Austin-bound

Last week, Abi and I loaded up and headed down to Austin to spend a day or two with Chris, Jen, Brett & Benjamin!  We were excited to see their new house in Austin – and cousin time is always so fun!  It is good to have family memories.

Our 7 AM start, still a bit sleepy, I think.  (Do you like her milk mustache?!)

 

Ahhh, the lake.  Our dear, good friend.  Waiting for our gas tank to fill…

The Little Czech Bakery on I-35 right before you hit Waco.  A must-have!  Plus, it’s good to stretch a baby’s legs!

Want to know how to have a successful car trip with a 19-month old?  Wonder no longer…

We made it!  Fun times with Brett & Benjamin!

Our daddy is so wonderful.  He was glad to have us home and we were so glad to see him!  We missed him so so much!

This girl loves her daddy.  (PS – as much as we tried to have abi call donald “poppa” it has officially become daddy.  Not sure what to attribute it to, but we’re embracing it!)

If you were the president of Abi’s world…

Well, then you would get to do things like this:

(Insist on wearing your purple tutu and grabbing non-matching bows)

(and have your cat wear some bows too)

(and decide that any day is a fine day for the birthday hat)

(and melt a momma’s heart)

An afternoon with the Zamzows

We enjoyed having Chris, Jen, and the boys stay the night with us this past week on their way to Kansas City.  Cousins are just so much fun.

Trying to get a good picture of the three of them.  Selfishly and for the grandparents.  Oh, who would have thought that task would be so challenging?!  Brett really tried to wrangle these two crazy 18 month olds.

The best attempt:

Please say Hello to my friend, Gabe

Alas, we do not have any pictures yet of Abi holding Gabe – as she has been battling a cold most of his life…but he sure is a delight!  Check out more of his little life here.

Not-so-recent, but still-so-cute pic of big sis Emmy & Abi:

Missing my girl…

Went away this weekend.  Just me.  No hubby – no abi = STRANGE.  Not going to lie here, there were some great aspects to this equation (not so many to the no hubby part, but the no baby part!).  Got to sleep in – well, kind of.  Girls who haven’t seen each other in a long while, austin, and needing to be at breakfast by 9:30 didn’t really translate to lots of sleep – but I did KIND OF get to sleep on “my own” schedule!  I got to have hours of girl talk.  Doesn’t happen much.  Got to think of just me.  Doesn’t happen much.  But, I wouldn’t choose it.  I’m my favorite “version” of me when I’m with my man and abi.  Goodness, I missed her!

• Missed her “mama’s”!
• Missed her sweet face
• Missed her cuddly warmth in the AM
• Missed her laugh
• And those eyes
• Missed her hugs & kisses
• Missed her weight situated comfortably and familiarly on my hip
• Missed my big bag which holds EVERYTHING!
• Missed our fun
• Just missed her

Glad to be home!

(Would you like one of our wallace-original play-dough bows?)

A day in the life of Abi

Capturing her snippets of preciousness!

Baby girl is getting so big!  Can we please have our baby back??!!  The past week or so she has been trying really, REALLY hard to get her socks on by herself.  (Oh, and side note, she is quite particular on what socks she would like to wear.  The girl can accessorize!)

(sorry for the blur, and for the snot that you will see – baby has a bit of a head cold.  Didn’t wipe it fast enough!)

almost there, abi!

Surely Oslo must be cold without any socks…

 

On with the dance…

As discovered in a pile of papers I’ve been needing to sort through…

“On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined. “ –Mark Twain