A Much Needed Nap

I finally got Abby down for her first nap of the day about 2:30. She had been awake since 8:30 this morning. It was not a good start to our day. I hope she sleeps another couple hours so we don't have crab for dinner. I am planning on steak, but no one in this family enjoys a surf and turf dinner.

As a reward for getting her to sleep I got to finally start the dishes and the laundry that I had planned to do this morning. Ugh. I hate housework. I don't get paid enough to do all this. Tonight we are going to try to seal more windows - we have 3 of the 17 downstairs windows sealed and we still have 10 windows upstairs after that. That's a lot of windows seeping cold air into this old and relatively uninsulated home. Brr...

There are cute pictures of Abby in her baby swing, which we just got fixed after a wire falling loose in the move (3 months ago). The pictures are still on my camera, so I'll have to post them later tonight or tomorrow. You can just imagine loads of Abigail cuteness in a swing with a big smile and a warm sweater.

Could we have some whine to go with dinner please?

We've had 3 days of wildness and it is wearing our patience quite thin. Grandma Jennie better get here soon to snuggle Abby. She's been super tired, but doesn't want to miss out on any of the action, so rather than peaceful evenings with Abby napping, we get whines. Lots of whines. When she does finally go to sleep it's for long naps, so it isn't too terrible if you can get to the sleeping part.

Lots of sleeping... 15 hours between last night and 9 when we put her to bed and lunchtime today when I woke her up so she could eat. She did take a little snack break at 7 am, but went back to sleep within 5 minutes of finishing her bottle. She must be growing this week! We had to put away the things that were 3-6 months sized. The straight 6 months size still fit, but barely. Today Abby is wearing a pair of jeans that Steve had picked out for her to wear during football season. We are glad that she is big and healthy, but it is making our previously purchased wardrobe slightly obsolete. Lots of her cute "Baby's First Christmas" gear would fit her now, so I'm sure it won't be her size when December actually rolls around. Oh well... at least most of it still has tags on it and can be given as a gift.

We bought a dvd recorder to replace our dead dvd player and dying vcr. So far Abby and I have transfered 6 of our vhs tapes onto dvds. Still lots and lots to go. Guess we know what I'll be doing in my spare time for the next few weeks :-)