Funny Stories on Abbie

The other day I was holding Abbie and her face was right up close to mine. She reached out and squeezed my cheeks! It was pretty funny!

Lately when I give the girls a bath, Abbie likes to stand up sometimes which is scary because the bottom of the tub is slippery. She has slipped and fallen a few times. Anyway, a few days ago, I just had Abbie in the bath and she kept wanting to stand up and pull the button up that turns the shower on. She did this twice and gave herself a little shower. It was cracking me up but of course, I turned the shower off immediately. Now, though, when she tries to stand in the bathtub she gets a little slap on her hiney!

Abbie also enjoys hiding things. I think I've mentioned this before. She loves getting into the drawers in our bathroom (now Matt has fixed it so that she can't for the most part). A few days ago, I found two things of deodorant in our laundry basket (with clothes in it too!)

Girls Playtime!

Abbie V., Abbie C., & Sophie (Do you notice that both of my girls have things going on with their tongues? What's the deal?)

Abbie loves spaghetti and she loves things that she can feed herself!

Well, we were able to get together with my friend, Jamie, and her little girl, Abbie, this week. Yes, that's right. We both have Abbie's and we spell it the same way!! =) Her Abbie loves babies and is especially excited about our Abbie since they have the same name. Jamie brought lots of clothes for me to go through and I bought a bunch of them for Sophie that her Abbie had outgrown. Jamie has wonderful taste and there were a lot of cute clothes so I had fun "shopping". Last week, we were able to get together with another friend of mine that we hadn't seen for a while. My friend, Laura Ice, and two of her girls. We had a nice time with them too.

Abbie is becoming more and more confident with her walking. Now she tries to carry more things around so she with this extra challenge to her balance she is falling more. We never know where Abbie is going to hide things. She'll hide her shoes in the girls' tent or put things in our laundry basket. If you don't know where something is, just ask Abbie. =)

Here's a couple of cute quotes from Sophie:
Tonight after dinner Sophie said something sweet and I told her that I loved her. She said, I love you too Mommy. She said, "when you tell someone that you love him it makes their heart happy." Oh, the wisdom of little kids. She said it well.

Sophie recognizes Taylor Swift when she hears her singing on the radio. We hear the song, "Love Story" a lot and she knows parts of it. Well, today sang along with part of it, "Daddy said to stay away from Julie Andrews." but the song says, "stay away from Juliet." Matt & I were laughing about that one. Sophie is familiar with Julie Andrews because she has the Muppet Show where it features Julie Andrews as a guest star. Sophie also likes the part of "Love Story" where it says, "Baby just say yes."

Silly Abbie

Abbie with a new hair style after Mama had some fun going crazy with bows!

This picture makes me feel a little disoriented. Sorry, it's not my best photograpy. Abbie has enjoyed pushing baby dolls around in the stroller lately. She enjoys putting them in upside down. It's amazing how fast Abbie can go through the house now pushing the stroller.

Abbie with some of her favorite things-her passy and a telephone. She loves telephones! I think she'd like to lay down and take a nap with this one.

Valentine Party

Sophie, Gracie & Ellie

Sophie & Gracie laughing

This past Thursday, Sophie had her Valentine's Day Party at school. She really enjoyed decorating everyone's valentines with stickers and getting to pass them out. They got to eat Chick-fil-A for lunch and then took turns passing out their valentines. Sophie loves going to school and seeing all of her friends!! I was able to go to the party and it was an added bonus that a couple of my friends were able to watch Abbie so that I didn't have to chase her around the room during the party. I enjoyed it so much more than their Christmas party where Abbie was getting into everything!! Thanks for watching Abbie, Jenny & Janelle! =) This year on Valentine's Day, Sophie was really excited because Paw-paw Tom, Mimi, & Aunt Leia (Matt's family) were able to come and visit us for President's Day weekend!

All About Abbie

Since Abbie celebrated her first birthday a few weeks ago, I thought I'd do a little tribute to her.

Here's 21 things about Abbie since she was born on the 21st of January:
1. She has red hair with blond highlights in it (for those who haven't seen her in person).
2. She's usually good natured and very laid-back. (She's usually fine with me leaving her.)
3. She has loved her bed since she was itty bitty.
4. She loves to talk on the phone when I'm talking or anytime (if I'm talking on the phone, she picks up a remote or anything and starts babbling).
5. She loves all of the yellow vegetables such as sweet potatoes and carrots so her skin was really orange at one point.
6. She loves to eat period. =)
7. She doesn't let you hold her to cuddle very much.
8. She likes to be on the move.
9. She loves her big sister.
10. Her mama is probably still her favorite person right now.
11. She is crazy about her lovie (a light pink soft lamb lovie) and her passy.
12. She likes to go down the slide.
13. She has a great laugh and a great smile.
14. She loves remotes.
15. She's not that crazy about books YET (Sophie & I will keep working with her on this one because we both love to read! Matt mostly likes non-fiction.)
16. She's a pretty good traveller.
17. She loves to swing.
18. She likes to dance.
19. She loves to play with her ball popper toy.
20. She also loves to crawl through the tunnels.
21. She loves to talk and it sounds like she imitates new words every day. Today, we were talking about Sophie's backpack and I promise you that Abbie imitated the word backpack too.

I hope I didn't bore ya'll too much (if anyone read all of this). I just wanted to be nostalgic. Maybe this will help me remember what Abbie was like at one.

Parties and Play Dates

This past week has been really good for us overall but I don't have any pictures to post right now. We met up with some friends at the Discovery Center on Friday and then went to Chick-Fil-A for lunch. The new train exhibit is open now at the Discovery Center. We had a lot of fun there with an old friend of mine and her kids! Sophie went to a birthday party on Saturday at Pump-it-up and had a lot of fun!! On Sunday, Sophie & I went to a baby shower for a cousin. Then, on Monday we had a play date with Meredith and Joshua. It was beautiful outside so were all able to get and play for a while. On Monday night, we went to a BIG family dinner at my parents' house in celebration of my sister's boyfriend being here for a little vacation. He is in the Marines and has been stationed in Japan so many in the family had not had the chance to meet him. Anyway, as you can see, it's been a busy but fun-filled week for us! Tomorrow is Sophie's Valentine party at school so that will be fun too!

Priceless!

Abbie & Sophie on Sophie's bike

While we were at Nana & Paw-paw's house last Sunday, Sophie rode her bike some. Someone decided to try putting Abbie on the bike (and no we didn't really let them ride around like this). With careful supervision, I think someone may have given them a very brief ride but I'm not sure. It was just too cute. I don't know if this picture really does it justice but I thought it was the sweetest thing.