Easter Day

First thing of course was emptying the Easter basket.
With an empty Easter basket she found all the eggs that had been hidden. We managed to do that before leaving for church at 8:30. We all then manages to get desses and head to church on time!
We took pictures after church and had lunch at Grammy and Pop's. It was a full day and I think Abigail went to bed the earliest ever! Not having a nap for three straight days will catch up to you eventually.

Pre-Easter Activities

We celebrated Easter at my parents the weekend before with an Easter basket and bunnies you can decorate.
Then we did the Easter egg hunt with Matthew's parents.
We also died eggs at home that week but I peeled one and Abigail is not interested in eating them. She said "this just smells awful!" She did try one bite though.

First Snow! (that she remembers)

Well, I am so behind on blogging that I had to go back to the snow to catch up. Early March we had about 5-6 inches and so on Saturday morning Abigail couldn't wait to get in it. I didn't have a snow suit or anything that was really waterproof but she could have cared less about that and she didn't seem cold at all. I think she would have stayed out all day. The first thing she did was lay right down in the snow to make a snow angel. She did some sledding on a cardboard box that worked pretty good. She loved it and after she got used to it started holding up her arms when Matthew would push her down the hill. I think Millie might have had more fun than anyone. That crazy dog just wanted us to throw snowballs for her to fetch. The only problem is she couldn't find them when they landed so she would bury her nose in the snow and make a tunnel all over the yard trying to find it.

Happy Valentines Day!

I haven't blogged in such a long time but to be honest nothing much has been going on around here. After a long January around the house we have finally started back to Kindermusik and Bible study. I am really glad, Abigail needs the activity just as much as I need the afternoon nap she takes and the more tired she is the more willing she is to rest. I don't know what has happened to my child who loves to sleep and would ask to go to bed but that doesn't happen much anymore. I have decided it is a battle of the wills so to speak. I think she is boycotting her nap just to see if she could get by with it! I know she still needs one because when she doesn't take one she falls asleep anywhere especially the car. We couldn't get to the stop sign and she was going to sleep everyday. She is too big to carry around Wal-Mart and she is cranky if you wake her up. She is very busy and probablly averages about 10,000 questions a day. She is pretty much potty trained when it comes to pee pee. The other is another blog that I am sure no one would be interested in. To make it short we are wearing pull-ups more than we really need them because you never know when she might go and it is easier to throw away the pull-up. It doesn't help that she will hold it for up to four days. She hears everything we say good or bad and she will tell anything she knows. She is the reason we told about the pregnancy and she already told Matthew on Tuesday what we got him for Valentine's Day. I am going to have to find a way to shop without her! Well that is all the random stuff I know I just wanted to update for myself what is going on right now.

Kirby Christmas 2007

The trio decorating cookies!
Jimmy, John, and Abigail waitingpaitently by their pile to open presents.

Christmas in Paris

We had fun at Poppa's on Christmas Eve. Abigail got a new kitchenaid mixer to go with her new "dishwasher" (kitchen).

Meme and Paw Paw got her lots of things but the favorite was the Bitty Baby twins and their stroller. She wanted them out of the box immediately and after she played a while we asked her what she was going to name them and she quickly named the girl Dorthy and she had to think a few minutes on the boy and then said Tinman. We haven't watched The Wizard of Oz in months, so the names were surprising.
Taking her first nap in her big girl bed!

Santa's Visit

Santa came to our house a couple of nights early because I have been to my grandparents house in Camden, TN every Christmas Eve of my life and I don't want to miss it. They live 2 hours away from Memphis and it is hard to be there for dinner and presents on Christmas Eve and then drive back to Memphis and right now Abigail doesn't get the concept of reading the calendar so we just adjust it a little. Santa brought Abigail the "dishwasher" that she had been asking for and a big girl bed in a new room that she wasn't expecting along with some other smaller toys and some clothes that she could have cared less about. She knew her stocking had been hanging on the mantle to we put it on the doorknob to her new room upstairs and so that was the first thing she noticed was missing and we told her Santa took it to where her presents were. She was excited about everything and wants to play in her "big girl room" all the time. The only catch is she wants someone with her all the time and gets upset when we don't play with her every minute. We left for Paris that afternoon and so she didn't get to sleep in her new bed for a few more nights but when we got home she started napping and sleeping in it and has done very well. She hasn't gotten up once and even stays in her bed until we come get her.