25 Things Tag About Abby

So I was tagged for "25 Things About Me" on Facebook, so I thought it might be fun to do "25 Things About Abby." So here I go:

1. She LOVES movies that are about monsters or have monsters in them. (Spiderwick, Wizard of OZ, Monsters Inc., Scooby Do).
2. She is a jokester. Abby will do something, then ask you if it was funny.
3. Abby has a sweet heart, she makes sure she says sorry.
4. She loves McDonalds chicken nuggets.
5. She is a night owl and is hard to get going in the morning.... Wonder where she got that???
6. She loves school.
7. Belle is her favorite princess, Ariel number 2.
8. Abby loves to wear dresses.
9. Her speech is clearing up.
10. She loves Diet Pepsi.... Wonder where she got that???
11. Abby is very independent; she likes to dress herself, decide dinner, open and close the doors on the house, comb her hair...
12. She is a big helper: helps me pick out shoes, helps me dust, helps Mike button his Sunday shirts, gets us soda out of the fridge, takes dirty clothes downstairs, fold clothes...
13. Abby LOVES wearing a ponytail.
14. Abby LOVES chocolate, but not with nuts or toffee.
15. Abby LOVES the color pink.
16. Anytime Abby wants to do something and me or Mike offer to help, she tells us to "Wait".
17. Abby loves getting pedicures with mom. So does mom!
18. Abby loves the polly pocket princess dolls.
19. Abby loves books.
20. Abby loves to boss the cat and the dog.
21. Abby loves to cuddle.
22. When Abby is happy, she will sing to herself.
23. Abby makes Dad play Barbies with her.
24. Abby is starting to know her letters by sight.
25. Abby loves to take baths.

Update: January 2009

Abby wearing her precious makeup!

I can't believe it is January. This month the Preas' family stepped up our signing. We now have what is called a Deaf Mentor, his name is Brandon. Brandon comes over once a week and we can only sign. I "think" he is profoundly deaf; he speaks very, very well.... but from our instruction through a translator (thanks Paula) we will never hear it. Both Mike and I agree that it will be stretching all of our skill but the end result will be us being able to sign fluently.

While Brandon, Emily (his supervisor), Paula, Mike and I were visiting (Mike and my heads' were swimming at this point), Abby came in and out of the room showing toys, her attitude was very blase'. I found it very surprising, I'm not quite sure how to read her.

This past week.... Well let me backtrack. Abby received from "Santa" some Barbie make-up. It was a free gift for buying so much Barbie brand items at Toys R Us. I realized during our Christmas Break, after she completely painted Grandma Phillips and herself in the translucent, waxy, and sparkle make-up that maybe it should just go away for a while.

Since Christmas Abby insists on excersized her independence to the point that she wants to do everything. Including letting the dog in from outside, helping herself to breakfast from the fridge in the mornings, and letting herself outside for a brisk walk by HERSELF! This also includes getting into MY makeup, so as a goodwill gesture to her, and hoping that she wouldn't get into mine, I gave back her makeup. The first couple days were pretty good. She put her makeup under my counter in the bathroom and didn't touch it after applying some lipstick and sparke to her eyebrows. When we went out, I would just take a wet wipe and wipe her face clean. Well today she got herself ready to go to the sitters. Abby didn't get her hair combed, but did make sure she had applied her makeup properly. I will be estatic when she finally runs out of her precious "Bobie" makeup.

Mike is in his final year of college. This term he has an spreadsheet class... let me correct myself, I HAVE A SPREADSHEET CLASS. I have gotten A's on all my projects, I only have 6 more to go. It's been kindof fun doing this class because I have been able to test my knowledge.

Lastly, a little funny. This week we went to the Olive Garden for dinner. I had to leave for a moment to use the facilities. We are trying to potty train Abby so I told her I needed to go potty. She wanted to go with, so as we went, Abby started skipping and chanting, "Mommy go potty! Mommy go potty!" I was just thankful that her words were not clear enough for the rest of the customers to understand. I am thrilled that that she is talking as much as she is, just not excited about some of her topic choices!

I'm Watchin You!

I'm posting this video because it makes me laugh. Abby started doing this one night... we didn't know where it came from until I sat through the movie "Tinkerbell" much later. I guess she was sick of Mike bugging her. It was so funny, that I ran down to get the video camera and we had her do it again.

"Not the Official Christmas Dress"

I haven't posted for quite some time. Before sitting at my desk tonight, I was thinking that it would be hard to post new items. I was completely unfocused, however, upon looking at all the videos and pictures I have taken these past weeks, it looks as if I was mistaken. I have been meaning to post the following video for several weeks.

Spa at the Preas'

First off, I have to say, "Sorry family... I had quite a bit going on during the holidays, that I didn't get many pictures :(". We did get a few... so this post is going to be mostly pictures. Abby received one of those Barbie Styling Heads and robe for Christmas. The styling head came with lots of accessories... Instead of styling the Barbie head, she has been using the accessories for her own use...
Abby was upstairs in my room that afternoon enjoying her "nails". I went looking for her and found her watching QVC, she was deeply engrossed watching the mineral makeup application. It was so funny I had to take pictures!





P.S. She loves the robe SO much, that she didn't take it off for THREE DAYS! Even then, I had to coax her out of it.

Christmas Morning 2008