This week is going to be rather fun, Evie turns one on Tuesday. I’m so thrilled that she’s developing into a little toddler girl. My baby girl won’t be a baby much longer. Abby ages a year every month it seems as her vocabulary, her clothes and her body change. Wow. I have two beautiful girls, a gorgeous wife and a lovely chance to be a husband and dad.
Good times!
This evening at Abby’s T-Ball “switched-up sports” Abby had a pretty good time. She didn’t obey the coach 100% of the time, but she did manage to spin around with her brand new, not so soft, leather glove… right into my male body parts which are certainly not accustomed to such intense contact.
I’m pretty sure this will help keep our family of four, four. But the upside to this is that Abby was very apologetic, which I can’t explain clearly enough. She repeated her apology over and over until I whispered out, “I forgive you.” Which was what she needed to hear, because after that she was ready to play catch with another boy who pretty much immediately cried when she threw the ball to him and caught him in the chest when he wasn’t expecting it.
I guess I don’t have to worry about her and boys quite yet 😉
Abby a Day. Minus the sound, plus some other sounds.
Abby is a silly girl.
Abby and I went to her second week of ‘switched-up sports’. The last two weeks have been soccer. We’ll do soccer again on Wednesday – next week will start tee-ball. This is her introduction to various sports, but tonight things were not team oriented. Hopefully Wednesday they’ll let the kids play ‘bunch ball’ (soccer, but at their ages, they all follow the ball instead of staying in their positions).
Cuteness happened. Balls were kicked all over the basketball court (yes, basketball court), and Abby ran her little heart out. I can’t wait until Wednesday 🙂
Nothing has been more amazing for me to watch than my childrens development. Abby is learning how to read and that is quite awesome. I was just upstairs getting a bit more coffee and watched Abby read the ‘1 cup of flour’ line as she is helping Jessica make some sort of baked good. Abby doesn’t like to read in front of me for some reason. She’s a very strong willed little girl and I think I need to read to her more so that she can understand that I don’t expect her to read to me all of the time 🙂
But I love to see my little girl grow and mature into what will probably be the most frightening thing: a woman. Not frightening in a bad way, but scary for me because I will have to let go. The name Randy means ‘house wolf’ or ‘protector’ and I know that my tendency is to want to protect my family, but I need for them to learn how to be critical thinkers, socially adjusted, and most of all baby-makers. Because if these girls don’t reproduce how will I take over the world through vicariously living through my grandchildren [that’s a joke]?
I have been saying to Abby, and will be saying to Evie, that we want her to grow up to be a godly wife, just like her mom. It lets her know what we expect for her to be aiming for, but it also lets her know what that looks like. That will look like a human woman who is not perfect, who admits her faults, but clings to God, co-leading her family as best as she know how. Lovingly. And if Abby is as smart as I think she is (she’s probably smarter), we’ve got a whole lot of fun, baking, growing, stretching, screaming, laughing, scraping, explaining, learning and running to do.
And I can’t wait!
So Abby A Day was a cute concept but I haven’t made it the priority I shoud. Anyway, here’s todays:An Abby a Day post 3.
Abby works up some lion-sized attitude in this one. For her birthday: AbbyCast_0002.mov
Abby is four today. Four years ago at 5:30 or so we headed to the hospital in Grapevine, Texas. At 2:12 PM Abby was born and with great tears of joy I called around the country to announce that she was born. Here’s the first blog post that I have on her arrival, it was several months after the fact but the post was from before I had WordPress and was running my own home-brewed software.
An Abby A Day: Episode one is our first foray into video production on a Mac with its built in iSight camera. This requires Quicktime which is included with iTunes.
I’m hoping to start a new sub-site here on randypeterman.com called ‘An Abby a Day’ I’m hoping I can get her to cooperate with me enough to create a photo or video blog for her. She’s a bit young to type, but I want her to get familiar with computers and this may be a way to help move things along 🙂 We’ll see. After yesterdays post about sending blogs she may get into it. I won’t be starting it until next week some time, but when I do, I’ll post a link to it and link to it across the site.