22 Months Young

Apparently hats are hilarious! Especially when being worn backwards.

Abby has been keeping busy today - she visited her friend Ella, took payroll to the crisis pregnancy center with me, had lunch with her dad, and told all her dolls "I love you anyway." I guess she's read Olivia a few times since Olivia's mommy always says "I love you anyway" when she puts Olivia to bed. It's amazing the things our little sponge soaks up and remembers.

We've been watching a bit of the olympics, since there isn't a lot on t.v. in the evening that is Abby appropriate. Last night she enjoyed watching the "dancers" (ice skaters) doing "supers" (lifts) and the luge, which she called sledding. She is still convinced that the olympics is one giant pow-wow, so whenever they come on she gets excited to see the pow-wow again. She sure keeps us laughing.

Unlike Abby, who was a kicker/puncher, Baby Sister seems to be a flipper and roller. This is way more uncomfortable than the kicking/punching variety of babies. I've been struggling to sleep at night with all the flipping going on. It's been resulting in lots of uncomfortable bulges that are hard to sleep on. But it does make for easy identification of the baby in my belly for Abby, so she at least has the advantage of knowing some littler person is in there trying to get out.

Crying In The Car

We didn't even make it into the church building this morning before Abby was crying and pleading with me to let her stay with me in service rather than go to the nursery. Ugh... Luckily, I got her distracted with food and was able to sneak out and join Steve in the church service. Unfortunately, he had decided to sit in the exact middle of the auditorium, which meant I was about 20 seats in from the aisle. Not a good plan for a pregnant woman to be so far from the aisle (and the bathroom). And Baby Sister was not on her best behavior this morning either, so it was a LONG service, even though we were out earlier than normal.

Baby Sister made the flip last night from head up to head down. There was definitely a foot pushing down at the bottom of my belly last night when I was trying to sleep (you could feel it - it was kinda weird). She used the same foot on my lungs this morning during church. I am so looking forward to the point in time when she is too big to do these flips and such. And even more looking forward to having my body back.

Tonight Abby decided to try out a new movie - Snow White. I am so, so, so glad that we aren't spending another evening watching Beauty and the Beast. We definitely needed a new movie for a change. As much as Abby loves Beauty and the Beast, Steve and I are getting to the point where we know all of the words. I'm hoping she'll continue to add new movies to the rotation so that we don't have quite as much monotony around here. And we've been trying to really cut back on the amount of t.v. she is allowed to watch, so that has been helping with our Beauty and the Beast addiction as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't help with the state of the mess in our playroom. Less t.v. directly equates to more mess...

Breakthrough

We have had the first definite use of a word in reference to something! Lucky for Steve it was him. Today when he came home from lunch and looked around the corner into the living room he got a shout of "dada" and some excited arm waving. It was really, really cute. Too bad I wasn't taping it... Abby is going to be a daddy's girl for sure.

We also had a first yesterday - Abby's first freak out moment over something she saw on t.v. We were watching Pinky Dinky Doo (if you haven't seen it, avoid it), which is one of the few shows Abby will concentrate on, when a dinosaur came on the screen. Now you would think a girl who loves to roar and growl would appreciate a dinosaur, but not this girl. She went into hysterics and we had to shut the t.v. off, even though the dinosaur wasn't on anymore. Poor kid... I guess we won't be watching Jurassic Park with Abby anytime soon.

Our high was supposed to be 10 degrees farenheight today, so you downstate friends and family "suffering" with 20+ degree weather can just remember that you are at least 2 times warmer than we are here...

Regression

Someone needed rocked back to sleep at 1:30 in the morning and another furry someone wanted to go out and pee at 6:00 this morning. I am tired. Abby and Maize need to get back to the sleeping all night pattern or I am going to have to start taking naps again!

Abby is awake and watching Noggin this morning. For some reason they are showing the exact same episodes as were on yesterday morning, except that the 9:00 episode from yesterday was on at 9:30 and the 9:30 show from yesterday was on at 9:00. Don't they realize that adults are forced to watch these terrible shows too in order to keep an eye on their little guys? I may have to find the address for Noggin and give them a piece of my mind. Maybe that is the tired and grouchy part of me...

Abby and I are going to try and make an apple berry crisp today. I'm not sure how that will taste, but we've got apples to use and not enough for an apple only desert. We are getting pretty good at cooking. Hopefully the sun will be out enough tomorrow to take Abby to the Soo Locks to get her picture with some pretty fall leaves. Happy Friday!

These are a few of my favorite things

We all love the Baby Einstein sit and spin center! Abby loves being able to stand and it is perfect for holding her up.

Abby also loves mirrors, and the sit and spin has a good one.

And best of all... the sit and spin puts Abby at the perfect height for her most favorite activity of all - TV watching. We really didn't want a little one who was a TV junkie, but sometimes it's the only thing that will calm her down, so we give in. Like last night when the uncontrollable crying only stopped when we turned on "America's Greatest Dog" for her to watch.

Which brings us to one last thing that Abby is growing increasingly fond of, Maize. Those two girls just love checking each other out. Abby got at least a dozen kisses this morning from Maize alone and was just mesmerized by her. They are a hoot.

Enjoy your weekends and the docudrama on Abby's TV habit (drama because there is no funny bone in this kid's body - she's just the most serious little thing around today, must be the weather).