Tales from the ABM

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Weekend Report

and one you'll need a coffee for... I'll wait. Go ahead.

With Daddy out of town this Mama likes to be BUSY BUSY BUSY. We started off Thursday with play time at the T house! We sure do love being in their cozy home!

and lookie who else was there! :) FUN FUN!

JOY-FULL!

I am so blessed and privileged to be able to do LIFE with these gals.

Friday we headed to the CountryRents for dinner but I brought the gals early and SIL J brought the boys so we could each go run our respective errands before dinner. Nice to have Grandparents willing to watch four kids 6 and under :)

These two.

They had the BEST time playing "Frozen". Thank GOODNESS Minnie had just seen it or she would have had NO IDEA why CJ kept putting snow all over her :) "I'm just freezing you!" :) hee hee hee

oh yah. and in OTHER big news... JJ is DONE working at the bank and is headed up to the "Big City" for a new, bigger and better job opportunity. 15 years in one location is a long time! So proud of him!

Miss B just can't wait to get her paws on the "too-tee" aka "cookie" aka "CAKE" :)

"pretending" they like each other. Stinky photographer made it blurry. BOO.

After dinner smiles complete with chop suey faces :)

including this one :)

Dance party in the living room to the... Frozen soundtrack of course.

Pics here a little out of order... Sat. PM Fletch sent her "little one" up the road with something for Yiz... we sucked her right into a Barbie movie and 3-D glasses. That SO DIDN'T WORK. Ah well...

keeping the natives happy until pizza time :) AH-PULL!

On Saturday MORNING we went to a local INDOOR Farmer's Market. I had not been before and neither had the D crew so we met up to check it out.

YUM! It was great! So fun, got my crunchy hippy on locally and enjoyed a big giant warehouse full of food, fun, and music!

When Sky was little Husband and I took her into an Amato's on a road trip home... the rest of the clan was at a restaurant next door... the cashier said she was SO CUTE he was going to GIVE her the drink she had picked out (water I think?? :) she didn't have to pay because she was so cute. Flash forward 8ish years or so... Miss B... GIVEN a fun iced tea (no caffeine) because she was SO cute! :)

DEF. worth the adventure...moving right along...

Mick told Liz and I that he had seen an outdoor winter carnival down the street so we all trekked up to check it out. SUPER FUN AND SUPER FREEZING! My girl got to try snowshoes for the first time. She and Pheebs did GREAT in them. Neither one of them even fell which I thought for SURE was going to happen! :)

and they LOVED it :)

The gal who only wanted the puddles and the horses (they had pony-rides there) :)

C-man FREEZING and begging his Mama for the car :)

We finished off the day at a Chocolate EXTRAVAGANZA (because really, if you are gonna skip naps you mine and well load 'em up on free chocolate) and I totally forgot my camera...

A GREAT weekend filled with friends all trying to support me and get me through a weekend without Husband :)

Monday, February 10, 2014

Miss B: 18 Months

Awww Sweet Miss B, What a love BUG YOU ARE! Snuggly doesn't even start to describe how much you love hugs, kisses, running into Daddy's open arms, sitting on laps and SLEEPING IN MOMMY AND DADDY'S BED EVERY MORNING! :)

You are realizing how funny you are and that you can get a reaction from those around you by doing silly things. You are super social, just like your big sister, but you are still a Mama's girl. A typical day for you starts around 5AM... if we are LUCKY you will fall back asleep with Mom until about 6:15... but if Minnie says ANYTHING over the monitor and you hear it, you wake from a DEAD SLEEP. Gotta love girls who are afraid they are missing a good time ;) The three of us will have breakfast after Daddy leaves for work and then we get ready for the day. You and Minnie both take a nap from about 12:30-2:15.. .but oh how I love the days you make it a little longer and don't wake up CRYING. We eat dinner around 5:30 and you are ready for bed by 6:55 ;) Typically you lay right down and go right to sleep. We don't usually have too much trouble when it is time for sleep with you. It's just the waking up that is troublesome ;)

Your big sister never really cared about what she was going to wear for the day but you are AL-READY starting to show your preference over clothes :) thankfully it doesn't happen very often but I can see the beginnings of that will coming out :) You absolutely LOVE accessories; hats, necklaces, shoes and I often find you wearing one or all of them as you play around the house. Playing with Minnie is one of your favorite things to do but you do OK finding your own fun as well. You LOVE LOVE LOVE your bink and your blanket. You don't really have an attachment to any sort of stuffed animal or toy yet but you do love to snuggle with those things.

You can talk up a storm but MOST of the time we have NO IDEA what you are saying. You, however, are understanding just about everything that we say. You can follow instruction like "go get some shoes and a hat" or "please throw this in the trash" :) Super cute.

You can say most everyone's names that you see often and "Nah-Nah" for Minnie is your favorite word with dog and cat close 2nds and 3rds. I'm still "Mommy, Mama and MOM" (ICK!!) and you say "Daddy". You are putting families together and in fact will group the entire D Family into just "Pee-Bee" :) Our favorite "tricks" are getting you to sing like Ariel (the Little Mermaid), asking you questions to see if you will say "mmmm-NO" or "yep", hearing you answer someone with "WHAT!" and saying "almost, OK, or All Done" during a diaper change.

You are still in size 5 shoes but I went down to the totes looking for 6's the other day. You are in 18-24 month clothes, 24 month onesies, and size 5 diapers. You LOVE grilled cheese, all fruit except oranges... I think it is a texture thing, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, corn, pasta, burger...sometimes, ham, steak and chicken SOMETIMES ;) Being outside is one of your favorite things but wearing a snowsuit is NOT. Bring on SPRING!!

Your little will is making its appearance and I hear OFTEN through the day "NO!" either directed at me or Minnie. You are still a little "pushy" with your friends and we are working on being soft and gentle. You already know what it means to go and stand in the corner and will put yourself there for things like hitting and then come right back out to the person you hit and say "sawwryyy". I know it is only going to get more challenging but we are in it for the long haul my love. Daddy and I adore you too much to give up on yah little one!