Abby playing Peek-A-Boo!

She has such a big personality now. She will just randomly give me kisses on the cheek and she will blow kisses at people. She also does this silly smile. It's so cheesy. She is a funny kid. She loves to be the center of attention. So when she knows she has peoples attention she will start acting cute. She will even fake laugh to get everyone to laugh back. She also walks up to me and leans in then starts to gibber jabber to me like she knows a secret or something. It is so funny.
Rob and I subscribed to the newspaper for the coupons and I look at the adds everyday. Now Abby when ever I am reading the adds she will take one that I am not looking at anymore and hold it up like I was and move her head around like she is looking at all of the adds. She just loves to copy everything that I do. It is so funny. Just today I was loading the dishwasher and she put her doll in it. I guess she thought that she needed to be washed. She will even pull the laundry out of the dryer for me. She is a little helper.
She moves so fast sometimes while walking that it looks like she is trying to run. She knows how to climb off of your lap. She can climb off of the couch but I don't let her do it. She has learned so much in the last little bit. They learn so fast its amazing.


This is a video of her watching the snow flakes. She loves the snow. She will walk to the front door and start hitting it trying to tell me that she wants to go outside. So I will get her all dressed ( mind you she cries while I put her coat on and gloves and hat) then we will go outside and she will just walk around. She cant really play in the snow yet but she tries. Oh well she will learn.
Can you believe that she will almost be one. In a month she will be one. Wow time sure flies.

Abby has a molar!! That makes 6 almost 7 teeth.

So Abby has had this big bump on the top right side of her mouth on her gum. It has a purplish black spot on it. After researching it out she has a molar that is trying to come in. It has been causing her a lot of pain. I was looking at her gums one day to see if anymore are coming in and she has another molar that has already cut through on the top left. She doesn't even have all of her front teeth yet. Thats ok though. She also doesn't really gag herself anymore. Thank heavens for that. She now is yelling at us and doesn't like the food I try to feed her. She just throws it all on the floor. I just keep offering it to her though because I do not want her to think she can just eat what ever she wants. She is getting enough to eat so no need to worry she just throws it off her tray until she realizes that I am not going to give her something else. Then she will eat it.
About the yelling. The other day, she was throwing a fit while I was feeding her food. She kept yelling in her booster seat so I assumed that she was done eating. I took her out and gave her a bath. She cried the whole time , she loves her baths too so it was weird. I took her out and Rob came in to investigate what was going on. She immediately started pointing at him. So I gave her to Rob. She started yelling Ma.. Ma...Ba... Ba... Ma... Ma... Ba... Ba... over and over and Rob pointed it out. So I got her dressed and made her a bottle and she calmed right down. Sometimes I sure wish that she could just talk so that I can just give her what she wants.
That is about all for now.

Abby and the snow

We took a video of when we introduced Abby to the snow. When I get it to upload I will show you all She wasn't quite sure what to think at first. She really can't play with it much right now. But I have let her see it several times.
I also took Abby to the Festival of Trees in Utah. It was neat but we only made it through the big trees before we were done. They had 750 trees. Thats just the trees, they had wreaths and gingerbread houses and small trees and decorations for Christmas, all that you can buy and the money goes to Primary Children's Medical Center. Here are some of the trees at it. I wish that I had taken pictures of the more interesting looking trees. There was all kinds of stuff that people put with there tree. One person had a baby tree that was decorated with all kinds of baby stuff. They put around the tree a crib, changing table, bassinet, stroller, etc. Pretty much anything that you could possibly need for a baby, clothing, etc. Everything that is around the tree goes with the tree. So who ever bought it got that stuff. There was also beds (full size beds) nice once too. It was a mazing the things that people did with there trees. There was even an upside down tree. It was amazing

I just thought that you guys would like to see Abby blow kisses and wave bye bye. Her bye bye is a little weird we are working on it. She just hasn't grasped the concept that it needs to face the people she is waving to. Its funny, if she doesn't really want to wave at people she will wave at them with the hand that is behind my back when I am holding her. She is less shy though. I don't think that when Dave and Kathleen and Bekah come out that they will cry this time. She seams to like people now.

I also have some fun pictures of her so here you go. She is in the tub. She was being silly so I took some pictures. There are some really funny ones, at least I think so. Oh and I got my hair cut. I cut about 6 inches off of it. So there is a picture of me with Abby that shows my hair. My sister Nicole cut it for me. Its nice having people you know able to cut hair.

Abby has 5 teeth now.

