Plastic Up Her Nose

Abbigail thought it would be nice to shove a small piece of plastic up her nose. It was a white plastic piece from one of those pencils that has 10 of them inside of it, and when the lead is dull, you move it to the top and down pops another one. Luckily this one did not have lead in it, but I'm still not sure where she found it. I thought I had thrown away all of those pencils and pieces since I was sick of finding them everywhere. I do believe that it may have been at the bottom of the crayon box, which she dumped all over the floor yesterday.

She was in the other room with the kids while I was making dinner and she started to cry. I assumed that the kids had done something to her, so I went in to check on her. She stuck her finger up her nose and I told Jeremy that she was getting tired (she tends to pick her nose when it's bedtime, don't ask me why), since she hadn't taken a nap. She continued to whine and I asked her if she wanted to go see the baby kitties. Once again she touched the outside of her nose and whined. I decided to look to see what was the matter, and there it was, a piece of white plastic. I freaked out and started looking for tweezers. when I cleaned the bathroom on Saturday I was sure I had found several pairs, but in my panic moment I could find none. Jeremy ended up finding a very small pair of scissors and thankfully got it out (all while I was searching for tweezers)

After it was removed she wanted to go find her tiny baby kitties...

Every morning she wakes up to find the baby kitties. This morning they were not in the closet they were the night before, so she went and looked in the boys' closet, but no baby kitties. She finally found them under our bed. Abbigail-- being the animal lover she is -- decided that the Mama Kitty needed some food, and put her food bowl under the bed with her. She also brought her almost empty bowl of water into the kitchen so that I could fill it up with fresh water.

We are going to have to lift the bed again and pull the kitties out so she can see them. She can't wait until they are big enough that she can hold them!

Baby Kitties

Our cat had kittens Saturday afternoon (in the middle of Zachary's bed!) and Abbigail is thrilled. She loves the kittens and wants to look at them all day long. It's been difficult to keep her away from them. The mama cat has moved them several times, but Abbigail always ends up finding them. Currently they are in the closet in our bedroom, but this morning when we had woke up she had moved them to the boys room instead.

Abbigail jumped out of bed this morning and went straight to the closet to see the "tiny babies" and they weren't there. This made her very sad. I took her in the boys' room and showed her where the Mama kitty had moved them to. She was thrilled, but them didn't want to leave them alone. I finally had to move them back to our closet so I could shut the door and keep them safe from Abbigail's loving hands. When I went to move the kittens, I could only reach 4 out of the 5 since the one was eating it's breakfast. I put the 4 in the closet and came back to find the last kitten (little blackie) sitting on the boys' floor with the Mama next to it meowing. It turns out that Abbigail was trying to be helpful and picked up the kitten (or strangled it according to the boys).

The kitties are now safe and sound in my bedroom closet with the door closed. Abbigail begs me to go in and see them (and we already have numerous times today). I told her that she needs to wait until they are bigger, and then she can play with them just like Grandma's kitties!

"Nice to Meet You"

... is Abbigail's new phrase. I have no idea where she picked it up but she repeats it all day long! Abbigail is obsessed with my cell phone. I can't tell you how many times during the day I look for my phone only to not find it where I last left it. Once I ask Abbigail where it is, she looks at me like "Duh Mom, it's in my bike" since that's where every Mother puts their cell phone. I have learned to just ask her where it is at before I go on my pointless search for it. I have tried to put it up, but Abbigail has learned that if she stands on the fireplace hearth she can reach the top shelves. In the kitchen, she can reach over half way across the counter and if something is out of her reach she will pull a chair over to the counter in order to reach.

Abbigail decided that she was going to call her Daddy on the phone yesterday. I caught her with my phone *(and this is not the first time she's called him) talking away and saying "Hi Dad, what are you doing?" Then a lot of nodding her head over and over again. I tried to take the phone away from her and she would either run away from me or put her arm around my neck and hug me really tight so that I wouldn't take the phone away from her. I told her to give me the phone and she wouldn't, so I told her to hang it up. She finally said "Bye Daddy I Love you I see you later" and closed the phone.

Waiting for the fireworks to start.

Tired of waiting.

"Row your Boat, Shut the Door"

Trying to beat the heat today, we set up a pool for the kids in the backyard. Abbigail had a great time and is currently falling asleep on me right now as I type this!
While we were in the water, one of the kids began singing "Row, Row, Row your Boat" and Abbigail decided she was going to "do it" and it was the "baby's song".
She began her song "Row your boat, Shut the door, Row your boat, shut the door."

Weight and Height

Abbigail had her WIC appointment yesterday.
When we arrived, her appointment was lost in the "blackhole" but the lady at the window said if we waited (it could be a little bit) she would fit us in.
Moments after we sat down, she suprisingly called us back.

Weight: 27.8 pounds
Height: 34 inches

Which puts her in the 57 percentile for weight and 55 percentile for height.
Her Iron level was 11.7 (but she didn't say if that was good or bad)