The Weekend

Dear Abigail,

Well, you made it through your first week of school with no problems, or well, no major problems. The nap thing is still not working out as well as we want. You are going to sleep, you just aren't staying asleep...Oh well, if that's all we have to deal with. To Mommy's delight, you are eating everything they put in front of you, including Chicken Tetrazzini!! Mommy and Daddy get a kick out of that for some reason...

Thursday was your last day of Kindermusik for the Spring semester. We're going to take a break this summer since we have so much going on, and start back up in the fall. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how many of your friends are moving up with you, so I took my camera to try to capture a few of the memories since the recital didn't work out to well (member, the 104 temp...). Anyway, here are a few pictures...

You loved the drums today...
And then decided it wasn't a drum, but rather a chair...
SCARF TIME!!!!
ahhh, the baby doll. Every class, you linger around, waiting for Miss Marie to put the doll down, then SNATCH, you grab it and rock it the rest of the class...

puppets!!

Friday night, we decided to give you a second chance to redeem yourself at a restaurant (i.e. we went to Mexican), and this time, Mommy took some advice from a fellow mommy of 3 little ones! I packed a 'fun bag' of all kinds of goodies, and was SUPER prepared. I had these new markers that you can mark on anything, but it only shows up on special paper!! SO NEAT, and so up your alley. You love to 'write' especially with marker, because it shows up best, but you have a tendency to write on stuff that is not paper, even after multiple 'quiet times' - Anyway. I packed these special markers, and Jilly, and a book and your magnetic 'paper' dolls. So we were set. I also put in a special request for us not to go to the 'water fountain' Mexican because you seem to get focused on that and only that, and, well, it goes all downhill from there. So, everyone agreed to meet at the Mexican by our house, and what a treat! You did fantastic. I did have to break out the markers, and Jilly came out for awhile, but I didn't even have to pull out the dolls!! You were really good, especially since we were there for 2 and 1/2 hours! Of course, we realized it had been 2 1/2 hours about the time it started getting bad, but no worries, we were home before you snapped!!! So yeah, you did fantastic. You are no longer on restriction from Mexican!!!!

Saturday morning was a bright and early morning for me and you. We decided to do the Fiddlin' Fish 5K with Miss Leigh and Ryan and Ellie and Aunt Steph, so we had to leave the house super early in order to get to downtown Franklin - but don't worry, we won't have to do that much longer because we're moving right beside it!!! We got there just in time for the race, and when I mean just in time, I mean we literally were the last ones to cross the start line BUT our Mommy super powers came out and we were able to finish with several people behind us!!! It was a nice walk, all through downtown Franklin all the way up to Carnton Plantation and back, and you, my friend, did fantastic!! I had that same 'fun bag' packed, just in case, but you didn't need anything. By the time we finished though, you were ready to come out of that stroller. They had fun music and a park that you could play on, so, we danced and played...

You love looking at dogs, even getting real close, but you will not pet them...

You are dancing (see the band in the background)

After the race, we all decided to stroll through the farmers market. What a nice treat. I can't wait until we're able to swing by there on Saturdays! We even signed up for a bushel of local veggies every other Saturday. Franklin is going to be awesome, Abs!

After the market, we came home, exhausted and sweaty, of course, and took a long nap. Well, you did. Mommy and Daddy went crazy with packing and got it ALL DONE! Can you believe it. Our house is packed, well, except for our daily things, but everything else, boxed up, ready to load!! It was an exhausting day to say the least, and thankfully Aunt Steph and Uncle Jaybee said they would come over and make us pizza!!! What a treat! So you and Ellie were able to play for a little bit and the adults casually relaxed and made a homemade pizza. It was delicious, and Daddy was even able to cook it on his egg! That thing is crazy! I was able to get a few snapshots of your girls after we put your jammies on, but at this point you weren't too crazy about getting your picture (but when are you, right...).

Miss Ellie was constantly trying to grab your lovey and your paci, even though she had her own!
It was a low key, fun night for us, and we woke up to RAIN! boo. Daddy and I were really wanting to take you to the park or the zoo or something since we didn't have anything really to do (member, the packing is DONE). But the rain ruined it. Or so we thought... Instead, we decided to run some errands as a family. So we went to Target, where you behavior was mediocre, and then Toys R Us, where it improved to the point where Daddy bought you a new ball (b/c that's what you needed, another ball...) and then to the McDonald's playground, where your behavior was superb!!!! I was a little nervous about this playground because you are used to the Chick-fil-a playground, which is a little more appropriate for your age, but no worries, you played just fine and dandy in the big kid playground. You even stopped playing to come eat, then went to play some more! You had a blast, now if Mommy can just get over the dirtiness of it all... HELLO HAND SANITIZER!

All in all, a great weekend. I'm so excited your first week went so well, and can't wait for the next million! Love you!!!