Legos

This is the Lego house I built.  I was really proud of it.  Greg builds cool things out of Legos all the time and I was feeling like a shoddy engineer until I created this masterpiece.

This is Abby about to disassemble the Lego house.

Sometimes it's really difficult for me to play with her.

Peek-a-boo

Abby is doing something new everyday now.  

Correction: Abby is doing a zillion new things everyday.  Or, at least it seems like that to me.

The husband is wondering if I can say anything else these days besides, "Did you see that?!  Quick!  Look at her!  Look at her!"

One of Abby's favorite activities as of late is to wear my scarves.  

These are usually work over her head while she walks around the house.  She inevitably runs into furniture and falls on her bum.  But that's no stopping this scarf-wearing child from doing a little hocus pocus.  Or maybe that's karate.

It doesn't just end with scarves.  She's been seen wearing a cardigan or two as well.

Wonder where she got that idea.  Mom, are you playing with your granddaughter or is it time to check out those nursing homes?

Peek-a-boo.

Scary and Strange

Big changes today.  Big big changes.  OK just one change but it's BIG.

I quit my job.  I'm officially a Stay at Home Mom.

It's scary and strange on so many levels.

But when things are scary and strange, what do you do?  You grab a ball from the elephant's trunk.

Sometimes things are so scary, you can't even look at the elephant.  You just grab that ball and keep going.

Then you play a little song on your xylophone. 

And, if you're lucky, someone you love offers you a Weeble.

And with a Weeble, things may still be scary and strange, but you know they're as they should be.

Swim Class

This winter Abby took swimming lessons at the local YMCA.  Did I ever mention that here in blog world? 

She had a blast every week.  We sang the hokey-pokey to dip her arms, belly and shoulders in the water, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to practice floating on her back.  Abby did Motorboat on a kick board, held on to the side of the pool all by herself, and collected lots of toys to practice reaching.  

Here's Abby with her fabulous instructor Miss Samm.  (Yes, that's double-M.  Not a typo.)

And here's Abigail Grace practicing boat safety.  As she was led across the pool in the boat she waved at the members of the Senior Water Aerobics class like she was Miss America.  Hysterical.