Pee Pee!!

So I brought a little potty home for Abbie today. A Royal Potty, seriously that's what it's called, see.....
It even came with a book called a Throne of Their Own! It makes music when you sit on it and when you go. OR, if you smack it and then stick your hand in it as Abbie has figured out. She's so smart ;) Anyway, when she got home tonight she really didn't want anything to do with it, but then she wanted her diaper off so she was bare running around. Every once in a while she'd sit on it. Occasionally she'd yell "POTTY" and run over to it, but nothing. It's in the living room, ok that may be gross, but she's not a fan of the exhaust fan in our downstairs bathroom and I didn't want it in the kitchen or dining room so living room it is. Anyway after about an hour or so I heard it playing and just assumed she was sticking her hand in it until I looked AND SHE WAS SITTING ON IT GOING!!!!!!!!!!!! I know we've still got a long way to go, but that's the first pee pee on the potty!

Oh and bedtime tonight went a little better. Rick put her down and told her I'd be in shortly. She of course cried, so I went to the door and told her it was time to lay down and sleep, and.................she did! She wanted her paci, but I told her she'd thrown it on the floor we'd get it in the morning! And she's not taking it in the car on the way to school with her anymore. Maybe she'll quit using it on her own. I can only hope

later.

ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG!

That's all I have to say. And those of you with toddlers or who have had toddlers stop laughing right now, those of you who haven't had kids yet you just wait!

I love Abbie so much, but whew she's something else. She and I were home alone this weekend. For the most part we had a pretty great weekend. We hung out, went shopping, played outside when it wasn't raining and just had girl time. Her dad got home last night before bed time and from the second he walked in the door she was done with me. Ok, that's ok because I needed a little break. OK A BIG BREAK. Until she went to bed. She screamed, AND I MEAN SCREAMED for me for a loooooooonnnnnnnnnng time. As soon as I went in there she laid down and was right to sleep, but every night it's like that! Ok, I know I should probably stop going in because that's what she wants, but like I said, have toddlers quit laughing no kids just wait :)

This morning was ok, but she didn't want me to do anything for her. So she told me no over and over. I've even taught her to say stop that please, so that if we are tickling or something and she doesn't want to she can say it. Boy that backfired! Stop that please doesn't sound quite so polite when an almost 2 year old is shrieking it at you! Then we got to school and she wouldn't let go of me. We went from stop that please to never stop holding me in 10 seconds flat. All in the time it took to walk from the car to the front door! Go figure. She doesn't do it for her dad, well not nearly so bad.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not spending enough time with her and leave her too much, but then when I go to leave her and she's so cranky I wonder if I don't leave and come back enough! Damned if you do and damned if you don't I suppose.

And since she learned the word no that's all she says! If she wants something she'll say no even if it's the first, third or last thing you ask her about. And then as soon as you stop asking and give up she heads right for it! Laughing again aren't you :) I know I am thinking back on this weekend.

Anyway, Rick is headed for California Wednesday and won't be home until Sunday or Monday I forget which, so cross your fingers we make it with all our hair and a minimum of tears :) I suppose his Father's day present is to go to wake up to an alarm rather than Abbie screaming.

Oh, hysterical story. In the mornings sometimes we'll let Abbie lay with us in bed, sometimes without a diaper. Well one morning last week she was sitting on the pillow next to Rick head and yep you guessed it. All of the sudden I heard the sweetest loudest "OOOOOHHHHH" followed by her daddy yelping and jumping out of bed. Sure enough she about peed on his face. Sorry, I couldn't resist sharing.

We moved

Whew, what a couple of weeks. We are officially moved. Just to another unit in our complex, but moved none the less. Wow did we have a lot of junk to get rid of. If it wasn't such a pain in the but we could move every year to get things cleared out :)

We didn't think it would be a HUGE deal for Abbie because we moved to an identical unit. Well except for the carpet, but we were wrong. I guess we waited too long to get her room back to normal because she hated it. Yesterday as I was hanging pictures and things she was clapping! We still need to paint and get her border back up but for now she's content. I'm trying to decide if I want to keep her baby stuff up or switch to a "big girl" theme. The Pottery Barn catalog has me inspired with lots of tropical themes but for now we'll stay with what she's got.

