Yesterday was dig out day around here. But in between digging out, Jenn brought Abbi out to have a little bit of fun in the snow. Abbi is standing on the pavement below about 7-8 feet of piled up snow. Jenn turned the pile in a little slide for Abbi and loved it. I don't know how she really feels about the snow suit, but the important part is that she stays warm, which she did.

Abbi is doing much better in the department of using the bathroom. It seems as though the mixture of some juice in her bottle and changing up her foods a little did the trick. She appears to be back to normal, and she's no longer sitting in her bumbo turning red in the face pushing. So overall its much better for everyone!

Snow Bunny

This here is a picture of Abbi in the Christmas present that her Aunt Cara bought her! The other night after her bath Jenn wanted to put her in her bathrobe to keep her warm, and of course to take pictures. Definitely cute!

An update on Abbi and the laser treatment yesterday - it went pretty well in my opinion. Its certainly not easy to take her to have it done, and its even rougher on Jenn than it is me. Abbi seemed to do pretty well. This time and all future visits we had a cream to put on the area to numb it up some. This time when they were doing the actual laser treatment, she wasn't screaming. she was pissed that they were covering her eyes and holding her down, but she wasn't screaming like she was the last time that we went.

There is a bit more bruising of the skin this time around than last time, but just like last time its still smooth as can be. The bruising already looks better today than it did last night. We need to keep it moisturized throughout the day and she should be good to go in about another week.

Another update on our little girl. She's plugged up. Its awful. She screams because she can't poop. When she is pooping, she screams because it hurts. We've been giving her some juice diluted in water to try and loosen her up a bit, but haven't had to much success. She is going, its just few and far between and not as much as a 6 month old should be going. So while its a gross update, I want to mention it because as a parent, this is NOT something I ever thought about having to deal with.

Bathrobe

There isn't to much to say here that's not obvious. My wonderful wife and cute baby smiling together! Today we're taking Abbi to her second appointment at Johns Hopkins to treat her birthmark. Hopefully all will go well. I'll be leaving work early to go with Jenn and Abbi and home early for some good family time!

Smiles

Here's a little video of Abbi enjoying her first vanilla wafer last night. She licked it to death before Jenn finally helped her eat it by holding it for her so she could take little bites of it.

Note - you can click on the "HD" text on the bottom of the video for better quality and then click on the arrows to fill the screen with the video.

Vanilla Wafer

Check out that tongue. Max is ridiculous. Abbi likes him more and more each day, which is awesome by the way.

Playing Together

Over the weekend it snowed. So we stayed inside. This meant considerable family time throughout the day. At one point we were all in the bedroom (I think Jenn was putting clothes away) and I was on the floor with Abbi. After taking a few pictures of her, Jenn took a few of her and I. This is one of them that I particularly liked.

Me and Abbi

Jenn and I this week have been working with Abbi on standing up on her own. She seems to have roughly mastered sitting up on her own, so now we're working on standing. She's got incredibly strong legs already, so I think she's off to a good start. We had her standing up on the ground and holding on the coffee table, which you can see here. Its tons of fun teaching her new things and helping to reinforce the things she already knows.

Learning to Stand