Summer might really be here?

I think summer might be here...and if not, it's coming soon. Abby is the happiest kid on the block now that she can spend all her waking hours outside as long as we don't have music class or swimming lessons. She loves to swing in her friend Eddie's swing (Her swing set is coming soon, but we don't have it yet!) and playing in her sandbox and water table. She's so happy to be outside in the fresh air where she can ride her trike and pull her wagon. She loves taking walks down to the pond in our neighborhood to look at the ducks and geese. She informed me today that the red-winged black bird we saw eats bugs and fish when he's hungry. 

A- Momma, Birdie
M- Yes a Birdie. What do you think that Birdie eats?
A- "sthish" (fish)
M- Fish?
A- Yes.
M- and do you think he eats bugs, too?
A- Yes. Bugth. Birdie eat bugth and sthish

Smart kid.

Every day she is growing. Every day she is maturing into an incredible little girl. Every day she both surprises me and fills me with pride (when we're not having an epic battle over whether or not her scraped up knee needs a "Hello Kitty" Band-Aid or not). She has started showing me that she can entertain herself and/or stay focused on one activity for 20 minutes at a time and I cannot tell you how relieved that makes me. In two more months, she'll be even more grown up and will have even more independence, so maybe bringing home baby brother won't be as scary as I think. Because if you ask me, it's probably the scariest thing in my life since I brought Abigail home.

Tonight, as her daddy and I were playing with her in her room - reading books and doing some bouncing rhymes on our laps- she decided that she'd like to see baby brother. She can only interact with him if it's with my bare belly, so up the shirt went and down the belly band came and she promptly kissed my belly and gave "baby brofer" a hug. She then proceeded to give him head bonks just like we used to do with her when she was a baby. She said "hello" and "I yove yoo" to him and then lost interest. For those three minutes though, it was magical. I can't wait to see how much she loves him. I'm not naiive enough to think it won't be really really hard sometimes, but right now, tonight, I'm choosing to focus on the amazing moments we'll have. The moments that will probably make me cry and fill my heart with so much love that it'll more than likely burst out of my body. 

You guys, I sure was blessed with Abigail. She's an incredible kid.

riding a broom

Look at that smile!

she loves riding the duck at the park

Abby's 'at (hat)

water table fun!

making some soup while wearing Mommy's old sweater