Abby's Top Ten

Abigail's Top Ten List for her little sister's name, as recited during her bath with Daddy tonight

1. Nana (Nah-nah)
2. Dewy
3. Charlie
4. Jewy
5. Kristen
6. Dottie
7. Noey
8. Tary (Tah-rei)
9. Kara
10. Jarry (Jar-rei)

Triple Play Indoor playground

We finally found an indoor playground to go to. Its not the closest, its a little West of Pensacola about 45 minutes away from our house, but its totally worth the drive. It is basically a bunch of blowup bouncer's and slides, but theres also some toys for the kids to play with like train tables, doll houses, and cozy coupe cars. Abby was a bit shy at first and hung out near the doll house for a while but then she finally got brave when Tristan went down the Firetruck slide with her, then she was all about the slides and bouncer's. Some of them were pretty tall and the kids flew down them, Abby had a blast. They even have workers there that get in the bouncer's with the kids and help them if they get stuck or scared which is awesome because that means I don't have to crawl around in there! We happened to go on Character day and at the end of the play session they have a meet and greet with some "characters". The day we went the character was Minnie mouse, and Abby was actually excited to see her and gave her a hug. This was the first character that she wasn't afraid of, including Santa and the Easter Bunny. I guess its time to make a trip to Disney in the near future! Anyway, since Triple Play isn't very close we decided to make an entire day of being in Pensacola and hit up Chick-fil-a for lunch with Tristan and Nadia and then did some shopping at Target (where they were having an amazing sale on toys) and we ended the day with a little ice cream from Coldstone. It was an awesome day and this is definitely a place will be going back to!

A view of some of the bouncers and slides

Abby playing with the dollhouse at the beginning of the play session

In the Princess bouncer

The firetruck slide

Abby and Tristan....he was the one who got her to go down the slide! Thanks Tristan!!!

Abby giving Minnie Mouse a hug

Abby and Tristan hugging goodbye after our ice cream. It was so cute, they would run up to each other every time we got out of the car or to a new place. and hug like they hadn't seen each other in ages. They were very sweet to each each other all day!

July's Ramdom Ramblings

• Abby was sitting on the couch with an icepack for one of her boo-boo's. (She really didn't need the icepack but, it has princesses on it, and they always help you feel better!) In her most dramatic voice she exclaimed to me "This ALWAYS happens to me!" referring to getting boo-boo's. Its tough being two!!
• Abby has a bad habit of sticking her hair in her mouth or her nose. Whenever I tell her to take her hair out of mouth or her nose she just looks at me and says "Oh, sorry Mommy." I don't even think she realizes she is doing it.
• Lately, when Abby gets in trouble for something and she starts crying she has been saying "Zoe got a boo-boo". I have no idea what this means or where it came from. When she finally figured out that wasn't having any effect on us she is now telling me I scared her when she gets in trouble.
  
• Abby had just gotten out of the tub and she was standing on her stool getting ready to brush her teeth with just her towel on. She started twisting and smiling at herself in the mirror and then said to me, "look at my boobies. What do you think they are for?" I responded with "well, everyone has them." She then looked at me and said "Well, Nolan doesn't!"
• We took Abby for a walk and Abby asked if she could marry me. I told Andrew about it one night at dinner and she was listening (as they always do) and then said "Well, I can marry Mommy and Daddy!" I guess she felt sorry for leaving Andrew out!
  

Sneaky Pete

We had a repeat of last week in Destin, except this time we had Sam and Nolan along for the fun. First we went to the free movie which was Surf's Up. It was very cute, but I think it was still a little too grown up and long for the kiddos. In fact, I think Sam and I enjoyed it more than they did! After the movie we hit up the splash pad so the kids could run around and burn off some energy while they stayed cool. Sam and I weren't so lucky, I can't speak for her, but I was HOT! It wasn't overcast like it was last week and I just wasn't able to stand it for as long. After a while we headed to Panera for lunch and that is where the title of the post comes into play.

The kids had been good during lunch but for some reason they wanted to take their shoes off in the restaurant. This is actually a running theme for Abby and she usually asks first and is pretty good about listening to me when I say no. Anyway, we got through all our lunch and we were sharing a cookie and the kids started acting a bit weird. They were turning away from Sam and I and giggling, I didn't think much of it. But then, Sam noticed that Nolan's shoes were off and he got in a little bit of trouble for not listening. All the while, I was oblivious and until I got up to do something I hadn't noticed Abby's shoes were off too. She was totally letting Nolan take the fall for something they both did wrong! I gave Abby a talking to as well and as we were getting ready to leave the man at the table next to us started to chuckle and said to us "I just have to say, I was very entertained watching you all during your lunch. I was trying to figure out who was in charge." I said to him, "Well, obviously its the two 2 year olds!" And then he said to me, "Yeah, I figured as much. Especially when the little girl turned her head from you as she was taking off her shoes and said under her breath, well Mommy can't see me now." What a sneaky little girl!!!! We all had a good laugh, but I think I am in trouble in the years to come if she is already thinking like that!

A great day in Destin

Last Tuesday Abby and I headed to Destin Commons for the free kids movie they have every week in the summer. Last week was Charlotte's Web. I was a bit surprised when the movie started and it was the real version rather than the cartoon and I was a bit worried Abby wouldn't be all that interested. I was wrong, she sat through the entire movie and seemed to really enjoy it. After the movie we went out to play in the splash pad. It was really hot and she wasn't too into it so we opted to go have some lunch instead. We had a nice girls lunch at Panera and afterward we headed to the ice cream shop for a little treat. The ice cream shop was right across from the splash pad and after our ice cream Abby decided she wanted to play for a bit. She was having a blast. She played in the water and on the playground for a couple of hours and then we finally headed home. We had a great day together just the 2 of us!!

Here are a few shots of Abby playing at the splash pad:

Such a Little Lady

Sitting like a lady, eating a popsicle.

A Wonderful Big Sister in the Making

I can already tell that Abby is going to be a wonderful big sister and here is some proof:

Abby holding Baby Wes' hand so that he could fall asleep more easily in the car.

Here is Abby putting some lotion on my belly

And here she is giving the baby a kiss. She has been telling me for weeks that she loves the baby in my belly. The little bean is lucky to have such a wonderful big sister to look up to!