This Makes Me Smile

Abby and Lissie playing together. Abby was showing Lissie all of her toys and the two of them played contentedly for at least half an hour.

Abby Napping.....or Not

Every afternoon, Abby goes down for a nap. She usually sleeps between 1 and 1 1/2 hours. This particular afternoon, she must have decided not to sleep because this is what I found when I went to get her up.
Please note the outfit... I do not usually put her to bed with a Hawaiian lei around her neck.

Note the open drawer and that chair is usually in the far corner. I'm not sure what she was looking for but I don't think she found it. That drawer is empty.

Bedtime Stories

Everynight before Abby goes to bed, we read her a bedtime story. She picks the book and then we sit on the bed and cuddle while Mommy reads. Since Lissie has joined our family she gets to listen to the story as well.

After the story Abby says "good book" and then kicks Mommy off of her bed so that she can jump off Daddy's lap onto her pillow. Then Mommy gets to pray and kiss Abby goodnight before Abby says "go bye bye Mommy" Once Mommy leaves Abby and Daddy sing songs and play for a little while before she finally goes to sleep.

A Milestone

Lissie has started sitting on her own! This makes her much more popular with her older sister. Now they can "play letters" together.

Not to be outdone in the milestone dept. Abby has decided to take up drinking:) She swiped Mommy's wine glass while Mommy was taking Lissie's picture.

Abby Thoughts

As it is important for me to remember all of the special moments with my girls, I wanted to first make a quick note of some of the adorable things Abby has done lately. Now this is an interesting girl in that she loves her vegetables most notably, blockabee (broccoli). I just love to give it to her so that I can hear her call it by name. She will eat more broccoli than french fries!! Abby is also a lover of books. Her favorite at the moment is a Golden Book about baby animals. My favorite part is that when you turn to the picture of the baby pig asleep on some straw the first words out of her mouth are "piggy sleeping on cheese." And finally, the other day when she saw Lissie sleeping she told me "Lissie wide asleep." Talk about being cute!!!

Could She Be Any More Adorable?

Abby has been sick for the past few days and even a fever can't dim her adorable personality. As we were winding down our day, Michael, Lissie and I were on the couch. All of a sudden, from the bar stool at our kitchen counter Abby calls out "I love you Lissie." She just melts my heart.

And thats why I had to break the bedroom door

So yesterday was a rather rough day. Abby had a pretty high fever and was out of commission most of the day. Lissie was fine although both of them were on different schedules so you can imagine my day. Anyhow, after one of her naps, Abby was feeling better so she was running around the house opening and closing doors. Finally she got to my bedroom door and decided to tease the dogs by opening and shutting it on them. After a little while though, the door stopped opening. Since we are in the middle of potty training, I assumed she was hiding so she could have an accident. I ran to the bedroom and when I got there, Abby had just started calling "Mommmmy." I tried to open the door and that's when I realized, she had locked it! Now as any good mother, I didn't panic. I knew we had a key for this kind of situation right above the door. So I reached up to get it and as I felt it, the key slipped. What? How does a key sitting on the molding of the door disappear? Well, it fell into the molding since our builder didn't put the molding flush against the wall. So, by now Abby is getting quite upset. I run around the house looking for another key (I really need to dust more). There is not another key to be found. Now what? Well, I'm an industrious girl so I think, I'll open it with the inside of a pen. That didn't work. OK , I guess now I'll have to just take off the door knob. I got the screwdriver and worked on the knob. Abby is now on the floor crying. I finally get the knob off and what do you know, the door still won't open so I call Mike for advice. Long story short (too late), I ended up breaking the door with the screwdriver. I got my little girl out, cleaned up her wet pants and we all went down for a nap. I did end up finding the other key....it was in my bedroom above my bathroom door. I have now relocated it to a drawer in the kitchen.