Are we there yet?

Pampers are no match for our Abi.  Not even the extra-dry.  Nothin’.  Nada.  Oh, land of potty-trained kiddos…are we there yet??!!  Because of sweet baby’s well hydrated system, I have been doing LOTS of laundry, as practically every night is a leak-through.  (We are taking some inventive measures to insure that we’re only having to wash the sheet, not the pad each time!)  Abi is such a helper though.

So, elusive Potty-Trained-Land…we’re heading your way.  With excitement (well, I’m at least excited) – we hope to arrive in the summer.  We’ll see.  Abi-girl is great about going #2 in her potty - #1 is more hit-or-miss.  But she is really REALLY excited about the stickers that follow!

Wish us luck on our journey!!

One more…

Per suggestion of aunt jenny…

This is a classic abi phrase as of late.  “One more?!”  I put both (?) and (!) in the quote because sometimes it is a question and other times it is a statement!  We WILL do one more!  She raises her pointer finger up to her mouth and out comes the request/demand!

Out of abi’s mouth it is “one mow?”  Usually as a desire for more tickles, another lap around the house in her car, blueberries, more viewing of Pablo online, etc.

My best attempt at a picture:

Loving my Josh

To say that these two love each other would be a slight understatement!  They are so so excited when the other is in town.  It truly is a joy to watch!

Last weekend I was in my dear friend, Sarah’s, wedding.  Jenny & Brian watched Abi for us most of the weekend while we were driving all around houston for wedding events!

 

(well, had to insert my two great loves!)

And Jenny and Brian came in town this weekend because they’re heading to CO for some serious ski-time!  We get the blast of hanging out with Josh and loving him all to ourselves!!

The love of a cousin is sweet.

Reflections of the Eternal

Our tea parties.  Oh, how I love having a little girl!

A trip from Mimi & Gigi brings…

Lots of reading books and drinking tea (for the mommas)

Baking rolls with momma and gigi (they turned out MUCH better than when mommas makes them)

Did we mention books?

 

And tea parties…

 

And bubbles…

And playing in my play forts!  (Do you see gigi throwing them in on me?!  That made everyone laugh ALOT!)

 

Fun at Northpark because the Dallas weather was j.u.n.k.y

 

 

BOWS (yep, “wearing” deodorant)

And lots and lots of love!

Thanks for the memories!!  We love and miss you!

Reflections of the eternal

After writing/reading this post, I wanted to continue the same in Abi’s world.  Here it is today:

(pink bear is abi’s, brown bear is donald’s from when he was a wee-one – her other two loveie's got left in the car)

I took off baby girl’s bumpers today.  A bit of “I’m annoyed by them when I change her sheets” and she really doesn’t need them anymore.  It made me so sad.

Then something magical happened today.  I was sitting on the phone talking to donald, with my back up against our oven; sitting indian-style (sorry for the lack of  political-correctness there). And Abi just came and sat in my lap.  And she fell asleep.  Not kidding.  It was magical.  I then shifted her in my arms and just cradled her sitting on my wood floor.  Perfectly content to let her nap time go by.

Note: I did put her back in her crib after about 15 minutes.  She did not like it.  I did end up putting the bumpers back on, because I convinced myself that she did ,in fact, miss them.  Haha on me.

Trying again…

Our first go with abi and the bike trailer didn’t go too well.  She was 10 months, and really, still too little.  Donald and I were just over zealous.  SO, we decided to try again – this time with baby being 19 months.  Went MUCH better!!

 

Getting our tires pumped – a painstaking process!!

Abi’s special bunny “hat.”  She did GREAT with it!  (Yes, momma has a “hat” too – a cool one with a visor!)

Needing some entertainment while riding to the park…