another day of purple

today was one of those days where i got to the end of it and thought to myself, "what have i even been doing for the past 12 hours?!"  so i looked at these pictures for a little refresher.

when i went to get baby girl up this morning she kept repeating some long and unintelligible phrase about what she had been doing in her crib.  finally she said "i'll show you" and put her legs in her pj's to do this mermaid amputee thing again.  ha.

baby girl decided brady was cold.  also, she strongly prefers this purple side of the blanket.

and since we had no plans of leaving the house, i let her pick out her outfit, which went like this...
do you want to wear your purple pants and skirt?
yeah! and thomas!
this thomas? (as i held up her shirt)
yeah! and a sweater! the purple one!

oh hi there.  i still can't stop staring at your eyelashes.  which will be even more gorgeous if your blocked tear duct ever clears up.

"i'm on your way!"  on your way, in your way, whatever.  i got the message.

i frequently put my phone on silent when i'm taking pictures of abigail... being stealth is important to good kid photography.  sometimes i forget that i have it on silent and then i feel really loved when i see that i was missed for a few minutes.  

add a purple hat and grab diesel... it's time to watch some thomas.

look who found her little bag of long lost dress up accessories!  tiny santa hats, beaded necklaces, and pink/purple floral dora sandals.  i think she's a girl.

this literally made me laugh out loud.  i looked up from what i was doing and was so caught off guard by this cow driving a pink minivan.

naptime!  in purple pj's!  with a purple blanket!

we were hanging out while i gchatted with weed.

then i ran a few things to the mailbox. (does it look like we had a "blizzard" two days ago?)

while i was gone, brady fell down a little.  don't worry, he was still perfectly happy, despite his horizontal positioning.

we were reading this richard scarry book when abigail kept telling me "it's like elle's busy town!" and pointed to this character... "elle has that!  in her busy town!"  i texted jodi and sure enough, her name is hilda and she's part of elle's busy town.

bath time with two kids always makes me feel like i'm great at multitasking. 

when i lifted him out, abigail's towel happened to be laying on top.  i think he makes a pretty cute pink bunny.  he can be a tough guy next time.

i can't remember if there was a reason for this picture... other than that i think he's beautiful.

remember when i found a tooth in brady's mouth?  i've been feeling it and watching it for the past two weeks, rubbing orajel on it and letting brady chomp on my fingers.  then yesterday, all i felt was gums.  after doubting my sanity and fearing hallucinations, i googled it.  based on the many forums i found, apparently i'm one of millions of mothers trying to figure out how their baby's tooth disappeared.

honey has been in texas.  of anyone i've ever heard of, he has the worst luck with delayed flights.  so tonight we texted while his flight was delayed over three hours.  how he functions on 4 and 5 hours of sleep a night is beyond me.  he really is turning into his dad.

so that was the day.  it wasn't productive (i just couldn't find my focus) but it included a lot of purple.  i got a few things done, i enjoyed my kids (brady was in a great mood today, napped really well, and didn't even get fussy tonight!), and ummm, y'know, i just did normal life... like reorganizing my freezer and wearing pajamas all day.  be jealous.

Sick and poop

today was rough.  sunday morning i woke up with a sore throat.  monday morning it was worse.  by monday night i was kind of dying.  then i finally got in bed around 11 and was able to soak up some sweet sleep.  for an hour.  not sure if it's the teething or if brady has what i have but he woke up a midnight, two, five, seven, and then for the day at 9:30.  baby girl woke up for the day at 8:15.  so between my multiple nightmares about our new beginnings program (in one of the dreams, i got there and had forgotten to make the banana muffins that were apparently oh so crucial to the refreshment table), the crazy full body aches, and then the alternating chills/sweats and that time i couldn't fall back asleep for 45 minutes?  i woke up feeling great.  or maybe i woke up feeling like death.  like i got beat up on the side of a road and a good samaritan never came for me.

so my day included wearing my down puffycoat constantly and spending as much time as possible in my bed with my electric blanket turned on high.  when i worked, i never called in sick.  like seriously never.  a few times i remember getting sent home for throwing up on the job, but i never called in sick.  at my nanny job interview in california they asked me how many sick days i took at my previous job and i didn't even understand the question.  they had to explain it to me before i answered that i never took any time off unless it was cleared in advance.  all day today i kept thinking to myself, "this is worthy of calling in sick.  i might die."

