Three years ago today the most brilliant little light came into my life. She is as warm as sunshine, a cheerful little bundle of giggles, the softest little bunny to hug and hold, and in all ways a joy unspeakable and full of glory. I am always tearing up and thinking how did I ever become so incredibly blessed?
Abbey is in that incredible stage of soaking in the world around her. I am not sure who is doing the learning around here. She is constantly asking me to explain things about everything inside our bodies, how electricity works and gets to houses, how car engines work, how fruits and vegetables grow, etc. We go to the library and stack up on books and I now know all sorts of things about valves and pistons, crankshafts, and cooling systems. Now when I see a cherry picker I know about the boom, bucket, and outrigger. She is just a constant sponge for information.
She's also very into writing and wants me to spell things out for her all the time. She'll go through lists of words that she wants to write on the magnadoodle and they are so funny because it will be things like princess, cupcake, parking lot - just random, but in her mind it all works.
She loves making little books for me every day. She colors, cuts, tapes, and writes, many times adding in lift the flap areas and often putting little paper chocolate chip cookies to make it extra special.
Things she does that just melt my heart...
She got an blow up globe that she loves. She calls it her, "Great Big Ball of Love."
She always tells me, "I want to keep you forever and ever, Amen."
When she sees something beautiful she touches the item and then lays her hand on her forehead and then her heart saying that she will keep it with her and remember it forever. She asks me get sparkly fairy cards and other beautiful things she can't reach in stores and hold them down for her to lay hands on and then apply to her heart and mind. How she came up with this I have no idea, but it's fascinating to watch.
Her prayers are the sweetest words and I know they go straight to God's throne.
I could not be more thankful for all that we've been given.
Shopping at The Grove. All the girls made purchases at the sticker store and enjoyed some wild stroller races.
First stop at Disney, princesses and make-up (face painting). Perhaps due to Katie's influence Abbey branched out from Fantasyland and enjoyed Thunder Mountain and Soaring Over Califoornia. Hope to include more pic's with Katie soon.
And as if both of our new schools don't have us busy enough, there is also Abbey's new dance school. She is thrilled to be taking ballet and tap and has the greatest little class and teachers.
She is so excited on Saturdays to go to class. She has turned into a little giggle box that just has the funniest, most contagious laughter that you've ever heard. Once she starts it's impossible not to join in. All things "ballet" and "wedding" now have equal ranking with all things "princess".
Cannot believe that we have not had a moment to post since we've been home! Besides being busy every moment, we still don't have internet access as we thought. Too long to go into but once school gets underway I will have time to get our wireless and computers all coordinated.
Abbey had her first VBS and it was awesome. She wanted me to sign her up again the next week and I told her we have to wait another year. The CD is all she wants to listen to and she asks me please not to talk during her songs because she needs to listen to the words. Makes me laugh because when she was a baby I was so used to being by myself in the car and just thinking and praying that I had to really work on learning to talk to her. She wasn't talking and everyone told me that the most important thing to do was just tell her about everything, but when you've been driving by yourself for years that takes some effort. Anyway, now she wants me quiet some of the time. Here are a few recent car conversations.
