No Way!

Abby rarely wakes up in the middle of the night but she did the other night. I got her some milk and went in to save her. I walked in her room and she stopped crying and just started jabbering telling me all about it. I asked if she wanted some milk she said ya. So we sat in the rocking chair drank some milk and read some books for a while. When I told her it was time to go to bed she told me NO WAY! She had never said that before, we have no idea where she learned it. I just started laughing. and she just kept saying no way, very sternly. Ever since she says it all the time. Kids pick up on everything. We don't say no way, it must have been on TV or something. Oh-well it made us laugh.

I forgot the two most said words...

I too=me too - anywhere or anything we are doing we her i too
Cheese - she loves to eat cheese she would eat it for every meal if she could, thank goodness she seems to be growing out of her milk allergy, and loves to say cheese anytime there is a camera around.

Abby's Favorite Words...

NO!!!!

No?

Poop - which she and all of her animals pretend to do on the toilet

twost=toast

turdle=turtle

dah=dog

ya

bye, bye

juice

go, go

bath, bath

peace=please

cheat=treat

Mmmmm

fisssh=fish

seep=sleep and sweep

seeie=swing

outsigh=outside

two, three, six, eigh

at=cat

mama

mom

dada

jump

ello=hello

nana=banana

uh-oh

i=hi

apoh=apple

choo,choo

bb eyestye=Baby Einstein, a new one she started today!

I wish I could type them all, she just never stops talking. We just love to listen to her jabber. I think in the last couple weeks her vocabulary has tripled.

Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day has always been an over rated holiday in my mind, but it is always fun to have a reason to celebrate something. This year Stu and I didn't get anything for each other because we really don't have the money. We figure down the road a few years we will do gifts and flowers and all that stuff. We did get Abby a little present though, and she was very excited to open it! We had our usual morning, then Stu headed off to school and Abby and I hung around the house. Abby wouldn't take a nap, the little poop, so I really didn't get much done. Stu came home and we headed off to dinner. Once again we are to cheep to go somewhere we have to leave a tip, and we really didn't want to wait for a table so we went to Greek Slovakia. It is one of our favorite places to eat. Abby was so naughty at dinner. Usually she loves eating there, but not last night. She would not sit down, ate a half of chicken nugget, and wanted to play in all of our drinks, then just wanted to get down and stood at the door banging on it while we finished. It was very romantic! Then we came home got her in bed and Stu took the night off from studying so we could watch a movie. I got to choose the movie, so of course it was a chick flick. I choose Life As We Know it. It was a cute movie, but some off the part hit a little too close to home. For example, when the guy in it was watching what he wanted to watch on TV and the one year old wouldn't stop crying until he turned on Wonder Pet or the Wiggles. We just laughed. It wasn't the best movie to watch to get away from life with a one year old. Then about half way through the movie Abby started screaming. She rarely wakes up at night these days, but of course one of the days we want to try and have little bit of a romantic evening together we ended up watching Baby Einstein all together on our bedroom floor. She finally went back to bed forty-five minutes later and we got to finish our movie. Not that Stu and I used to have the most romantic Valentine's Days, but things are definitely more exciting when you add kids.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I Don't Want to go to Bed!

Abby has never really put up a fight when it was time to go to bed. Usually I wrap her up in her blanket she takes her binky, we read a couple stories maybe sing a song and she points to her bed. I put her in her bed and lately she has been saying love you then waves bye, bye, that's the whole process. But today she screamed and screamed when she had to take and nap and even more when she had to go to bed. She fought me when I tried to put her jammies on, then she kicked and screamed while I brushed her teeth, then she ran from me and hid on the stairs. Stu and I just sat at the bottom at the bottom of the stairs and laughed at little miss pouty. When we finally got her in bed she screamed so hard she started coughing and gaging. We went thought she had thrown up we went back in her room and she quieted down and let me read her stories. Then she just wanted to snuggle with me and rock. As big of a pain as she was tonight I loved that moment just holding her. She never lets me just hold her anymore. She is always on the move. It was so great to just snuggled and rocked while I tickled her face and played with her hair. I love her so much!

