Finally got a chance to post! We've had a lot going on here the past couple weeks (more about that when we know something for sure!) so I haven't had enough time to get a post together. On top of everything else, I've got 2 papers and a final to take before the end of the month. To say that I am stressed is a SERIOUS understatement!

Anyways, here a few of Abi's recent goings on!

One day, it was so cute! Abi brought her babies into the living room and decided to put them to bed. She gathered pillows, and blankets, and babies, and put them all to bed. She's such a little Mommy!


These are from Easter. She would absolutely NOT pose for a cute Easter dress pic and these were the best I could do. We had a great Easter though. Nic's resort was actually CLOSED (which they NEVER do!) so he got to go to church with us for only the second time since we got here. We all got up and dressed in our Easter best and headed to the church Abi and I have been going to...and there was no one there...NO ONE! I guess I missed the memo about the Easter Sunrise service! So I grabbed my handy dandy phone and googled "baptist church" and found one just a couple miles away. Praying that they had a regular service we headed over there and we got lucky because they had 2 services for Easter and one had just started. I hated seeming like a "Chreaster" (I heard that term on the Christian radio station on the way to church. It's a term for all the people who only go to church on 'Christmas' and 'Easter'...hence 'Chreaster'!) but I fixed that the next week when Abi and I went back by ourselves. I really loved this church! It's Southern Baptist, which I've never been to, but it was a really fun, contemporary service and as long as we are here, I am going to go there from now on.




I just think she looks cute here!



Another little Mommy picture. Nic and I got a Magic Bullet (which is AWESOME!) and we've been having shakes (for Nic) and fresh fruit/yogurt smoothies(for me) just about every night! One night, she pushed the laundry basket over, climbed on top of it, and then stood at the counter while I was working! I'd like to think she was trying to help...but she was just begging for a taste!

Here's some pics I forgot to post. When Nic and I were on vacation, my sister took Abi to Playtime Pizza in Little Rock, with her husband, Clint's, neice. Abi loved it! She loves riding those little rides at the mall or wal-mart. I can't wait to take her somewhere like this myself. Enjoy!

So, today, Abi and I went to an easter egg hunt, aka parental torture. Why, you ask? Abi acted like today was her first time out in public...ever. They had a clown/comedian do a show before the hunt, which was cute, I assume, because I spent most of the show in the vestibule with Abi playing with a gentleman she decided was her surrogate grandpa. He was so nice, playing peekaboo with her, and swinging her around, and carrying her around. She decided he was her new favorite person. Don't get jealous, though, Nana and Pop and Bebe and Papaw, I'm sure she's already forgotten him in eager anticipation of our trip to AR next month.

Then the torture really started, for both of us this time. They sent us outside to get ready for the egg hunt, where we lined up in full view of all the eggs spread out on the lawn and proceeded to...wait....and wait....and wait some more. At which point Abi became the stereo typical temper tantrum-throwing, red-headed two year old. She screamed for probably 5 minutes while we waited for either additional helpers or additional parents with a full lawn of eggs just out of reach. As soon as they started, I grabbed her and ran toward the farthest marker so that she could grab her eggs without interferance from the masses of 1-4 year olds beside us.

She knew just what to do too, which was amazing considering that she's never done an egg hunt. Luckily I had grabbed a walmart sack on my way out the door, because she filled her little basket quickly. I dumped it once without any opposition from the "boss", when it needed to be emptied the second time I got a look that said "what do you think you are doing with MY eggs?" and the third time? FORGET IT! She knew I was stealing her eggs at that point and to get that basket I would have had to cut off her arm first. That was fine though, because the eggs were pretty much gone by then.

They asked us to empty the eggs and return them (apparently they recycle the eggs for next year) so Abi and I found a seat on the grass and emptied her candy out of her eggs. Then I had a new distraction...and a new problem. I gave her a few bites of a tootsie roll, when a kind church member offered to take our picture, and she would NOT be still. I'm not even going to put up one of those pics. The same church member fell for her pleas of "can-nee, can-nee" and gave her the most ginormous piece of candy from her basket - a nestle egg about the size of a lego. Which Abi promptly shoved into her mouth and since the candy was so big she couldn't close her mouth to chew and drooled chocolate brown slobber all over her white easter shirt.

When it was time to go, I, of course, took the candy away to put far from little fingers in the front seat, and Abi, of course, proceeded to scream her head off like her mommy was secretly beating her inside the car. I wiped her down, popped a paci in her wide open screaming mouth, and we headed for walmart, where she nearly passed out in the cart. She managed to wait til we got home though, when we BOTH took a nice long nap.

Grabbing her eggs:






Wondering why she can't cross that orange line to go get some more eggs since the ones in her area were all gone???


Her candy mouth picture. Hee hee. Notice that in half of these she is running away from me. She DID NOT want me messing with her haul!

Happy Easter everyone!



We were at Wal-mart the other day when I heard them announce that they were doing free photos with the Easter bunny. So we headed over there, washed Abi's face, and took a pic - luckily she had a cute outfit on! She liked the Easter bunny WAY more than Santa -- see?!?!? She's even smiling!

So I finally have a few cute pics to share!

Abi still doesn't have much hair and her talking is still more like babbling than regular words (but mommy understands!) but she is getting so big and so smart. She sings Twinkle, twinkle, and the alphabet song. She can also count to ten, even if she doesn't do it in order (1, 3, 9, 8, 2, 9, 8!). Her favorite cartoons are Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (she can sing the Hot Dog song, and always calls for "O'Toodles") and Little Einsteins (she follows their directions, like "pat your knees to make rocket go" and "raise your hands and say blast off"). She loves to color with any thing that makes marks. You have to watch her with sidewalk chalk though, because if she gets it in the house it quickly becomes "furniture" or "kitchen floor" chalk! Maybe I'll get her some of the Crayola color wonder stuff for her birthday? Anyone have some and like it?

Just a girl and her dog! I caught her like this the other day. Daisy is so good with her, she pretty much lets Abi do whatever she wants to her and never complains.



We were watching the movie Bedtime Stories (which was totally cute and funny!) and I started singing the closing credit song with a remote control microphone. Abi is very into mimicking these days and of course she copied me! (Another thing she copies: when you are watching tv and something surprising happens and you cover your mouth and gasp! She does that too now!)


Another mimic. She's cleaning the couch with a baby wipe. She also cleans her face, the dog (who then eats them and subsequently throws them back up--GROSS!), her own babies, etc, etc....



And last, but certainly not least, I got Abi some new summer shoes (flip flops just like mommy's!) so of course we had to try them on. She LOVES them! She wore them around the house the rest of the night, and any time they came off (because they are still a little big!) she would run straight to me and sit down so I could put them back on. So cute! Of course, also like Mommy, I plan to buy her these Old Navy flip flops in every color they make them in -- wooo hooo!

So I had a conversation with Abi this morning...probably one of many to come. Here's the transcript:

me: Abi! I looooove you!

Abi: (non-chalantly) I know.

That was it. No, "I love you!" or even "thanks", just "I know". Duh, mommy!

More to come, I just didn't want to forget our little "conversation".