Friday, December 31, 2010
Snow Girl
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Grandmom
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Doggie
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Laughter
We went to Ocean City with friends of ours and their 2 and half year old daughter. They seemed to have a good time playing with each other over the weekend. One morning they were playing peek-a-boo with me and I got this picture.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Crazy Hair
Monday, December 20, 2010
Finger Paints
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Between the Posts
Monday, December 13, 2010
17 Months
She's also learned how to get into more things. There are a few stools around the house and she's learned that she can move them around to help her get better access to taller things. So as a result she's into even more and being told to stay out of even more.
She's starting to put words together as well. She loves to tell Max no, in the form of "No, Max!". I think she likes to tell him what to do because she can't really boss anyone else around just yet.
There haven't been a lot of other changes to speak of, other than her hair. We took her to have her bangs trimmed about 6/7 months ago, and then trimmed about 6 weeks ago, and it seems like they've regrown in 6 weeks what previously took 5 months to grow, its crazy! She looks prettier and prettier every day, and definitely gets smarter and more fun each day. Its tons of fun with her!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Fans
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Kitchen
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Rocking Horse
Monday, December 6, 2010
Raspberries
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Looking Up
Monday, November 29, 2010
Leaves
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Toys
Monday, November 22, 2010
Playing with Max
Friday, November 19, 2010
Big Drink
As for this picture, the other day at Chick-Fil-A Abbi decided to help herself to some of Jenn's tea. Its cute to see such little hands grab on and hold onto a huge-o cup.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Eating Breakfast
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Reading
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
16 Months
I think the biggest difference for Abbi this past month is her speech development. We've put a larger focus on it for her and she's reacted positively to it. I posted earlier this month she's learned to say "uh-oh" most of the time with proper context and this past weekend she really developed the word "no", unfortunately. She's also got a form of "sock" that she says, and she has her own word for Max, we're just not entirely sure what it is. So she's making good progress, and hopefully she'll get more recognizable words out as we go along.
In other motor development, she's been very interested in coloring the past month. With Jenn's help she's learned how to color pretty well, and it looks like she favors her right hand. She can hold big or small crayons and color on paper, and just about anything else. One big hurdle right now is to get her to color ONLY on paper.
In addition to learning new things, we've had to step up the commitment to timeouts for her. She's still hitting and of course getting into more and more things she shouldn't. She takes the timeout well, usually just standing in the corner patiently waiting to be told she's done. She always shows remorse when she comes out of timeout, so I do believe it is having some positive effect.
I think that about sums Abbi up at this point. She still runs around, everywhere, and loves the dog to death. The other day at dinner she decided to sit on him and see what he would do. He let her sit on him for about 30 seconds before he decided he'd had enough. Its just like the e-trade commercial, only I support her riding the dog.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Shopping
As for the treatment, this time when we got in the room she started to cry. We're not sure if she knew where she was or if it was all of the new people kinda in her face. Its also a pretty small room. Once they got her in position, she calmed down a tad, and during the actual procedure (again, its about 30-60 seconds total) she was quiet. Jenn was able to stand next to her head and help her along as well.
Hopefully we'll continue to see improvement for her. I spoke to the doctor before she began and asked her to specifically target the portion of her birthmark closer to her mouth in the hopes of lightening that some as well. It seems they usually start closer to the ear and don't get as much near her mouth, so hopefully this will work well.
And finally, enjoy this picture of Abbi pushing her shopping cart around our living room!
