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our home before the new roof goes on





Abbie's big girl bed (she has a siderail but I took it off for the picture.).







Another area of Abbie's room




It's fun to help Daddy wash Mama's car!

For about a week, Abbie had a pretty bad stomach bug. She is feeling much better now. We had to keep her home for several days. This week, we got a new roof put on our house. It wasn't that old but there was a hail storm in May that damaged some of the roofs on our street pretty bad. Thankfully, insurance is covering most of it. Also, about a month ago, we painted the upper half of Abbie's room (pink, of course!) and redecorated her room. She moved to a big girl bed. She does fairly well now with staying in her bed but it was hard at first. I finally remembered to take some pictures to post.

Sophie still loves school! She's learning a lot of new sight words. When they learn a new list of words, her teacher gives them a piece of candy. Very effective I might add.

My Little Buddy

Will & Abbie at the zoo

Abbie likes to make a mess & occasionally help clean it up.

Abbie all dressed up

Now that Sophie's in school, Abbie and I have some days where we just hang out and others where we've had some fun play dates. Last week, we got together with Joshua & Julia one day. Abbie and Julia were crazy about each other. Yesterday, we met Will and his mommy at the zoo while their big sisters were in school. Abbie and Will are in the same class at Mother's Day Out. It was a great day for the zoo! Abbie loves wearing her hair in pigtails but in the bottom picture, you can tell that I had to fix her hair a few times too many because they are totally lopsided. Oh well, she's cute anyway! I can't wait for Halloween! We've got the girls' costumes ready to go!

Today's the Day

Recently, Sophie heard about Earth Day and she wanted to organize each member of the family so that we helped do something kind for the Earth. She wanted us to make a list of what we would do. It was pretty funny. She wanted to focus on helping her Daddy outside in the yard. Abbie "helped" Mommy sweep some. Anyway, I just thought Abbie was too cute here!

Today, however, particularly around her normal times to sleep, Abbie has not been a happy camper. Her mean Mama and Daddy decided that it was time to snip the ends off of her paci (we were tired of having to get up during the night to go find a paci). When Abbie wanted the paci this morning, she said, "paci broken." Then (mysteriously) her other paci was broken too, so after a few minutes of her trying to suck on them, I encouraged her to just throw them away and she did. However, no nap today (boo). Bedtime was hard tonight too but we are going to try to stay strong. (I'll try to update with more pictures soon.)

Just Like Mama

Sophie with her mop

Sophie & Abbie

Here's a couple of random pictures from last week. Sophie sees me get out the broom or mop very regularly and she will often run and get hers too. Then, it gets interesting because sometimes she is right in the way of where I am trying to sweep. There's a fine balance there between encouraging her to help me around the house but also wanting to somewhat do it "my way". She's funny though. Whether she's trying to feed her babies like mama, change their diapers, put them down for naps, or clean up around the house, she definitely is modeling everything I do and say so I need to be very careful!

Sophie likes to love on Abbie but I have to keep a close watch on her. I'm glad that she loves her but she's not always as gentle as I would like. Abbie is usually OK with some attention as long as Sophie doesn't get too rough. Abbie has been laughing more in general. I'll have to catch her in action soon so I can post some pictures. She's just too cute! The last couple of nights she's been sleeping for very long stretches (like 10-11 hours). I'm afraid to brag too much but we are very thankful. The ironic thing was that Sophie woke up in the middle of the night last night and required some attention and Abbie didn't. Why is it that it's so hard to have both kids sleep well (whether it's naptime or bedtime) at the same time?

Lean, Mean (Not really) Cleaning Machine

Sophie loves ducks! Can you tell? Sophie's Nana was just here for a visit recently to come and help out. We had a great time visiting with her! Nana brought Sophie her very own broom, dust pan and cleaning set because Sophie had recently started "dusting" her chair as she's seen her Mommy do.