Abigail Morgan Slawson Hamann

according to Abby just now "I'm not a baby, I'm a girl", and then clarifying, "I'm not a baby anymore, I'm a big girl!"

a watershed moment? perhaps. maybe this means she'll walk more and not insist she's a baby and needs to be carried. we'll see.

—riffraff

Abby has her very own bed now, thanks to the generosity of one of my coworkers, and, as reported over in my journal, she likes it a lot and has slept through the night twice in it already!

also of note: Abby has an email address now, so she can, in her words, "check her emo". it's puffinsoup@gmail.com.

I realized that we don't post enough in this journal! I should get some pictures rounded up and post them for you all in LJ-land. and new user pics! this one is, like, so baby-era! she's a baby-toddler now, don'tcha know?

—the ever-proud riffraff

pee! in the potty!
soon we'll be wearing underwear!

and as she walks away: "i peed in the potty. rock on!"

i love my daughter.

—riffraff, who's never been this excited about pee before

p.s. i think abby needs a new default userpic, this one is ancient.

overnight, abby learned to pronounce y's at the ends of words. she now sometimes says "abby" instead of "abba" and "mommy" instead of "mama" and "daddy" instead of "dada". right now it seems that she uses the y form of the word when she's emotional about the thing, which is interesting. yay for enunciation!

abby just said "rock on".

abby just said "i love you" to poeticdream over the phone!

yay!

abby now:

• can walk backward (i hear this is a toddler milestone of sorts)
  
• likes clam chowder

abby just said "aww, yeah!"

—riffraff

the setting: poeticdream and i are in the living room making out during a cleaning intermission.

*tonsil hockey*
*tongue twisting*
*robin gives a prolonged stare over my shoulder*
*i disengage my tongue and wonder if i've grown a second head*
*i turn around*

oh, it's just abby downing the last of robin's coffee, grinds and ass and all. mmm, coffee.

we're raising a little caffeine addict, woohoo!

—never afraid to start them young, riffraff

Dear Abigail,
Thank you for being the little tiny bit of sanity I have in my life. No matter how stressed or depressed I get, seeing you smile as you hold a shirt in front of your face and say "Aba? Aba?" will always make me smile. Thank you for that. I really need those Abby induced smiles.

Love, Mom

P.S. I love the fact that you spin when you dance to music. It really makes me think you are my daughter :-)

Abby, you now have your very own Apple iBook. when you are old enough to not poke at the screen you can have it. in the meantime i'll program you some educational software. (note to self: learn cocoa and javascript!)
—your geeky dad, riffraff

tonight abby was running around with a large paper bag over her head. and giggling, a lot. i think she liked it because she could run around, only see things a little, and hide from us at the same time.

she kept bumping into things, and falling down, and giggling.

i told her i didn't want to see her in the darwin awards.

Abby: *eats blueberries and giggles*
Me: What? Are you eating so many blueberries you're getting giggly-ie?
Abby: A'yuh! *eats blueberries and giggles more*

-Mom

If you eat excessive amounts of blueberries, it will turn your poop a dark blue-black.
And, if you poop in your diapers, it will stain your butt a dark blue-black.


~ Mom


P.S it smells really bad too.

As I'm adding books to it, I realized I never shared Abby's Amazon Wish List. Might anyone have any books to add to it?

Today Abby had her 15 month check up. And, as soon as she saw Dr. Howard, she started to scream. Go figure. My poor baby had 5 shots today! Doesn't that seem rather inhumane? Regardless, she's napping now and has been pretty much a-ok since her appoinment (minus a little bit of crankyness, probably from soreness).

Here are her stats:
Abby is 35 inches tall (about two feet).
She weighs 27.2 pounds.

She can:

1. Walk.
   
2. Follow simple commands.
   
3. Drink from a cup sorta kinda. She's better with straws.
   
4. Climb on furniture.
   
5. Walk up and down stairs (with and without assistance, depending on her moods).
   
6. Eat like there's no tomorrow.
   
7. Nurse like there's no tomorrow :-) (Mommy note: Still going strong! Yea!)
   
8. Follow simple commands.
   
9. Take off her shirt. (Mommy note: She learned that one in Wal*Mart yesterday)
   

She can say the following words:

1. Ma'ma
   
2. Da'da
   
3. Home
   
4. Dog
   
5. Woof!
   
6. Meow
   
7. Crack!
   
8. Duck
   
9. Quack!
   
10. Boob
    
11. Please
    
12. Elephant
    
13. Elmo
    
14. Grover
    
15. Diaper
    
16. Hello.
    
17. Up!
    
18. Bye
19. Water
20. Flower
    

I've heard her say, "Hello Speedwell!", "This one" and a couple other phrases, but she doesn't say them often enough for me to say it's in her vocabulary. Abby also knows the signs for "please" and "more"

Like I said earlier, our nursing is going strong. Which I love. Even her toys are well breastfed. We're still cosleeping, I'm not sure how much longer. She's a bed hog! And, I still wear her in a sling or mei tai occasionally.

Abby eats near everything we give her. She LOVES pesto, grapes, olives and goldfish crackers. She eats just about everything we give her, which is good. I hope when she gets older she doesn't get picky like most toddlers.

She loves to swing, and walk along the boardwalk. She loves reading books, playing with her keyboard and piano. She had a couple of favorite toys, mainly Mingo (a flamingo that lives in our car) and a purple and white teddy bear (who is unnamed). She has probably 50 million rubber duckies for the bath.

I think right now, that's all I can remember to write. Dad, do you have anything to add?

<3 poeticdream

abby just spent a half hour barking like a dog.

—riffraff

It's Memorial Day Weekend. Both Kim and I have the weekend off. The weather is beautiful, hopefully a preview of summer. Here are pictures from today when we went to Belfast and Camden:



( Are you ready? Here we go! )


Right now, Abby's passed out asleep. She had a busy day! She's been out since 6 or 7 and probably will be for the night. That's alrighth with me, I have school work that needs to get done :-)

X-posted to poeticdream , riffraff and abigail_m

Abby has this annoying habit of randomly comming up to you, shouting "EYE!" and jabbing you in the eye.

poeticdream

So, maybe sign language is working...

Now, whenever she wants something, she signs (and says!) "please". It's uber cute! I'm working on thank you and your welcome. I should introduce more signs....

Proud. Like always.
poeticdream
Mom

P.S. We really need some new icons!!!