chatting with Daddy

dancing at California Adventure Park

I love days off and being a Disneyland annual passholder.
We spent several hours at Disneyland with Carlene and McKinley yesterday. The girls had so much fun together. We played in Goofy's yard, visited the Princess Fantasy Faire, colored with Chip, took pictures with Santa, then went to California Adventure where we ate ice cream sundaes and danced. The cast member you see at the end gave them both buttons that say "Honorary Citizen of Disneyland."

'Cause I'm the mom!

This is funny!

well, obviously

Me (trying to record more of Abigail talking): "Elmo doesn't have any ears, baby."
Abigail: "No, he naked."

singing

This clip is very short. She just couldn't wait to watch herself on the camera. If you want to see a longer video of her singing in the bathtub, I'll need to add you to my youtube friends.

Nesquick commercial

This video, made by a friend of ours, is a finalist in the Nesquick commercial contest. If you like it, please sign in to your youtube account and vote!!!

talking

She's had a lot to say lately. On this particular night, she had just delivered a 5+ minute long monologue. Of course, as soon as I brought out the camera, all she wanted to do was play with it.

Day in the life

My little busy bee

bullfrogs and hotdogs

Trying to wind her down for bedtime.

so funny, I had to post it

Got this link from my friend Nina's blog.

scenic hike in Colorado

We've been home for a week and I miss beautiful Colorado!

After a cup of coffee...or two: Wordless Wednesday- Dinner in Japan#links

I love this picture of Chloe using chopsticks.
After a cup of coffee...or two: Wordless Wednesday- Dinner in Japan#links

Playing and tidying up

I saw Abigail doing this with her wooden people and ran to grab my camera. I appreciate the fact that she cleans up after herself!

Doing the hokey pokey

Here is the Elmo's World video that we have watched hundreds of times. I think the voice of the woman singing is annoying, but Abigail loves it and frequently signs "again" at the end of the segment.

Beach day

On Saturday morning, the sky was overcast in our part of L.A. We drove down to Huntington Beach and the weather was beautiful. We played for a few hours and Abigail made a couple of new friends, as usual. On our way back to the car, we heard music. There was a band playing praise music. Abigail started dancing. I hurried to get the camera out of the bag. Here she is dancing just a tiny bit.

aquadoodling

animal tricks

Abigail and I went to the LA Zoo last Thursday and saw this gerenuk, also known as a giraffe gazelle, chewing cud. Watch closely to see where the food goes.

Entertaining the grown-ups

climbing and sliding

Fun at the park

More dancing

Little Abigail shows that she's still got the moves!

birds, elephants, and fish

Snow Day for the Big Kids

My sister put this together. Poor Chris was injured so he stayed home to take care of Abigail... lucky girl!

being like Mommy

more laughter

A couple of days after I had made the previous video of Abby laughing, Chris outdid me!

walking in Mommy's shoes

There's nothing like the sound of a baby laughing. She was 7-1/2 months old in this video.

Animal sounds

Chris and I often entertain ourselves by asking Abby to do animal impersonations.

Abby getting down

making me laugh

Here's Abby tasting toasted O's for the first time, back when she was 9 months old. FYI, Trader Joe's O's are the only ones I've found that are wheat free.

Here is Abby eating her first birthday cake last October.

On New Year's Eve we hung out at my parents' house. Here is Abby displaying the attention span of a 1-year-old. And a bonus peek at Oscar the amazing turtle!

Christmas Eve 2006

The girl likes to dance!

Showing off her dance moves to the tune of Learn to Dress Elmo

At the Diamond Bar Snow Fest last month

banging on drums back in October