This is a picture of Abby with her friend Carissa. She is a cute girl. Carissa is 3 weeks older then Abby. It is so cute to see them play together. P.S. check out Abby's shoes. I think they are so cute. She loves them too. She requests to wear them all the time. I finally taught her how to put them on herself. Now she wears them all the time. They don't match a lot of the time but hey she can put them on all by herself.


Abby loves to be outside. All day yesterday during conference she wanted outside. She would walk over to the door and YELL MOM...MOM...MOM until she felt like she had my attention. She would then pound on the door to show me that she wanted outside. It was hard to teacher her that we are watching conference and we will go outside when it is over. This picture to the right is a picture of her with my keys trying to unlock the door.


Abby loves to look at the ducks that we have in the pond behind black horse run. She just stairs at them and points every once in a while, It's cute. She also likes to look at the horses that are across the street. Abby and I have had a lot of fun exploring things lately so I thought I would share some of them.

NO SOCKS PLEASE

Abby is such a funny little girl. She will not stand for socks to be on her feet while she sleeps. Here is a picture of her after she had pulled them off.




This picture is of Abby dragging her favorite blanket behind her. She has to have this blanket to go to sleep. It has this triangle edge. She sucks on them. It is so funny but hey what ever helps her go to sleep is fine with me. I just think it's cute that she drags it behind her. She use to trip over it but she has learned to make sure it drags behind her before she starts walking. She walks around it when it's in the way.

Friends

So Abby has a new friend. His name is Garrett. Matt and Amy might know his parents. I don't even know there name. She is Latin and he is white. He works in construction and she works as an accountant. They live about 2 buildings down from us.
Anyways, he is outside at least as much as Abby. So they see each other a lot. They actually play well together. I am trying to get her more friends around her age. Most of the parents I know they children are 2 or 3.

I also meet with a friend of mine names Janelle. She has a daughter named is Carissa. She attends the spanish branch. Carissa is only 3 weeks older then Abby so they play really well together.
Well, back to these pictures. Abby in this one is holding Garrett's broom. It took him a while to get her to give that back to her. At least there not in the stage were everything is theres. Anyways I thought these were cute pictures that you guys would like to see.

Rob and I no longer have a calling!

Yep, Sunday we met with our bishop and he released us from being language missionaries. I feel really bad but we are excited. We just haven't felt like we have been contributing much lately. Plus 1:00 pm church is the worst time in the world to have church. It has been really hard with Abby because she takes her nap around the time we go to church. Because of daylight savings she has been taking her naps at around 12:30. That put her in her crib when I am suppose to be getting her ready for church. Rob and I personally think that the best time for church is at 9:00 am. At least when you have a family. Anyways, back to our calling. They didn't give us a new assignment. He told us he was going to give us at least 2 weeks to rest. Sounds good to me. Not that we really did a whole lot to need resting.

Ribbit!

I taught Abby how to jump like a frog. She loved it so much. She doesn't do it very good. That's ok though she tries. It's cute to see her do it .

Abby's new cousin

Matt and Amy had there baby on Friday. Rob and I took Abby on Sunday to see him. She loved him. She wanted to hold him and kiss him. So I had Matt take a picture of Abby with Preston. I should have turned Preston towards the camera. I didn't think about it until now. Oh well.

CHOCOLATE!!!!!

So last week was Abby's real taste for chocolate. I am sure she has had a little sliver when she was little but this was the first time that she actually could hold it and eat it on her own. Anyways, she was a chocolate freak!! All she wanted was chocolate.
Tahnee came over last Friday and we put candy in Easter eggs. Tahnee gave Abby a piece of chocolate and that was the end of eating real food. All she wanted was chocolate. She would point to the chocolate and say Mama Mama over and over again. She has radar for chocolate. She could see it even if I couldn't. She definitely takes after me in that area. Rob does not like it.
Everyday for about 4 days she requested chocolate when she saw her Easter basket. It was tough to teach her she can't eat chocolate ALL DAY LONG! Well all the chocolate is gone and she doesn't ask for it anymore, THANK YOU FOR THAT. I was getting tired of dealing with a fussy kid about an hour or two after she ate chocolate. She also loves candy. I honestly thought she didn't like sweets. I was so excited about that because I am addicted to sweets, mostly ice cream. Then Easter came and now it's candy this and candy that. She will not be getting an Easter basket from the Easter bunny this year. I am writing him a note to make sure. Rob says I am a mean Mom when it comes to candy. Oh well I am just looking out for her health.

