I have no idea how long its going to last, but Abbi has entered into the "baby doll phase". She loves her little dolls and loves to carry one around with her all over the place. She's cute of course, but if you try to take it away from her, she's none to happy about it usually. Jenn seems to think its super cute as well.

Baby Doll Phase

She's officially a little girl now. She's had her first paint job done. The other night Jenn and I worked together to paint Abbi's toenails. She didn't really seem to mind all that much, and once it was done she was definitely intrigued as to what we had done to her. She looks cute walking around with her little feet all painted up.

Paint Job

Continuing on the trend from yesterday, this picture today is of Abbi's birthday cake that we had for Abbi on her actual birthday. Jenn figured that since Abbi didn't have any ice cream during her birthday party she should get her an ice cream cake. Abbi loved the ice cream cake and we thoroughly enjoyed sharing it with her.

And to mom, I will get a picture of Abbi playing with her kitchen real soon.

Cake

This picture isn't really of Abbi, but it is of Abbi's gift from us and her balloons that we had to decorate and celebrate with. In the big box with every ribbon from Saturday's party is her kitchen. Its a little plastic kitchen that is one height now and then when she's taller we can lift it up and it will be come taller and hopefully more fun for her all over again. She did good opening the box and seems to love the kitchen.

The Big 1

On Abbi's actual birthday we of course celebrated with Abbi. This week I'll be sharing pictures from last Tuesday regarding the different aspects of her big day. Since it was her birthday we of course took pictures of her with a card stating the date, and as things have been going recently, it was incredibly hard to get her to sit still and let us take a picture of her with the card.

Of the pictures with the card, I think this one turned out pretty good and actually kinda represents Abbi at this point in her life. She's all over the place these days with her walking and desire for exploration!

The Card

Yesterday, Abbi went to the doctor for her one year check up. Here are some of the highlights:

• She's good and healthy!
  
• She's up to 22 lbs now, putting her in the 70th percentile for weight.
  
• She's 31.5 inches long, putting her in the 95th percentile for height.
  
• No more formula. We're now giving Abbi whole milk for her bottles. Over the next 3 months we'll be weening her off the bottles completely, something I'm definitely looking forward too.
  
• She got four shots and seemed to do well after getting them.
  
• Her speech is right on track, and she's on the right track!
  

Oh, and she looks super cute in her chair here!

Chillin in her Chair

Since it rained on the day we had Abbi's party, we decided to invite people down again on Sunday to enjoy some time outside with the water inflatables on a day with some sun. So we had a few of Abbi's friends over and we played on the same stuff again Sunday that we did in the rain on Saturday. As you can see, Abbi had a great time!

Birthday