No Longer an Infant

Abby's second year is off to a...hummm...uneventful/sassy start. We haven't done much other than regroup ourselves after the big party and a bought of the fever and sore throats. Even so, Abby continues to blossom into her own little person!

In the last few weeks it is amazing just how much she is starting to understand. You can tell her to "take the ball to Daddy" and she will go across the room, pick up the ball and take it to Daddy! Or, when you tell her it is time for a nap or "night, night" she heads to the stairs so she can go to her room. She loves to "clean up" and "help" when asked, to play hide and seek or pretend to cook in her kitchen. She has become quite the little monkey too! She loves to climb up and down the stairs, well on pretty much anything she can find. Abby has turned in to a little Lovebug too! She loves to give hugs and kisses, she will come from across the room and lay her head on you and start to pat your back or leg while giving a little "ahhhhh". It is to funny and oh-so-cute!

Her vocabulary is growing too! Her new words are ball, bear, banana, teddy, shoe, sock, nose (points to it), book (and signing it too), cheese (she signs it and requests it first thing in the morning...)Os (as in Cheerios, she is signing this too). I think that is about it. She loves music, so much so, we were playing the piano the other day and she started singing her own little song! This girl is a TALKER!!!!

Her sass has blossomed as well! She has started to throw herself on the floor when she gets mad or tries pushing out of her highchair with all her might when she doesn't get what she wants to eat. Her latest has been fighting to go to bed at night...yet again! This seems to be an issue EVERY time she get the least bit sick. After getting her back to health, it seems to take four nights of retaining (a.k.a. 45-90 minutes of crying and screaming in her crib) to get her back to going to sleep on her own. It never gets easier for us, each time it like tourer for all of us. But, tonight was a good night--it was the first night in almost two weeks that she went to bed without crying--Thank the Lord!!