a whole lotta nothin

you know those days where you feel like you have a lot to say but really its just a bunch of jib jab...welcome to my day!
i will start off with an abby update. she had her 15 month check up last week and it went awesome. and by awesome i mean that while we were still driving through the parking lot she looked out the window and realized where she was and screamed. seriously, who ever said kids dont have good memories needs to come to the doctors office with me some day(or church nursery, equal reaction there). so of course she cries the whole time we are waiting to go back to the room and she totally freaks out when the nurse has to check her weight and height. i am thinking that being a pediatric nurse must be the best form of birth control. they need to take all teenage girls to a pediatricians office and see if they still want to have sex with their boyfriend. if the screaming doesnt scare them the bill sure will! anyways, so that was finished and we were waiting for dr w to come in and see us. we could hear her in the next room talking to a little girl and telling her that she is too big for a pacifier and she doesnt need it anymore. let me just say that i love dr w, i really do, but the sweet thing has no kids of her own and i know she means well but i dont think she is very realistic at times. so she comes into our room where abby is sucking on her pacifier like a champ(seriously, just imagine maggie from the simpsons) and of course abby freaks out because she knows dr w is going to touch her. dr w tells us that abby is 95% in height and 75% in weight and her vocabulary is really good for her age. turns out that her saying "big truck" and "dog woof" is considered making a sentence and when she signs " eat more please", well thats just fantastic. so basically my child is a genius! she also says amen after prayers but i didnt share that with dr w because thats just showin off. anyways, dr w asks about the pacifier and what our plans are to get rid of it. ha, let me tell you what my plans are pacifier nazi with no kids...we had a plan and a deadline and both went down the toilet. dr w says i should just chunk them in the trash because the longer i wait the harder it will be. yep, i will get right on that!

i am preparing myself mentally for the next couple of days. we are supposed to get some pretty nasty weather and looks like we wont be leaving the house for a few days. it wouldnt be that bad, but the wells dropped cable a while back and abby only has one dvd that she really doesnt even watch. soooo, this should be a hoot! i am really glad that we dont have tv and that my daughter(genius daughter) doesnt like tv, but it would be nice to have for these occasions. if anyone has some fun arts and crafts ideas for 15month olds i am all ears! thats all thats going on with the wells these days...see a whole lotta nothin! i will try and get some new pictures up pretty soon, i know thats all you really want anyway = )

Let It Snow!!!

We had such a beautiful day of snow on Sunday. We dressed Abby in her snow pants and coat and she LOVED IT! Ok, she looked at us like we escaped from the nut house, but one day she will appreciate the pictures! This other picture was from last year. Dave was out of town so I decided to make us a little snowman family!
I think she a little more fun in it last year...or she was too young to protest it!

Our well intended neighbor came over and told us that we could take Abby for a ride on his ATV if we wanted to. Ha!!! I just put a granny pantie looking bumper around our coffee table so my daughter won't hurt her head while she is learning to walk. Do you really think I am going to put my 14 month old on a four wheeler?!?! I guess it's the thought that counts.

Christmas Pictures

Ok, I wish I could say that we had such a busy holiday and that is why it has taken me so long to get these up, but it wasn't and they are here now and I am good with that!Our tree started out looking pretty good and ended up like this...weird!

Yes, we actually did decorate the entire tree but one by one the little snowmen at the bottom of the tree disappeared.
Every time she would take one off we would hear a loud "uh-ohhhh" and know we had a man down! We had a wonderful Christmas and Dave actually had 2 four day weekends back to back. I was basically not needed during this time because as we know Abby is very much a daddy's girl!Of course she got a ton of toys, so much I actually had to put some away and will swap them out every few weeks. We like to keep things fun around here!I think the most amazing part of Christmas this year was that Dave's family came down so Abby had both sets of grandparents here and TWO great-grandmas!!! That's pretty darn cool when you think about it.
Another amazing event that happened during this wonderful time was that Abby took her first step at church on Christmas eve service!!! I was so happy because I was pretty sure we would be watching her crawl through the doors of preschool this fall. Jan 5 she started really walking. She is on a roll and she is loving it! I am so proud of her because if you know my daughter she is afraid of any and everything that may or may not hurt her, look at her, or touch her. This is a HUGE step (no pun intended) for her and us. Of course Dave was the one who was able to get her walking. Every time I would try she would look at me like I was a lunatic. Last night Dave and I went out and bought a bumper pad to go over the coffee table. I NEVER thought I would be "that parent" but it turns out I am and I am ok with that!Abby is growing up so fast and it turns out I am not so ok with that.She is talking and signing(she signs more,eat, milk and finished) so much now, I think she gets more vocabulary every hour. Just last night I told Dave that sometimes I just watch her and I can't believe that she is my daughter. Is there any greater blessing? I think not!!!