Orange You Glad I Didn't Eat the Peel?

Abby found some tangerines today that we got in our Saturday delivery of Angel Food. She is super smart and right away knew that the tangerine was one of her favorite foods (she loves, loves, loves citrus fruits). She did all of this finding while I was busy chopping peppers and onions for a pot of chili. I was very surprised when I had a little tug on my pant leg and saw that Abby had chewed through the tangerine peel and had gotten part of the fruit in the process. What a little smarty pants. I peeled the tangerine for her and she gobbled it right up. But not before I got a picture of her damage.

We are still working on focusing with the camera for an awesome coming around the door photo. I'm still not sure what the deal is, but the camera always seems to focus on something other than sweet Abby. At least I keep getting her to do the posing - one of these times the camera is going to get the focus right and we are going to have a home run.

Other than eating tangerines, peel and all, and walking through the doors, Abby is becoming a walking machine. She has almost totally forsaken crawling and just cruises around here like she owns the place. She is really steady for only having a few weeks under her belt. She is also becoming quite the mommy to her dolls. Yesterday she was sharing her sippy cup with her dolls during the day. When we went upstairs to get ready for bed she insisted on going up the stairs all by herself and did so one handed so that she could bring JoJo up with her. I tried to get her to give me the doll so that she could crawl up with both hands, but she would have none of it. Today she fed part of her snack to her dolls, and also part to her best buddy Maize. She is growing up and learning a lot. And with only 15 days or so until her birthday, she is leaving babyhood behind for girliness.

Happy Birthday Great Grandpa Harley!

Sorry it's one day late.

We have some new pictures to post later today, but first we need a nap and shower. We just wanted to make sure to send happy birthday wishes to Grandpa Harley!

Baby Loving

Abby has been doing some serious loving to her favorite doll JoJo. So far she's given him lots of hugs, kisses, and some drinks of her sippy cups and bottles. She is so funny with her dolls.

We are waiting for our snow to melt again. Yesterday we got about 3 more inches and today we didn't make it above freezing, so it's not going anywhere fast. At least we have beautiful sunshine to enjoy. And Easter candy.

And we are working on creating some exceptional 1 year photos of Abby, but so far we haven't had anything magical like her portrait last week or the cute bunny photos at White's (see previous post).

On that note, we don't have much going on. Just playing, housekeeping, and chasing the dog. So I best get back to doing all those fun things.

Cookie Making

Stair Climber Version 2.0

Here she is - walking and climbing up and down the stairs, thanks to her dad's great teaching.


Also, if you visit the website www.stevenwhitephotographicart.com you can now see Abby and Jack's bunny pictures! You have to choose portrait art and then select the client tab and enter the password "Hodges" (the H must be capitalized). They turned out super cute in spite of all the crying over the bunny!

Stair Climber

We have more video, but Blogger won't upload it. Err.... (insert angry face here)...

Our Big Barnyard

This is our farm herd. It's rather large. We just thought you all might enjoy meeting them. Plus they need names - any ideas appreciated!

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.

For Grandma Jennie

Just for Grandma Jennie, since she asked so nicely, and because it was the end of Abby's 10th month, we've posted more Abby photos on our walmart.com site.

You can view and order the photos at: http://photos.walmart.com/groups/abbyschristmasalbum

If you haven't used the site before the password is "holiday". Happy printing!

Countdown to One

I woke up this morning and realized that we only have about 3 weeks until Abby's first birthday. It seems so unreal - she is growing up way, way to fast.

I took Abby's picture yesterday while she was watching traffic go by out the front window. I think it may be one of the most beautiful pictures of her that I've taken. We have a lot of really cute ones, but this is definitely my favorite.

We are finally back to normal and getting caught up. I still haven't even started tackling the laundry - that is this afternoon's project. I had too much to put away and had grocery shopping and such to do yesterday, so laundry was low on the priority list. Plus I spent most of my time on one of my biggest daily priorities - playing lots and lots of games with sweet Abby.