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Random photos from the past 6 months

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Kyle Smiling 7 weeks

Recount of a princess playdate

Abby just came back from her friend Ellie's where they played princess. Here is the recounting:
Me: So, you and Ellie played princesses?
Abby: Yep.
Me: Did you dress up?
Abby: Yep.
Me: Did you make up a story while you played dress up?
Abby: Yep. We pretended we had guns.
Me: Oh, really? Why?
Abby: To shoot the stepmothers.

-Christina

Cute little Hubs

Abby on wacky hair day at preschool



Click here for some great photos of Abby and Kyle over the past month. Look closely at Kyle: he is Abby all over again. We'll try to post a side by side photo of the uncanny resemblance soon!

More great one liners from Princess Abigail...

BIG Girls vs. little
Abby is always insisting that she is a BIG girl, not a little one. At dinner, I was talking about how Abby is one smart cookie. Abby says, "I'm not a little cookie. I'm a BIG cookie."

High Social Needs
Every day Abby wakes up asking, "Mom, who's house am I going to?" or "Who's coming to our house?" Her high social needs are part of the reason she is in preschool. I am just not doing it for her!

The other night Bobby and I went on a date for my birthday and took Abby to a friend's house for playdate/babysitting. Abby looks at me yesterday over lunch and asks, "Mom, when are you and going on another date?" "Soon," I say. "Can you just drop me off at someone's house today?"

Classical Connections
Abby has been introduced to the world of classical music with one of her old baby toys, now out and ready for Kyle's enjoyment. You insert a card into the slot and the friendly toy voice lady says, "Classical Connections, Johann Sebastien Bach." Then 5 minutes of one of Bach's masterpiece's plays. There's Mozart, Beethoven, etc. Every time Bach plays, Abby runs to me so excited and yells, "Mom, it's Yoho Sebastien Buck! My favorite!" And if we correct her, be prepared for a full-frontal debate!

Abby keeps cracking us up...

When my parents were here visiting with us last week, Abby looks at Papa Marc's clothing as he's packing and says, "Those are the biggest underwears I've ever seen! Whose are those? Those are big underwear!"

And today she just looks at me and asks matter of factly, "Mom, how are your parents?"

Photos of baby Kyle

Click here for photos of Kyle
And some more of the family.

If you haven't heard already, we had a baby boy Feb. 21: Kyle Christopher, 9 lb, 6 oz, and 21.25 inches long. He's cute and BIG and overall happy. He was in the NICU at Liberty Hospital for a few days while doctors were trying figure out if he had a condition called pyloric stenosis, a condition effecting the digestive system. He was spitting up some green mucus and also had some projectile vomiting. He got poked and prodded and was on and off a sugar IV for almost a week. On the Monday following his delivery, he was transferred to Children's Mercy Hospital in KC where he had more tests that ultimately determined he does not have the condition. And we learned some ways to help keep his food down better. But a week was a long time to be in the hospital---for all of us! We're happy to be home and getting into somewhat of a routine. And thanks to Gigi, Grandma, Papa Marc, and Meredith (Aunt MerMer) for helping out during all the craziness. Enjoy the photos!
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We had a small, but startling, fire in Abby's room today. She ran upstairs during her quiet time and said "there's fire in my room!" At that moment, the fire alarm went off. I grabbed the fire extinguisher and thought to myself, "this could be like a REAL emergency" and went into her room to find her lamp dripping fiery flames. Luckily, the fire extinguisher put it out and everyone was safe. Come to find out, Abby had gotten bored during her quiet time and decided to stuff tissues into her lamp. The big firefighter dudes enlightened her to the dangers of paper and electricity and we talked about it several times afterward. Still a hard concept for a 3 year old. But she knows that she was very brave to run away from the fire and tell an adult. Now Bobby gets the task of sweeping out the fire extinguisher mess that has coated her entire room! But thank goodness nothing really burned except the lamp and a little bit of carpet!

Gracie was the biggest chicken of all and just hid under the desk downstairs. I pretty much had to drag her outside.