Finger painting

So I bought some finger paints for Abby. I thought she would enjoy finger painting. Nope, she hated it. She usually dislikes most things at first though, then they grow on her. Here are some pictures of my first attempt to get Abby to finger paint. The very first thing that she did was scream and show me her hands because she didn't like the paint on them. I had to get her out and clean them off in the sink.









I then got out a paint brush and showed her how to use it. She played with that for a while. Then finally she was willing to try it again. So I put her in the booster seat, slid her up to the table and showed her how to do it again. As you can tell in the top right picture she still didn't enjoy it much. Basically in order for her to paint I had to have lots of wipes on hand. She would paint then notice that she had something on her hand. She would then hold it up to me and I would have to wipe it off her hands. Then she would start the process all over again. This happened about 8 or 9 times before she finally just gave up on wiping her hands off and just played for a little while. As you can see in this picture to the right she just held her hands up as to not touch the paint.
I let her paint for about 5 or so minutes then I just cleaned her off. I am sure she will enjoy this in the future it's just so new and she is a clean freak. She has to have things in places they are suppose to go and if something is in her way she will just chuck it behind her. For example: Rob for some reason stacks his or my belongings that are suppose to go upstairs, on the stairs. It drives me crazy. Anyways, if Abby is trying to climb the stairs she will just pick the items up and throw them behind her. Some of the items that Rob stacks on the stairs is mail (such as bills). Yep Abby just throws them down the stairs. It's actually funny to watch her do this.
Well back to the painting. I decided to show Abby finger painting because I read online that it's good at this age to start teaching them art skills. They said that if it's possible to do an art activity with them everyday. So I'm starting to do this with Abby. They also talked about doing puzzles with her and building things with her.
I read during Abby's nap time on the internet about what things I can do to help Abby learn. I have newsletters sent form different websites. Some of the websites I visit or have emails sent to me are: Huggies.com, Pampers.com, whattoexpect.com, familyeducation.com. Fisherprice.com My favorite link is
http://www.whattoexpect.com/toddler/index.aspx
I like it so much because they have stuff for all ages. It's nice to read month to month about what things your child will like and learn from. Anyways, enough said. This might possibly be my longest blog entry. Anyways by for now.

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Abby and Kempton

My brothers little boy Kempton is 2 mths younger then Abby. He just turned one. Here are some way cute pictures of the two of them playing with his birthday present.




Also Abby found one of Kempton's cowboy boots and put it on. So I found the other one and put it on her other foot. She was so excited. She kept looking at her feet and stomping because they made noise when she walked. So we put her on the pony and she just went to town. Here are some cute pictures of her on the pony and the boots.




Aren't these the cutest pictures ever? Maybe I just like them so much because I grew up around horses and my Dad is a cowboy. Yee Haw Abby.
It was so funny. She was about to fall of the pony because she was rocking it so hard. Go Abby!!

Easter Egg Hunt!!

Make a slideshow - it's easy!

just some more pictures.

Make a scrapbook - it's easy!

Abby had a bad fall!!

