Adele updates and some recent photos

Adele sits on the couch by herself (with my supervision of course!). She pets Campbell. She squeals at Campbell. She grabs his ears. And he can't stop licking her.

This past weekend in the (5 minutes?) of downtown we had, I was sitting, curled up on the couch watching TV with Adele. She was on my lap, and Campbell was right next to us - his head on my feet. Adele reached over and got a handful of his fur. I showed her how to pet him. I said "gentle," and ran my hands over his back. Her chubby little fingers did the same. He turned around and gave her the biggest lick on her cheek.

#heartmelting.

We had a busy weekend of two birthday parties and a wedding (sounds like a title of a movie), plus our first parent-teacher conference at Adele's school today. She is developing beautifully! Her teachers made a slideshow video, with music and quotes, and by the second picture I was holding back tears. 

Every day it seems like Adele gets more and more of a personality. Her babbling has increased, and now in addition to sitting on the couch, sitting on the floor and basically sitting in a high chair, she is grabbing glasses off of our faces and smiles ALL the time. I didn't think she could smile any more than she already does. But she is always smiling, always rosy. Fitting into size 12 months, kicking her PJs open while she sleeps at night, and is sleeping 9-10 hours per night. We are excited about her 6 month checkup and looking forward to starting her on rice cereal.

I wrote this post earlier this week but didn't have time to finish it, so I'm going to quickly tie up. Two recent pics:

One from Brian and Autumn's wedding this past Saturday at the C. Barton McCann School of Art, the second with Kristen Snoke of the PA Breast Cancer Coalition at the opening reception of the 67 Women, 67 Counties: Facing Breast Cancer in PA photo exhibit at Mount Nittany Medical Center Oct. 23. I was honored as a survivor with a carnation. It was such a wonderful evening!

More to come later!

Sending love xoxo

At Brian and Autumn's gorgeous outdoor fall wedding on Oct. 18

With the lovely Kristen of the PBCC at the kickoff reception of the 67 Women, 67 Counties: Facing Breast Cancer in PA traveling photo exhibit, which this October has made its way to Centre County. The event was held Oct. 23 in the Lance and Ellen Shaner Cancer Pavilion at Mount Nittany Medical Center.