The newest little Goodwins

I had another event this past week in San Jose, and Matt flew out to meet me for the weekend.  Nana and Papa stayed back in Austin to keep Abby.   We spent all day on Saturday going to winery's with Lindsey, Neils and the newest little Goodwin twins - Patrick & Finn.  Lindsey's mom watched Calan so that we could all go and enjoy the lazy Saturday.  You would think having two 1-month old's with us would be a challenge...but those boys were the most amazing, quite, content, happy, and sleepy babies I've ever seen.  Matt and I had visions of Abby when she was a month old...screaming, non-stop and having to be walked around for hours on end.  These two were little angels.  I think we heard one small cry the ENTIRE day.  And that was only during a diaper change.  Amazing!

I'm bummed we didn't take more pictures.  But so glad we finally got the chance to make it out for a visit!

Abby and Daddy

Color contest!

House work

Play, play, play

I picked up Abby early from school today and since the sun had come up (though a bit windy) they were enjoying some outside time.  She was so excited when I got there, she was showing off every toy they had!  That crazy girl would run from one toy to the next in a matter of seconds.  By the time we left, she was huffing and puffing!

And she's off!

Sand table with Alyssa

She's a crazy rocker!

Dancing!

Abby loves to dance.  LOVES it.  This morning after I dropped her off at daycare her teacher turned on the music and it was like a jr. high school dance. :)  I was laughing so hard I could barely get my phone out to take pictures.  They are a bit blurry since they really were dancing...but still so cute.

Learning Tower!

Matt and I started this little project of building Abby a learning tower for us to use in the kitchen with her about 3 weeks ago.  It really only takes about 4 hours...but we were doing it in pieces.  And then I went to Chicago.  And then I went to Toronto (for a whole week!).  Therefore, after much delay, we FINALLY finished it tonight!!!  And she loves it!  It puts her right at the level for her to see over the counter and "help" cook, or play, or eat, or whatever she wants to do.   What do you think?

Lollipop

Grandpa Heign is in town this weekend and he brought Abby a big o' lollipop!  She, of course, loves it!  That girl got her Daddy's sweet tooth...so much so that I've had to start regulating her "sugar" intake. :)  

Sidewalk chalk

I grabbed some cheap $1 sidewalk chalk while at the store the other day, and Abby loves it!  She is so intent on getting every single color out and using it.  She's also very intent on playing with them for hours and throws her famous "lay on stomach while kicking and yelling" fit when I try to make her come in.  It's awesome.

Thirsty...

Abby is really into pretend play right now.  Here she is "chugging" her drink.  :)

Fun games!

Abby comes home each week with a new song or dance she's learned at school.  We've figured out they are doing "Row Row Row your Boat" and "Ring Around the Rosie" by the fact that she loves to do them all the time!  For "Row" she grabs our hands and "rows" back and forth while repeating "row, row row" over and over.  It took us a day or so to figure out what she wanted us to do - but now we have it!  I will try to get a video of that to, it's so funny.

But here she is doing "Ring Around the Rosie".  Her favorite part is "we all fall down"...so much so that she sometimes jumps the gun and "falls" before it's that part of the song!  One of her teachers also told me that her and her friend Alyssa like to hold hands will singing Ring Around the Rosie!

Squeal!

I could listen to this for hours!!