Her birthday isn't for another month and a half, but she's officially a terrible two. I took her to a friends yesterday for bbq and to play in their bounce house and I was so embarrassed. She had a nice long nap so she wasn't tired, but I've never ever seen her misbehave like that. She was throwing food and cups and wouldn't share. I guess because she wasn't the center of attention her feelings were hurt and man she didn't have a problem showing me how she felt. AND she was afraid of the bounce house! Couldn't even get close to it with her. I finally gave up and took her home and she screamed at me for the entire 30 min drive!

Off to catch the Abbie monster :)

I swear she's not 2

It's been a while since I posted, it's been a busy month. More like insane. Neighbor troubles have led to us moving next month. Same complex just another unit, but that's always fun.As I'm typing Abbie's in the next room letting me know how much she hates that I'm following the rules. I was going to let her lay with me and doze until Daddy got home tonight, but she kept getting down and playing. I told her a couple times that she could lay with me or she could lay in her bed. Well after the 5th time of her climbing down to play I took her in there. I'm sure even her grandma in heaven can hear her screaming. I'm always worried the neighbors will call the cops when she does this, but if any of you have heard the stories about them you'd know they will be the last ones to call :)We got Abbie a tricycle over the weekend. She had the cutest little wooden bike she got for Christmas and she loves to ride it, but her legs are almost too long for it. The tricycle had to be asseembled and she was more interested in dad's tools than she was in the bike. She's quite the little mechanic! The problem is she's about an inch too short to actually be able to ride the trike, so she'll sit on it and yell at us to "push push" occasionally we'll get a "push please"I'm going to attempt to post a picture of her from Easter. She was so funny. She loved finding the eggs until she realized that there was something in them and then the process became painfully slow. She doesn't get much candy from us so she knew she hit the jackpot and wasn't about to let it get away from her. Tootsie Rolls, m&m's you name it she did her best to eat it.







By the way she's sleeping now.

a movie?

So one of the theaters in town has free kids movies on Saturday and Sunday. We decided to take Abbie. One of the guys I work with takes his son and said he does just fine. Nathan is about a year older than Abbie so I thought we'd be fine, but I was WRONG. She love the previews, the bouncy seat and the popcorn. She would have ate the ENTIRE tub of popcorn if we'd have let her, or totcorn as she calls it. She even seemed to like the movie, but about 20 min into Robots she was DONE. I repeat D O N E. She headed for the stairs and was pointed at the door so her dad and I followed her. Guess we'll have to rent that one. Too bad, it was a cute beginning :)

We realized a tooth we thought was through isn't and one that was almost through is covered again by swollen gum, so we are teething again. I wish she had a light that would tell us, you know like a low oil light. I feel so bad getting to the end of the weekend and realizing her mood is because she's miserable and not because she thinks we are miserable :)

On to Easter I suppose. She's got a pretty dress, matches her big sisters, I promise I'll figure out the picture thing so you can see, if anyone is actually reading ;) She does like the giggler eggs, but only if you cut them in little pieces. She won't bite them. Sort of like fudge bars. You have to break or bite off a piece for her to eat. Grandma thinks that's pretty gross and although she'd give Abbie the whole bar, she won't bite off a little piece for her!!! It's late, I'm off to bed because Abbie will be up early!

SHE DID WHAT?

I have sort of been potty training the Great Abbie. Mostly we just let her play without a diaper, which she really enjoys by the way. So Sunday morning Daddy was sleeping and she and I were playing. I went into the kitchen for something and I heard an "OOOOOH" from the living room and when I came around there corner she was sort of hoping around yelling "POOPY, POOPY, POOPY" and leaving a little trail of you know what! I laughed so hard I almost fell over. Course before I was done laughing she was headed back to investigate so I had to grab her fast. All was save, and eventually clean, but now she knows where POOPY comes from. She must have said "mommy, poopy" over and over about a thousand times. So much for a peaceful quite Sunday morning.

Sunday afternoon Daddy took her to the park to play on the swings. He's been out with her before, but it's been cold or rainy or we've been out of town for so long that she hasn't been in quite a while. Well he experienced her rath first hand when he tried to bring her in. I was away from the house so I didn't get to see it first hand, but he said she threw a bigger fit than he's ever seen when they came in. There was much wailing and huffing and puffing, and that was just Daddy trying to get her through the door :)

She thinks she's 2 years old more and more often so I'm guessing these posts will get more and more amusing to those of you who don't live with us. Happy Tuesday!

