Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Abigail is 2!

Nicknames: Abs, boo-boo, abska-dabs, 
Weight: TBD
Height: TBD
Favorite color: I think purple and you are totally still learning all your colors - whoops!
Favorite animal: a bunny <3 and Coco the puppy next door!
Favorite book: just this last week your enjoying all those small frozen books we have...
TV show: Masha & bear! 
Movie: trolls, Moana, sing
Song:
 You request mommy to sing everybody at bed (from trolls), as well as twinkle twinkle. Lately row your boat is popular too!
Food: Waffles, chocolate treats, apple sauce and pouches are still a hit.  Pretzels we are trying now to cut out to see if gluten is making your skin all itchy!
Drink: Water all day every day (still allergic to milk!) and you now have juice from time to time.
Breakfast food:Waffles pretty much every day!  The frozen vegan kind!  You also enjoy sausage and bacon.
Snack: Apples, apple sauce, bananas
Outfit: You are starting to look at dresses and call them "princess" You recently started to have an opinion on your clothing and sometimes just do not want a shirt on!
Game:  hide & seek or chase :)
Toy: Magna-tiles!  You like to help build towers and knock them down.  You also like tea party and playing with your bunny.  You like to play doctor too!
Best Friend: Lainey & Nate
Thing to do: Play with friends, play at parks *you ask now even though its so cold, go anywhere to have some time outside of home!
Your "skills":  You are talking a lot more now, you can color somewhat on the paper, you are building better with the magna-tiles and are good at jumping!  Gymnastics is working on summersaults too.
Favorite things to do outside: Parks, looking at all the christmas lights, riding the trip-cycle or the car, swinging.. walking on the ledge behind our house because you see Mackenzie doing it toO!
Favorite holiday: Your still so young but this year you understood your birthday a bit!  I think you recognized it was a special day and would say birthday and point to yourself!  But Christmas has been fun too!  You like the lights and our singing tree.
What does she take to bed with her at night?: You are still wearing a zippy.  You used to have ONE bunny and then it became the gray & white one and now you request LOTS of animals (all of them from your bin) plus a blanky.
Where is your favorite place to go?: Parks, Chick-fil-a, friends houses, Nanas and Memas!
Favorite Restaurant: Chick-fil-a - every time we pass it you point it out!
What do you want to be when you grow up? : Not sure yet :) I think you will be in some type of leadership role eventually.  I can see you being a nurse or doctor.. you are very caring and concerned when others are hurt.
Our Prayer for you:  That you would begin to understand the idea of God & Jesus dying on the cross, that you would continue to have a spirit that is friendly and loving (you love people and always want to be by friends), that you would have hope in hard time and joy in the sad time too, for God to heal your skin and allergies 100% and just be GONE (we know he can!) and of you and your sister to build a relationship that is so strong and may you both lean on Christ as your savior together.


What did you do on your birthday?:  Daddy stayed home in the morning from work so we all could sing you happy birthday!  You woke up to us and some balloons in your room :)  We then had your favorite breakfast (waffle, sausage and today a donut!).  We went to church so mommy could go to bible study and you played with friends.  When we got home it was lunch time so you had a hot dog (of course) and a lot of strawberries!  We watched your favorite show Masha & Bear and then you took a nap!  Nap wasn't that great but you stayed in your crib till about 3.  After you woke up everyone seemed to be a bit cranky but we made it past some tantrums and sharing episodes to you enjoying a cupcake!  You helped us sing and blew out the candle very well!  You must have seen other people do this because we did not even have to explain it to you :) We built a tower and then you opened up your gift from us.  It was a puppy vet kit!  You and Mackenzie played (and fought ha) over this toy for bit.  I am excited we have a new toy it seems like its bene a while and you guys already were taking good care of the animals with the doctor tools.  After this we quickly packed up and went to chick-fil-a for dinner!  You just wanted to play and didn't eat much but had a fun time :) Daddy and Mackenzie went to Awana at church so we came home and played with the puppy more and then watched Masha while you ate (because now you were hungry).  We then had a long bedtime routine with lots of singing and tickles!  You laughed a whole lot and requested to do snapchat of course :) It was a good day filled with family & the things you love to do! I can't believe you are already 2 when it seems like yesterday we were coming home thinking how do we have two kiddos already?! I love seeing you learn and grow and become smarter each day.  <3




 






Thursday, June 15, 2017

May 29, 2017

Abigail!

I am about a week short on your 18 month blog but I consider this a WIN! Currently you are sleeping upstairs in Grandpa & Grandmas closet...
Our basement is being finished and today is dry wall day! Too noisy to sit there and listen to that from 7am-5pm so we headed out once again.