and we had our young womens new beginning program tonight (side note: HOLY COW why does it take so. many. hours. to plan something that lasts for 45 minutes?!  sooo much planning and prep and setup, etc.  so glad that it went well and is out of the way now!) and i had to be there because i was part of the program.  and that dream about forgetting to bring was i was supposed to for the refreshment table?  actually true (except it wasn't banana muffins) and i had to drag both kids to the store today in the cold rain so i could get stuff to make the treat.  i bet people thought i was a crappy mom for dressing myself in a puffy coat and fur boots while my kid was wearing a long sleeved tee.  glad no one asked about it because i probably would have yelled/croaked "I'M COLDER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN IN MY LIFE!!!  IF I OWNED A SNOW SUIT, I WOULD BE WEARING THAT RIGHT NOW TOO!"

anyways, it's 10:45 and somehow i survived.  all day i just kept thinking "thank goodness i'm not throwing up.  coughing, sneezing, sore throat, full body aches, and chills all suck... but thank goodness i'm not throwing up too.  especially because i felt too sick to eat anything... so that would have been a pain.

want to know my silver lining of the day?  it's about poop so if you don't like hearing about poop you should probably say goodbye now.

well when brady was down for his morning nap, i convinced baby girl to cuddle in bed with me and bring me books to read to her.  i had the electric blanket turned on high and if i wasn't too cold and didn't move then my body wouldn't hurt so bad (ohmyheavens i don't know if i've ever gotten the aches this bad in my life).  at one point i realized that baby girl hadn't gone potty in a long time so i sent her to the bathroom to do that and i crossed my fingers for the best (sometimes it's tricky for her when she's wearing her footie pj's) while i stayed in my warm bed.  i'm not sure what happened but she came back naked holding two pairs of wet underwear and telling me that TWO undies got wet.  seriously really confused about that.  so i told her to put those in the washer and go upstairs and get some clean undies.  she did that and came back just fine.  so then she's just hanging out in my bedroom talking to me while i'm still in bed, and she looks up at me and says all matter-of-fact...

"I'm gonna go get new Thomas undies cause I'm gonna poop in these."
What?!

you'll have to understand that for the last year or so of her life, she has pooped exclusively in a diaper, in her crib.  never ever ever poops around anyone.  never gonna poop at the park or costco or a friend's house or while she's playing with her toys.  n-e-v-e-r.  apparently she needs her privacy.  so i told her that poop goes in the potty and she should bring me another book.  then i thought to myself, she's pretty legit these days and i'm going to feel like an idiot if she actually poops in her underwear.

so then I dragged myself out of bed to accompany her to the bathroom. Sure enough, she just sat right on the potty and did her thing.

a picture of my sweet girl with her precious little poop nugget.  just kidding, it's a dark chocolate truffle*.

and then she told me she wanted a truffle and i happily obliged.  and then we called christopher at work so baby girl could share the great news.  the best part was just seeing how she was so proud of herself. it made my heart melt.

*did anyone actually believe that?  happy april fools... second.

Come again?!

i am constantly amazed every day at the stuff that is coming out of baby girl's mouth.  and i don't just mean when she sneezes.  she is saying the most hilarious stuff and her commentary is awesome.  my short term memory doesn't work so this will all be very poorly documented but here are just a few things i want to remember.

last night honey and baby girl got in some quality father daughter bonding while i was gone at a presidency meeting.  when i came home both of them were in bed and when i woke up, honey had already left for work.  so as baby and i were walking from the playground to the car this morning i asked her about what she did last night playing with daddy and she couldn't stop talking about pooh bear.  somehow she explained that she watched pooh bear on the big tv last night with daddy.  i didn't even know this was an option but apparently he'd dvr'd a piglet/pooh bear movie of some sort and she couldn't stop smiling and laughing through it all (this was all confirmed through text this afternoon).  yeay sweet girl!  your record for telling me true stories is improving!

baby girl was in the kitchen with me today before nap and she pulled her dirty bib off the counter.  so i said "hey, would you go put that in the washing machine?" to which she immediately said "pllleeeaseee!"  and i about died laughing.  my child just called me out on not saying please.  i wish words could accurately portray the tone in her voice but she was correcting my manners!  so i said please and she was laughing because i was laughing and she happily put that thing in the washer.  then made several requests about needing help with the buttons and how it wasn't getting wet and that it was still dry.

