Catch Up

Gosh - this is the hard thing for me. If I can't be consistent about blogging, I avoid it all together. Blah. So here, a couple months have zipped by. Let's recap:

November
Abigail turned 9 months old! She started waving, and towards the end of the month she started saying, "Baaah!" while she waved. She wrinkles her nose and makes some cute faces. She loves to eat finger foods and anything else she can get her hands on. I gave Andrew a half of a banana and she grabbed the other half. And ate it. She started showing some interest in pulling up - but really only by climbing on Mommy and Daddy. Oh - she also learned to throw her arms up in the air for "So big!!"

Andrew turned THREE. Eeks! What a big boy he has become! His imagination amazes me and he says the funniest things every single day. For awhile, he was calling me "honey." He goes potty on his own (for #1) pretty much all the time. He still loves running around in his underwear and wearing the coolest socks he can find. They are his tires, after all.

As a family, we had our first family picture taken. Mommy, Daddy, and Andrew were healthy and in good spirits. Poor Abigail was under the weather and turned out to have an ear infection. Poor thing! We had the pictures taken anyway.



December
Abigail is starting to find her knees, as I like to put it. She's rocking on her knees and testing out real crawling. She's still much faster doing her army crawl, but those knees have helped her pull up on more things. Besides her waving and saying, "Bye!" (even for 'hello', or just for something to do - not exclusively for goodbye-ing), she's started saying "Uh oh!" and babbling up a storm.

This week, both kids were in their chairs eating lunch. Andrew kept saying, "Bike. Bike, bike, bike. B starts with bike. Bike. BIKE!" Out of nowhere, Abigail says, "Bike!" I looked at Andrew and said, "Did you hear that?" Andrew, very unimpressed, says, "Yeah, she said bike." He couldn't care less. Abigail also moved on, to more non-sense babbling.

Andrew's vocabulary is growing like crazy. He uses words like, "creature" and "car transporter." He's loving the Christmas carols right now, and sings them at the top of his lungs. He loves playing with Rugby. Oh - and his birthday present - a train table. Fun stuff! He also got a kids' shovel recently, so he can "help" us clear the sidewalks and driveway.

I will do better about posting. Both of my sweet babes do something just about daily that is blog-worthy. Funny stuff from Andrew. Lots of firsts for Miss Abigail. For now, Merry Christmas!