Christmas 2008

Celebrating an early Christmas in NC....





And Christmas day in sunny Florida...
My dad, Eileen, and Abbie

Aunt Jane, Uncle Dave, and Abbie

Playing with new presents

I am too tired to write much. We've been sick, thankfully Abbie has not had anything too bad, but I have gotten the brunt of it. Threw up on the plane - yep, thank goodness for barf bags - and I had a nasty eye infection while in FL. Other than that it was a great holiday! Let's hope this is the end of all this sick stuff. Abbie had a great Christmas and got tons of wonderful toys, books, and clothes. And a sweet little rocking chair from Uncle Brett. She is all over the place - probably yet another reason I am pooped - and I swear she is waving bye bye and even saying it. Tonight I put away her 0-6 month clothes and it nearly brought me to tears. She is just growing up so fast and I want to press pause for a little while.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! XOXO

7 Months

Well, here I am again. Another month has passed with Miss Abbie and she is doing great! The last couple days have been a little rough around here because we all have colds, but hey, it's winter, and sometimes it's inevitable. So what can I expect? Dr. Morgan still said this morning she was perfect and has already gained close to a pound just since Thanksgiving!

Here is her downward dog yoga pose- she is going to be walking before we know it!! She actually
walks or crawls or whatever you want to call it - around like this sometimes!

Opening an early gift from Gram

Our mantle decorated for Christmas, it looks pretty sad, I know - no tree this year, boohoo, but we will be travelling. Maybe next year we'll be at home Christmas morning!

We have been busy with Christmas happenings and are enjoying getting to take Abbie to do everything! Christmas just takes on a whole new meaning when you have a child! This weekend we went to my work party and she got to sit on Santa's lap. I was a little worried but she didn't flinch! Next weekend we are headed to Wes's parents then Sunday we are leaving for FL to be with my family. It has been a couple years since we've been down there so I am really looking forward to it, and of course my family is SO excited about seeing Abbie again!

So here is what she is up to at 7 months:

Crawling, almost perfectly!

Pulling herself up to a standing position and staying steady for a while.

Eating 3 cereal/formula/baby food meals a day in addition to her milk

Clapping and trying to wave bye-bye

Raises her arms to say "so big" when we play "How big is Abbie?"

LOVES TV remotes, cell phones, cups, and anything else she can't have!

Picks things up off the floor now, like a piece of dirt or something. She'll just sit there and play with it forever!

Loves Brandy and squeals with excitement every time she is around

Guess Who's Preggers???!!!

No, not me!! It's my dear friend Misty Gordon!! I am SO excited for Misty and Todd as they begin this new journey in their lives. It's crazy how once you know what it's like to be a parent it makes it so much more exciting when someone else is about to experience it! Misty will be a fabulous Mom. She is one of those people - Rachel said it recently - it's like second nature to her to take care of a child. Even though she isn't a mom yet, she just knows how to hold them, love on them, talk to them, take care of them. She's a natural. And Todd, oh my goodness, Todd is over the moon about our dear Abbie and is so good with her - I know he will make a wonderful, loving father! So congrats to Misty and Todd! We love you guys!!

Seriously???!!!

So, Abbie will be 7 months old next Saturday, and I am not believing how quickly she is changing with each day. This morning I was doing some cleaning and walked in her room to this...

Granted I expected this to happen considering she's been trying to pull herself up for a few weeks now, but this was the first time I'd actually seen her do it on her own. Oh, and I haven't even told you guys that she's been pretty much crawling since Thanksgiving too. I say pretty much because she has it down except for one leg drags a little bit. But last night she seemed to have fixed it and it looked like an actual crawl.

We took her to the Picture People yesterday at the mall and had her first portraits done. I don't know why I haven't done this until now, I guess because I take SO many pictures, and I feel like I get some good ones, and sometimes they can be cheesy at the studios. But since it's Christmas I thought it was time. They turned out great, but unfortunately I can't get them digitally. I took a picture of the picture so you guys could see sort of what one of them looks like. We had a couple different outfits, etc. She was kind of shy (VERY surprising to us!) at first, and sucked on her bottom lip for about the first 5 minutes, but then she finally started warming up to the photographer a little bit. For some reason her hat looks like it has snow on it but it's just the way the picture turned out.

Darn blogger

I am trying to post videos, not working, and then my wireless just went down in the middle of this post, and I hadn't saved it. So you are going to get some pictures and a brief overview of what I had written!

Abbie went to the doctor last week, and she is progressing very well. According to Dr. Morgan she is hitting 9 month milestonses, which I figured already, but here are the stats -

Weight 14 lbs 13 oz

Height 26 inches

The doctor also wants us to add an extra meal, so Abbie is now eating 3 meals a day, in addition to her milk. I swear her little belly is already getting bigger!

As for Thanksgiving, we had a great time with the Ledford's. Wes and I even got to go on TWO date nights, which was lots of fun. Of course I hated to leave the little pooh, but it was great to get some time alone.

And for all of you who have told me that Abbie looks like a cabbage patch doll, well, we actually took her to Cabbage Patch Land on Friday, and you can judge for yourself...

We tagged along with Rachel, her mom and sister, and her kids, Ava and Jack. Ava got to adopt a doll and named her Abbie. So sweet.

Ava and her doll, Abbie...