Isn't this the best pouty face!

Little Picaso

Abby loves to play with Mr. Potato Head. Here is some of her latest work...

18 and 1/2 months

Abby had her 18 month check up today.

• 33.6 inches (95th percentile) Dr. Cramer said she is the height of a 25 month old. Know wonder none of her cloths fit and I have had to by 2T.
• 25.9 lbs (70 percentile) She is slimming down!
• 18.3 inches for her head circ. (35th percentile)

I just love this age. Abby is so happy! Just talking up a storm. She thinks she is as big as everyone else. I can't believe how much she understands. Yesterday I was eating some stew and she wanted me to pick her up so I picked her up and she pointed to my bowl and said Mmmmm soup! I don't think she has ever really had soup. I have no idea where she learned it.

She knows she is not supposed to poop in the tub and the other day she pooped a little nugget in the tub and stood up and said uh-oh. So I grabbed her out of the tub and put her on the toilet. She sat there for a second and wanted to get off so I said if she didn't want to go poop in the toilet she would have to put a diaper on. So she goes running over to the cupboard that usually had some diapers in it and there were all gone to she frantically started looking in all of the cupboards and drawers. I said to her there aren't any diapers up here we have to go down stairs and she went running out the door, when I tried to put her towel on she got mad. SO I picker her up and we ran down stairs we grabbed a diaper and she laid right down and let me put it on. (Usually after baths she fights me and won't let me put a diaper on.) She went off playing by herself and little while later she came and found me and had done her business.

She makes me laugh. Lately when I put her down for a nap or bed she will talk to herself for 30 min to an hour before she falls asleep. The last few days she doesn't want me to sing her songs or to pray before she gets in bed she just wants me to put her in bed and after I put her in bed she looks and me and and waves bye, bye! I just want to know what she is doing after I leave.

What Abby likes at 18 months...

• DOLLS! She loves dolls she will carry around 1-6 or more dolls at a time. Yesterday I asked if she wanted to go take a bath and she rips the dollys clothes off and runs to the tub. Everything I did to her she did to the dolly. The dolly has to go pee, pee in the toilet many times a day, sit by her when she is eating and get fed... num, num, num. She seems to like the dolls naked. I don't know if that is because that is how she likes to be.
• PB and J, chicken nuggets, fries, almost any kind of fruit, frozen corn, cinnamon toast, sometimes frozen peas, but that is about the only vegetable we can get her to eat. Some kinds of chicken, Ramen noodles are a favorite, Rumbi's brown rice, and lots of other kinds of rice, fruit snacks, Triscits, Wheat Thins, Lorna doons, the other day she ate spaghetti with marinara sauce- who knows if she will eat it again, nuts- cashews a favorite, any thing sweet, the cheese off pizza and some of the crust if it has some sauce. She loves to dip... she will pretty mush dip anything in anything that seems like a dip. Chicken in applesauce is a common one.
• She kind of likes to have her teeth brushed.
• Still loves reading books
• Still HATES carrots
• loves to talk on the phone
• Loves TV, way more than she should, I still think that the Disneyland Sing Along songs is her favorite, she still loves Baby Einstein, Mickey Mouse Club House and a bunch of shows on Nick Jr. She sings along with the Wonder pets and Olivia theme songs. When she wants to watch TV she will just go and climb up in the arm chair in front of the TV sometimes with a snack some times with the red fuzzy blanket and just sit there until we turn it on. Oh ya, she watched Finding Nemo for the first time last week and I can honestly say I am really sick of that movie now.

There is a lot more but that is all I can think of right now! I just love to listen to her try and talk. She counts to ten pretty well, she hits the number 2,3,6, and 8 really well. I just love her to pieces. Every day she makes me laugh and brightens my day. She really is a good little girl!

Love you sweet heart!