The Bungalow

Thursday, January 5, 2012

The 11 month pictures!

Watching Baby Einstein and eating some snacks....

Playing with my lion!

Mommy and Me.

Playing with my new kitchen.

My favorite window.

My hair is getting long enough to be messy!

More pictures of eating snacks and watching my video!

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

11 months old

These are some older pictures from the month...Hoping to do a photo shoot tomorrow, at 11 months and 3 days!

Eating her "teething bagel"

11 months old…Oh time flies

· One of Abby’s favorite things to do is to crawl into the kitchen and pull the towel off the oven handle.

· She has mastered the stairs up and down. The gates are up, because if we turn our backs, she is gone.

· She loves picking up bite sized pieces of food to eat. She feeds herself with a spoon.

· She eats almost anything! Ribs, Mexican, chicken, spaghetti, fruits, veggies! If momma can grind it up, Abby eats it.

· She drinks out of a sippy cup and loves spitting the water out onto her bib.

· She loves the wind in her face and laughs whenever we walk outside and it is super windy

· Sleeping is going OK…We took a few steps back at Christmas time, but are getting back to sleeping through the night.

· Her favorite toys are her play kitchen, the drum set, duplos and her train block from Daddy. She loves to pull toys out of bins (we haven’t mastered putting them back IN yet, still working on that).

· She loves to play hide and seek.

· She claps “on command”

· She is working on saying “up”

· We had her standing by herself for a second or two! We are so impressed (however, then mama let her fall…and she bumped her head…bad mama, pushing your child to walk too early!)

· Today she sat in her red elmo chair, ate snacks from her cup and watched an entire episode of baby Einstein. I know that isn’t something to be proud of (“my kid can watch TV for a long time, what can yours do?”) but we thought it was hilarious, she lasted 20 minutes!

She is the sweetest girl. She cuddles mom and dad all the time and loves to give kisses
She also had her first temper tantrum...Daddy put the gate up between the kitchen and living room and Ms. Abby did NOT like it.
She isn't super smiley all the time. It takes her a while to warm up. She is always accessing the situation. However, Sammi can ALWAYS get her to smile.

We love Abby way too much.

Crafting...I love it.

A couple of my crafts from this Christmas season....

Popsicle stick puzzles for Sam and Elli

This year I made t hem a box full of "independent play time activities" It had lots of ziplock bags full of activities they could play with independently while mom takes care of other things. The girls loved the activities!

Felt board:

Magnetic pom poms....This came with other patterning activities too (the picture is sideways..Sorry!)

Matching games (one side was done, they had to complete the other side)

I made this for Katie...My dear friend....A journal cover to congratulate her on GRADUATING! I miss Katie :)

My kindle cover....But, now I am on to making a new kindle cover because I got a kindle FIRE for Christmas! Booya!

This was for Brittany...A bag full of cheap date ideas! I had so much fun thinking through the date ideas (some are goofy) and putting them together in this bag.

And...Christmas Cards....I am so bummed because I had a picture uploaded, but then realized people's address would have been on my blog...Decided against putting that up there..

It was a great Christmas season, more crafting pictures to come!

Christmas

Christmas Eve...Boy those girls are spoiled!

Christmas PJ's!

Sam and Elli are so sweet and helpful passing out the presents!

Abby LOVES her kitchen!

Sweet Girls

Auntie Laurel and Sar-sare

Family Picture at the Bucks!

Abby has her own Bronner's Christmas Ornament

Our 2011 family ornament from dad-o

Auntie Brittany and Uncle Andy..Abby had lots of fun playing with Auntie Brittany's hair during these pictures!

Our little wolverine

Christmas tires me out too...Sleeping on Grandpa Klenke

Annual Rib cook-off! Steve and Andy tied for first!

Steve's ribs = A+ for presentation (see manger below....)

Andy's Ribs = A+ for tenderness

This girl loved the presents!

Wooden train from Daddy....It is a Melissa and Doug train. When it was sent to the house it had a piece of paper taped to it which was folded in half. All I saw was "Melissa" I thought for sure Steve and Melissa were in cahoots...They weren't.....I just saw half of "Melissa & Doug"

Sammi LOVES Abby

Elli Bean playing with a puzzle I made for Christmas

Dad's new bumper sticker, Captain Big Fish!

We gotcha mom! I don't think we will ever be able to top that!

Abby is excited about learning all the names of the presidents....Or maybe she is just excited about the sound the place mat makes when she bangs on it.