Sunday, November 1, 2009

Halloween


We had a fun and busy Halloween beginning with a morning/afternoon at the Oakland zoo. Abigail loved the free rides and goodie bags and even got to touch a boa constrictor. She also informed us that the train was boring and wanted to ride the orange tiger roller coaster instead. She's quite the dare devil. In the evening we visited some houses and then ended up at our church's night out, which was really fun. Abigail was more interested in the bouncy house than the candy and Olivia slept through the entire event.








Gail's 21st







We had a lot of fun celebrating Gail's 21st birthday a few days late with her. We had a delish lunch at a burger place, Gail enjoyed all of her snow sports themed gifts, and Abigail loved playing on the playground afterwards. We can't believe our little Gailie Goo is all grown up!

Monday, October 26, 2009

Lingo and Prayers

Here are some Abigail sayings that sometimes require translation and/or are pretty cute -


Ravamoli = ravioli
Guacamole = avocado (which she doesn't like surprisingly)
Mushrooms = shrimp
Ban Bans = band aids
Bee-tow = Burrito
Pack Pack = backpack
Olivia Dude = Abigail's current favorite name for her sister


The other night were were talking about ways God has provided for us and I mentioned that I was thankful for our home. Abigail subsequently prayed that the homeless people of the world would be able to buy/get umbrellas. She was also very concerned that there were kids in the world who don't have toys and was very happy to get them some at the store today - preschool games on sale at Toy R Us (like Candyland) were $2 with the rebate!

Sisters


People are always asking me if Olivia looks like Abigail so I thought I would post some pictures to compare. Did you guess (the eye color gives it away) that on the left is Olivia and the right is Abigail? These were taken when both were right at five months old. There definitely are similarities.
Abigail and Olivia attended Kate's Fancy Nancy party last week. (Fancy Nancy is a book series where the main character, Nancy, loves dressing up fancy, using big vocab words, and learning manners and other things). The girls were supposed to dress up and here's Abigail in her finest. She was most pumped to wear a gold cross necklace that I had when I was younger. I think that my folks gave it to me. Olivia had to join in the fun too and sported some sunglasses.

Some cute sister shots!


Nothing cuter than
little baby 'crocs'!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Aunt Diane, Pumpkins, and Blue Ink

Grandma and Aunt Diane came to visit last Friday and it was a huge hit with Abigail. They came bearing gifts and she loved the play saw (which talks) and tape measure. She immediately roped Aunt Diane into playing work with her (that's what she called it) and they had to wear their work gloves too (one racket ball cover and a gardening glove). They spent much of the afternoon over towards the neighbors house where Jeremy and Al are putting up part of the fence. She was so proud to be helping her daddy out!

On Saturday we headed out to the Clayton Pumpkin Patch and the big hit was a swimming pool full of lima beans that the kids played in. There were five families from church that met out there. Not all of the kids are here in the picture and the ones that are aren't really looking at the camera but I thought it was cute. Abigail had to bring the play tape measure to this activity as well so that she could measure the pumpkins. Olivia enjoyed her time in the stroller sporting her pumpkin bib and looking cute. It was high 80s outside and we were all sweating to death. So much for Fall weather in California.



Abigail making a funny face and
wearing my shirt and shoes.

This morning I looked down and Abigail was cracking up that she had put mickey mouse ears on Olivia. It's hard to see but her two little teeth, yes teeth are down there on the bottom as well. We didn't even know she was teething until last week when I felt something sharp in her mouth and found out it was teeth!


Olivia being the second child, I just got around to making her hand/footprints for the baby book. It was supposed to be washable, kid-friendly ink but it really took some scrubbing to get out. Meanwhile, Abigail happily took some photos of the event (she snapped these both) and I got blue ink all over the place.








Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Random Postings

Awesome shirt from Aunt Ruthie!

Abigail after she helped me with (and of course ate a whole bunch of) chocolate strawberries. Needless to say, she liked them.
Abigail and her buddies eating cupcakes. We were celebrating some of the mommies birthdays.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Olivia


This is her new trick - looks so grownup!