I thought of something I wanted to add. Rick's been working on Abbie's words, but they aren't the kinds of words mom's work on. Not things like red, blue, up down, dog, cat. He's teaching her is words :) Engine, header, flow master, volkswagen, VW, farfegnugen (or however you spell it) We had the most fun going through a Hot Rod the other night and showing her engines, shocks ... She started picking out the engines after a while and had the most fun looking at the flames. Before you know it she'll be the new host of Overhaulin. Which by the way was on the moment she was born! I remember clearly it being on the tv in my room as they wheeled me off for my c section. If only I had known :)

What a week!

Those of you who know us, know that it's been quite the week. Abbie was out of her schedule and I didn't realize how much she needed that schedule. Towards the end of our time in St. Louis if her Daddy or I walked even close to the door she would come running!

When I picked her up from school yesterday her paper said she hadn't been herself, but who knew what that meant. So I dropped her off this morning and her teacher said that she'd been hitting and biting! Totally not her personality at all. When I asked her about it she squeezed her eyes shut and burried her face in my shoulder. She's a smarty! On the positive side I just called and they said that she's back to her same old self, which is a relief.

She's been such a big girl lately though. Seems like every time she seems her Daddy she'll walk up and just pat him on the arm, it's the sweetest thing I've seen in a long time.

I'm going to try this weekend to figure out how to load pictures and get some current ones of her and Kirk and Sarah up here.

What a big girl!

I remember the first day I took Abbie to Little Wings. It was as bad as my first day back at work. She cried, I cried and she cried some more. It's been about 4 months and I can say we both love it. This morning was a perfect example. I took her in and the class was in the play room so we put away her coat and she ran for the play room. We walked in and she called for her teacher Amber and took off. She ran up the stairs for the slide and when I went over to give her a kiss she blew one over her shoulder and that was it. I know that's how it should be but that was almost as sad for me as that first day, but so much better for her.

When Rick picked her up she was in the "big kids" room, the 3's&4's and the teacher said look at her, she's the youngest one in here and the only one behaving. She's our big girl now.

Abbie's loving Little Wings and growing so much there. She's playing with other kids, who all know her name, loving her teachers and doing so many new things.

K' I'm cheesy, I know and I'm adding more often than I thought, but Abbie does something new every single day.

By the way she LOVES meat loaf :)

Talking

It's really cool how much she's talking. Just one or two words at a time, but every now and then she really surprises me with something she says. This morning we were hanging out in our room and she walked over to the door and clear as day said "downstairs" Even with a paci a stranger could understand her and it occured to me that she's growing beyond baby talk. She counts, well does every other number count? Like I say one she says two... Can't get her to say the same number as me, but she knows what comes next, that's good right? And she says all her ABC's with me. She repeats every single thing I say, good and bad, really bad sometimes :) I't so hard to remember she's right there listening all the time.

She says Come On too. Once I said it to Rick and smacked my leg so he would know I was tired of waiting so now she does it every time. She knows wake up too, smushes it all into one word, but man it's cute.

Some words she refuses to say a Grandma Loeb knows all too well! It's hysterical, we'll go around the room naming people and things and we get to Grandma and she clams up! Course she only growls for Grandpa so I guess they are even. We've got a photo album with pictures of family in it and she's starting to recognize everyone in there, she does say grandma when she sees the pictures though, such a stinker we have.

Oh we got Dunkin Donuts yesterday and we got donut holes, she was scared of them! Wouldn't let me give her one, even said yicky! When I wasn't looking though she took one out of the box and apparently they aren't so yucky! Did you know that they have jelly holes now!

It snowed today so I'll try to take pictures of her in the snow and post them. Well if it doesn't melt too quickly. Hard to believe it wsa 60 on Thursday.

Happy Sunday.

Welcome

Well I promised Abbie's Aunt Molly I'd start a blog so she wouldn't miss any of the cool things Abbie's doing and since today is her birthday I figured I'd better follow through.

I'll try to add as often as I can, but Abbie keeps me pretty busy and she's into just about everything these days.

I guess there's a way to post pictures so as soon as I figure it out I'll do that too.

We're taking her to playgroup tonight so maybe I'll have something interesting to post tomorrow.