Mirror, Mirror...

Someone has been enjoying the ability to stare at herself for hours (okay... maybe minutes) in her new mirror. She really cracks us up. There is a small stool that came with her vanity and she won't use the play set until you set her on the stool (she's a little too short to get onto it herself).

We had a long and busy day yesterday. Steve got up way early to go to Gaylord and pick up the load of Angel Food. I ended up awake at 4 am too. And when I tried to get up at 6 to shower and get ready I woke Abby up, so we all had a pretty early day. Abby and I helped out at the church wide garage sale (and got rid of a lot of stuff) and then passed out the Angel Food when Steve and our friend Kevin got back with the food. By the time we made it home we were beat.

We let Abby watch the Michael Jackson music video special last night, since we couldn't find anything else we wanted to watch and love him or hate him Michael Jackson made some very entertaining music. Abby had a great time dancing. She may have even learned a few new moves. She continued the dancing at church today. She's going to have to be enrolled in dance class as soon as she's big enough. Speaking of classes... tomorrow Abby and I are going to enroll her in a tot swim class. The class also starts tomorrow (we think), so we'll probably be hitting the pool as well. Steve and I thought it would be a great skill for Abby to learn early in life, especially since Grandpa and Grandma Hodges have the pool to swim in and we have lots of lakes to play in around us.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Here's a photo from Abby exactly one year ago. She's grown up so much since we first met her. She helped me take Angel Food orders today at the Tribal Health Center, so we got to visit her daddy and all his co-workers. She had a great time seeing the native artwork on the walls and in the lobby - she especially liked the painted wolves and the brass statue of a heron. And she loved having lunch with her daddy.

We are having a very rainy day today. Not the downpour kind - it's the annoying drizzly, not enough to use a windshield wiper, but too much not to, kind of rain. But we do need the rain up here. Our fire risk was very high according to our local Smokey Bear sign this morning.

We are getting much closer to having all of our quotes in for the necessary repairs on the new house. It is nice to be one step closer to getting this all wrapped up and very nice to be almost done playing phone tag with all the contractors. Abby and I have been busy thinking of all the fun things we can grow in our gardens - we already have 72 baby perennials sprouting up in tiny pots on our table. It is going to be so beautiful in our new gardens :-)

Saturday Fun

Well, we've made it to Saturday and I think we just may come down to Hastings for Courtnie's shower. We got Abby to eat most of a stick of string cheese last night and this morning she had a few bites of melon. That's a pretty big improvement for her. Before we decide for sure we'll have to see how she does at the Angel Food distribution this afternoon. We'll have to head out soon to get things ready and help Steve unload the truck. I'm sure he'll be tired after his early morning drive down to Gaylord to pick up the food.

Abby and I picked up more paint cards yesterday. I am trying hard to figure out what color to paint her room and what color to paint the extra bedroom, which will probably someday be for a little brother or sister. Any ideas or suggestions would be helpful. I've been trying to to find a perfect quilt for a little girl's room too, but finding something cute, but that will grow with her is quite a challenge. Plus a lot of the "kids" bedding only comes in twin or full size and we have a queen size bed for Abby to use when she gives up on the crib. I didn't see the point in replacing a beautiful queen with a full just because that is what most kids use. Aah.... decisions, decisions.

Still Sick

Abby has bounced back wonderfully, but I seem to have a sinus infection and have been really out of sorts. The enormous amount of pressure has affected my hearing, vision, and breathing, so needless to say I've spent most of my last two days medicated and resting. Thankfully I have a wonderful husband to help me around the house. He's been so helpful that Abby wants to be with her daddy and won't even stay and play with me today.

Steve and I (and Abby too) participated in our first Angel Food distribution yesterday. Things went really well, people showed up to help, the orders were right, and the food quality was good. And we survived it with my sinus infection and Abby missing her morning nap. She just found all the grandmotherly aged women in the room and stole all their kisses. She is just a ham like that - as long as her mom is in sight.

So, I am going to get another cup of tea, some more advil sinus & cold, and try to get rid of this mess before our house falls apart and we run out of clean clothes. Abby has 5 teeth now and 1 more almost in, so between the two of us we haven't felt much like doing housework (or had the time to do it).