Abby has 5 total teeth. Two on top and three on bottom. She also will give you high five (Rob taught her that one). She can blow kisses to you. She waves bye and hello. She will show a sign to come hear if she wants you to come with her. She will give you kisses on her cheek. She can say baba for bottle and Mama and Dada. She has said bye bye but doesn't really anymore she just waves. She is walking all over the place now.

The dress she is wearing is a dress that Kathleen gave her last time they were out here. It looks so cute on her. It fits her perfect now, which is surprising to me because its an 18 mth dress and she is in 12 mth close. I am glad I tried it on her because it fits her perfect right now. Well that is about it for now. Not much else new.

More photos of Abby.

Well I just want to vent to all who love Abby. She has this new thing that she does that DRIVES ME CRAZY! She gags her self to the point of throwing up. She does it like a bulimic person does, with two fingers. Last night I was trying to make dinner and she kept doing it. I was so frustrated so I finally just let her go. She was sitting in her high chair. She threw up 2 times before Rob came home. Then she sat a played in it, so disgusting. Rob seams to think that she has just discovered her gag reflex. Maybe I am mean but I think she does it to rebel. Some babies at this age hold there breath. I think Abby gags herself instead. She has thrown up a total of three times now. It is so frustrating because I have to clean up the stinky stuff. It is a good thing that I love her so very much. She also has her first black eye. She banged her head pretty good on the coffee table the other day. So it is black and blue. Poor Abby. Thats all that is new with Abby.

This is a picture of Abby stuck under one of our kitchen chairs. She had crawled in behind it and couldn't figure out how to get back out. The back doesn't have the side bars, like the rest of the sides do. She kept trying to stand up but couldn't and as you can see she is hanging on to the bar and crying. Poor Abby! She hasn't figured out how to crawl backwards out of small spaces. Rob and I laughed for a while we thought it was funny. Anyways maybe thats mean of us but we never considered her getting stuck. Rob couldn't get her to just sit still while he pulled her out. So he had to hold her hand and keep her were she was at so that he could slide the chair over the top of her. What a traumatic experience for Abby. As for everything else. We are good. Not many changes here. Abby is still walking everywhere now and the time change has messed up her schedule. She wants to go to sleep now at 8:30 pm and get up at 5:00 am. Which Rob and I are not good at early mornings. So we are struggling with a grumpy baby as we adjust her sleeping schedule.
This other picture is a picture that I thought was cute. I had just bought these rubber bands for her hair so i thought I would try them out. I like the look on her face I think its cute. Oh and one last thing Abby got her two top teeth probably 4 to 6 weeks ago. Sorry I forgot to tell you all.

We went to the Mall today to play!

My neighbor Cami invited us to go with her to the Mall. Abby loved it. She played (well kindof played) with her son Parker. It was good to get out and we had a lot of fun. Here are some picuters of her on some of the things that we played with.

Happy Halloween!!!

Make your own slide shows and scrapbooks Well we went trick or treating. Abby didn't get any candy. I just let her have the experience. She seamed bored with it after the first door. Next year I am sure that she will love it.

Oh and Abby is sleeping through the night for sure. It is so great. Also She walks everywhere now. she would much rather walk then crawl. She even wants to walk up the stairs now. She's a little ambition child. We do not allow her to walk up the stairs. Abby and i have a little fight when we walk up the stairs because she wants to walk with me and I don't allow her to. I make her crawl. She doesn't walk well enough yet to walk up the stairs. This video is a video of her walking. She walks so much better then this even now. This video was taken on Sunday. I hope you all enjoy. As for Rob and I we are the same. Nothing new with us.

Abby has slept through the night 3 x in a row.

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Well good news I think that I have finally gotten Abby to sleep through the night on a regular bases. Watch now that I say that she will not sleep good tonight. oh well we will see. I several different techniques, but nothing seam to work for Abby. I tried just letting her cry it out for almost 2 weeks. That didn't work she just got worse. So I stopped doing that. Then I tried sitting next to her one night to let her know that I was there. I patted her back and everything. She just sat up in her crib with her eyes close rocking as if she couldn't keep herself up but refusing to lay down. She did this for two hours. I even tried just laying her down and she just sat right back up. I tried laying down in her crib with her (that was uncomfortable) but she just tried to climb out using me. I tried laying down next to her bed to show her it was nighty night time. No! she just threw things at me like her binky and her doll, we call Molly ( she loves this doll by the way its so cute)
I even asked the doctor about it when I went to her check up. I told him what I had tried and he said that every baby is different and that he had to let his first child cry for 4 and a half hours 3 nights in a row. Then he cried for 10 minutes every night for a year after that. Well after lots of prayer I had a thought what if I try to get her to take better naps during the day and maybe she will learn that she needs to sleep through the night. So I just put her in her crib when it was nap time and let her fuss. She didn't cry she just kept saying Mom...Mom...Mom... over and over again. Finally she gave up and went to sleep. Well that was 3 days ago and now she is sleeping through the night. Who would have guessed. I just assumed that she didn't need long naps during the day. Well she has slept for at least 9 hours each night with out waking me up. She fusses once each time she would get up before, but just once then goes back to sleep. Its more like an adjustment sound. If that makes sense. What a relief, can I just say.

