Rob has a new Job!

We have had a rough time lately. Just before Christmas Rob's work laid him off. It was rather upsetting, because it was a surprise. Oh well. So, the last 6 weeks Rob has been franticly looking for a new job. He was able to do freelance work to bring money in to pay the bills, which has been nice. This past Monday he received a phone call from a company in California called CafeFX. It's a well known visual effects company. It is located in Santa Maria. They were interested in hiring him for a full time position. He did not know the program that they use to do the visual effects so they wanted to try him out for 6 weeks. They offered to pay his housing to come out and everything.
At the same time he also had a job interview for a video game company in SLC. It was closer to home and we could stay in UT. Well this was the hardest decision he has ever made. He chose to stay in Utah and work for the video game company. Well thats the short version of the past 6 weeks, but it describes it well. As for the rest of our life. It hasn't been too bad. Abby is hilarious most of the time. I have new pictures and videos I'd like to show you


Also Abby says so many words now. Let me see if I can make a list of what she can say.
1.) Ma Ma ( this on is not new but she can say it.)
2.) Da Da
3.) Drink
4.) Ba Ba
5.) uh oh!
6.) bye
7.) Hi
8.) Grandma (she says moo ma)
9.) Grandpa ( she says Pa Pa)
10) eye (she points to your eye)
11) book
12) this
13) ball

She knows these words but can't say them:
1.) Down stairs
2.) hug
3.) kisses
4.) loves
5.) dolly
6.) pony
7.) clean up
8.) food
9.) bath time
10) ear
11) mouth
12) nose
13) hair
14) toes
15) outside
16) put away
17) shoes
18) come on
19) done
20) rubber ducky
21) Ann (her dolls name)
22) Molly (her dolls name)
23) Fisher (her toys name)
24) Teddy
25) No No
26) dance
27) push it ( as in buttons)
28) phone
29) Grandpa bear ( this is the bear that Rob got from his Grandpa Allred shirts. She only gets to hug it when she is upset or sick, but it calms her down when she does)
30) Nighty night
31) blanky

I am sure that there are more but I can't think of any more. If I do I will add them. I just thought this would be fun to see how many words she can say.

Abby's 1st Birthday!!!!

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Abby had her first birthday on Friday. I tried to make it special for her but everything that I tried to do was ether closed or they didn't have what I was looking for. I tried to take her to the Mall because she loves to play at the play area, she also loves to play with children. They had temporarily removed it from the Mall for an MTV movie they are filming there. The other Mall in Utah county is replacing there play area because of water damage so they have been closed for a while. That was a let down. So then I decided to go and by her a Happy Birthday balloon so that she could play with it. The dollar store in Spanish Fork was all out of Helium so we couldn't do that. So finally I just settled with regular colored balloons. I blew them up and just let her kick them around and throw them. She sure loved it and thought that it was the greatest thing in the world. I bought a pack of 18 and blew all but one up. She still plays with them everyday. So it all turned out to be a great birthday for her.
Then On Saturday my parents came up and we had cake and ice cream. Abby loved it. we gave her a whole slice for herself. She got some great presents. From Grandma and Grandpa Field she got two hair bows and a head band (very cute) She also got a mini player that plays music. Kathleen and Bekah there is a video of her opening the present it's too big to upload onto blogger sorry. But it's on our computer so you can look at it that way. It's in the videos file folder and 12 months file inside of that one. For everyone else this is a video of Abby giggling. i thought you might enjoy this.
For her birthday she also got Cinderalla the Disney Movie and a my little pony. She also got this cute barn that my Mom made. It has little animals that are fabric and stuffed. Rob and I gave her some books. She loves to read. She also got some really cute hair pieces that Amy and Nicole made on Saturday. They are so cute. I counted them and there are a total of 33. She will have plenty of cute pieces to put in her hair. I love them you guys thank you so very much. Well that is about it for Abby's Birthday. It was fantastic.

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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.