Well yesterday Abby had a bad fall. We were playing at the play ground by our house. She slipped and fell off the side of the stairs. She fell about 3 feet then banged her head on the corner of the bottom step. She instantly had a goose egg. I put some antibiotic ointment on it then a band aide. It doesn't look as bad today, but its not pretty. She also has about 6 bruises on her knees from crawling up and down the stairs to get to the slide.
I have Abby's 12 mth Well child check up scheduled for tomorrow and Abby is going to look like I hit her. She has so many bruises right now. At least they are on her knees and forehead. Anyways here is a picture of her lovely bruise. I know this will be one of many more to come. I just feel so bad every time she gets hurt. I feel like I should have been there to catch her before she fell.
The one time that I wasn't standing right there to catch her is when she fell. Isn't that the way it always is.




This video is of her climbing the stairs and going down the slide. If you watch she doesn't climb to the next step she just kind of throws her body to the next step. This is why she has so many bruises on her knees. Blogger wouldn't let me do them as one video so I split them up. The top is the first half and the bottom is the second.

I didn't realize that the smilbox was not working. So I revised it. I also added more notes about the pictures. So enjoy

Revised post about Abby's stroller

Make a postcard - it's easy!

Jumpin Jacks

Abby and I went to a place called Jumpin Jacks. They have a bunch of blow up slides. It was a lot of fun. Abby didn't like it at first. She just cried. After about 45 minutes. She started to like it. Here are some pictures of our adventure.

Make a slideshow - it's easy!

It was a lot of fun. Except I think I got the flu from going there. We went on Saturday after
noun and Sunday after noun I had chills and a fever. I am still sick so next time I will take some sanitizing stuff and wipe off our hands often.

PLAY-DOH!

Abby and I visited my sister Nicole and her kids today. Nicole pulled out some Play-Doh and let Abby dig in. She thought it was neat. She didn't do much with it. That's to be expected though. She is only one. She tried to eat it and spit it out immediately because of the nasty taste. She didn't attempt that again. Nicole said that letting kids play with Play-Doh helps them develop there writing skills. So why not. Its not that hard to clean up.




My parents also came up this weekend to see us. This is a picture of Abby just chilling with my Dad. She sat there for a while like this. She was content with just sitting there next to my Dad. Rob and I thought that this was strange because she wont even sit like this with us. The only reason she would is if she was tired and she was not tired at this time. So apparently she is OK with my Dad. There are not many people that she is OK with.


OH and P.S. I got some pictures taken of Abby at JCPenny. She was a stinker and only cracked a smile in one picture. They will be sending me a link for you all to see them if you want to. I will email it to you when they give it to me. They turned out cute even though she would not smile.

Just some photos and a video of Abby

These are pictures of Abby going to church on Sunday. She insists on caring this like a purse and she insists on walking to the car instead of being carried. Which is fine.



This is an empty milk carton that Abby carried around for a while. She started to bang me in the head with it and it got taken away. She as not very happy. Oh P.S. she is wearing the dress she got for Christmas. She had a huge growth spurt and can fit into both of the dresses now. They are way cute on her too.





Abby has this new fascination with putting on shoes and taking them off. She is really close to being able to do it herself. This is a picture of her undoing her shoe. She at least three times a day will grab a shoe and have me put the shoe on for her. She will mismatch them and even put shoes on over her pajamas that have the feet in them (sleeper pajamas). She is a funny kid.

I took a personality test. This was my results. I thought it was interesting.

You Are An INFJ

The Protector You live your life with integrity, originality, vision, and creativity. Independent and stubborn, you rarely stray from your vision - no matter what it is. You are an excellent listener, with almost infinite patience. You have complex, deep feelings, and you take great care to express them. In love, you truly see relationships as an opportunity to connect and grow. You enjoy relationships as long as they are improving and changing. You can't stand stagnation. At work, you stay motivated and happy... as long as you are working toward a dream you support. You would make a great photographer, alternative medicine guru, or teacher. How you see yourself: Hardworking, ethical, and helpful When other people don't get you, they see you as: Manipulative, weak, and unstable

What's Your Personality Type?

I'VE BEEN TAGGED....