Abby' Doctors appointment

Abby had her Doctors appointment today. She is 19 lbs 4 oz and 29 1/2 inches long. She is still above 90% for her height. She is doing really good and very healthy.

Abby loves the stairs and insists on climbing them whenever we are going upstairs for anything. This is a video of her climbing them. Rob is the one with the camera. She points at everything now. When you are holding her she points to the way you are going. She will point at Rob and I pictures and then us. She will point at things that she wants, etc. It is so cute! sorry I cant get the video to work i will try again later.

HARVEST MOON HURRAH

On Saturday Rob, Abby and I went to the fall festival called Harvest Moon Hurrah. It was fun! Not much to do with a little baby though. We went because I had a couple pieces of art work from my watercolor painting class in it. Next year I definitely want to take Abby again. They had pony rides for kids. They had a maze set up made of straw. They also had pumpkin bowling and lots of fun games for children.
I also have some funny pictures of Abby. This is a picture of Abby helping me do the dishes. She is starting early. No really she is making it harder but oh well. This other picture Rob put his glasses on Abby to see what she would do and she just sat there. Didn't know what to think so we took a picture of her with them on.

More videos of Abby walking

Abby took her first steps on Saturday!

It was so exciting! My mom was in town and we had her walk from back and forth between us. She took six steps, several times. I have a video of Rob and I trying to get her to do it on Sunday but there was too much going on and she was to excited so she didn't do very well.

She also makes funny faces now. She will wrinkle her nose and make puffing noises. Matt and Amy, Jake and Nicole were over on Friday and she did it a couple of times for them. It is really funny. She also has enough hair to attempt to style it so I have a picture of me trying to style it.
I just spike it up in the back using some jell, then I comb the front to one side. She looks more like a girl now. Next time I go shopping I am going to buy some cute things to put in her hair. I don't know if we told you already but she can climb up the stairs. She isn't very good but she loves the stairs. So we have to put a gate up until she is really good at going up and down. I give her supervised attempts so she can learn.
Also here is a picture of Abby in her crib calling out to me to come and get her. It is so funny. She doesn't cry in the morning or at night when she wants me. She just yells. It sounds like she is saying; hay...hay...hay...mom....hay....hay...mom. Rob and I laugh about it all the time. Its pretty funny.

I just wanted to let everyone know that Rob's TV show that he has been working on for a month now, is going to premiere tomorrow night 8/7c on ABC. Its called, "Pushing Daisies". If anyone is interested here is the link:

http://abc.go.com/primetime/pushingdaisies/index

Just thought that I would let you guys all know.

Well I thought that I would update you all on Abby's most recent accomplishments. This is a cute picture of Abby in a jacket. It is getting cold out here so when Abby and i go for our daily walks I put this cute jacket on her. She can also where her Old Navy shoes that I bought her about 4 moths ago. She has them on in this picture. She also points now. It is so cute. Rob and Tahnee noticed it before I did. They pointed it out to me yesterday. Anyways it's really cute. She also makes a huge mess when she eats. Every time I feed her I have to sweep up under her chair and around it. Rob says that she gets more on the floor then she gets in her mouth. He's probably right. She also likes to pull anything and everything out of containers. So I have to keep a good watch on her or she makes a really big mess. As you can see in these pictures. Also the last couple of days Rob and I have been working on her walking. She is getting closer. She also isn't as afraid of the vacuum anymore. She will sit and watch me vacuum instead of crying the whole time. As soon as I get close to her she runs (Crawls) away. She will also crawl away from you if you play chase her by crawling to her. Its a lot of fun. She is more interactive now. She will actually play with you now. Well that is about it for now. Abby is trying to help me type and is making the very difficult. love you all and enjoy. oh P.S. thanks for the stroller Matt and Amy it is well used. I appreciate it.

So I said that I would put up some pictures of my Watercolor painting that I have been doing. This is a homework assignment that I have been working on all week. I started over three times before I finally stuck with one and painted it to the end. Last night I was really frustrated because I just could not get it to look right. Rob gave me a pep talk and today I started painting again. Now I have finished the painting and this is what it looks like. We were suppose paint some fall leaves and lap them doing different techniques for each one. It's not bad for only 4 classes that I have attended so far. Its fun I like doing it a lot. Its not professional but not bad. Anyways, I also took some pictures of flowers today. There not too bad so I will put them as well.Wow this looks like an art gallery sorry.

