Da! Watermelon! Yay!

Abigail is calling Daphne, "Da," now. She looks for Da to give her food, to pass her, her bone (which she sounds like beau) and when she's crawling over to her dogbed to hang out with her. It's very sweet. And yes, Abigail still loves to hang with Fink too.

Watermelon! Abigail has had pieces of watermelon before and thought nothing of it. However, now that Aunt Alyssa brought over a baby watermelon, Abigail thinks eating it off the rind is the greatest gift on the planet!

She's also recently tried perogies--YUM!

Abigail may not get the concept of sucking up from a straw, but she gets slurping up spaghetti!

(which we think in the scheme of things, is the more fun skill to have).

She also loves to lean up against furniture, the wall, the AC, whatever, and pick up one leg as if she's a flamingo--she's going to be one amazing climber. Once she figures out that whole balance thang. She continues to push on stools or boxes to create her own walker--brilliant!

And books, well, they're her fav. One in particular, Farm Friends, keeps us all laughing! A page from this classic book: (picture of a donkey) "How does the donkey say, 'Come meet my Pa?' Hee-Haw!"

When life gives you lemons...

...eat 'em!
That's right our girl LOVES to eat a lemon. And we mean loves!!! And clementines too. We have a citrus loving girl.

Abigail also attended a group 1st birthday party in Fort Greene. She met lots of other soon to be, or just turned one year olds; you'll see her in her party dress in our latest album.

Another new word: "water" which sounds like "ada." Nice, huh?

She loves a series of touch and feel books, and holds them out to us to read again and again.

And the best thing: she is constantly laughing. It's good to be 11 months, 2 weeks!

On the Move (physically, vocally...she's a wonder!)

Abigail turned 11 months yesterday. Wait, let's take a moment to take that in...Okay, let's jump in and talk about all the great things she's accomplishing now!


She is becoming more and more daring. She lets go of whatever she's leaning on and stands for a split second, sometimes 2. She pushes chairs around so that she can walk from dining area into the living room. She crawls with even more vigor now!

She's becoming more and more engrossed while listening and looking at pictures in a book. She goes to her bookshelf every morning to hear at least 2 books, and she is constantly going to the book bin in the living room. Such an academic.

She's saying the word, "bottle," which we were quite impressed with because we hardly used the word up until this point. We had referred to it as milk mostly. So, she's only heard the word consistently for a few weeks now and she's already picked up those sounds--she's so expressive!

We look forward to the warmer weather so she can get out and explore the world even more.

New words and sounds

Abigail started signing the word, "more" when asking for more food to eat--very exciting! She's even saying the word. It sounds like "more" but she articulates the "r" sound very softly. She's also saying, "ball," the "l" sound also is very soft.

We bought her a stuffed lioness, Nala, from the The Lion King, back in Florida when we saw her eyes light up when seeing and touching her. She still adores her. We've also introduced her to a teddy bear and a stuffed doll--all these pals are referred to as Nala as well. Interesting, isn't it?

One other sound she's been testing out is the blowing kisses sound. When she reaches out for you or you plant a kiss on her, she says, "MMMMMM-wah!"

She's also very interested in the toilet. She loves to crawl into the bathroom, pull herself up and stand, proudly, before the throne. We used to close the bathroom door because of Fink and her escapades, but now it's closed because of our little lady.

Plus, she's showing she understands the concept of, in and out. She takes a ball and puts it in the green jug, and then out:
It's an astonishing thing to watch her blossom right before our eyes.

She also throws her hands up when you ask her, "how big is Abigail?" Her response is,"So big!" So, she's getting the "up" concept, not so much the "down." That's because her whole existence is for Up, Up, Up! Stand up, climb up, reach up, hands up!