i know i've mentioned it before but one of her favorite things to do these days is grab a chair from our kitchen table and then pull it over to stand on so she can check out what's going on on the kitchen counters.  this is called "standing" and the most frequent phrase is "i want abigail stand."

also, i'm sure it's probably been going on a while and i just haven't been observant enough but this afternoon i also noticed her putting everything in the past tense (well, everything that actually should be placed in past tense) and including "ed" on the end of words that don't follow that conjugation.  like if she fell down it was "i fall down" or "abigail fall down" and now it's "i felled down."  i can't remember the other examples.

also pertaining to time, she's appropriately using "today" and "tonight" when telling me when things happened or when she wants to do things.  she'll tell us that she wants to watch thomas today but that she wants to watch elmo tonight.  ha, she's got it all mapped out.

for a child that rarely says "no" (it's always a different way to phrase that thought), she says "don't" quite a bit, especially in combination with "like."  like today when i got her out of her carseat she'd taken off her socks and shoes.  "abigail don't wear socks right now" and "i don't like socks" were part of her side of the conversation and then she could agree with me when i said "you wouldn't like to wear socks right now?"  also, if one of her friends is bullying her (don't ask why but she prefers those friends above the more polite ones) she'll be whining/backing away from them saying "i don't!  i don't!"  which i can only assume is short for i don't like that or i don't want to share yet or something.  like when lucy was trying to talk her into wearing a dressup skirt and abigail kept repeating "i doooonnnn'tttt!"  so she's transitioned (at least partly) from stuff like "all done wearing socks" to stuff like "i don't like socks" and it's honestly the cutest thing.  i'm loving the "don't."

i'm also just loving the growing vocabulary.  what she says on a regular basis is still not too widespread but i'm coming to learn that she has the ability to say anything she wants.  today she brought me a book and said "i want mommy read thomas and the great discovery" and i about fell over because i've never heard her call that book by it's full name before.  it's also fun to hear her say stuff like "egg nog" because toddler talk is the cutest thing ever.

so is toddler singing.  she's got a variety of songs on her repertoire... the newest being "head shoulders knees and toes" which i've never heard her sing before and today she was singing it on repeat.  and very accurately!  and with motions!  ummm where did that come from?!  took me by surprise.

today when we were at the playground abigail wanted a snack but i literally had nothing at all in my purse that was edible.  so then abigail kept saying "i wanna have a treat at home.  mommy don't have treats in abigail's purse."  ha, yup.

this afternoon after lunch abigail came running downstairs from her room saying "i'm naked!!!  i got elmo!!!!"  it was hilarious.  my friend sarah, aka baby's santa, sent her these christmas elmo jammies (and those pink skinnies in our ice skating pictures) and to say abigail is obsessed would be the understatement of the century.  this kid cracks me up.

"i'm naked!  i got elmo!!!"

reading thomas and the great discovery

dropped it.

and of course there's a million and one things i don't have time to mention and another million things i'm forgetting.  but man, this kid is so cute i can hardly stand it.

it's a hat!

monday afternoon when baby girl finished her lunch, things got a little silly.

 

 

 

also, when i was talking to my sister on the phone she said something and i said "poor emmy!  want me to eat some candy corn and egg nog to help you feel better?!"  and she said yes.

 

i'm such a good sister.

ps- that was the last of the candy corn/mellowcreme pumpkins.  i'm officially free from that bondage.

bath time

when life gives you a diaper rash..

 

take the opportunity to have a nice relaxing soak.

unicorn hooves

baby girl is obsessed with shoes.  including display ceramic baby booties.  i use them as book ends for the collection of books on the bottom shelf of her changing table.  she uses them for dress up.

so yesterday after nap i went downstairs to work on making medals for our young women olympics we were having for mutual and i left baby girl upstairs to play.  then from the kitchen, i heard her voice at the top of the stairs saying "help!  help mama!  i need help!" on repeat... because no joke, she will repeat things twenty times straight if you don't acknowledge her.  i heard a beeping toy i wasn't familiar with and figured it was a big toy that she wanted me to help her get down the stairs.  she's very responsible and will definitely ask for help in those situations.  

well, that wasn't the case.  the toy was a tiny cell phone and the reason she needed my help is because she was wearing the ceramic booties.  her feet are too big to fit in the bottom so she has to walk on her toes and it's like wearing stilettos for her.  as is the case every time i see her wearing these booties, i literally laughed out loud and then this time i went for the camera.

