Abigail's Bill Cowher impression

Best of 2007

I've had a great year...

1. Seeing Matt “catch” Abbie as she was being born
2. Visiting Ireland
3. Quitting work and becoming a full-time mom
4. Getting our family portrait taken
5. Jeannie’s wedding
6. The weekend Abigail was baptized
7. Halloween in Wilmore
8. Finishing my first full-load semester with good grades and a lot more confidence
9. Volunteering at Step by Step
10. Holding my new nephew, Samuel
11. Making Abbie’s 1st Christmas ornament with Mom
12. The Focht family reunion
13. Our date to Giuseppe’s
14. Abbie’s first trip to the beach
15. NUMC’s family retreat
16. Not having one period the whole year. That just rocks!
17. Reading What’s So Amazing About Grace? with Matt
18. Thanksgiving in PA
19. Our NJ vacation in August
20. Finally getting our wedding album!

Monster Abbie

So today Abbie learned how to growl. It's pretty hilarious, but kind of scary at the same time, especially when she does it as I'm nursing her!! She and Matt turned it into a game tonight. While he was making dinner Abbie was in the high chair. She would growl, he would look over at her, and she would have a huge grin on her face. It was so cute.

It was also warm enough to bring Abbie to the park this afternoon (without a coat!!). Which strikes me as really weird, considering that half the population in Oklahoma is frozen solid right about now. But anyway we had a fun time. I put her in the baby swing for the first time and she enjoyed herself. I love fun days with her!

Pushing through: one more week

I have four papers due this week. One tomorrow, two on Wednesday, and one on Friday at noon. And 200 more pages to read for a class. No finals, so that's a relief. Needless to say, I'm REALLY looking forward to Friday afternoon! And on Friday night, Matt is taking me on our long awaited date (he's been able to keep it a secret for almost a month! I'm so proud of him).

Oh, and I made raisin-filled cookies yesterday with my secret family recipe. They rock.

Warm house

It snowed today in Wilmore. No, of course I don't mean SNOW snow, but Kentucky snow--a few flurries here and there, but it makes grown adults act like children. And it was FREEZING. When Abbie and I got home from church I think my eyelids froze just walking from the car to the front door. But then I opened the door and.....ahhhhh....the warmth of our home thawed me out right away. I am so thankful for our house.

Here are some videos for your viewing pleasure. The first one is Abbie thinking Christmas decorations are absolutely hillarious (it's amazing what babies will laugh at!), and the second is her meeting Corduroy Bear for the first time. Next to Lucy, Corduroy is Abbie's best friend.

"...Anyone else wiz a comment?"

Of course the title of this post is a quote from one of the best movies of all time, The Three Amigos. If you have not seen this movie, you are to be pitied.

Anyway, I have finally made it possible for ya'll to leave comments! I wasn't holding out because I didn't want to hear what anyone had to say... actually, I didn't realize that enabling comments was something that I actually had to do. So, with all that said...

Start commenting!

:-)

Slightly disappointed

Today is Wilmore's annual Old Fashioned Christmas celebration. It's a day-long event that the whole town looks forward to pretty much all year long. There is a pancake breakfast, craft fairs, plays, a tree lighting ceremony, a chili dinner at a local church, and at night all the shops on Main Street open up and give away cookies, hot cocoa and other goodies. It's very Mayville. Probably my favorite part of the day are the free horse and buggy rides through the town. I love the sound the horses' hooves make on the pavement, the jingle bells on their reigns, and riding through Wilmore at an even slower pace than the posted 25 mph. It makes me feel all Christmassy inside.

Of course, this being Abbie's first Christmas in Wilmore, I was ectatic about bringing her on one of these rides. I couldn't wait to get a family picture--all three of us bundled up in the buggy.

However, my dreams came crashing down as soon as Matt found out that the waiting list was full. At 2:00pm all the slots for all the remining rides until 4:00 were spoken for! I'm so sad that Abbie won't get to hear the hooves and the jingle bells, that we won't get our family picture in the buggy, that we won't get to snuggle and feel Christmassy together. And I am flaming jealous of the families that signed up early enough to go.

So I guess I'm a little more than slightly disappointed. :-(