Here is Abby clapping it is so cute.
Also I have these pictures of this cute outfit that I have for Abby. Rob made fun of it but I think it is so cute.
Anyways I thought you guys might enjoy these pictures. oh yeah and Abby likes pickles check this out.

Abby can clap! its so cute.

Abby can clap now. She does it all the time. This is one video of her clapping. She claps at the end. I will try to get some more videos of her clapping. Its hard because as soon as I pull the camera out she wants to play with it, so she gets distracted. She also sleeps pretty much through the night. I couldn't take it anymore so I had to just let her cry it out. The last couple of nights she woke up and cried for only a short period of time. Then went back to sleep. It makes my life so much easier. I can get 8 hours of sleep now.

She can stand up on her own now. I only have one video of her trying to. Its hard to get her to when you are near her because she just reaches out for you and falls over. She stood Yesterday for a while. She was playing with a toy, standing up next to the coffee table but not leaning on to it or holding on.
She loves to play with the control the the T.V. Its not too good, because she changes the channel while you are watching it. We usually hide it. This is a picture of Abby after she had turned off the T.V. as you can see it is off in the back ground. Rob now has competition for the remote.

As for Rob and I:
Rob has been working late for about 2 weeks now. They have an ABC TV show that they are working on. The deadline was suppose to be last Friday but that didn't happen, even with them working late nights. So this week he is working late again. Its OK though this project is really good for the company. Last night Rob didn't even get to see Abby awake. He didn't get home until 9:00pm Abby went to sleep at 8:15pm I tried to keep her awake but she was so cranky.
As for me, I am still taking that watercolor painting class. Its a lot of fun. I practice when ever Abby takes her naps. I am getting better at it. I am not to the point that I feel like I could make a good painting though, but I am getting better at the techniques. Supposedly this week in class we are suppose to paint a still life painting. I think she said it was going to be an apple, I am not sure. we will see how it turns out. Water color is hard. I painted in high school with acrylic paints and I like them a lot better. But I thought that I would try something new. A lot of practice should help. You cant become good at something with out lots of practice. So I practice, practice, practice. I should say as much as I can with Abby.

Abby is really good at crawling now. She gets into EVERYTHING!!!! She stood on her own the other day. While Rob was holding her, he let go for a couple of seconds and she stood there all on her own. We were so excited. She is progressing fast. She loves toys that she can dig things out of best, like buckets etc. I can get her to play with those the longest. Oh and last night Abby slept for ten hours with out waking up once. Wow! that was so great for me. hopefully this continues we will see.
Rob went hunting this last weekend. They didn't see anything that he could shoot. I think that he might go one more time before the season ends. Hopeful he gets something if not its ok. He is having a lot of fun though.
I have signed up for a watercolor class on Saturday mornings. It is good for me to have something to do other then clean the house and take care of Abby. Not that those aren't things that I enjoy. I just need time out. Anyways it is a lot of fun. I have only gone one week so far but I can tell already that I am going to enjoy it. Maybe I will take a picture of some of my painting and post them. We will see.

Her is one last video of Abby Crawling. She sure is cute when she crawls. She doesn't scoot anymore just crawls everywhere. Well that is pretty much the update. love you all!!

Sorry Rachel i haven't looked at the blog for a while. The answers to the questions are as follows:
4 jobs I've had:
1.Receptionist
2.Baker
3.Pizza maker
4.Detailer for Automobiles

4 movies I can watch over and over again:
1.Pride and Prejudice
2.Singing in the rain
3.Pillow Talk
4.Harry Potter movies

4 Favorite TV Shows:
1.Scrapbooking on DIY
2.Eureka
3.CSI Las Vegas
4.What Not To Wear

4 Favorite Hobbies:
1.Genealogy (A new development)
2.Scrapbooking
3.Cooking
4.Reading

4 Places I have Lived:
1.Spanish Fork, UT
2.Erda, UT
3.Texas
4.Ohio

4 Favorite Foods:
1.Ice cream
2.Mashed potatoes and country gravy
3.Homemade hot bread
4.Cantalope

4 Places I would rather be right now:
1.In the Mountains
2.Riding a horse
3.Country Dancing
4.Anywhere but home really

Websites I check daily:
1.My email yahoo
2.blogs
3.Familysearch.org
4.

I tag:
1.Misty
2.I dont really have anyone else who hasn't already filled this out sorry.

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