Apparently quilts are all the rage as gift ideas for new babies. We received the quilt you see in the background from Jenn's Aunt Pansy, I think she's a great Aunt, but I'm not sure. I do know that she is 90 years old, so its an awesome heirloom gift for Abbi. We also just recently got a new quilt from another great Aunt of Abbi's, my Aunt Velma who made her a quilt, I'll have to share a picture of that next week.

Gifted Quilt

A few weeks ago we ordered Abbi a playset for her to play with in the backyard. It finally came in last week and this past Monday I went with Granddad and picked it up. It only took about 20 minutes to put it together. Here you can see Abbi's first activity with it. Going up the slide! She really seems to like it and hopefully she'll get a good amount of use out of it.

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!

Playset

I think all kids love to be tickled, but I know mine does. Jenn took this picture, with a few others last week one evening. Abbi is super cute in the way she does things. In this case, I was tickling her and she would sit back after each round to "reset" her position and indicate she wanted to continue to play. She's awesome like that!

Tickle Monster

Last night Abbi had a chance to meet Ray Lewis. She instead fell asleep. Oh well. This picture is from our trip to Port Discovery. You can see her sorting through some of the building block pieces while I pose over top of her!

Building Blocks

When we went to Port Discovery they had a room set aside for kids that were Abbi's age. She was able to play pretty much anywhere in the place, but this room had more things her size and also kept out the bigger kids.

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.

Making Music

Abbi loves Max. Max tolerates Abbi. I would think after all the food she's given that dog, that he would love her at this point. But then again, when a 25 pound person sits on your back and jumps up and down on you, that might be reason to not like you quite as much.

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.

Best Buds

Not really any story here. Just a cute picture of my little girl and her Aunt Christine!

Aunt Christine