"Join us!"

There are several phrases Abigail says lately that we want to remember she said at this age.

"That's incredible!"  as she bounces off a slide.

"Join us!" as she joyfully said as we searched for clovers.

We talk about Daphne as our dogness (dog and goodness made into one word).  Well, she likes using that word and then created her own: catness!  She LOVES her Fink.

And she loves singing "Wheels on the Bus."

She is so full of life (please read: exerting her independence) and exploring her world every second of every day.  No wonder we're all so exhausted every night!

What a joy

While Abigail eats she will ask questions like, "Papa, do you want some?"  And sometimes she'll even give you the thing she's offering and sometimes she'll pull a "psych!"

We're adjusting to life now that "Mama not go to work."  She loves this idea (and so does Mama) but really doesn't understand when she still goes to daycare (and it's simply because after all the crying she does have a good time and we're all paid up through July!).  She has a new favorite song she calls Blue, Blue, Blue.  She told us about it one evening and much to her dismay (which led to our dismay) we didn't know which song it was.  We played songs that had to do with Blue, no.  A Laurie Berkner song that says Moon, moon, moon; a very exasperated no!  How about Bluebird on my Shoulder--oh goodness no!  Finally, a few days later we asked the woman who runs her daycare and she sent us the lyrics which led us to a YouTube video of a very sweet song.  "What color is the sky? It's blue, it's blue.  What color is the sun?  It's yellow, it's yellow.  The sun is yellow, the sky is blue, it's blue, it's blue, it's blue. (and so forth with other hues).  The kid knew what she was talking about and thankfully we now know too!

We also got to visit Jones Beach (above picture and more here) and its pool.  She is a water baby.  In the foot deep pool she threw herself around and pretended to be Ariel swimming under the sea.  It was such an incredible pleasure to see Abigail have such a joyful time in a pool Amanda had visited as a child.

It's been incredible seeing Abigail continue to blossom, now into an inquisitive, strong, opinionated little person of the world.  What a joy. 

"One day"

Abigail now is saying "one day" in regards to doing things when she's older.  One day she'll be able to change a light bulb and stand precariously on top of counters like Mama does or climb up onto the air conditioner to look out the window...when she's tall enough, when she's big enough, when she's a "big girl."  She's our amazingly independent, carefree, loving, little girl.

Who's 2 today?!

Happy Birthday Abigail!!!!!!!

Getting dressed!

Abigail dressed herself into her pajamas tonight!  Getting her feet through the hole was tricky for her, "make the hole bigger," but she didn't give up!  If we went to help her she said, "self" and eventually got her pants and then her shirt on!  "So impressed" she parroted to us after Papa said it to her.

Approaching Two

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Abigail went for her two year old check up this morning and in her words, "Don't like it!  Out the door!"  Her doctor said, "she's verbal, isn't she?"  We then went to the playground to find out if the bouncy bridge was still broken or had it been fixed?  It was still broken but we did find another bridge to cross and she got herself intertwined with a whole bunch of children, didn't like that tight squeeze and made her way out of that mob with the ease of a seasoned New Yorker.  It was quite the morning.

She asks for the lights to go off often now--so she can practice singing, Happy Birthday.  (which is just three days away!)  She sings all the time to herself.  It ranges from Stayin' Alive to the ABC's to Humpty Dumpty.

Her favorite saying now: "where's your pants?!"  Our little comedian.

Imaginative Play!

Abigail's pretend play has kicked up a notch.  She is taking objects and turning them into brand new things.  Tonight she was playing with two toilet rolls and "pouring" one into the other, making tea.  She THEN put them onto her feet and said, "shoes!"  Love it!!!!