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

Its been a rough few days in our house this week. Abbi was sick with a bad cold all last week that continued into this week. I picked up her cold, so I'm feeling fantastic. Abbi is also working on cutting both of her upper front two teeth right now, which of course puts her in a bad mood, and she's still coughing some. So its been rough. Luckily though, last night Abbi was showing signs, like this picture that she's feeling better and working those teeth out.

Smiles Again

Its pretty cool to see Abbi smile. She does it pretty frequently but that doesn't really take away from its charm! The other night her and I were playing together on the floor when I took this picture. I got her to laugh like that by tickling her with my foot of all things.

That Smile

Jenn was off yesterday because of a furlow day the county put in place so yesterday afternoon we decided to take Abbi to get some pictures professionally taken to commemorate her 6 months alive!

We went to Sears at Marley Station to have the pictures taken. Overall the experience was pretty good, although a bit long. The photographer took quite a few pictures, and we think she got a least a few really good shots of Abbi. I wanted to get a package that would enable me to get the original images on CD since they shoot digital now. So we did (it wasn't cheap, but it wasn't the most expensive thing either).

Since I got the CD, I was able to go home and post process the images myself and then put them online. We of course also got some sheets of pictures to share with friends and family, but to me the real prize is the original digital images.

This picture below was our favorite of the batch. You can click here to see all the pictures that were taken yesterday!

6 Month Photo Shoot

Over the weekend Jenn noticed that Abbi is started to get her top two teeth. This little is working on not 1, but 2 teeth at the same time. At least all the drooling these days is for a purpose!

I took this picture last weekend when Abbi was hanging out in the bathroom while we got ready. Therefore, she brushed her teeth while we brushed ours!

Teeth

She just keeps getting bigger and doing more fun things! The other night I was holding Abbi and drinking water and she was intent of having some too. So...since she's old enough for water why not! She did pretty good with it, with a lot of help of course to keep her from spilling it all out. As you can see, she was putting her tongue out to get the water, not necessarily trying to "drink" it.

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