21 Months Old!

Abby is celebrating the 21st month of her life today. It's hard to believe we are 3 short months from her 2nd birthday (not to mention the birth of her little sister)! Abby started this morning out with lots of playing and since it is staying just above freezing here today I think we will be doing some snowman making this afternoon. We'll see how Abby likes the snow when we actually play with it.

We tried something new today in Abby's diet - star fruit. Let's just say that most of it ended up on the floor and I'm not sure that any of it got into her belly. She did clean up the clementines and blueberries pretty quickly. Once she decides she wants food she doesn't really mess around too much.

A few funny things from traveling with Abby that I had overlooked mentioning. We left Maize at dog day care, but Abby was asleep when I dropped Maize off and asleep again when I picked her back up. All day long she kept telling me, and anyone else who would listen, that Maize was at the "dog circus" and that Maize was "going in bag." She came up with the dog circus all on her own. She also cracked me up talking about the dental school. We drove by the dental school at the University of Michigan 3 times throughout Wednesday and each time I told her that the building was where daddy learned to fix people's teeth. This fascinated her. She kept telling me that she wanted to fix teeth. And that she was a big girl dentist. And that daddy is a dentist and fixes people's teeth. I think she's been thoroughly indoctrinated in the desire to follow in daddy and Grandpa Scott's footsteps as a dentist. Finally, and worst from a traveling with children perspective, for some reason every movie we put on the portable dvd player while driving home for some reason or another scared Abby. I'm sure it was more a case of pure exhaustion and less a case of Winnie the Pooh becoming scary. We made it about 3 minutes into any given movie before we heard a little voice from the backseat saying "Abby scared. Change movie show. Scared." It made for a very long ride until she finally fell asleep (she also wanted any song on the radio changed immediately and wanted the radio on, but not on at the same time). Luckily after a couple nights in her own bed, Abby is back to her sweet self.