Ethan's party

Abby has two friends that went from Room 4 to Room 8 with her back in the summer.  And since then, they've all become really good friends.  So when we went one of their birthday parties, they had a blast!

A clown making balloon animals

The three amigos - Ethan, Abby and Keira

All her friends!

Uno...

Abby has taken to counting in spanish now!  She will just start up out of the blue so today I grabbed our phone to try and video it in the car.  They do Spanish class once a week at her school and she loves it!

Firetrucks, helicopter and police cars!

We were out and about on Saturday morning when a CareFlight helicopter landed in the Home Depot parking lot.  Of course we had to go see what was going on!  Thankfully, it was not a rescue...but instead a Home Depot Kids Workshop!  We got in line and were given a wooden helicopter to build, a kid size Home Depot apron and got to look inside the helicopter and firetruck.   Abby loved all of it!

Hi, My name is Abby

Driving the firetruck!

She was loving this...

Sitting in the helicopter

Newsletters

Since Abby is now in the toddler program, we get weekly newsletters that tell us what she will be doing that week per their curriculum.  And they are great when I'm trying to figure out what new song she is singing. :)  I love reading these, so I thought I'd share!

A, B, C, D....

So pretty

Night out compliments of Matt's work - $0
Babysitter for Abby - $30
Coming home to hot pink nails on my 2 year old - PRICELESS

Checking out her nails...

Abby and Ms. Karrie

So pretty. :)

Circus!

This post is late coming, but back in August we took Abby to the Ringling Bros. Circus when it came to Austin.  She loved it!

Though she's going through the "everything is loud stage" so we spent most of the time doing this:

She did smile and laugh at lots of the acts:

And of course, her favorite was the elephants!

It's been years since we've been to a circus, but it really was a lot of fun.  Hope we get to go again next year!

Football?

The past two nights (ever since the UT game on Saturday), Abby has been asking to watch football.  It comes out of nowhere.

Here was our conversation tonight as we were playing in the living room.

Me: Abby, look on TV it's dancers (Miss Universe Pageant is on)
Abby:  Football
Me: See the pretty costumes
Abby: No, football
Me: But look at the dancers!
Abby: NO, NO, NO, NO FOOTBALL
Me: *changes channel to Monday Night Football*
Abby: *huge smile and a giggle*

Where did this come from???

1...2...3...4...

First day of school!

This Monday Abby started her first day in Room 8!  Her teacher, Ms Jo is actually our neighbor and the reason we found the daycare we are at.  She already loves her and was ready to move to the toddler room.  It's bigger, has a huge playground with slides and all sorts of toys.  She was so good the first day - I thought for sure she would protest...but instead I got a "bye bye" and she ran off to play.  Abby played and laughed, Mommy cried (in my car where she couldn't see of course!).  She's growing up so fast.

Here is her first day of school pictures showing off her cool new backpack!