First Haircut

Abigail got her first haircut on Friday! She did a great job and looked like such a big girl sitting in the chair. Here is the before picture:
Here is a lock of her hair to go in her baby book:
Emily got her haircut too. The hairdresser gave Emily some sticker earrings and sprayed her hair with sparkles. Emily LOVED it!

11 Months Old!

Abigail is 11 Months Old Today!!!!

She gets up on her knees now and crawls on all fours instead of scooting. She LOVES to carry around a wet washcloth after her bath and we have to trick her to give it up before putting her to bed. She also loves carrying around a diaper because it crinkles. I've tried giving her burp cloths and dry wash cloths to see if she just wants something to carry around but she's not interested in those : ) She gets her feelings really hurt when something is taken away from her that she's playing with (which happens almost daily with her big sister). She signs more and waves bye and says "b" when waving. She also claps her hands together and says "p" for patty cake. She loves to point and jabber and is a sweet sweet bundle of joy!

I didn't realize how much lighter her hair has gotten this summer until I went back thru some older photos. Her hair color was dark brown in April:

Happy 11 Months sweet Abigail!

Apple Pickin'

On Saturday we met some friends to go apple picking. This is our 3rd or 4th trip to these orchards in North Georgia and we always enjoy going. We spent the morning checking out their stores, picking apples, and then eating barbecue for lunch.

I felt like I was a step behind at the orchards this year so didn't get much picking time. I miscalculated how long it would take Joe and Emily to fill up our apple bag and stopped to feed Abigail. By the time I found them our bag was full. So we did pick about 3 or 4 apples together here:
but I was a little bummed about missing out. I'll just make sure I keep up with my fast paced husband and first born next year : )
Our new friends at church were able to join us this year:
Emily had fun eating the apples and Abigail even tried several bites of apple as well. On Sunday night I cut up an apple for Emily to eat and when Abigail saw it she started signing "more" for me to give her some too!

Zoo

Friday we met some friends at the zoo. Korrigan and Emily went to school together two years ago. We haven't seen them since Korrigan's birthday in February so it was great to spend the day with them.
We got to see the tiger really close this time. Emily called out W@r Eagle to him when he walked by : )
Abigail and I finished up lunch while the rest of the crew went to see the Panda:
Pierce and Abigail hung out in their strollers while Emily and Korrigan played on the playground:
Thanks for a fun day together!

Labor Day

This weekend we went to visit Joe's family.
Emily found some trinkets that Joe's mom had on her coffee table and gave them each a bowl of cereal to eat from:
Check out John's arm . . . as you can see Emily enjoyed passing out stickers to everyone:
We also helped Leslie celebrate her birthday at our favorite Mexican restaurant. Can you tell how happy she is that her brother told them it was her birthday:
Emily thought it was fun:
On Monday we visited our pool. I think this will be the last time we go this season because we froze in the water. We spent alot of our time there sitting in the sun eating our lunch:
That evening we cooked out and it was pleasant enough to eat outside:
Our air conditioner is having some issues so it was actually cooler to eat outside than inside. We found out this morning we have a big fat leak and now have to decide how to fix it : ( At least the service guy got it limping along to cool off our house until we can decide how to proceed.

Park

Yesterday we went back to the same park we visited Saturday and met Emily's friend Julia and her mom and sister. It was such a nice day! We enjoyed lunch and visiting with friends.

Julia and Emily had fun playing princess. The mean witch would lock them in the castle and then the prince would come save them:
Emily is waiting on the prince to come save her:
They also had fun taking food orders for each other:
Abigail's tummy has been bothering her the last couple of days so she wasn't feeling too good. She hasn't been eating much but isn't running a fever. Her diapers seem better today so hopefully her tummy is on the mend:

Another Chapter . . .

This baby who would NOT take a bottle her first 7 months of life:

. . . has now given up nursing all on her own. I wasn't ready for this to happen and thought I had several weeks to decide when I WAS ready to be done with this chapter of my life. But Abigail decided for me. So it's a bitter sweet time for me.

And this girl told me today that we needed to text Santa to tell him that she wanted some vegetables that you can cut up and some babies and their play clothes and a bed with covers and a mobile:
We went to a friend's house today and her daughter had lots of fun toys to play with. On the way home Emily told me she wanted to get some of those toys so I told her those would be good things she could ask Santa for when it got closer to Christmas. That's when she had the great idea to just send him a text message instead : )

Emily has also been obsessing lately about making sure she gives each person a hug and a kiss before they go anywhere or go to bed. She even woke us up at 1:00 a.m. the other night crying in our bed that she wanted to give Abigail a hug and a kiss. I don't mean a little whimpering . . . it was a full blown cry. She was half awake and half asleep and was obviously dreaming. She doesn't even remember that she did it. I convinced her that she had in fact kissed Abigail good night and that it was still night time and she needed to sleep some more. So what's up with that? She obviously is having some anxiety in this department since it's coming out in her dreams.

And this is random . . . but I french braided her hair for the first time today: