Vocabulary

Abby's vocabulary is growing daily!  I started to compile a list of words she can say. She's not "perfect" at them by any means, but at least we can understand her and know what she's trying to say some of the time!

Here's the list:
Pepper (as in her stuffed dog she adores)
Boo (said while hiding and popping head out to "scare" us)
Diaper (said will patting her bottom)
Dog
Hot (said while spreading her hands real wide as if she just touched a hot stove!)
Ball
Block
Mama
Dada
Papa
Milk
More (she says this while signing it also)
Paper
Done (she says this while signing it also)
Puppy
Hi (said while waving)
Bye Bye (said while waving)

She can also "sign" the words please and poop. :)

I see Harvard in our future.

"I'm not sleepy!"

Abby has moved into the next phase of toddler-hood.  She is viscously flighting sleep.  Therefore making nap time and bed time really tough on us sometimes.   For the longest time she was such a good girl at bed times and we could just kiss her, say nite-nite, and she'd lay down and go to sleep without so much as a peep.

Not anymore.

She tries so hard to stay awake, no matter how tired she is, that she's now starting to fall asleep standing up in her crib.  And will stay there until she falls down...

Abby & Alyssa

Alyssa is Abby's good friend from school.  I told them to get together so I could take their picture, and this is what I got. :)