Abby @ Work

Abby was coughing in the morning on Wednesday so that I kept her home. She was fine the rest of the day so I took her to work with me for a few hours so that i could send out some emails. She had a lot of fun but I didn't get a ton of work done, obviously.

All of these people at work came out of the wood works to bring her delicious candy. I wonder...where is this candy everyday...and can I have it? She called the Nerds "rocks" and had a great time eating them.

Abby has been such a cutie lately. We are so glad and continually grateful for the joys and stresses that she brings into our lives. Some new fun facts about Abby.

• She is finally learning how to ride her bike she got last August for her birthday. She will peddle it a few times and get tired and start pushing with her feet. So I think that we'll just keep working on it. 
• We have a bunch of red and black beetles around our house and she thinks they are lady bugs but we are constantly squishing them around our house. Yesterday, she stepped on one and it got stuck to her shoe. She was going crazy that it was on the bottom of her shoe and she began to get slightly historical and was so upset she couldn't take one step to the grass to wipe it off. So I had to carry her to the grass and like move her leg for her to get it off. 
• Last night we were driving home from the Senior Banquet and Abby in the back seat counted down from ten to one and said "Blast Off" and began to descirbe how rockets go up to the stars. It is so fun to listen to how much she is learning and growing all the time.

Funny Things Abby is Doing

I am starting to see how perfect a mix Abby is of Grant and I.

Case 1: When she is angry (Grant) she is also polite (Me). I went to wake her up the other day and she was yelling "No Thank You" and turning away. I sat on the bed next to her and she was kicking at me and saying "Excuse Me." A perfect blend of Grant and I.

Case 2: Abby is fearless (Grant) but also very clumsy (Me). Abby is jumping off everything. She and Grant have a ritual to jump off our bed each night on the way to her room. Each night she just jumps and assumes she will be caught. She will be helping in the kitchen and jumps off without any warning so you'd better catch her. She just assumes someone always will. But it is her new favorite game. However, she also inherited with her fearlessness, a tendency to hit her elbows on doors and walls. Or one day she was so excited and ran into our room, did a little spin, and tripped and hit the side of the bed (definitely my child).

Case 3: Abby is super smart (Grant) but she is also a parrot (Me). Abby picks things up really quickly. She runs our electronics better than we do. She loves to read (look at pictures and make up stories). She has just started to sing the lyrics to songs other than nursery rhymes that she has heard on the radio. But she has has begun the repeating everything we say back to us. For those of you who know me or knew my Grandma Beth know that I sometimes (a lot of the time) mouth the words that people say as they are talking. I thought I had broken myself of that habit but was reminded recently by Grant that I do it all the time. I will also point out that she learned "Shut Up" from her Grandma Kandi while we were playing Phase 10. =)

Though like children do Abby pronounces some things incorrectly. My favorite one is Star Wars = Star Whores. Frog = (a four letter f-word). Hug and Cuddle have now become "Huggle."

She also read Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) like this. Jack and Jill, Up the Hill, Fetch the Water. She just says that over and over again over every page in the little book.

She definitely keeps us busy and is so much fun. I don't have any idea what we used to do for entertainment.