The past three months have been so filled with memories, day to day life and adventures new to you! March included our first family vacation via airplane, April was Mommy & Mackenzies birthdays and May was the start of summer!  I wanted to capture these past three months in some photos and say what YOU did along the way :)  You are such a big girl now... truly from 15 to 18 months you went from baby to full on toddler!

But first, the stats..

Weight: 25 pounds (75%)
Height: 33.5 inches (90%)
Head: 18.8 inches (75-90%) lol


Lets see -- 
Food: Your still a great eater (quantity wise) but are becoming more picky.  You love hot dogs.. I swear its gone in under a minute.  Your fruit right now is cantaloupe and honeydew with occasional strawberries.  You love apple sauce and apples.  You LOVE pretzels and thats often a bribe to get you in the car and out the door :)

Teeth:  You have all your teeth besides your top two canines.  Your bottom outside teeth came at 15 months! You received your top 1 year molars right before 16 months! Then everything else followed..  your bottom moles and your bottom canines. So basically you only need two more which I am sure are coming soon *typically they come before the bottom canines.. so kinda weird!

Sleep: The past there months have been up and down with sleep.  You have been a one nap baby since shortly after a year but were still figuring out whats the best for you.  At this point you are up between 6-7 and nap around 12-1 for an hour or two.  We really had to start waking you up at 2:30 to be going to bed by 7:30.

Clothing: You are in all 18 month clothing.  Onesies are 18 month but getting tight, same with some shorts.  T-shirts are 18 or 18-24 month.  Plus size 5 diapers (have been for a long time!)

Activities: You love outside! You ride on the car, tricycle or push yourself around.  You enjoy wagon rides and even a stroller ride.  You like to color and ask to with chalk or crayons when Mackenzie has them.  You still only color for a few minutes before your over it :) You love to swing, dance, try and jump, started to spin in circles, climb on tables... your a monkey and a lot more adventurous than sister was!

Words: The doctor asked at your appointment if you have the standard 10-20 words that an 18 month old is 'suppose' to have.  Well, yes you do.  I mean you ask for necklaces and crowns for goodness sake!  Your sisters language has helped!  You say love you when we ask for it to be repeated.. you say amen after praying.. You know basic animal names and noises they make (gorilla still a favorite!)

Health: We had an allergy and dermatology appointment recently.  We have some new cream and soap for your skin and its cleared wonderfully! However, there are going to be patches and moments that your eczema has a flair up of dry patches.  The allergist would like us to come back in September for retesting of peanut, milk, egg.. We pray they just GO away by the grace of God.  We have a green light to eggs baked into things and tried muffins but you just love muffins so we will keep trying.  Next we would do baked milk.  Outside of that and the tumble you took last month you are healthy :)

Here are some pictures from March, 2017!

Playing with Aunt Barb!  She sees you almost weekly now and its a blessing!  You ask for her when Mema comes :)

Oh daddy..

You had a bad fever.. 

Playing with friends <3
Getting so big!

3/13/17 A Random Snow :)

Packing for our Vacation later in march!

Park Date <3  You were so tired this day you slept through getting out of the car and taking your jacket off!



....and were off to Arizona! <3

  The ride there was interesting with both of you having it be your first flight! Abby was NOT happy when she didn't get a good nap in...

 
 

We had our first stop in Tucson, AR and visiting your Great Grandpa Wally and Suzanne. We explored a few parks together with Daddy when mackenzie had a fun day with Nana & Papa! 















A Day at the Cubs game!


Family Hike <3 Our first one and we did pretty good I think!

Sisters <3 <3 


April Photos
 



 
Your first Easter Egg Hunt - as you can see lots of people, not so many eggs :)

 
Swim lessons!  You love it!

 










Easter - April 16, 2017


Your too cute!



This month you have a new dermatologist as well as a new allergist.  We are trying to figure this all out girlfriend and you are rocking it like a champ!  Thankful that at so young you don't know the difference yet :) 


Sissy's Birthday Party!!

May 2017





Having our first (cold-isa) boat ride of the year!  I think your going to love going to Grandma & Grandpas :)



My poor little girl.  You tripped and hit your lip perfect to need 5 stitches.  You had to be put under because there was no way you were laying still for them to stitch you up!

Happy the next morning <3

Mothers Day, May 14th




<3 you Abby!  You started to fold you hands and say amen this month which is just the cutest thing!  You even 'sing' along with my at night Jesus loves me - some words :) 
Cant believe how fast its all going and this summer is flying by!