I'm definitely late on this post, but like last month, oh well.

This kid amazes me. She's super smart. I don't think she's smart in the way that we only have 1 kid to compare her to so she must be smart, I really think she's smart. She listens well (when she wants to) and she's super curious and seems to figure out new things all the time.

Since she's over a year, the doctor told us at her year checkup to ween her from all bottles by 15 months. She's been off all bottles for about 3 weeks now. We were giving it to her at night to try and get her to sleep and she'd take the bottle, then get back up and start playing again. So we started to just put her down for bed. Its awesome - we'll ask her "are you ready for bed" and she responds by shaking her head up and down. I take her up for bed, she lays right down and goes to sleep. No crying. She's awesome!

As for growing, she's working her way out of size 4 shoes, into some new 5's and she's got wide feet. Must have come from me or something. She's tall, and strong. She loves climb. On everything. This is where the smarts come in. She moves thing over to other places and uses them to climb up, very smart! Did I mention that she's awesome!

In the nicest way possible, I think she's built like a truck. She runs around and kinda slams into stuff and just moves right on. A lot of the time shes not even phased by what happens. There are of course other times where she's hurt and needs parental love, but not a lot.

She loves to eat, and does well. One thing we've learned is that she'll eat whatever you give her if she doesn't have a choice. But if she does, then she'll cry and whine until she gets what she wants. For example, if we have a grilled cheese sandwich and french fries for her, she won't eat the grilled cheese because she wants the fries.

She's interested in tons of stuff. She plays with these ribbons all the time upstairs (like craft ribbons) and she likes to play with drum sticks. She likes laying on the floor and rolling around. Playing kitchen. Playing with dolls. She loves to play with Max, even if he's still not to keen on her, they are getting better.

Basically put, she's awesome. She's a ton of fun, and even more work. She's definitely wearing Jenn and I out, so much so - we wonder how older people manage to have kids, I can't imagine. I'll stick with my 1 year old and my 29 year old self taking care of her.

14 Months

She's getting so big. Jenn keeps saying to me each night how toddler-ish she's become. She's such a little person these days. She just has her own personallity and its amazing to watch her learn and grow.

Last weekend she came up to me with the point and shoot camera and handed it to me (more or less), and so we worked on smiling for the camera. I don't think she really understood, and I did get some cute pics of her smiling, but not really "at" the camera. I really liked how this one turned out though, kinda in between smiles for her. I love the face she's giving me here!

The Look

Over the weekend we noticed something about Abbi. She's a little to much like her father. She will hear you say something like "no", "stop", "don't do that", and just keep on doing it. She's super curious about everything, and it is leading to some frustration. Yesterday I was doing stuff in the bedroom and so she was playing everywhere. I snapped this picture of her playing on Max's bed at one point. I love her expression here!

Wild Child

I took this picture yesterday morning. She's chowing down on some cereal while "posing" for a quick picture while she's sitting on the floor. Each morning Jenn fills up her snack trap cup with cereal and we head out for day care. She eats while we ride and everyone is happy.

Breakfast

On my blog I posted a picture of a horse called Buddy that Abbi got to meet over the weekend. Here's a shot of her actually petting the horse. She really seemed to have a good time and luckily I got a good shot of her actually petting one of the animals.

Petting Zoo

I got a feeling that before I know she'll be driving a real car, but lucky for me, Jenn and every driver on the road, she's sticking to small plastic cars for the moment. This weekend we went to a playground farm place and they had an area of toys and such. She spent about 15-20 minutes playing around in there, one of her favorite things was the little tikes cars. Check out that smile!

Driving

So first, check out that bruise on her forehead. She took a dive into the steps last weekend and she's still healing from that one. This kid is full on toddler. She cruises around the house like she owns the place, and does whatever she puts her mind to.

Yesterday Jenn and I took her to her 5th laser treatment. She did incredibly well, and even the doctors were praising how well she handled the treatment. She was as usual, super pissed that they were holding her down. They wrap her up in a sheet to help keep her still, then put gauss over her eyes for protection. Once they started in the with laser (all 20 seconds worth of it), she was quiet and still, which is awesome. As soon as they were done, she sat up, and came right to Jenn and I. Within a minute or two, she was back to her usual smiling self. She's awesome.

I asked the doctor about her progress and she said she felt Abbi was having moderate success. Based on her current progress, she figures Abbi will need about 11 or 12 treatments to have significant reduction. However, that doesn't mean it won't be more, and of course it could be less (however, I highly doubt that to be the case). So if it is 12, we're almost half way there. Abbi will have her last treatment of 2010 on November 11 and then she can heal up for the holidays!

Treatment