Well, I failed on my promise. Not because I didn't think about it, because I did, almost every week I said I need to update the blog! Woops! Let's just say I wouldn't make a good professional blogger.
I wish I could say that things have been uneventful and just normal around here but really what is normal? We have been super busy and having a great time doing it.
Summer was great, Abigail is in love with summer. She LOVES being outside, she loves anything that has to do with water and I see lots of fun adventures for us every summer! We made trips to the beach, the lake and lots of area parks and water attractions.
Abigail cannot be 18 months old....1.5 years old! I know I say it over and over but I cannot believe where the time has gone. I must say, I am really looking forward to what's coming next, potty training and talking! This kid amazes us every day. I know parents brag about their kids but I'm telling you, ours is the SMARTEST!
Even tho we do believe Abigail to be super smart, we did feel she was a little behind in her talking so we had Montgomery County Infants and Toddlers come out to do an assessment and see where she was. 2 of their therapists came out, a Speech Language Pathologist and a Physical Therapist. They go through a whole bunch of different "tests" to see just where Abigail falls. They were amazed by how much she could do. They kept saying that the test doesn't normally take this long but they haven't found Abigails "ceiling" so they had to keep trying more things. Finally they said that Abigail was scoring around 11 months for her verbal communication and everything else was outstanding. Her motor skills were around 24 months, which is pretty good considering she was just 17 months old at the time! So since she was a little behind in her verbal communication we are now getting Speech Therapy once a week. We have seen stellar improvement, from week to week it is amazing and I know its probably not all due to the 1 therapy session a week but it helps to have someone from the outside of the family saying, yes things are going the right direction!
We think we are just about ready to venture into the land of potty training. If we had a few more words in our vocabulary I would say we are 100% there but not quite yet. We had made a few attempts at the potty but wouldn't you know when you go pee pee in a potty and then it sings at you...that scares a toddler! Go figure. The kid LOVES music but she gets scared when the potty she is sitting on sings at her. We turned that feature off but it took a few weeks before the poor thing would even sit on the potty again.
Some of Abigail's favorite words include : da da for daddy and well, quite a few other things it seems. Ja for jack. Kitty and simba for my parents cat. Sum....whenever she wants some of something!
She has also learned what comes after one.....two....and what comes after three...two! So it seems she learns a new word and it sticks for quite a few things. Just this morning we noticed that her favorite word of the weekend is ouch! She may or may not be turning into a little drama queen!
Abigail continues to LOVE spending time with her gramma and nonnie. They switch off weeks and watch her for 3 days while mommy works. Then Abigail and mommy get to spend 2 days a week together. We try to do as many fun things as we can so we did make it to a few park and splash parks.
Abigail is a growing machine.....at least in height. We can only hope for her sake she keeps the "skinny" jeans she has going on now, although mommy would like it a bit better if she could chunk up a bit.
Here are a few of the pics from the summer to give you an idea of all the fun we had!
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Trip to the lake
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She loves the water!
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Maybe not so much of a fan of the floaty
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Captain Abigail
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Splash park fun
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Boardwalk OC, 2012.
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Playing in the water with daddy
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Jumping off of grandpa's boat
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Pool fun
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She couldn't run fast enough to get to where daddy was so she could jump again!
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Here I come!
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We've been working on our "cheese"
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New teddy just a bit on the big side
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Back yard sprinkler fun
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Abigail and Sadie on the beach
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Daddy was a bit cold in the water but Abigail loved it!
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Another splash park!
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Playing with daddy
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Wheeee!
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We had many afternoons / evenings in the kiddy pool. Here Abigail was directing daddy to "sit down"
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More park fuN!
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| Everyone brought toys for the kiddos to ride |
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| Abigail enjoyed pushing everyone around |
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| Even on her own power wheel she was the pusher |
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| Don't mind the bags of clothes for donation but look at that beautiful smile! |
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| Our most recent park adventure |
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| She loves it when daddy is there to help her |
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| peek-a-boo! |
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| Ready....set....GOOOO!!! |
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| This is where she is saying "GOOOOO" |
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| Such a cutie pie! |
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| By the end of the afternoon she had managed to figure out how to climb up this ladder all by herself! |
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| Even daddy had fun at the park, sitting in the choo choo train! |
I feel like you missed out on so many cute summer outfits because she was always in her bathing suits! At least she had several of those so you all don't think the poor thing had to wear the same thing over and over! Let me tell you she had some pretty dang cute outfits!
Sadly, summer has come to an end and fall has come flying in. Tomorrow we are heading to the pumpkin patch for some fall festival fun! Mom is super excited, just wish the weather was gonna be a bit warmer!
I will try my hardest to do better with blog updates! :-) But its fun to look at a couple of months of pictures and see how she got taller and thinned out and my oh my how her hair has grown! This momma needs to figure out what to do with all that hair, she starting to look like a punk rocker!
Happy Fall! :-)
