Finally new pictures!

I couldn't find the cord that connected my camera to my computer for awhile, but I finally found it! So we get to have a little update. Of course 99% of all the pictures are of Abbi, she is the cutest one in the family!


This is how we usually find Abbi when she is taking her naps. Her knees are tucked underneath and her bum is sticking straight up into the air!

Looking longingly outside! Abbi LOVES to be outside.

She had fun eating her spaghetti!

Having a good time! Neadless to say, when we have spaghetti now, she is usually stripped down to her diaper and it's a bath after dinner!

All ready for church with mom!

And dad!

Abbi is starting to love books. She'll find her books and bring them to you and want to sit on your lap while you look at the pictures. She couldn't sit on my lap because I was cleaning the house, so she decided to sit in her own chair and look at the pictures. She looks pretty serious, must be a good book!

I guess breakfast tuckered her out!

Abbi all dressed for church in the dress Grandma Welch made her.

Abbi hanging out on the couch. I love her pig tails! They curl up into little pom poms!

Making sure to get every last bit of food!

This is Abbi and her attempt to feed herself oatmeal. Needless to say, not much got into her mouth. We haven't attempted it again yet, maybe soon.

Happy Birthday Abbi!!!

Abbi's 1st birthday was on the Sunday Feb. 14th. It was a fun day, we had my parents come over for dinner after church, and after dinner the festivities began! Abbi didn't quite know what to think of her cake. She just kind of stared at it, but we got the candle blown out and went on to presents!



Abbi is opening her first present from G & G Welch. She likes to hand whatever she has in her hand to you, hence I get the wrapping paper as she gets to her gift.

Abbi loves the book they got her. It has animals in it with different material etc. to feel. Her favorite is the "fluffy bird" She also got some cute outfits that Grandma Welch made and a cute little dress for when she's older.

I had to help unwrap the next present, but when Abbi could see what was in it...move over mom! She was pretty excited to see that she got a purse with her own things to go in it! I told my mom that Abbi loves to get into my purse and go through everything, and my mom was a genius and found this purse for Abbi! She absolutely loves it!

We got Abbi her own vacuum! I know, many are thinking wow, but Abbi loves it when I get our vacuum out to clean the floors, so now she has her own! It may be a little big for her though as it is as tall as she is! She also got some new Sunday shoes but she got those earlier so she could wear them to church.

Cake time!!! Abbi was not shy to dig right in as soon as the cake was set down in front of her. Notice the cake free face in this picture...it doesn't stay like that for long.

Woops! She dropped some cake and is looking for it. She doesn't want to waste a bit!

The cake face progression...getting more on there

And more...

Working to get a good handful to try and stuff into her mouth.

And let the stuffing commence!

The end product! She absolutely loved the cake! She looks like she has a cake beard! After this we ran off to the tub and did a quick wash. It was hilarious to watch. She was in heaven with the cake, however bedtime didn't come till 9:30 as it was a little more difficult than usual to get her to wind down. I wonder why???

Abbi Pics

A couple of misc. pictures of Abbi. (What else do we take pictures of???) I though Abbi was just looking quite cute on this day. Her hair is naturally this curly and when she lets it be it will stay this way all day. I love it!





Now when she doesn't leave her hair alone it will end up looking like this! I can't help giggling when I look at Abbi in this picture. The tongue sticking out is a staple for Abbi. She is getting up from her nap and is pretty happy. Gotta love her!



Abbi has learned to walk and likes to explore. She especially likes Dad's night stand. She likes to lose his place in the books he has there and move everything around. She can be pretty mischievous when she wants to!

Christmas

This is Abbi in her dress I made her for Christmas. By the end of the day at church the headband and bow had been pulled off and her hair was everywhere! If she isn't distracted she will ALWAYS pull her hair bows out. It frustrates me to no end, but what can ya do? I have pictures of Christmas morning on my phone (how horrible of me that I forgot our camera for Christmas!) I just need to figure out how to download them to my computer. So this is it for now as far as Christmas is concerned.

Daddy-Daughter

Abbi absolutely LOVES her dad. Everyday when he walks in the door from coming home from work, it's a celebration! She crawls double-time to him and is smiles and giggles when he picks her up.

This is Abbi at Thanksgiving. Dad was the most comfortable spot to sleep. Whenever she struggles to sleep, this usually will do the trick.


We had tried to get her to sleep in the playpen upstairs, but she wasn't having it. So down she came and sat on her dad. With everyone in the room talking she was finally able to go to sleep. I guess his belly makes a good pillow. :-)



Daddy tickling Abbi in the leaf pile.



Two best buds.




She loves to hear her dad play the guitar. Sometimes when she is giving me a hard time at eating time, Mark will get out his guitar and play for her and while he does that, I have no problem shoveling her food into her!

I am so grateful to have Mark as my husband. He is a great father and his little girl totally adores him. We are some lucky girls!

Fun Pictures of Abbi

Here are just a few pictures of Abbi doing fun little things.

This is when we were playing in the leaves. Just her little face is poking out. I can't help but think she is the cutest baby ever!



Abbi is playing at Grandma Welch's house. Everything on the lower shelves had been taken out and spread all over the office. Such is life with a 9 month old!



Abbi loves taking baths. She'll play in the water until it starts getting cold, then mom says that she has to get out. Her hair can do this big curl down the middle of her head. When it dries it get quite puffy. It's fun to play with!



This is Abbi trying to get under the table, but chairs were blocking her path. Which won't stop her from trying. However, when her legs get caught in the chair, then cries for someone to come rescue her start. She got so stuck, she couldn't go forward, backward, or to any side. Funny the places they try to go.



Abbi likes to get into her books. Mainly to chew on the book edges, not really to sit down with mom and read them. WAY too much energy to do that at the moment.

Halloween!

It's Halloween! Abbi borrowed this adorable costume from her cousin Savannah. I think she was the cutest little sunflower! Many at the trunk or treat would agree!

Here Abbi is all ready to go out to the Trunk-or-Treat! She didn't even mess with the hat!



Abbi showing off her little "stems." She seems pretty excited about being all dressed up!



We did have a little problem with keeping the head piece from falling down into her eyes. We would pull it back and try and get it tight, but inevitably it would fall down. Oh well. She was still a show stopper!



Abbi somehow got a hold of a sucker. When I looked down she was sucking the daylights out of a sucker with it's wrapper on. The wrapper was a soggy mess, so I went ahead and took it off and let her keep sucking. She was in heaven! Our bishop walked by (he's a dentist) and said we were starting her off early. She was loving it so much I couldn't take it away! However, when it fell onto the parking lot, that's when it went bye-bye.



Abbi loved to give candy to the other trick-or-treaters that came to our car. I had to help the candy go into their bags instead of into her mouth sometimes.

We had tons of fun at our Trunk-or-Treat. We even had a member build a "Spook Alley" and Mark provided the sound system to play Halloween sounds and songs. We are looking forward to next year!