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
New Faces
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Playtime
Monday, November 8, 2010
Uh-Oh
Friday, November 5, 2010
Exploration
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Standoff
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Playing and Climbing
I realize that I haven't really shared much in detail about Abbi in the recent weeks and its not that I don't want to share, its just that she is progressing like normal. Each day we work on new words with her, and try to reinforce the words that she already kinda knows. We're struggling to get her to consistently say the same things, but there are things she can easily say like ma or mama, da and dada, doggie, look and I'm sure a few others I can't quite think of.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Dressed Up
Monday, November 1, 2010
Cinderella
Friday, October 29, 2010
Technology
I wonder as she gets older what her level of technology proficiency will be. I love tech stuff and so does Jenn. I mean we both have laptops for personal use, so its not that far off before we get one for Abbi. We've actually got a little netbook waiting for her! I get excited thinking about the ability to teach her things I know well and imparting that knowledge to her.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Little Piggy
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
15 Months
Another month older and another month smarter and more experienced. She's been working at cutting 4 more teeth this past month, and has 2 of them through the gums. She's been working on all 4 incisors at once, and now has the top 2 to use. She's only got the bottom 2 left and then her "2 year" molars. She's got a lot of teeth!
I mentioned last month that she was growing out of her size 4 shoes and into some 5's. Well, she's growing out of those too. We've been looking at getting her some size 6 shoes, that she'll definitely be in by the time she's 16 months.
She's starting explore more in the bathtub during bath time. When she was younger she just kinda sat there, and even once we pulled out the baby tub and went with the big tub for her, she just kinda sat there. Now she kinda runs around the bath tub having tons of fun, splashing and playing with toys.
Around the house she's everywhere. She's in everything, that hasn't changed. We finally got some child-prevention items to keep her out of some of the cabinets because she was making it to messy. She eats like a champ still. She loves fruit which is awesome. Instead of wanting all kinds of junk food she wants fruit like apples, grapes and assorted berries.
We've been working really hard with her on her speech the past month as well. She's still struggling to get much out that we can identify, but her talking has picked up considerably and she'll hopefully break through soon. She's got ma or mom, and da down. She knows doggie and we think "no way" as well. She has really good recognition of words, its just the repetition we're working on.
This is another picture of her looking cute as always that we had taken a week ago. The photographer suggested a stool which we knew she'd love, and as you can see, she did!
Monday, October 25, 2010
Playing
Friday, October 22, 2010
Cheetara
As soon as I saw her, the word Cheetara came to mind. This was the name of one of the characters on the cartoon Thundercats. It was a girl character, that was, yup a Cheetah basically. With Abbi's little print pants I couldn't help myself!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Jenns Favorite
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Friends
This past weekend after dinner I snapped this picture of Audrey and Abbi walking to the car while holding hands with Jake and Ange. Its cute that they both want to hold hands with one another.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Paint Job
Jenn decided to get a butterfly painted on her wrist. You can see here her initial reaction to having it finished, and in the top I added a little close up of the butterfly, since you can't really see it in the big image all that well. She seemed to enjoy it, and didn't try to rub it off, so thats good!
Friday, October 15, 2010
Gifted Quilt
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Playset
Also - Abbi went to the doctor yesterday, so you can see her updated stats on the side now. She's up to 25 lbs, and gained another inch in height, putting her up to 32.5 inches!
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Tickle Monster
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Building Blocks
Friday, October 8, 2010
Making Music
One thing she found were these little pianos, which of course she had to have both of. It was cute to watch her play with them, and its always nice for Jenn and I to see Abbi take an interest in music, something we both hope she'll want to pursue.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Best Buds
Abbi plays with Max a good bit, and hopefully as she gets older and he learns to like her more, he'll want to play with her. I still think he's a little bitter that we had her and took away from his time with us. Slowly but surely though, after almost 15 months, he seems to be adjusting to having Abbi around.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
My Little Girl
Last night Abbi and I were upstairs and Max was at the bottom. So I told her to tell him to come and she gestured different from her wave to him and called for him to come up. Amazing. This is a picture of her from church two weeks ago.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Little Climber
Jenn was incredibly proud of her for being confident and doing it on her own. Abbi of course loved it all, so she then proceeded to go around the loop a few more times. It was really cute to hear her coming down the slide as she was laughing and enjoying herself all the way down.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Contrast
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Cutie
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
New Favorite
Monday, September 27, 2010
Video: Port Discovery
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Port Discovery
Abbi had a great time running around playing with anything and everything she could get her hands on. She played really well with the other kids and it was encouraging to see her interact so well with them. This is a picture of Abbi having way to much fun with a fake steering wheel!