Her new best friend

Hi friends and family! I have just been waiting for Abby Kate to discover a soother and this tag blanket is it! She ADORES it. She loves rubbing the tags on her face as she gets sleepy. It keeps her entertained which of course, we love! 

DRAMA!

Okay, starting 2 weeks ago today, Abby Kate began waking from her naps after 45 minutes, on the dot...after much researching, this seems to be a common phenomenon that many parents battle with. It became MISERABLE. I treated it as a sleep problem for a week and then started treating it as a growth spurt and my milk has finally caught back up. We are now on a new schedule, where she wakes up at around 5:30-6 am to eat, goes back to sleep after an hour and sleep until about 10am! REAL NICE! Nightime sleep is still a bit interrupted which is hard when we were sleeping through the night for so long. We started her on cereal last Sunday for the calories and she LOVES it! I will post pictures of her first time eating as soon as I get them! This pic is what I saw at the end of each 45 min nap. A still sleepy baby! Who is now starting to try to crawl by the way! 

Bath Time!

Here is our water baby taking a bath with Daddy! She LOVES it! If you look closely, you will see spit up floatinig around in that water! GROSS!  

Resurrection Sunday

Our first family pic not taken by our own outstretched arm! Had a WONDERFUL Easter. I am bummed we did not get a good pic of Abby Kate in her Easter dress. She was a bit fussy due to us interrupting her schedule to take her to church. I will try to dress her back up this week and take a few! Love you all.... 

Our little Sunshine

Only the day after getting 4 nasty shots and waking up with a fever, Abby Kate bundled up happily to go with Mommy, Daddy, Sweetie, Poppy and Hunk(Uncle Hal) to Southlake Greenhouse to pick out pretty flowers and trees for the flower beds. We had to dress warm for the crazy Oklahoma weather. She fell asleep 10 minutes into the adventure. 

More Sunshine!

 

Abby Kate and Isabella

Abby Kate and her friend Isabella Bartley got to play this past week. They had SO much fun. Isabella played tea party with her, helped soothe her after her 4 month shots, and held her hand as she was so sleepy! I know Isabella will teach her so much about how truly fun it is to be a girl! 

More of Abby Kate and Bella

 

Abby Kate and Max

Here is Abby Kate and her sweet friend Max Grunewald. He comes to play and help swing Abby Kate. His Mommy and Daddy are great friends. Abby Kate is fascinated by other children. We are going through a stranger anxiety phase but she loves her little friends! 

More tummy time!

 

Tummy Time!

The more time Abby Kate spends on her tummy, the more I am convinced she will be crawling in no time! 

Chillin'

Abby Kate has started this thing where when she is sitting or laying down she puts her arm behind her head. She is really a laid back kid. When she wakes up from naps, she will stay in her crib and talk until I come get her. 

And more...

Whose Child do you think this is? I just cracked up looking at all these pictures of her chatting. It is hard to catch her when shes not talking!  

 

Our talker

 

Her precious hands.... 

Celia took these pictures of Abby Kate last week. I love them! She is so serious but that is the stage we are in right now!  

Smiling! 

More pics! 

I also think crawling will come sooner than the books say. I put her on her tummy and she lifts her entire torso up and begins scooting forward.