4 Month Appointment

Abby had her 4 month appointment yesterday. She is a little older than 4 months but with the holidays this was the earliest appointment we could get =). I was really excited about this appointment (minus the 4 shots and an oral vaccine), because I could ask the doctor about introducing "other" foods and I also wanted to know how much our little chunk weighed. She came in at 14lbs 7.5oz and was 26 in long! So she was in the 75th percentile for weight and 95th percentile for height. She is growing like a little weed =) Abby loves the doctor that we go to. She always just watches what she does and smiles. It is just when the doctor leaves she knows what is about to happen to her and lets us know. She did very good this time with the shots. She just cried a little bit when she was getting the shots and this time we had kind of a slow nurse, so that just prolongs the pain. I love it when the nurses have the shots open and lined up and they just go a quickly as possible. This one was kind of fumbling around but Abby did a great job despite the slow pace.

The doctor was as excited as me about introducing new foods. We have to start out slow and steady introducing one new food (veggies first) every 4-5 days just in case she is allergic to anything. I got a baby food cook book for Christmas and I stopped by the library today to pick up another one. So before I start I am going to read up on some stuff first. It looks like the first food Abby will be trying will be sweat potatoes. mmm. We will have to video her reaction =). She has already been practicing with the rice cereal and has been doing great with the spoon and swallow technique!

Polar Bear Plunge

So I decided to start out 2009 with some STUPIDITY!!
My younger sister, Jayna, myself, and a friend from church, Daniel, decided to do the annual North Beach Polar Bear Plunge. Basically what you do is on New Years Day jump into the Chesapeake Bay. Smart, right??

We all successfully did it, and might I add, Daniel and I went topless too!!
Let me tell you, it was extremely refreshing to go into the water, but man was it freakin cold.

On a sad note, I decided while I was running/waddling into the water to roll my ankle over. I was planning on going full into the water much farther up to prepare myself, but when I got about thigh deep in, my ankle buckled, and I as you would say, "Tipped Over".

I did something similar to my other ankle last year, but that was much worse and painful. Jayna said she saw me running into the water, then all of sudden I just fell over.

I got up, realized what I did, and hoped over to Christina for sympathy. My ankle got pretty swollen right when we got out of the water, and not so fun to walk on. As you can see there are not a whole lot of pictures after the run into the water, bc I was not very photo-genic at that moment.

We went over to the Ambulance just to make sure everything was ok, since they had one there, and he asked me if I was in any pain. I told him that I just ran into the Chesapeake, and boy are my arms tired!!hehehe. No I told him everything was pretty numb so I could really answer the question. He said it just looks like a bad sprain and to do the usually for the healing process.

So now I get to tell people I screwed up my ankle again, however, this time it was jumping into the Chesapeake Bay in January.

Teeth

Our little pumpkin finally got some teeth, and they grew really really fast!

Always playing catch up!

Abby had her first Christmas! She was definitely NOT as interested in it as her mom and dad. She woke up about 7am on Christmas day so I fed her and we decided to go downstairs and open presents. She made it through about 2 presents and was ready to go back to bed. She only had about 3 presents so we were kind of planning on the lack of interest (and we knew her grandparents and aunts and uncles were going to spoil her!) After she woke up from her nap we went over to say Merry Christmas to Ma-moo, Pop-pop, and Aunt Jay-Jay. Then we were on the road to NC. We drove over 1000 miles over the weekend visiting family and friends. The first stop was visiting Grandmother in the rest home and then on to Grandma's house for the Edwards' family Christmas. It was really great because this year there were 3 babies, Declan, Abigail and Sophia! We are expanding like crazy let me tell you! Then we drove to Garner to spend the night with my parents. The next day we went to fayetteville to hang out with Jennifer and Declan. We had a blast and Abby and Declan seemed to get along. Just wait till next year and they are both waddling around =) On Sunday it was back to Greensboro for my moms side's Christmas lunch. We had italian which was such a nice change from the traditional turkey or ham =) Then that night we went to Steven and Christina's for our last Christmas celebration with my immediate family. We had a great time. After we opened presents we challenged each other to the Wii and passed the babies around =)

Merry Christmas Hunny!!

We love you Mommy and enjoy your relaxing trip with the girls.

Christmas at the Garner's

Today was our Christmas celebration with the Garners'. We had such a great time hanging out with family. It is always a lively (and loud) event when you get us all together. I think with every addition it gets more and more exciting! Santa even stopped by for a visit this year. The kids were all able to sit on his lap and tell him what they wanted for Christmas. Abby just seemed to want to stuff her hand in her mouth, maybe it is sign language for food... who knows. She seemed to like him. Maybe she thought his outfit was familiar. She kind of was a mini female version of him today. She was really cute as always =) I am not partial or anything!


This was Abby's Christmas outfit!

Just like her mommy, she is so into her shoes!

Abby meets Santa and loves him!

Abigial got a lot of fun books and toys for Christmas. She didn't quite know what to do. Just wait till next year!

The kids got a Wii =)

The Twinkies - Elsa and Abby got the same Christmas outfit...Elsa gave Abby a nice slobbery kiss. It was cute!

Here are all the kids with Santa - It was as organized as we could all get =)

Jingle All The Way - 10K

So I did my first 10K yesterday. I am just glad that I finished it =) I went with a couple of people from work. It was a really nice day for a walk in downtown dc. It was of course freezing in the morning but once you got going I had to start taking off layers. Today I am sore because some of the muscles that were used during the race yesterday had not been used in a while (pretty much pre-Abby) But it felt good getting outside and doing some exercising. I mainly walked/jogged with Alicyn and we both finished the race together at 1hr and 31min. Which is a little less that 15 minutes per mile. Next year I will be able to bring Abby along for the run and hopefully improve the time =)


Alicyn, Me, and Laura after the race - Sorry it is a little on the dark side, it came from the camera phone =)