14 Months!

Abby girl is now 14 months old! She has 6 teeth (two on bottom and four on top). The teeth really came in fast after the first one finally popped in when she was a little over ten months old. She's getting faster everyday and really enjoys playing with her doggies. She thinks that all dogs are called "Ginger", which was her first word besides "mama" & "dada". We've been trying to teach her more words and she's been doing well with that and can say/identify correctly "agua" (water) and "pan" (bread). She's really starting to mimick us now and any time she picks up a cell phone, she puts it to her ear and says "hello". We are working on identifying people and body parts. She does great with her belly button and nose, but is still working on ears, eyes & mouth. She is still our laid back baby girl! We love her so much and just love everyday with her. 

Much love,

Moises & Jennifer

  

Erik's Birthday!

Yesterday, we all attended Erik Robles' birthday party. Erik turns one year old on Monday. We haven't seen him since he was born, so Abby & Erik had a lot of catching up to do. The theme of the party was an Arkansas tail gate. So we all wore our favorite Razorback gear and even called the Hogs before Erik dug into his first cake ever. Erik really smashed into his cake and did so much better than Abs did with her cake.

After cake time, Erik opened all of his gifts. Abby was insistent on helping him out even when mommy or daddy tried to get her to sit still.










Before we left, we snapped a few shots of the kids sitting on the couch together. It was pretty cute watching their interactions! Abby had a blast celebrating Erik's first birthday and so did we.

Much love,
Moises & Jennifer

Camper Abby

This past week Abs got her first taste of camping. We say taste because most of her time was spent in a cabin on the lake, but she still got her share of fun time outdoors. Grandma & Grandpa came over Wednesday to pick her up and took her to the campsite on Thursday morning. They kept us informed of all camper Abby's antics. She was having a ball! By the time we arrived on Friday, she hardly noticed our presence. Abs and Grandma were BFFs and Abby was really enjoying spending all the time with everyone.

Abby really enjoyed being lakeside and didn't mind the least bit how dirty she got.

 

Abs loved spending time with Seth. He was so sweet to her the whole time and even gave her a soap bubble kit before we left because they had so much fun blowing bubbles together.

Abby loved her camping chair. She needs to get a little taller before she can get in it herself.

We went to the fishing pier early Saturday morning before it got too hot.

Abby loved the wind blowing in her face.

Grandpa showed Abs how to fish!

We headed to the shade (and cool) pretty quickly!

Daddy and Abs, could they be any cuter?

We're sure that Abby will love the outdoors as much as we do. Hopefully, next year it won't be so hot and maybe she can spend even more time outdoors!

Much Love, 

Moises & Jennifer

13 Months!

 When Abby turned a year old we joked that we would not be those parents that talk about their child's age in terms of months. Just like in the movie Grown Ups with the "48 month old boy". Well, here we are making sure Abs still has her monthly picture. We'll probably continue this monthly ritual until she's two and then every 6 months to a year thereafter. It's hard to remember when she was just a lump of a new baby that could barely lift her head. When now she prefers walking to crawling, sitting up to drink her bottle to being held and isn't even scared of her sombrero anymore!

Her developments now come in huge leaps within a matter of a couple of days rather than minuscule steps over the course of a couple of months. It's still amazing that within the course of a year she is so much more independent than this time last year. We know that this will only continue and that time will always move faster than we want it to with our baby girl. So, we enjoy every minute we can with this sweet girl.

Much love,
Moises & Jennifer

Abby's First Lake Adventure

 Well, we thought it would be a great idea to get Abby's sea legs under her. Abby had other ideas and was not too keen on the huge life vest that we made her wear. It doesn't help that this little girl runs about a million times hotter than others. So, the heat coupled with the life vest made Abby an unhappy camper.

The life vest was so obtrusive she couldn't even feed herself puffs!

Clearly, not happy. 

It ended up being a very short trip on the boat since Abs was so miserable. Our goal is to find a life vest that fits her more comfortably, but still provides all the safety we want. Otherwise, we'll just wait until next year!!

Much love, 

Moises & Jennifer

Sally Kate Turned 1!!!

Abby's cousin, Sally Kate, turned 1 on July 13. We got together this weekend to celebrate at her Aunt Krista's house. It was such a fun time, as always, having these girls together. Their personalities are really starting to show! Even though we were gathered to celebrate Sally's birthday, Abby had a couple gifts too. Kurt & Sarah got the girls the most adorable matching chairs that each had their names embroidered on them. Then Uncle Eric also got the girls each a stuffed animal. Sally LOVES animals so she kept squeezing and giving kisses to her new friend!

The girls hardly sat on their own chair, but they loved scooting them rolling over them and having some "refreshments" while lounging in the furniture just for pint sized people! Who knew, one year olds would love furniture so much!

After present time the girls went swimming in the pool. Mommy & Daddy forgot their bathing suits, which was a bummer for us because it was HOT, HOT, HOT! Good 'ole Arkansas summer! Aunt Sarah and Uncle Eric took turns swimming with Abs.

All in all it was a great day to celebrate a sweet girl! We loved being there with everyone!

Much love,
Moises & Jennifer

Bottles to Sippies...

We had Abby's one year check-up on July 3, yes we are a little behind in posting about it. She had a great report on all things developmental and health related. She was 30 inches tall and 20.7 pounds, both of which put her in mid-range percentiles. With her transition into toddler hood, we also started a whole new range of fun and exciting experiences. Namely, no more formula for Abby, she is all whole milk now. She started whole milk on July 9th and has done beautifully. As a matter of fact she hasn't had any formula since that day and we've already started the process of weaning her off the bottle completely. We also have changed her daily routine to include twice daily teeth brushing. Most of the time it ends up being Abby getting her tongue brushed because she sticks it out, but it's all part of the learning process! Abby is really starting to take off with the walking, she now prefers to walk instead of crawl. This really just started in the last week or so. Before then she would walk if we asked her to walk or if she really wanted to walk, but now she's cruising around the house.

 Here's a few more catch up pictures of Abby from earlier this month. The first one is of Abby in her sweet new wagon from her Uncle Samuel. He had it customized just for her first birthday, it's way cooler than the ones mommy & daddy remember from their childhood. Abby loves taking rides on it around the block. 

We also snapped shots of Abby playing on her patio set from Uncle Kelly and her picnic basket from Aunt Margaret. Abs hasn't quite mastered the art of getting into and out of the chairs yet, but she does use them as walkers to go around the living room!

Much love, 

Moises & Jennifer