Category Archives: Abby

Don’t Wake Til Sunrise

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Ever since last week when the time changed it’s been horrible in the mornings because the girls have been getting me up around 5:30 in the morning. Back before the time changed this was pretty normal around 6:30. Last night Jennifer had a great idea to tell Abby that if it isn’t light outside that she shouldn’t get up and should go right back to bed. It worked like a charm and the kids didn’t get up until 7:00 this morning.

It finally started turning cooler and we had highs in the upper 70’s this weekend. It was so nice that Abby, Emily, and myself went to the park this afternoon. When we got there, all of Abby’s friends, Lucas, Connor, and Sarah, were already there playing. They had a great time running around. Emily is quite the monkey. She had me help her on the monkey bars, but she was pretty good at swinging her feet up and then hanging there upside down.

Trick-or-Treat

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Jennifer and Abby spent the afternoon carving our two big pumpkins that we got the other day. Jennifer looked up some face templates on the Internet and carved out some great looking pumpkins. Abby was so excited that it was Halloween that she was bouncing off the walls.

Once it got dark, Abby and Emily donned their Rose and Mermaid Princess costumes. We were out about thirty minutes and got half way down our street before I started hearing “I’m tired”, “I’m sweaty”, and “my wings hurt”. Ah, the life of a Rose Princess.

Busy Saturday

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Today was a busy day. First, we went to a Fall Festival at church. It’s a fund raiser for their pre-school, which is the school that Abby went to last year. There were hay rides, jump houses, games, and face painters. Everyone was amazed that Emily would go up and down this giant blow-up slide by herself. She loved it and kept sliding down over and over again. As the picture to the right shows, Emily got very contemplative during the hay ride.

Later, we had a baby sitter come over to watch the kids while Jennifer and I went to see a musical, Miss Saigon. It was really good, especially when you have second row seats. I originally saw Miss Saigon on a trip to New York thirteen years ago. Back then I saw it from the second row from the back of the balcony. Makes quite a difference being that close.

This was the first time we had a baby sitter come in and watch both girls since we moved into our house. It’s nice to have a regular baby sitter and we hope to use her more so that we can go out occasionally.

Finally, the Texas Longhorns crushed the Colorado Buffalo 31 to 7. It wasn’t looking too good during the first quarter after Vince Young threw two interceptions. Colorado was actually winning 7-0 after the first quarter. It was good that Vince didn’t panic. He brushed himself off and had two very good solid drives which started the steamroller which ran all over Colorado.

Cotton Candy

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It’s been a pretty normal week and not much to talk about. A typical week consists of constantly cleaning the girls’ play room as seen in this picture. Jennifer says that it seems like she’s cleaning it constantly all day.

Yesterday the girls had a Halloween party at church that they went to. Jennifer said that Abby finally got to have cotton candy. Last 4th of July I promised Abby some, but the place we went to watch fireworks at didn’t have any. All the sugar propelled Abby to the bounce house that was there. It had a giant plastic slide and Abby was jumping straight into the air and roll all the way down.

We continued our losing streak in softball yesterday, with a record of 0-6. We were winning 8-1 after the first inning and we were starting to think if the Boston Red Sox could break their curse, then perhaps we could break ours. We got too confident and we couldn’t recreate the bats of the first inning as we lost 16-9. I actually batted really well: 3-4 with 2 runs and 1 RBI and fielding was good in spite of the infield being as hard a concrete. Maybe next week. At this point I just want us to win one game.

The Parade of Princesses

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Today there was a big costume parade at Abby’s school. All the kids wore their Halloween costumes and then they put on a little program with some singing. Can you spot the Rose Princess? It’s pretty tough as Jennifer said that pretty much every little girl at Abby’s school was a princess of some sort.

Block Party

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Today the neighborhood had a block party. Jennifer spent all morning making cup cakes with Abby helping out for Halloween sprinkles on top of the cup cakes, or as she calls them “pup cakes”. It was nice meeting some of our other neighbors, but we pretty much hung out with all the neighbors that we already knew. A fire truck from the local fire station arrived and Abby got to climb through and sit in the driver’s seat.

Today’s picture is another one from The Picture People. This time it’s the Mermaid Princess sitting alone.

The Rose and Mermaid Princesses

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Well, my Astros were not successful at making it to the World Series. They put up a great fight and once again I’m watching the NLCS go to a game seven where the Astros were not successful. The last time was in 1986 against the Mets. Hopefully they will be able to retain Beltran and Clemens and try at again next year.

A couple of days ago the girls went to The Picture People and had their picture taken in the Halloween costumes. Today’s picture is of the Rose Princess and the Mermaid Princess together.

We’ve had a couple of problems with Emily taking off her clothes after she goes to bed. We go into the girls’ rooms to check on them when we go to bed and the last couple of days we’ve discovered Emily buck naked, cold butt up in the air. Well, we had the same problem with Abby when she was Emily’s age. The solution: put some tape over the weak Velcro tabs on her diaper so that it’s tougher for her to open up her diaper.

No Singing

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We went to church this morning with the expectation that Abby would be singing. We were getting her ready to go into the church and she collapsed into a heap crying. She didn’t want to sing. She enjoys singing, and has sung in front of the church before, but I think we sprung it on her too soon. Last time we talked about her singing in front of the church several days in advance. This morning we told her as we were driving to church. Bad parents.

Besides the church incident, there wasn’t much going on today. The Astros came back and won their game against the Cardinals to tie up the series 2-2. Only two wins away from the World Series.

Longhorns & Astros Win

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Today we didn’t do much that was out of the ordinary. We went to our usual Saturday morning breakfast. Abby went to one of the neighbor’s 2nd birthday party. Emily wasn’t feeling too good so she and I stayed at home and watched the Longhorns and Astros.

The Longhorns were victorious today over Missouri 28-20. Overall I didn’t think they looked all that great. Their passing game was horrid, with Vince Young throwing two interceptions. Perhaps I’m still bitter over the loss to OU.

The Astros were also victorious over the Cardinals 5-2, but the Cardinals are still winning the series 2-1. Clemens pitched a great game all the way into the seventh inning, which is where the Astros pitching was failing in the last two games. Beltran is awesome. He has had at least one home run in every game against the Cardinals. Hopefully the Astros will be able to sweep the Cardinals at home and then win one more in St. Louis to go to the World Series.