This morning Abby shared her first toy with her little sibling in Jessica’s belly: she climbed into the bed and slid the toy under Jessica’s shirt onto her belly and declared, “Here baby. Here’s a toy for you.”
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Abby’s First Ice Cream Cone
Also tonight Abby had her very first ice cream cone. She was very excited and the proceded to lick the ice cream all the way around the cone but not eat the cone. I kept telling her that it was like a cookie but it wasn’t until she couldn’t reach her tongue down the center of the cone to get more ice cream that she realized that she was going to have to actually eat the cone to get more ice cream. Then with great glee she announced, “I can eat the cone!” You try so hard as a parent, but sometimes its those scraped knees, broken hearts and deep ice cream cones that have to teach your kids a lesson 🙂
Abby is a Very Silly Girl
Abby was in her pajamas and wanted to further dress herself in this elegant attire. She’s so cute and fun!
Rare Abby Spotting
I haven’t been taking too many photos the last two months due to my really intense work load (which is finally letting up… I think). However, being Easter Sunday, and seeing as how pictures of little girls in pretty dresses are cute, I thought I’d attempt to take one. Silly me. Abby thought that cooperation, while being a word on Sesame Street, was not a good choice. However, this one is probably one of the better of the 6 that I took before giving up and resigning myself to paying others to take pictures of her.
I intentionally made this look like one of the photos you’d see that looked old because it covered all of the other low quality parts of the picture like direct sunlight, a crumby background and my frustration. However, you get the idea. It also has that nice 70’s vibe to it if you squint your eyes and turn your monitor off.
Daughter of a Programmer
This evening, after picking Abigail up from my parents, Abby said something that made me proud: She said, “We killed the bugs, Dad.” Seeing as how that’s a lot of what I’ve been doing the last couple days I liked the idea of my daughter helping.
YAA (Yet Another Abbyism)
This morning while snuggling with Jessica in bed Abby said, “Tonight, we’re going to Africa. It will be great!”
Upon further interogation we discovered that she wanted to go to “Newspaper Africa.” After asking what newspaper Africa was like she explained the process:
1) You go to Africa (makes sense)
2) You get purple stuff from Jamba Juice and
3) You pour the Jamba Juice on nasty things
She had me tracking until the third step.
As you can tell I’ve been a little short on adult interaction for a while so I’ve not been posting a lot about things outside of the home.
“Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.”
The title is from the Princess Bride, one of the best movies to ever come out for the family. I bring it up because of Abby, who, in similar fashion, bargains with the best of them. Last night she wanted to watch the Incredibles. Something I won’t let her do because she’s not old enough. However, I told her that maybe when she was four she could watch it (which is probably too early, but she won’t remember, I hope). She said, “No, when I’m seven!” I said, “OK, seven is fine.”
“No, eight, Daddy!”
You win Abby 🙂
A Date with Abby
Last night I took Abby on a brief date with some errands attached to it. However, it was fun. Jessica stayed home and had some alone time, which she’s actually pretty keen on since Abby is usually pretty demanding of her attention. Abby’s got a really funny thing she does when she meets people: She tells them her name if they appear half friendly to her. We ate at her favorite restaurant, Chipotle, and then picked up the new Pixar video release: The Incredibles.
We also picked up some Jamba Juice for the three of us (take some home to Jess). It was simple but she really enjoyed the time and several times said, “Daddy, I love you!” Which made me feel like a slighlty lesser schmoe for being so busy with work. Speaking of which, I’ve got to get back at it, but I did want to post something positive after the earlier rant about BlockBluster.
Little Sleep Pattern
I’ve not gotten a lot of sleep the last 5+ weeks. At first it was taking a toll on my body, but now I’ve grown accustomed to it. I’m getting five and a half to six hours of sleep on average and it is a little bit tough waking up but once I’m out of bed I get to the tasks at hand I’m relatively ready to go. It helps that a cute little two year old climbs onto our bed in the morning and says, “It’s morning! The son woke up with me!”
Which reminds me of the song, “You are My Sunshine.” Abigail means ‘Father’s Joy’ and she sure is.
The Zoo
Yesterday during the mid-day we went to the Denver Zoo. Well, we were going to go to the zoo but the parking lot was full. Having talked about going to the zoo to Abby, who at two years old has no comprehension of ‘the parking lot is full’ we drove to another area where we could get parking at a premium: a long walk. Sure, it was free parking but we had to walk around the zoo to get into the zoo so it already put upwards of 3/4 of a mile on our legs pushing a stroller (in case Abby actually got tired) before we got into the zoo. And, as you might expect, since the parking lot was full, so was the zoo. Because of zoo fullness I didn’t bring my camera with logic that was so great: it will be full, there will be too many people in the pictures. Turns out I was right and while there might have been a few fun photo opps there would have been a lot of backs and shoulders in many pictures.
Upon entering the zoo we found that the lion cubs were lazing about as well the adult lions – can you believe that? Nocturnal animals just sitting still; the gall of these critters. So we walked about the zoo and saw the animals and lots of backs and shoulders, but Abby had a good time being hoisted upon my shoulders and seeing over everyone.
And then it happened, out of nowhere I had a sappy dad moment. I was taking Abby on the “Conservation Carousel” where the gal who attends it is conserving energy by not showing any emotion while telling you the rules for riding the carousel. Anyway, the thing started up and I looked and saw my daughter (who, yes, I was holding up on the undulating polar bear) smiling with joy, and waving with glee to her mommy every time we passed her (Jessica was watching the stroller) and I had to fight back tears. I love Abigail and she brings such joy to our lives – it was a bit too much. However, I choked the tears back and we resumed the happy cycling of the carousel for what seemed like a really long short time. It wasn’t more than 3 minutes but it was a lot longer than that because of my emotional fragility.
So, to top off what had now become a special zoo experience as we were making our way towards the exit we say the giraffes running around (and that’s just fun to watch, they look so awkward) and then, right before exiting we watched the lion cubs run around and chase each other. We topped it all off with some ice cream from Bonnie Brae Ice Cream, which is possibly the finest ice cream in Denver.
Good times.