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.