Terrific Tuesday

Abby and I have had a lot of fun on this lovely day, except that she only took about a 30 minute nap, so I'm sure we will be paying for it later this evening with a great dramatic meltdown right before bed. Such is life with little girls...

We are getting closer and closer to getting things with the house all figured out. I now have at least one official estimate for the electrical repairs (and a second on the way) and I should have two roofing estimates in the next few days as well. I just can't wait to move into the new place and get to work making it ours. I have 72 little perennial seeds planted so that I can start my flowerbeds. I am so excited about the possibility of great flower gardens. I just was out back and noticed a lot of new things coming up that I had planted last spring and left for dead (like some peonies that never came up last year and lilies that didn't make it up either). Whoever is here next should have some pretty blooms out back to enjoy. They'll just have to fill in the gaps with some annuals or start more perennials of their own.

We took Abby on a long walk last night around our little downtown area. She pushed her own stroller the last block and a half. She is really into pushing shopping carts and strollers right now. She was trying to push from the very bottom axle, but that would have meant practically crawling, so she had to settle for pushing from the basket. Abby had a minor meltdown last Friday at Wal-Mart when I made her ride in the cart rather than walk on her knees so that she could push the cart from the bottom rack. What a nut...

Fruit, Fall, and Football

Our fall leaves are starting to appear - I am not sure if I am excited about this or not. I'm sure Abby won't care and Steve is inside all day at work, so it doesn't bother him either. It seems way to early to me for the leaves to be changing - especially since my Asiatic Lilies just started blooming.
Abby tried out bananas for the first time today and decided that she liked them quite a bit. She really gobbled them right down. It is the first fruit we have found that she likes to eat. Hopefully she will learn to like the other fruits too, but for now we are just glad she is a good veggie eater. Abby's been learning a lot about football in the last two days. First she got to watch lots of college football, including Michigan's win. Grandpa Harley even was here to teach her about football, but she mostly spent time warming back up to Grandma Lorraine. Today Abby's dad tried to get her to watch the Detroit Lions, but she decided to take a nap with her mom instead. It was much more exciting.

Tonight this little squirt is going to have her bi-weekly bath. I'm sure that will be a fun treat for her. She was great in church again and has had a fun afternoon, so we should be able to have a nice bath too. Hopefully she won't have a big splash party like last time!