New Beds Are Up!

Abby loves her new beds. In fact, she loves them so much that we had very little problems getting her to sleep last night. Except that we may have started a dangerous new habit - listening to music while she falls asleep.

We got a great deal on Abby's new mattresses - Big Lots is having a great sale where the box springs are only $10 with the purchase of a mattress. We were very excited and decided to go ahead and buy both sets and put up both beds. So now Aunt Hannah or Aunt Emily can camp out with Abby. They all love sleeping in, so it should be a great fit.

Super Sleeper

Abby is going to win a big prize tonight for her great sleeping skills. She may have to have some ice cream or another special treat. She fell asleep at 6:45 last night and didn't wake up until 6:30 am. Then the little bug chugged two 5 ounce bottles and went back to sleep until 9 a.m. By my calculations that is about 14 hours of sleep. She must be about to grow a whole foot or something.

Here's a picture of Abby enjoying the 75 degree weather from last week. Unfortunately we are not enjoying such great weather today. But the icky gray weather and rain is helping to melt all our snow, so we will just think of how great the end result is going to be. And yes, we still have snow. At least 2 feet in some places. We have some places that are bare, but we have a lot more that are covered in snow.

We have been busy playing dolls today. Abby willingly gave up one of her old, small sized bottles so that she can feed her many, many hungry babies. It took us a long time this morning to make sure that we got all the babies fed. Now we just have to figure out what we are going to feed Steve when he gets home. It would be a shame for us to feed all those babies and not feed Abby's daddy.

Monday, Monday

Ahh.... it's Monday! And not only is it monday, our weather stinks. Cold is one thing, but cold, wet and gray it unacceptable as far as Abby and I are concerned. It makes the day seem so much longer and makes us sleepy. Luckily Abby is her usually happy self, for the most part. She keeps Steve and I smiling.
Abby is back on her great sleeping schedule after those few silly days last week. Last night she slept from 10 pm to 8 am. That is exactly the kind of baby I signed up for! She is spoiling us rotten with all her good behavior. And yesterday she sat through the whole church service with only two "yells." This was the first time making it through the whole service in the last 3 weeks. We were really impressed. Less than two weeks until Abby gets to visit her Hastings friends and family - it is going to be so fun! And now... back to baby afghan making. So many babies, so little free time...

Back to Normal

After a lot of craziness I think we are finally back to normal. Abby slept until 7 am this morning had her bottle and was back to sleep by 7:40 am. And... it is 10 am and she is still asleep. I love normal ~ especially the part of it that allows me to sleep in a little and get a shower before I have a baby to start playing with, feeding, and changing. It's my own little luxury.

After all this terrible hot weather we are finally back into more reasonable temperatures today. I am so glad it is going to be cool ~ Abby behaves much better when it is cool and so does her best friend Maize.

We are going to start a new food this afternoon. I am still debating - it is either going to be banana baby food or white grape juice. Hmm... too bad Abby can't just tell me which she'd rather try. Either way she is going to be getting a new fruit for 3 days then a new veggie for the next three, with her old favorites mixed into the feeding schedule of course. We've given up on peaches - she won't even do two bites. I tried to explain to her that they are practically the favorite fruit of many of her relatives on my side of the family, but she will not eat them. I can already tell she is going to be a very strong willed child... and I probably deserve it.

A-Maize-Ing

We have an amazing dog who already puts up with a whole lot of abuse. I took some really cute pictures of Abby and Maize yesterday, but this silly website wouldn't upload them, so if you want to see them you will have to visit our flickr photo page by clicking on these different colored words. And, amazingly enough, both the dog and Abby are still sleeping at almost 11 a.m. I am so lucky to have a great sleeper :-)

We will try to load up the pictures later, but it is lovely outside, so we may get stuck resting out in the sun to try and get tan before the wedding we have to go to this weekend.