Abby - Our Little Entertainer

Over the past few weeks, Abby has just really started amazing us with all that she is saying and doing…. She is totally listening to every word and breath we take and is constantly entertaining us! So I thought I'd share some with ya:

• The Moon As we were driving right after dark the other night, Abby suddenly realized she could see the moon from her car seat and said, "THHHHEEEEE MOOOONNNN I see THE MOON!!!!" As we drove, the trees would hide the moon and as I watched Abby, I saw such excitement as she saw the moon peep through the trees at her! With a *GASP* full of excitement each time, she would say, "OH! THERE HE IS!!!" and for several miles it continued, *GASP* "OH! THERE HE IS" pause *GASP* "OH! THERE HE IS, AGAIN" pause pause *GASP* "OH! THERE HE IS, AGAIN!" Then she had to talk to the moon, "I see the moon and the moon sees me. God bless the moon and God bless me!"…. "OH! there he is, again!" As we got off the interstate, we heard, "Bye Bye Moon. See you later. May May's house."
  
  
• The Teacher At dinner the other night, Daddy stretched his long arms, hit the blinds on the window, and played with the strings. Abby stopped eating immediately and pointed her finger at Daddy saying, "NO Daddy. Don't touch the blinds. THINKING SQUARE!" At school the thinking square is a modified version of Time Out. The kids have to sit on a little square of carpet to think about their inappropriate behavior for a few minutes. They do not like to go to the thinking square either! So this night – Abby wanted Daddy to go the thinking square for playing with the blinds! To see Abby telling this and then seeing Daddy's eyes get really big was just too much for me! LOL!!
  
  
• Miss Manners Abby walked past Lucy and said, "Excuse me, Lucy" in a tiny little voice. (Lucy is our dog) LOL!
  
  
• The Shopper Saturday morning playing in her PJs…
  
  

  "I'm going shopping – grocery store."
  What are you going to get? "Apples and bananas"
  

   

• Honest Ab-e AKA Our Lil' Southern Belle Sitting on the bed with Mommy and Daddy, Abby said, "Ya'll, I wanna lay down!" and she did!!
  
  
• The Procrastinator Lately, Abby has learned that there are more important things to do than go to bed at night and has decided that she needs to do everything in her power to get out of the crib and stay awake!! It usually starts something like this after we try to put her down: "Rock Rock, Pillow (meaning our bed), Dora(book), Sing Song, HOLD YOU, MILK, Potty (usually she is serious about this one though), Mommy or Daddy (whoever is not with her), Sing Song, Medicine. What happened to the sweet, little Abby that used to go 'night night' in a toady frog position as soon as you laid her down?!!!!!!!
  
  
• Our Sleeping Beauty J Abby's favorite way to sleep is her hands behind her head… whether in the crib or car seat!! Lots of logs get sawed like this!
  
  
  
  

• The Singer & Guitar Player Abby loves to sing and has gotten really good at singing Twinkle Little Star, ABC's, Old McDonald, BINGO, Barney's I Love You song and several more. What tickles me is when she plays the guitar at either of her grandparents' houses...she strums the guitar intently and sings Old McDonald constantly!!! She has been doing this for at least 6 months. What's even funnier is when she sees a guitar in a book, she calls it Old McDonald!! I definitely will work on getting a video of our little rock star to share with you!

Appletime!

There's nothing like a fresh apple! So we decided to take a little road trip to the mountains to pick one right off the tree! Michelle and Lily met us and we all road up to Hendersonville together! The girls had a blast riding together and watching Dora in G's SUV! (Thanks G for letting us borrow it!). We brought a picnic lunch and when we got there, we laid out our blankets and had a fun picnic in the field/parking area. Our picnic basket made the perfect little table for Abby and Lily to dine off of -- it was just their size :). After lunch we looked at the BIG pumpkins and then took a ride on the cow train - yes, you read correctly - the cow train. Check out our pics and you'll understand :). The girls LOVED this!!! But Michelle and I were worried we'd get stuck in this thing! Luckily, we peeled ourselves out without any embarassment! Now for the real fun -- apple pickin! Golden Delicious were ripening today and boy were they huge and plentiful. We showed Abby and Lily how to pick em and eat them right off the tree! They LOVED IT!! AND I DID TOO! Thanks Marshall for cutting up our apples!!! After our fun venture picking apples, we wheeled into the barn to get some other kinds of apples and we ran into some fellas playing Bluegrass on the back porch. This was the icing on the cake for Abby - she loves guitars and she even starting dancing with them! We did a little shopping and piled back into the car to head back home...with a homeade apple turnver and pastry in hand to enjoy as we left - YUM! We had a super time and I can't wait to do it again next fall! Did I mention I love fall time!?






These silly girls didn't quite get the picture taking process with the props! Time for Apple Pickin'! Marshall gets the first pick!!

First Visit to Hair Doodles

Since Abby has only had one little trim by Mommy almost a year ago and she has started looking like Shaggy from Scooby Doo, I figued it was time to take a trip to the kiddie salon :) I was torn on how to have her hair cut....short bob or slight trim. So Friday afternoon, I headed to daycare to pickup Abby for her first hair cut at Hair Doodles! School was still in session so I grabbed my camera to catch the toddlers in action! When I got there, the little tikes were sitting at their assigned seats/tables quietly eating cupcakes in celebration of the letter C -the letter of the month! AND they all had cupcake hats with their names on them which was too cute!!! As you would expect, my arrival got them all excited and the camera brought them out of their seats!! Hope the teachers didn't mind my interuption :) After some fun with Abby and her classmates, we scooted to Hair Doodles. Naturally, I chickened out of getting a drastic hair cut. Instead, we got a trim and then had piggie tails put in. To my amazement, Abby sat pretty as you please for Ms. Stacy!! We did take about an inch off the bottom so hopefully it will help her hair grow better now! AND I learned how to do better piggie tails after watching Ms. Stacy but I doubt I'll be as talented!
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Pumpkin Shoppin'

While Daddy was off to watch the Gamecocks have a victorious win over Alabama, Abby and I took a little trip to the pumpkin patch to pick us out a pumpkin. We ended up with a big one and a baby one for Abby. As we checked out, we discovered they had pumpkin faces to stick on your pumpkin so we picked out Frankenstein! This was by far the best thing ever! Abby had a great time putting the stickers on her pumpkin!! Her little fingers were far better at putting the tiny little dots on than mine! She might not know who Frankenstein is... but to her, it is her pumpkin! And I must say, she pronounces his name pretty well for a near two year old!!







Let's give a hand out to the Gamecocks for their game well played today!! Ya'll made a lot of people very happy today including my hubby!!

Walk for Life 2010

What a gorgeous fall day to enjoy the Breast Cancer Walk for Life! Even though I was on the SEFL team, we were pushed for time and I never caught up with my crew. I don't know why I didn't find them -- there were only a ton of people at Finley Park! We did meet up with Tracy and her family and some other friends along the way! Abby had a great time taking in all the surroundings... She really liked seeing the band play (Hand Middle School) when we took a pitstop / potty break. However, Spiderman at the end of the walk did not appeal to her though -- "Spiderman scare Abby" so NO pictures with Spiderman. Daddy on the other hand fought off an urge to get a pic fighting with him! We had hoped to go to the Italian Festival that evening but unfortunatley I got stuck with nasty pink eye and wasn't up to it. I hope to never have that again!

Hey Everybody! I am feeling the need to get back to blogging to capture and share some cute moments with Abby! So I am gonna try to make some frequent posts! Bear with me and enjoy some cute Abby-isms along the way!