Chatty-Abby

Abs has been "talking" so much lately. She doesn't really care that she's not making any sense to anyone. She just likes to hear herself talk. Who doesn't?

Here she was talking up a storm to me on Sunday as she was laying on the love-seat with her Daddy watching ESPN (her favorite channel these days).

I love....

Your smile

Your eyes

Picking you up from school

Giving you a bath

Your sneeze/toot combos

The way you look at me

Watching you sleep

How you cuddle against me

The way you stare at people you don't know

The "lip"

How you refuse to smile at a camera

Your sweet toes

Your chubby feet

How you suck on your right fist.....and now the left fist

Rocking you to sleep

How you try to hold your bottle, but it would end up in your ear if I left it to you

The way you talk to me in the mornings

Bathtime

My sweet sweet Abby:
Above are only a few of the things that I love about you these days. It's amazing watching you grow and learn and literally do new things everyday. I wish I could follow you around with a video camera to capture every sweet moment. You're growing up way too fast for me. I've been nursing you less these days. Although I've felt some freedom, it saddens me. It'll be all too soon that I'll nurse you for the last time and the bottle is all you need. This already brings so many tears to my eyes. Oh how I love you. You are my sweet little joy that I can't live without. Happy 5 month Bday my love! - love, your Mommy

I love this look on her face. She's like, "wait! - lemme kick my shoe off."

Drew and Caden

My sweet nephews. I love them so much. I call Mama usually everyday and she has a different story to tell me about what one of them did or said. Here's what I learned this morning.

They all went to eat (without me by the way) to a Mexican food place. Even though they had already finished eating, Caden wanted to go to McDonald's and was pretty upset that they weren't going to go.

Caden: "Nana, will you take me to McDonald's?"

Nana: "No. We've already eaten."

Caden: "I'll give you 20 bucks....?"

Andrea: "I gave him a dollar the other day and now he thinks he's rich."


The boys had to go to the dr this week for their yearly checkups. Drew and Caden had to both get shots and then Drew had to have his finger pricked for blood. So the nurse comes in to give Drew the shot.

Nurse: "Okay, which arm to you want it in?"

Drew: He quickly responded, "Neither!"

Then on the way home from school, Drew was telling his Nana all about the dr appt and told her that he had his finger pricked for blood.

Drew: "Nana, will I get back my blood?

Nana: "No."

Drew: "Well, what am I going to do?"

Nana: "You're fine. Your body will make more."

Drew: "How?"

Nana: sigh - "It just does."

They are both too funny!

First day of Spring Break

Yes, even at 4 1/2 months you get a Spring Break! I'll try to post random pics of little miss this week seeing how we'll be home quite a bit.

She woke up this morning from her early morning nap and begged me to wear this shirt. "Who needs a piggy bank when you have daddy?" I need one of these in a size Large and just replaced Daddy with Stan.

I put in one of her Baby Einstein videos to see if she would watch it and she did! All of it! It was so cute to watch her watch TV. She would even yell at the TV every once in a while.

Wish me luck as I try to creatively come up with things for her to do on her Spring Break and get my house cleaned all at the same time. Which by the way, I think someone broke into our house and threw all of our stuff all over the place. I know we couldn't have caused this disaster.

Abby, please smile.

After church today, I wanted to take Abby's picture in her little jeans mini skirt. She looked so precious. Her daddy was a bit concerned that the skirt was too short and the boys in her class at church would be staring at her. I assured him that we should be fine at this age.

My only problem with trying to take the picture is getting her to SMILE for the camera. UGH! She's is something else. You bring the camera out and she just stares at you!

Here's the first try. Her usual camera pose.

So I decided to try and make her laugh by utilizing some of her new friends.

First, I tried the dog.

She decides to eat his ear.

Then I tried her duck. (look at those sweet cheeks)

And again she eats it.

still eating..

I gave up but she still wanted to eat. Here's her latest, she's moved on to her left hand now. The right hand is old news.

Still eating...

Finally, right before I gave up, she felt sorry for me and decided she would smile. I think she just wanted me to quit begging. Here's our little SMILING angel. :)

I took a video of Abby laughing again. Stan and I were just talking today that we haven't heard her laugh since Drew got her to laugh a while ago. Well, she laughs again!! Enjoy!

My new Bible Study

My friend Karen and I are going to start this new little Bible Study together on Monday. I'm really looking forward to it. I hope I can stick with it. Here lately, I'll start something and for some little cute reason with big blue eyes and a little swirl on her head, I never finish. Wish me luck!

Stan, will you watch the baby for me?

I'm not sure who's taking care of who here.......