Hungry Bear & Indian Princess

Abby has been a hungry little girl this week! She's been nursing more and eating about twice as much solid food as just 5 days ago. Maybe I should prepare myself to get the next set of clothes out? 

 I'm hungry!

Anna had her Thanksgiving feast at school yesterday. She brought strawberries and grapes in to help her class make a fruit salad for the feast. At school she made an Indian Princess necklace and hat. She's been enjoying playing "dress up" this week and her new hat and necklace are nice additions to her set of dress up clothes.

I love my Hungry Bear and Indian Princess :)

First time on a swing!

Anna & I decided to try Abby on a swing yesterday for the first time. She did great! I had to stuff a few things behind her to secure her in there. Once I did that she was snug as a bug. Anna got on the swing next to her. Then Anna got some big pushes and Abby got some little pushes. They both loved it!

Abby has also been trying out some slides (on Mom or Dad's lap), which she loves. And yesterday she crawled through a few playground tunnels. She gets so excited when she gets to do a "big girl activity" like Anna. I really didn't have to work hard to catch a smile in the picture above. It was glued to her face during the whole ride!

Professional photos!

This morning we got professional photos of Anna & Abby. They came out great! Here are a few of them:

Grandma & Grandpa visit

Yesterday and this morning Grandma and Grandpa visited on their way back to Albany. Anna, Abby, and I have all been a little sick the past few days so yesterday Grandma made us some chicken soup and Grandpa made himself into a pillow:

This morning everyone was feeling better:

So much better that we were able to celebrate Abby Cadabby's birthday with a blow-out bash:

These are the leftover birthday hats from my birthday party. We only had 8 of them. As you can see from the pictures we had many more than 8 guests at this party. It was very troubling for Anna that everyone didn't have their own hat. Therefore, one of the main activities at the party was moving the hats around so everyone could wear one for a period of time. We also ate our food (in fact, if you stopped eating your food, Anna would remind you, "Daddy, keeping eating your carrots!") and sang, If You're Happy and You Know it. It was a great event!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Today I turned:

This morning Dad & Anna made me a birthday cake. (Before breakfast! It was the first thing Anna wanted to do when she woke up :)

Then at lunch we had a party. Anna & Abby had a great time:

And so did Mom (and Dad):

Happy Birthday, Mommy!

Teeth!

You may remember that 2 years ago to this day (my birthday!), Anna got her first tooth. Abby almost got her first tooth today. She's been working on it all week, but we felt the first little point last night. She did get her second tooth today as she woke up this morning with two little points. They are the bottom two bunny teeth. Hopefully this will give her some relief as I think they have been bothering her. It's hard to tell, though because she also had her six month appointment on Friday and got 4 vaccines - ouch! This could also bee the culprit of a little extra fussiness too :(

Simultaneously, Anna has been working on her two year old molars. Both of the bottom ones are completely in and the top ones are half way in. I think they are bothering her a little too since she has had her hand in her mouth and has been choosing yogurt for many of her recent meals.

On the move!

Here's Abby showing off some of her new moves: