Thank you Jess!

Today when I got off work at 2pm (Yes, I know the hard life of working 10am-2pm), I went over to Jessica's. She let me take a nap while she watched Abby. It was wonderful. Although I woke up to not one but TWO screaming babies, I enjoyed every minute of my 1 1/2 hour nap! Thank you Jess!! I love you!! Next time, it's your turn!

Bathtime is definitely different these days

Here she was so tiny at two weeks. She was so slippery and would sleep through the whole thing. Bathtime was much different then.

Here she is now at 4 1/2 months old (sorry the pic is fuzzy). She LOVES her bath. She kicks the water all over the place. I was trying to get a picture of her licking her shoulders like a little puppy as I poured the water on her, but I couldn't capture it. Trust me though, it's hilarious!

This is Abby's classic "get that camera out of my face" look. This makes me laugh so hard.

Daddy, she's had a bad day

Last night was a rough night. Little Miss did not want to sleep. I just don't understand it. Who wouldn't want to sleep?! She would start the scream cry and would NOT let me put her down. Nothing could convince her to go to sleep. No paci, no matter what color. No food, she wouldn't take me or a bottle. She didn't care about blankets. Nothing would work. -sigh-

Finally, after 30 minutes of crying in the swing, she fell asleep and we both got 4 hours of sweet sweet sleep. We made it through somehow and off to school and work we had to go.

As I picked Abby up from school today, her teacher greets me and says, "She's had a bad day." Oh dear, I thought. "She screamed all day long. We thought about calling you, but decided to see if we could make it." "We think she's sleepy, but for some reason, she will not go to sleep."

Uhhh, ya think?!! I KNOW she's sleepy. I'm sleepy too! Look at her little sleepy face. :)

Here I am talking to Abby about her "bad" day.

Nana's iPhone pictures

I feel like I'm the only person in the whole world that doesn't have an iPhone. Here's lots of pictures my mom took the other day when she came to help me. All iPhone pics!

Rice Cereal, yuck!

Abby had her 4 month check up and Dr. G suggested that we go ahead and start Abby on rice cereal. Her recent stats were weight 11 pounds and 7 ounces (10-25% percentile), height 24 inches long (50 percentile) and her head was 15.5 inches around (25% percentile). She's still such a little petite thing that maybe the rice cereal will help her put some weight on and HOPEFULLY we'll start sleeping through the night! Please Lord.

So we tried what the dr ordered.

YUCK!

She wasn't exactly thrilled of this new dinner choice with a spoon. So we are just going to have to slowly work on it. I've been putting a little bit of this in her bottles at night. She's not complaining, so I'm going to keep on giving it to her.

I will try the bowl and spoon method again this week, but I'm not expecting success. Just her best effort! Which may be the same as last week, but oh well. We will try.

We already Miss you!

Guess who loves who?

The countdown starts now...only 8 more days to go!

They came back!!!

I can't believe it!! I planted these flowers last year and the flower label said they would come back every year, but I never dreamed they REALLY would. Trust me, I do not have a green thumb. For some reason, every time I plant something it doesn't ever seem to last long. But I must have done something right this time. Here they are one year later!

I was so proud of them that I tried to get a close-up. Not only do I not have a green thumb, I'm not a great photographer either. Sorry it's blurry. ;)

Of course, I had to show Abs my accomplishment. She's wasn't too thrilled. It was hot the day I took the pictures and she only wanted to go back inside.

She refused to open her eyes!