brought his banjo and Leah brought her mandolin. Uncle Vance plays the bones and harmonica and loves music.


Aunt Sue with her Great-great grand niece. With perfect timing, Ada was smiling in her sleep!


Nathan and Josephine in a tree in Sue's backyard. Josephine didn't get near the amount of sleep she needed and was pretty cranky. She refused to smile for the picture. I'm impressed that they got her up there in the first place.


Elizabeth and Ada.

Here's a video of Uncle Vance singing and playing the bones.

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Updates:

Ada is doing very well. She even rolled over from her back to her stomach last night! I think it was a fluke because I haven't even seen her try any other time. But she did do it unassisted on the couch. Luckily towards the back not the front where she could fall off.

Ada will start reaching for things soon. You can tell that she is thinking about it, but she just can't control her arms well enough yet. A couple weeks ago she was reaching for Nathan's face when he was playing with her. Very sweet.

Ada is still an easy baby. Although, the past two nights she hasn't gone to sleep until midnight and woken up around 6am. It's still better than most babies at this age, but I got spoiled with her sleeping 10 hours or so at night. This past weekend threw off all of our sleeping schedules so hopefully we'll get back on track soon.

Josephine is almost 100% potty trained now. She still has issues about pooping in the potty, though. She wears pull-ups right now. She pees in the potty, but poops in her pull-up. I told her that once all the pull-ups were gone, then she was going to wear panties all the time. She wakes up dry from both naps and nighttime. She'll get up and use the potty if she needs to pee. The next step will be her being big enough to get on the potty without a stool or parent. That will be awhile, though.

Speaking of Josephine, I'm being beckoned. She has a slight cold and coughs when she lays down, so she can't really sleep during nap time. Apparently she's tired of laying down.