1.) What is his full name? Robert Merritt Field
2.) How long have you been married? 2 years on February 24th
3.) How long did you date? 3 1/2 months and we were engaged for 3 months.
4.) Who eats more sweets? I do. Rob doesn't like sweets. He prefers baked goods like home made bread.
5.) Who said I love you first? I did and Rob was mad at me. He wanted to say it first.
6.) Who is taller? Rob, I am short so its hard for me to be taller then anyone.
7.) Who is smarter? Well that is a hard question. Rob mostly is, it depends on the subject. Our kids have it made. I am good at math and science. Rob is good at English, History, well pretty much everything else.
8.) Who can sing better? Rob, I cant sing at all. Honestly, I don't even know how to hit a note. So I sing really quite.
9.) Who does the Laundry? ME and only ME. I am home all day though. I have more time.
10.) Who pays the bills? Rob does most of them. I am in charge of any medical bills.
11.) Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do.
12.) Who mows the lawn? Our Blackhorse Loop maintence man.
13.) Who cooks dinner? Me most of the time. If I ask Rob to help he just suggests to eat out. Which only happens about 2 times per year.
14.) Who drives? Well if its short distances Rob does. If its long distances I do because I get car sick really easy. I throw up and everything.
15.) Who is more stubborn? I am by a long shot. Rob is stubborn in some areas but by far I am the stubborn one.
16.) Who kissed who first? Rob kissed me first.
17.) Who asked who out? Rob asked me out.
18.) Who proposed? Rob did. At my parents house. He was going to do it in front of everyone at Thanksgiving dinner. He chickened out, which I was greatful for. I don't like attention. We went for a walk down the dirt road that my parents live on and he proposed. I like the way he did it. It suits me. I like things simple and just us. Nothing big.
19.) Who has more siblings? Both the same. He is the oldest and I am on the youngest of 5.
20.) Who wears the pants? Rob does. We are a team most of the time but he usually wins if we disagree on something.

I tag: who ever wants to can do it, you don't have to though: Misty, Nicole R., Kathleen, Amy, Rachel, Nicole F., Michelle S., Tina, and anyone else I may have missed. Feel free to fill it out on your blog.

A brake from the snow. Yeah!

It was finally warm enough and not snowing to go outside with Abby. We usually take a little walk to the mail box, but today Abby played outside. She had so much fun. She likes walking through the snow and walking up and down the sidewalk. She also liked to sit on the door step. While we were outside one of the people who lives just down from us kind of near were Matt and Amy use to live, came walking out of his back yard. Abby noticed and started waving and saying hi. Not load enough for him to hear. Next thing I new she was running towards the guy saying hi. He never noticed but I did get a video of her standing staring in his direction saying hi and waving. In the video she started to yell to. It was funny at the time.

Also there was a baptism in the Spanish Branch on Sunday. This makes 5 total baptisms sense we started this calling. It's been a neat experience honestly, hard but neat. Here is the picture of them. There names are Sarah and Ester. Sarah is about my age. She can speak English. Her mom can only speak Spanish.It was a great baptism and we are glad to have them in the branch now. Well that is all the news here. Enjoy the pictures and the video of Abby.

Too much snow! We had to be creative.

I've been going crazy cooped up in the house. It snowed here every day last week and is continuing to do the same this week. Abby has been bored playing with the same old same old. So I went outside and grabbed her picnic table, brought it in and cleaned it up. Abby loved it. She wanted to sit on it before it was even cleaned off. I should have taken a picture of it with all of the snow piled on top. There was like 2 feet . OK so not that much but it was a lot I cleaned all the snow off and sterilized it with sanitizing wipes. Then I let it dry for a while. Now Abby is playing with it and is loving it.
When I first brought it in and had it partially cleaned she kept pushing me out of the way so that she could sit at it. She can climb in and out all by herself. She sits so perfectly at it. So I have been making good use of it the last couple of days. She draws on it. plays with her toys at it. It has even become a jungle jim, which is not safe in any way, but she is having fun so I just watch her closely. That is our story with the picnic table. Dave and Kathleen thanks for the table.