Friday, October 31, 2008

My Abby turns three!




I just love my little three year old. She is such a light and I am so grateful that I have her.  In honor of her birthday I would like to share just a few things about this sweet girl....
1. can you believe that after 10 months of sleeping in a big girl bed Abby has never come out of her room after we have but her to sleep! And until recently she never even left her bed. She just calls for me and I tell her when she can come out.  Such a good girl.....
2. Abby knows the names of all my clients... I don't even edit pictures very often when she is awake but she can name them all. Often when my clients come pick up their pictures Abby can name them all and she hasn't even met them... I swear this girl has a photographic memory!
3. I absolutely don't know where she gets this from but she cannot stop looking in the mirror. Abby knows where all the good mirrors are in our house... the fireplace, the oven and even the dishwasher all make great mirrors!
4. This girl can dance! I remember when Abby was born with a birth defect on her foot someone said to me that she sure is beautiful but "she will probably never be a dancer"... I beg to differ! And this is not just any kind of dancing... I have not seen a such a good "rise and fall" on anyone! She definitely has a bright dancing future ahead of her... if only we can get her potty trained!
5. She is a little bit OCD.... again i don't know where she gets this from. Totally compulsive about keeping track of toys, clothes and especially hair clips. Seriously if you are looking for something, Abby knows where it is... keys, a movie, a toy, a wallet and my favorite... my phone! 
6. She compliments everyone. Sometimes she comes up with the funniest thing to compliment you on. Yours shoulder, your pen, your neck... she doesn't like silence so sometimes to make small talk she will randomly find something to compliment you on... so cute!
7. She has the fakest smile when you try to take pictures of her.... I take litterally thousands of pictures of her a month but that darn fake smile gets in the way every time. I have learned to be sneaky and  to love the ones where she is looking away or down ( love those eyelashes)
8. She is such a good friend. Not only does she make friends so easy but she really makes such a good friend to have around. She is so sensitive to the needs of others and their feelings. I am so lucky to have her with me all the time. I love how intuitive she is when I am having a hard moment.  She just knows how to put a smile on my face!
9. She will eat just about everything and always has.....I have never know what it was like to have a picky eater and I just love that.... 

10. She has this voice... we call it her funny voice.. you just have to hear my daughter say she likes meatloaf (which she has never had) in this voice.... there are no words
11. She talks just like me. Uses the same lingo almost exactly.. Lets face it she looks like her Daddy and is an exact replica of me when it comes to personality
12. She is such a beautiful girl... inside and out. Heavenly father knew what he was doing when he send Abby to me. I am so blessed.....
I just love her... that is what it comes down to. She is Beauty -full! There is not a day... good or bad... that I am not ridiculously grateful for having Abby in my life. She brings me more joy than I could have ever imagined and there is no other way I would of rather spent the last three years of my life than being her mom! I love you baby girl! 

I have not taken her 3 year old pictures yet... as soon as i get a second!

PS . I know I am insanely behind in my posting... no need to rub it in! We have been up to so much! Including adding another member to our family..... stay tuned!

ammendment:  Don't freak out... its just a dog ( only added because my sister thought that was too mean and too close for comfort... I was trying to be funny... I must be getting used to this whole infertile thing!)

Friday, October 03, 2008

Sugar and Spice


Or so I keep telling myself... this little almost three year old can be the sweetest little thing or the biggest stinker! I love her to pieces and she sure is cute... but wow is she a spit fire! I still can't believe that this is the little girl I gave birth too almost three years ago... the little girl that came home from the hospital so sick and we were so afraid for her health... well let me tell you she is more than perfectly healthy and we could not be more grateful! I am so grateful that she can walk and run.. and yell. Yesterday during her "nap" she sat in there and yelled for like and hour " mom is mean!" I was of course laughing and reminiscing on the days when I would say that to my mom and she would respond with " yep I am the wicked witch from the west.. and proud of it". Yes I thought about saying that... but I didn't!
 I just love my sweet..... sometimes salty Abby.. I love her personality, her opinions,  her tantrums, her cry (she loves to tell me that she is crying "mom I am crying, can't you see that I am sad!"..... her willingness to let me dress her up and do her hair, I love her love for her clothes that I so carefully pick out for her... I love that she lets me spoil her and she knows when to be sweet so I don't have to regret it! I just love her! All the sugar, all the spice, and everything both nice and not so nice in between..... I just love being her mom!