Abbie and her "twin"

Sophie's doll (her twin) and Abbie

Abbie and her smaller "twin"

Well, I just took these kind of as a joke. Sophie has this doll that's her favorite (alongwith her giraffe) that she received for Christmas. She does everything with them. The other day I looked at Abbie and looked at Sophie's doll and thought they were close to the same size. Plus, that day their outfits were similar. Anyways, from the second picture you can see that Abbie has definitely outgrown her twin.

I'll try to get better pictures of Abbie soon. She is growing very fast.

Snowy Morning

On Wednesday, we were surprised to hear that many of the schools around here had been closed because there was no snow on the ground that we had seen. Then, it started to snow. I didn't expect it to do anything but it did begin to stick to the grass and to our street after a while. Sophie and I headed out in the snow for about 5 minutes. (She didn't like her shoes being dirty.) By the way, she did have her gloves and hood on for the concerned grandparents. I let her take her gloves off for a second so that she could feel the snow. She was really funny though. She was so fascinated that the snow was on our patio table, the grass, etc. She wanted to see if it was in the garage but I told her that it wasn't. When we walked down our back steps to the yard and she saw the snow on the grass, she goes, "Oh, it's on the grass. How cute." You probably had to have heard her saying it but it was funny. =) The snow didn't last long. It started melting and was all gone that afternoon.

Abbie's 2 week update

Here's a couple of pictures of Abbie in her bouncy seat.

Happy girl in her cute little pink outfit!

Aunt Martha on her birthday

Abbie is growing so fast! On Monday, she was 2 weeks old. She's started smiling some over the last several days-too cute. It's probably mostly just reflexive but it still warms your heart to see that smile. We've been keeping Abbie in but on Sunday we did get together with Paula's family to celebrate Aunt Martha's birthday and overall it went pretty smoothly getting out with 2 kids.

Abbie and Paula went to the M.D. today for her 2 week check-up. She had gained about 1 1/2 pounds in just 12 days! Way to go, Abbie! She weighs 9 pounds and is in the 70th percentile for weight now (last time she was only in the 44th). She had grown lengthwise too and her head circumference had increased. She is now 21 1/4 inches long and in the 82nd percentile! We are glad that she's healthy.

Also, thankfully, we are all OK after all of the storms that came through TN. Matt was in Memphis and he was able to make it back today.

Habla Espanol?

Earlier this week, Sophie and I were playing her Dora the Explorer Candyland game. I had almost won the game and I checked the directions to make sure that I had won the game (because Candyland is oh so complicated-just kidding!). Well, since I'm sleep deprived I guess, I totally missed the English directions that were right there and only saw the Spanish ones. I looked at them and realized I couldn't read them. I said, "well, I think Mama won" and I finished my turn. Sophie picks up the same directions and says, "no, mama. You not pass the game. It says you not win." It was really cute!

On a different note, I saw Abbie's first smile last night when she was awake! She's smiled before in her sleep but not when she was awake. We'll try to post more pictures soon!

Sophie sings and dances

Lately, Sophie has been showing off some interesting dance moves so we tried to capture some of them this week. Sometimes, she's very distractible but here's a sample of some of her dancing. These moves aren't as funny as some of her dancing.

Settling in at home

Sophie says, "It's okay Abbie."

"I've had it. It has been a long day!"

Outing with the GPs

Matt's parents and sister came to visit this weekend to meet Abbie. On Saturday, Sophie went on a special trip to the Opry Mills Mall with Matt's parents and sister, Leia. Sophie rode the carousel, saw the animals at the Rainforest Cafe, and ate a whole slice of pizza. The highlight for Sophie was seeing a hippopotamus and talking tree at the Rainforest Cafe. She asked to go back to Rainforest Cafe a second time to see her favorites.