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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Overdue update on my Punk-A-Doodle!!

It has been a while since I have bragged on my beautiful little girls amazing talents!!! She has developed so much over the last few months! As of today she is 20 months old, only 4 more months to go until we hit the terrible 2's!! She is the easiest baby in the world to get to sleep, all we do now is say our prayers, say nite-nite, kiss and a hug and lay her down and off to dreamland she goes!!! She sleeps all night long, but has been doing that since she was 6 weeks old (I know...I'm blessed!!) She sleeps until about 9:00 sometimes 10:00 a.m. and goes to bed at 8:30 p.m. She is down to one nap a day, usually around 1:00 and lasts several hours, just enough time for mama to get her housework done!! She has a LARGE vocabulary!! She will repeat anything and I do mean ANYTHING you say!! We have to watch our words! But more than just being a parrot, she learns the word being said!! She has started pairing 2 and 3 words together, and that is becoming a common occurrence. She can hold an entire "phone" conversation. If she wants to talk to someone, she tells me, I give her my old cell phone (so that she cant call china!!) she opens it, presses some buttons and her conversation goes something like this " Hello, hey (insert name here... usually daddy, khaki, dullie, holly, Gracie or aunt e)(today it was Joe!) she jabbers a little bit, then says OK bye-bye!! and hangs up!! Her imagination has no limits!!! I'm not even going to try to list all of the words and phrases she knows, it would take too long!!! She probably knows somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 words or so and can pair any of them together at any given time! Something new today was "Mama, Quit!!" while I was tickling her toes!! She does still baby jabber a lot and rarely does she perform on command (what child does what you want them to do when you want them to do it?) but we have such a blast at home playing and learning. She repeated the entire alphabet to me in the bathtub the other night!! Speaking of baths...she loves them! When I get her out, she wants to get right back in!! She loves to brush her teeth, loves lotion and powder, loves to put mouse in her hair and if she sits still while mama puts her make-up on, she gets a little!!! She can be such a girly-girl and then turn around and want to play in the mud and ride 4-wheelers!! I just love my punk-a-doodle soo much!! But I'm her mama, and mama's tend to do that don't they? Oh, and if your wondering where Punk-A-Doodle came from, it is what I have called Abigail since the day she was born, just my own special little name for my beautiful talented smart independent and loving baby girl!!! There will never be another like her!!!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

3 Musketeers...old and new!!!!

Several months back, Robbie, Abigail and I made the trip to Jonesboro for Labor Day weekend. We had a cook-out at Aunt Vickey's house and had a great time! Abigail loved the pool and playing with her new cousin Presley (Aimee and John's little girl) and hangin' out by the pool with cousin Landon (Amber and Don's son). If you have ever been around the Irby's very much you know who the 3 Musketeers are, and if you don't...your about to find out!! Here you go MawMaw...this posts for you!!!

Robbie and AbigailAmber working on the margarita maker!!Mimi helping Amber figure out the margarita maker

We all had a blast (as you can tell by the pictures,) Cant wait for next year!!!!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

The best mop in the world!

For Christmas this year, my mother-n-law gave me the EuroProX Shark Steamer. Alright wives and moms, I have to say that this is the best steam mop in the world!!! If you want super clean floors, this is the mop for you!!! I just thought that I had clean floors before!! I swept and mopped with lysol and thought that I was getting my floors clean. I was wrong! The first time that I used this mop I was disgusted with what I saw on the pad, now I use it almost everyday!! It is super easy to use and is very lightweight. I am a much happier person when my house is clean (arent we all?) and now I KNOW that my floors really are spotless!!!!! I would recommend this mop to anyone!!! Thank you so much mimi for getting this for me, I have already used it countless times and love it!!! GET ONE...IT'S AWESOME!!!!!