Eight months old!

Our little Abigail is eight months old. This week she's started waving bye bye and hello. It's a closed fist wave, but it melts our hearts! She's so friendly to everyone and loves to watch people, especially new people.

We are still making all of Abby's food and she seems to enjoy everything so far, except cauliflower -- she hated cauliflower. Next week she'll be starting a new daycare that's a little closer to our office in Fort Smith and part of the church we will be attending.  

She's still only crawling backwards, but this week she's started a spin move while sitting upright. It allows her to get a full 360 degree view of the world around her. She is continuing to become more vocal and has a whole repertoire of vowels and consonants.

 We are loving this warm weather too. It's been so beautiful outside and there are even flowers blooming! Abby wasn't too sure about them at first, but she quickly started exploring.

Much love,
Moises & Jennifer

Family visit

What a great week! Mommy and daddy attended a conference at the end of the week and Abby had so much fun with her school friends in Irving. Her teachers had missed her and Abby missed them too.

This weekend cousin Reece came for a visit! The girls are finally at ages that they recognize, acknowledge and interact with each other. Trying to get the two of them to look at the camera and smile was somewhat difficult, but we got some great shots.

Much love,
Moises & Jennifer

Finger Foods!

Abby is now eating three meals a day, in addition to her usual milk intake. She's also started developing her fine motor skills and is picking up finger foods and putting them in her mouth. She especially loves Ritz crackers but she's not really a fan of these yogurt bites that mommy got for her. Ginger really enjoys them though and is more than happy to gobble up any items that Abby accidentally drops to the floor.

Abby has also learned how to clap, give kisses and even high five. High fiving is daddy's favorite, but mommy loves the kisses. Even if they are open mouthed, sloppy wet kisses.

It seems that along with the new daycare Abby has now been introduced to a whole new pool of germs and has brought home a nasty cold and stomach bug. She was not able to go to school on Friday and then mommy and daddy woke up yesterday with a yucky stomach bug. Fortunately, it's slowly passing and she seems to be feeling a little better, once she finally started eating some solid foods again.

 Tomorrow, we are heading back to Irving so we can attend a conference in Fort Worth.

Abby sticking out her tongue at lunch last week.

Bath time in her new tub!

Much love,

Moises & Jennifer



Abby our little Valentine

Well, it's been a very busy couple of weeks for the Ledezmas. We are settling into living in Fort Smith. Over the last couple weeks we've been trying to get our house in Arkansas organized and have been learning the ropes at our new job at BIC. We've really enjoyed every minute of it, but we are looking forward to the time when all the "dust" from the move is settled.  Abby has also started a new school, which was almost as hard as the very first day of school for mommy. Fortunately, daddy was there to help mommy stay strong. 

Abby celebrated her very first Valentine's day too! She's our sweet little angel and we can't imagine any better way to spend the day than to spend it with her and each other!

One tough cookie

Yesterday we took Abby to the doctor because she was having some yucky discharge coming out of her left eye. Turns out the little girl has pink eye and a double ear infection! Before diagnosing Abby with the ear infection the doctor looked at Abby's ears and asked us if she had been acting sick. Our answer was, no, she's been her usual self; she's been eating well, sleeping well and playing well. The doctor was shocked that Abby hasn't exhibited any symptoms, other than the gross eye stuff. We hated the idea that she's had these ear infections without us realizing it. She's been one tough cookie. We've gotten her eye drops and some antibiotics to take care of the infections.

At the beginning of the cold/flu season Abby's doctor (who we love by the way) told us that Abby would probably have at least one cold a month until the season was over! Well, as much as we hoped she was wrong, she's been dead on correct. We sure can't wait for this yuckiness to be past us. Even if Abby seems to be feeling well, we still don't like the idea of her being in any kind of discomfort.

After the doctor visit Abby and Ginger had some "cuddle" time. It's amazing how gentle this giant dog is with Abby. She seems to know that she can't be as rough with her as she is with us and will always follw the parent that has Abby.

Much Love,

Moises & Jennifer

7 months old!!

Abigail is 7 months old today. She's still growing by leaps and bounds each day. She's still babbles away and can say many different consonants sounds, da da, ba ba, ma ma. She doesn't know what she's saying, but she likes to just babble away, especially when she's playing by her self on the floor or in her jumper.

We think Abby may have some slight sensitivies to the preservatives in the jarred food we've been feeding her so this weekend mommy & daddy started making Abby's baby food. She really seemed to be more interested in playing with the steamed sweet potatoes and brown rice rather than putting it in her mouth. However, we're sure she'll get the hang of the new flavors soon.

 Much love,
Moises & Jennifer

Being a lady...

 Earlier this week mommy and Abby went out to dinner with one of mommy's friends. It was Abby's first time to sit in a "big girl" high chair at a restaurant. No more car seat sling for little miss Abs! Abby wasn't quite sure what to do with the high chair since it offered quite a bit more room than her high chair at home. So she decided to lean back and prop one of her legs over the front bar of the chair. She's such a lady.

Also, this weeks she's developed a "fake cough". Mommy thought she was really starting to cough, but quickly realized that Abby finds it funny to make the cough noise. Her teachers at school also brought up that Abby is using the fake cough to get their attention and quickly giggles when they look her direction. She's going to be quite the ham.

Last night Abby and Daddy got to have a great face-to-face conversation via face time. Abby kept touching the screen and couldn't figure out why she could see daddy, but not really touch him. It was really cute to watch so mommy tried to catch a picture of it without letting the iPad fall over.

Much love,
Moises & Jennifer