Utah, here we come!

Hello all!

As many of you may have heard by now, we are finally moving back to Utah!  Oct 2nd is moving day, which is a week and a half way, which kind of stresses me out to think about.  It’s very bitter/sweet because we have a lot of really good friends and neighbors here that we hate to leave.  We’ll miss our first home that we built here in Maricopa, that we unfortunately have to short-sell However, we have been trying to get to Utah since January of this year to be close to family, and we’re so excited it’s finally happening.  We can’t wait for 4 seasons again, and everything that comes with them.  We’re excited to have Abby (and baby #2 on the way) grow up near all of her extended family, including one cousin so far, aunts/uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc.!

Here’s the update on Abby:

Her newest thing is fitting her feet between the bars in her crib and kicking her feet really loud against the wall, over and over again, to let us know she’s awake!  She also loves to sleep with her legs sticking out of the bars of her crib, and her knees resting on the bumpers, so funny.  Joe and I always go into her room right before we go to bed to put the blanket back on her, make sure her binky is within reach, and we usually have to make sure all body parts are in the crib, haha!

Like I had mentioned in a previous post, Abby has switched to one nap, but toward the beginning of Sept she went back to 2 naps, and now she’s back to one.  It just depends on how cranky she gets in the morning.  I try to be consistent and keep her up until her 1 nap nap-time, but some days she just won’t have it.    Part of her fussiness lately has been due to her teething her one-year molars, no fun!  The poor lil goose!  Her gums are so swollen and it just looks so so painful.

I’ve also mentioned before that Abby LOVES to read!  She reads during diaper changes, in the middle of play-time, and of course we have our family story time before bed.  One of her favorites is Baby Elmo.  It’s a story about “how big is baby elmo?” and goes through all the big kid things he can do.  Then the second to last page, it asks again “how big is baby elmo?”, and the last page is a big pop up of a giant elmo and it says “baby elmo is SOO BIG!”  It is so funny to read this book because she knows when that part is coming and she gets all nervous and giggly and hides her face and laughs.  And lately she’s acted that way throughout the entire book, just waiting for the scary SOO BIG elmo!  So funny!

Not only does this smart girl love to read, but she loves puzzles too, and she’s good at them!  She matches up the horse to the horse, and the sheep to the sheep; and the right shapes together on the shape puzzle.  She knows if it’s upside down and everything.  Then she claps because I clap cause we’re so proud of her!!

A few cute new things she does:  She walks backwards sometimes, so random!  She just started doing it one day, and now she walks in backwards circles sometimes.  I had read that it was a milestone she’d reach in a couple months, but was curious as to if/how/why I would help her reach it, but she figured it out on her own I guess!  She also will walk around with her hands held behind her back, all innocent and cute….little squirt!  She still does a lot on her tip-toes, as if she’s always in heels.  She used to do this when she was smaller and couldn’t reach a lot of things; and there are some things she still can’t reach, but sometimes we’ll see her on her tip-toes for no good reason, it’s pretty cute.  And of course she climbs into and on top of anything and everything she can!  She gets stuck sometimes, falls down others, but she’s so fearless!  What’s cute is when she climbs into something really small like her toy train and tries to sit in it, when she’s twice the size of it, so funny!  And you can imagine with all the packing going on, she’s climbing the mountains of boxes everywhere!  She also loves to help mommy pack and unpack boxes, such a big girl helper!  Oh and we got her a pink toy laptop, which helps distract her from the real laptop sometimes, but will really be helpful for the road trip to Utah!

A couple cute things that are almost daily routines with daddy: Checkin the mail, Abby helps hold it on the way home.  And sitting on the kitchen floor to share a pickle.  So cute!

I think that’s all for now.  I will most likely not post anything until we’re in Utah again, so I’ll see ya’ll there!!

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