For the last few weeks Abby has been waking at least once (and often two times) during each night. She just gets up and walks to my room. The first couple times she did it, there was a Gayla-shaped indention on my ceiling. She about scared me to death. I would wake up to a small face staring at me. Now I kind of hear her as she opens the door. Usually she is now waking up because she has to go to the bathroom. This is actually a very good thing! Waking up in the middle of the night from a very sound sleep has been a bit more difficult. For some reason it takes me awhile to get back to sleep. The first few times she tried some stalling tactics to avoid going back to sleep but I was too asleep to fall for any of those attempts and was able to stick to putting her back in bed. In less than a week the excuses to stay up stopped so at least now when I take her back to bed, she just goes right back to sleep.
Anytime Abby sees a clock or watch she will say "It's twenty o'clock, Mommy". I love that. One never need worry or wonder about the time. It is always twenty o'clock.
We had a very full weekend for the holiday. It was a lot of fun but we were both so tired this morning! It was hard to get up for work/school. Saturday after Cai's party, we wound up going to see Over the Hedge. We each gave it a thumbs up. I laughed out loud many times.
Sunday we had a playdate with Kris and Avery. We went to the park near their house and then walked to eat pizza afterwards. Abby was so excited that whole day. And apparently Avery was too. She called Abby on the phone just before we were leaving to go to their house. They actually had a conversation of sorts. Abby has been talking on the phone for over a year now but it has just been the last week or so that she has begun to talking on her own without me being the voice from Cyrano de Bergerac.
So finally, some pictures!
At Avery's house before heading out to the park.
Driving the firetruck.
Wheeeeee!!!!!
Avery loved this tire swing and especially loved standing up on it. Abby tried standing.
But she realized she preferred sitting to standing. :-)
Tired and full after eating dinner.