Abigail is six months now

She can finally sit up and play by herself



I love Mommy



Talking away and playing with a bottle




So cute in her pink tutu bathing suit

Easter

Getting ready on Easter to go to church for the very first time




Abigail channeling the Easter Bunny from her Bumbo chair



Abigail had a wonderful first Easter. The weekend was very fun because Shawn's birthday was the Monday after Easter. Because of that we spent the entire weekend having friends and family over to celebrate Shawn's birthday and to party!! Easter was great. The three of us slept in and then went to the local Episcopal church for Abigail's first church service. She did really well and made it almost 40 minutes. The priest was enamored with Abbie and even pointed her out to the entire congregation in the middle of the sermon, explaining how Jesus gave his life so that we could all experience the gorgeous happiness in life, like the beautiful baby. Then we took a nap and went to Grandma and Grandpa Decew's for dinner. What a great day!! Oh, and Abigail got her first Easter basket. An Elmo basket filled with cute bath toys.

Eating my first ice cream cone at the zoo. It was wonderful and I could not get enough of it. I am just like daddy, I love ice cream!!




Watching the elephants with my Great Grandma Max.



We are going to the zoo!!!!!!!!!!!!

The zoo

I am sooooooooooooo cute!!

Drinking Out Of Her Cup

Happy St. Patrick's Day


On St. Patrick's Day Abigail went to the zoo for the very first time. She loved it!! We went with her great Grandma Max and she bought Abigail her first ice cream cone. Abigail devoured the ice cream and kept grabbing my hands and shoving the ice cream into her face. It was so cute. I do not think she really noticed the animals but she had a blast watching and listening to all of the kids that were running around.

In other news, Abigail can now sit up on her own. She needs a slight bit of help just to be sure she does not topple over, but she can sit up and even pick herself up if she slides over.Also, she can now drink out of a sippy cup and loves it. She is obsessed with crunching up paper and loves laughing all of the time.

Crawling!!

Abigail started crawling last night!!!! It was more of a slither but she moved about two feet across the living room floor to get to her daddy. She has been moving in her crib for about six weeks now but this was the first time she moved substantially towards an object. What an amazing moment. And Shawn's face was priceless and he was so proud. Abigail has begun talking almost constantly and loves to laugh and smile. It is wonderful and we love her so much. We can hardly believe that she is almost five months old. She loves to lie in her crib when she wakes up and just babble to herself and her fan. She is such a character and loves to play with anything that sings and moves.

Abigail is almost five months

Abigail is now eating at least one meal of solid foods every day. She loves carrots, sweet potatoes, peas, and now is starting to eat bananas. She cracks me up because she wants to be a big girl so badly that she tries to feed herself and grabs the spoon. She has also begun laughing this real hard laugh and it is absolutely hilarious. Abigail loves peek-a-boo and is just such a wonderful baby. I feel so blessed to be her mom and to be able to stay home with her everyday!! She has a jumping seat and loves to bounce in it. Abbie will actually hold her feet up in the air so the bouncy seat continues bouncing. Hilarious. The other thing she has started doing is trying desperately to crawl and this means that she is doing 180 degree turns in her crib and skooching from one end to the other. Luckily she now takes a couple of one-three hour long naps per day and is sleeping atleast six hours at night, waking up to eat, and then sleeping another three to four hours!! Strangely I am more tired now that she sleeps than ever. Maybe I am just adjusting to sleeping again after not sleeping for eight months.

I love being a mom!!

Abigail is 4 months old

Shrek and his Abigail



Happy Valentine's Day!!






Abigail in her Exersaucer watching her favorite Singing Bear Toy



Abigail laughing at Mom in her Bumbo Seat




Abigail is 4 months old!! Holy cow how time flies. She is doing wonderfully and growing in every way every day. She can now sit up almost by herself and loves to play in her jumping stand. She stands in it and then holds her feet up for like ten seconds so it just bounces up and down. All of a sudden she is grabbing at everything and she loves to talk all day long.

At her four month wellness check-up on Monday she weighed an amazing 15 lbs and 7 oz!! She was 24 inches long and doing great. The doctor even said she could begin eating solid food. So that night we put her in her little pink chair on the dining room table and fed her some sweet potato. Needless to say she did not love it and made the funniest faces. She would eat a bite from me and turn to look at Shawn and make this disgusted face. It was hilarious.

Shrek has become Abigail's dog and he goes and sleeps on her little pink sheep skin rug while she naps during the day. He sticks his nose between the slats on her crib and I swear if he could jump into her crib he would sleep with her. It is amazing and we are so grateful he loves her so much.