Cutie Patootie Pictures!

Here's just a few random pictures off our camera that I thought people would like. I will try to explain them in detail.
Abby up close

Abby playing with jewelry

Abby Spaghetti

Abby on the bathroom floor.

Abby with Mommy's shoes on.

Forget the details, she's just so darn cute. :)

Picture time

Here are some pictures from the last few weeks. Nothing too exciting around our house other then me getting my wisdom teeth out on Friday the 13th. So far so good, I am in very little pain and the swelling is minimal. I guess I have Dr. Ballin and his staff to thank for that!

Tuesday at about 7 P.M Abby decided to put her hat and coat on (backwards as you can see) and proceed to tell Julie and I she was going "bye bye"

When we said she couldn't go out that late she started using Karate on us!!!!
Everything ended peacefully and she was in bed by 7:45.

Making funny faces at the dinner table.

One of Abby's many attempts to use the big girl potty, so far we have one successful poop!

And I thought I would throw in a picture of me post tooth extraction.

A Father's realization

For many of the last blog entries Julie has taken the reigns and blogged, and she has done an awesome job. But today I decided I wanted to blog about my little angel. Over the past few months I have seen Abby walk for the first time, start talking, and most recently express her opinion and her desire to do what she wants. And while some days are frustrating (the days you see yourself trying to rationalize with an 18 month old) 99% of the days are just bliss! This Monday I didn't have work and Julie did so I got to spend the day with Abby. I can say with certainty it was one of the best days I have had in a long time. We didn't do anything special, in reality it was a pretty normal day with Abby. But being alone with her all day really made me see how lucky I am to have her in my life. I think at some point every father realizes they would do anything for children, a father really sees what absolute love is. I really saw for the first time how much my parents really love me, and as kid I took that for granted. Well I don't anymore, I know the love I feel for Abby my parents feel for me. For all of those people reading this blog that have kids, you know exactly what I mean. And for those who will have kids someday, you will know and you see how deeply you can love another human being. Well enough with the sappy stuff, here are just a few new pictures of Abby from the past few weeks.

Just being silly.

Julie put pigtails in Abby's hair for the first time.
This picture doesn't due justice to how cute she was!

HOLIDAY PHOTOS!

So, the holidays are almost over and it's been a LONG time since we've blogged about anything. Lots of new pictures to go through, we hope you enjoy them.

Abby playing the piano on Christmas Eve. I think there's a picture of me (julie) when I'm about this age doing the same thing.

Perfect form!

Abby and Mommy getting ready to open presents. Abby LOVES opening presents. It's a good thing she's the youngest because there's no way she has the patience to wait for others to open their gifts.

"Cheese"

Airplanes with Daddy!

More "cheese" with Duke. He looks tired.

Christmas Morning pajama time.

This never gets old, Abby wearing mommy's shoes.

Abby didn't understand the concept of getting ready to go play in the snow because she's never done it before. She did NOT want to put her snow clothes on. But, all said and done, she had fun sledding in our court yard. (see video below)

Abby has also been singing quite a bit, this video is of her helping mommy sing "Twinkle Twinkle little Star." She helps with lots of different songs. The reason she's rolling around on the floor is cuz it's right before bed and she's tired.

A bit of a rough month

So within the past month Abby has had a chest cold, pink eye, a stomach bug and now a pretty wicked cold. She has been such a trooper through all of it and seems to be on her way to being her normal crazy self. I believe I have said this before but there is nothing worse than a sick child, all parent's out there will know what I am talking about. But through all the gross diapers and what seems like several hundred boxes of tissues we have come out in one piece yet again and ready to tackle whatever our Abby has to throw at us.

Starting to carry her own weight, she is washing one of her sippy cups.

Abby loves the tree and loves the lights the most.

That is a pony tail going straight up!

She's electric.

A few pictures

Here's a few pictures from the past month. Sorry it's been a while since we've posted any pictures.

Abby LOVES fettuccini alfredo. Yummy!
Abby and Mommy looking at the fish at the MN Zoo. I remember going here with my grandparents all the time.

We watched the fish for a good 20-30 minutes.

Looking at the animals.

Abby and Daddy (without the flash.)

Abby and Daddy (with the flash, you can see Abby's face in the glass.)

Another Mile Stone

I realize we haven't been keeping up with Abby's blog recently so I thought I'd post a little something inbetween patients while I'm at clinic.



Last night Jason and I went out for a function at my school and Auntie Katie was watching Abby for the evening. The instructions were pretty typical, 'she's already eaten, play with her, give her a bath if possible, put her to bed.'



Well, I was so bummed because when we got home, Katie said Abby did just fine except for one thing. SHE POOPED IN THE TUB!!! MAN!!! I can't believe I missed it. It wasn't diarrhea, I guess they were pretty hard ... I chuckle to myself out loud when I think about Katie holding Abby over the tub while trying to control the situation. I'm seriously bummed that I missed it though. I always assumed she'd poop in the tub at one time and I secretly wanted to be amongst it all when it happened. Oh well. Katie did a fantastic job and handled it well. THANKS KATIE!!!