Thursday, December 8, 2011

Northpark Adventure!

Today we headed to Northpark to meet Brady and Grace to see Santa do storyitme and see the trains. It was a great time!
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Carter loved the window outside this toystore.
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Santa was a great storyteller!
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Carter and Brady listening carefully
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Abby listened too
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Then it was on to the trains! Carter stopped and listened to a band playing
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Tarin ticket!
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Checking out the trains with Grace
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The best picture I could get of Grace, Brady and Carter
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The I brought Carter into Build a Bear.....big mistake. He has been begging me to build a bear. I had a $5 off coupon, so I told him her could build a $10 bear, thinking I could get out spending $5...WRONG, I ended up spending $24, opps, but Carter had a great time. He was SO into it. We have been before, but this time was different, he loved it! He picked out a sound where you record your own sound....he sang Sponge Bob Square pants into it, pretty cute!
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He picked out heart and wacthed him get stuffed.
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Pressing the pedal to get the stuffing in.
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Making sure he felt just right!
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Giving him a bath,
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Choosing a name, he chose Spiderman
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love
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He loved getting the box for Spiderman to take naps in!
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What a fun day!

34 weeks

Abby is modeling her new hat from Auntie this week!
Abby is a busy girl these days! She loves to play with her tounge and girl big smiles. Still drooling up a storm and still only has 2 teeth. I keep looking for more, but they're not there yet!
Still no crawling and she still loves to be held all the time. I have to admit that I do love to hold her because I feel like she is the perfect size! She is still wearing a size 2 diaper and 3-/ month clothes mostly, she is a little bit!
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Adolphus Children's Parade

Since seeing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, Carter has been obsessed with parades, so I knew we had to go to the Adolphus Children's Parade this year. The weather was very questionable, so I am very happy we decided to brave it, because the crowds weren't bad and neither was the weather!
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Colt and Abby waiting for the parade.
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Carter playing hopscotch while we waited.
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Happy girl!
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They had all kinds of volunteers dressed as clowns doing entertainment before the parade started. This clown is Brady's (Carter's friend from school) dad!
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Abby was not a fan of the clowns....poor thing!
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Torture...notice the lade walking by....I think she was wanting to give me the "bad mommy" award, ha!
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Now she's happy!
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Colt got cotton candy
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and Carter got a Spiderman....he was SO excited!
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Colt
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Fianlly is started
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Abby Cadabby
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Start Wars guys
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Captain America...the highlight for Carter.
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Bob the Builder
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Frosty
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Green Lantern
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Elmo and Dorthy!
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Wearing a pancho because it started raining!
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Jordyn Sparks
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The highlight for me, Ian Kinsler!
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Santa!
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Afterwards we went to Chuy's for lunch, yummy!
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Thursday, December 1, 2011

33 weeks

I haven't done a post like this in a while and I feel like there is so much that Abby is learning and doing! So here goes....
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She sleeps from 7-7:30ish. She also takes about 2 naps today. She is ready for a nap about 10 and will sleep about 2 hours and then is ready for another nap around ....but these don't always happen since we are always on the go!
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She loves to eat, espceially anything she can feed herself! She loves crackers, Cheerios, puffs, whole peas and edamame. She is doing better with baby food and loves her cereal/fruit in the morning, She is not a huge fan of babyfood veggies and gags at peas and mixed veggies, but I keep giving them to her anyway! She is still nursing 4-5 times a day, but is SOOOOO distacted the whole time! The only times she nurses really well is when she is really tired!
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She is seriously the smiliest baby Ihave ever seen. You just glance in her direction and she gets the biggest smile onher face. I love how her whole faces lights up!
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She still is constantly drooling! It is out of comtrol! No new teeth yet, still just the bottom two.
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She is still a little things. She is wearing a size 2 diaper with plently of growing room. Her clothes are mostly 3-6 months though she can still weat some 0-3 month things. He foot is a size one.
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She is such an observant little girl. She loves to take in situations and see what's going on!
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She started clapping today! She lso waves byebye. Sometimes with her whole arm, sometimes with just her hand.
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Abby is a hugge chatterbox. She is always "talking". She also loves to blow rasberries (her tounge is always sticking out) and makes this new sound with her mouth where she sucks air though her lips. She loves her paci and loves to take it in and out of her mouth and even put it in sideways.
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She is SUCH a mama's girl and wants me to hold her ALL the time. She will scream whenI out her down and and soon as I turn to her, she will turn it off. She is getting a little better about playing independantly, but only if she's in a good mood.
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I feel like she already has a sense of humor. Sometimes she looks and me like she just gets that I'm being funny. Like when I will put her paci in my mouth (backwards) she will give me a look like, "you're being silly."
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She's not crawling yet. When she tolerates being put down and on her stomach, she scoots backwards and will turn in circles.
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Miss Abby Paige is at such a fun age and I am loving (almost) every minute!