sorry she's naked.  again.  should i mention again that we don't have AC?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and thankfully i got a short video because then they finally cracked.  

although i'm still crying inside a little bit that i didn't get a video of her actually walking in them because that was the most hilarious part.  the finesse with which she could prance around in those things.  they really looked like hooves.

my nakey little centaur baby.

buddha belly

i kid you not, i think it took over an hour for these videos/pictures to upload.  i blame our super crappy internet.  we are cheap and downgraded once the promo price ended.  but century link sucks (they have screwed up our bill every. single. month. seriously?  $149 dollars for one month of internet?  that doesn't seem odd to you?!)  and chris is going to fire them (ps- mitt, we like to fire people that provide us services too!) tomorrow.  hopefully we'll get new internet soon or else i'm going to be lonely without my computer.

anyways... tonight honey made up a new game about driving food.  so a chunk of apple becomes an apple car and they say vroom and drive it and then baby puts it in her mouth and honey makes drastic gobbling noises and baby girl thinks it's hilarious and does it again and again.  so i got out the camera to take a video to which my dear christopher responded "but she's stuffed to the brim.  she's eaten so much it's pretty much over and there's no point taking a video."  don't ask how i got such a video party pooper husband but i did.  but i'm used to this and pressed onward still.  he had a point but i didn't really care.

you see, when we were across the street visiting with neighbors, baby girl had a bowl of grapes.  but then we needed to get leave so i bribed baby girl telling her i'd give her a banana when we got home.  true to my word, i gave her a banana when we got inside.  so you'd think since she'd just eaten a bunch of grapes and a banana she wouldn't be too hungry for dinner, right?  well you're wrong.  once she was in her chair she ate half a tomato, 3/4ths of an apple, a handful of shredded cheese, two full size slices of a spiral ham, and some salmon.  so when my honey said she was pretty much done eating, he had a good point except that baby was actually still going strong.

and now on to the videos... some of them are kinda long.  one is super short.  and they all end pretty abruptly.  because i kept running out of memory and having to take a few minutes in between each to delete old pictures and create more room.  baby girl was seriously so fun tonight though so it was all very worth it.  

salmon cars from the pecan crusted salmon from last week.

sarcastically telling honey "yeah, sure looks like she's full" as she literally threw more apple in her mouth.

30 seconds of nothing in particular

we're laughing because we were startled to see how giant her belly had gotten during dinner.  i mean, her shorts were falling off from the weight of her belly! and at the end, baby was upset because apparently she didn't want the tray pushed in.

i mean, seriously... look how much it's protruding!

this is what it would look like if a toddler was about to give birth.

she's kind sucking it in in this picture because she was laughing but still!

edited to keep this family friendly.  

i love the chiseled definition happening above her hip bone.

and then she got out to prance around in my flip flops before bed.  walk it off, baby girl.  walk it off.

and in case you forgot just how distended that belly was...

forget no more.  some women don't even look this pregnant when they go into labor.  but for baby girl, it's just another day in the life.

today's commentary, yesterday's pictures

there's not a whole lot to say about today.  it involved conference, a shower (literally- not baby or bridal), cornbread, laundry, straightening up, family bonding, and more conference.  although none of those are in order.

anyways, i took pictures (of course) of stuff that means nothing in particular but they're still on the memory card sooo, here're some randoms from yesterday.  we spent the whole morning from 10:30 to 1:30 at ashley's where baby girl had a blast with elsie and beau.  when we got home, baby girl's feet were a little disgusting with dirt and sand from the backyard - side note: ashley said that built in sandbox they put in was the worst decision of her life and they are taking it out asap.  ha.  - so i stripped her and let her hang out in the kitchen sink for a little while and basically gave her a mini shower with the kitchen faucet sprayer.  she hates baths so although this involved a lot of frantic "all done! all done! all done!" there were actually no tears!  there were also no bath towels but as it turns out, a hand towel is the perfect size for a little baby girl!

and i kinda cracked myself up by wrapping it around her like a grownup.  she wasn't amused at all but was grossly interested in her tevas instead.  which were also thoroughly washed.

 

 

this is what i get for attempting to use a point and shoot in low/no light situations.  sad.

 

 

so on that half naked note, happy conference weekend to you!