6 Months Old!

Abigail is 6 months old today!!

She rolled over on Sunday right before turning 6 months. Her bedtime is about 7:30 now and she sleeps until 7:00 a.m. She takes a morning nap around 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. and then another nap around 1:30 for about an hour and a half. Lately she has also been taking a third nap around 5:00 p.m. for about an hour. She laughs and tries to talk to us. She also has started sitting in her excersaucer and has started jumping in the jumperoo that we are borrowing. She will be trying cereal soon and I've already started stocking up on baby food.

She is a joy . . .

Ready to swim

Emily started taking swimming lessons this week. She is in the beginner class in the kiddie pool so hopefully things will go better than our first attempt we had at swimming lessons a couple of years ago. They will eventually teach her to flip to her back and call for help and learn to float on her back for 30 seconds. There were only 4 in her class. They don't want the parents to be too close so I grabbed a few pics while Emily wasn't looking:

In our quest this week to get ready for a yard sale I found these dress up shoes for Emily. I forgot we had them. So of course she had to dress up immediately to try them out:
And here are some sweet sister pictures:

Fun weekend

This weekend we went to visit Joe's mom. We had an enjoyable time together:

Saturday afternoon we walked around several shops and Emily liked seeing all the animals in the pet store:
During the night Emily fell out of her bed . . . which is a first. I woke up at 3:30 to her crying so I went in there and got her back in bed. She was halfway asleep so I thought she would go right back to sleep . . . wishful thinking : ) She came into our room 15 minutes later to tell me her nose was stopped up. So she blew her nose and crawled back into bed. Then a little later she went to Joe and asked him to blow her nose. THEN a few minutes later she came to tell me that "big Elm@ was being silly". Oh my word. So I got in her bed with her just to get some sleep. How Abigail didn't wake up thru all this is a big ol' miracle because Abigail was sleeping in our room and Emily can be kinda loud opening and shutting doors. Crazy nut! She woke up at 6:45 and wanted to know if we could get up. I held her off for a precious 15 more minutes of sleep and then our day began.

. . . and today when we got home this cutie pie rolled over from her back to her front for the first time!!!!!
Here is the video of her rolling over:



I'm getting all weepy because Abigail is rolling over and I bought cereal last week to start feeding her . . . I don't want to start feeding her cereal because it's one more step closer to her not being a baby.

But then I see these pictures and it gets me excited for them to have each other as sisters. My prayer is that they have a special sweet relationship with each other. I love you girls!

Making a List

This morning I told Emily we needed to run a couple of errands. She told me she was going to make a list for us to remember what to get at the store. I was very impressed:
She also called me Jennifer several times today! I told her she needed to call me Mommy and she said, "No I want to call you Jennifer". I thought stuff like this didn't happen until they were teenagers : )

Busy Girl

We have spent the last several days hunting eggs and hunting eggs and hunting more eggs . . . the girl never stops! I think I have hidden eggs in the back yard, our living room, and all rooms upstairs about 40 times since Monday morning:

Emily has also been very creative during playtime. Yesterday we went in search of the "roaring birds" that were in the forest. This morning she reported that the birds weren't roaring anymore but that they were happy birds and they were eating their birdseed.

She also told me that "B is for bus and C is for cat" and that "Jesus lives in your heart".

She was spinning in circles yesterday and when she stopped she looked around and said, "Mom my house is falling down" What a hoot!

Here is Abigail hanging out in her seat watching Emily hunt for eggs in the living room:
Emily has also enjoyed playing with the Play D@h Paw Paw and Dee Dee got her:
Today we went to the library and checked out some books to read. When we got home she read one of her new books to Abigail:
. . . and then asked her Daddy to read it when he got home:

Weekend Fun

We had such great weather last week that we went to the park 3 times! On Friday we met our neighbors at a park for lunch:

This was the first time I put Abigail in the stroller without the car seat so she looked so big to me:She even enjoyed a nice nap:
She also loves the seat we bought a couple of months ago. She does well with grabbing objects I give her and loves to chew on them:
I also love that I don't have to put socks on her anymore. Baby feet are so sweet!!!

On Friday evening my friends Bonnie and Rita came for a visit. We enjoyed talking and hanging out together before they headed home Saturday afternoon. This was their first time to meet Abigail. We loved having you girls come visit!!!:

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone!!!!

We had an enjoyable day. We had our friend Jason over for Easter lunch today. April and Riley are in Texas so we were excited Jason could join us. I had decided several weeks ago that I wanted to cook a big lunch for Easter instead of our normal Sunday lunch of hot dogs or sandwiches : ). I cooked a ham, green bean casserole, carrot souffle, deviled eggs, and rolls for lunch and an apple crisp for dessert . . . yummy!
Then Emily talked Jason into going outside to blow bubbles:

Abigail is so close to rolling over from her back to her front so we've been giving her lots of practice on her blanket:
Later this afternoon we went to a park to play and ate supper:

We hope you all had an enjoyable day today as well!