I'm 1 year old!

How time flies...it is amazing to think that Abigail Elizabeth Conn graced the world with her presence 1 year ago! April 21, 2010 was the best day of our lives...and every day since we have been blessed with her joy and happiness. Now it seems like we've always had her around...she is such a sweet baby and despite her ability to play hard and be extremely busy, we love every moment with her! She had a fun birthday party at our house with family and friends. One of our previous posts was about her becoming a big sister...which we pray she will someday become. However, it won't be in September as we had thought...we lost her little sister on 4/15. We are sad that this has happened but we have sweet Abigail to focus all of our love on right now. Abby continues to amaze us every day with her ability to make us laugh at the smallest things. Her new tricks include putting up 1 finger when you ask how old she is, taking a few steps by herself, and saying about 10 or so words, including mama, dada, fish, dog, cat, clock and some derivation of "Elmo". She loves that furry red guy for some reason...and that big purple dinosaur too named Barney. Daddy can't stand the purple guy but sometimes we just have to put him on so she will be content:) She eats really well...all table foods. Her favorites are peas and cheese. She's not a big fan of the whole milk yet out of the sippy cup but we and the daycare are working on that! Abby's had several ear infections that led us to the ENT doctor this week...so we may end up with some ear tubes but we are trying one last round of Amoxil this week (after 3 Rocephin shots last week) to get rid of them. I think she has mommy and daddy's ear plumbing...both of us remember having lots of ear issues when we were little (though our moms don't seem to think we did). Here are some pictures of Abigail at age 1!!!!!!

11 months old (a little late:)

Hey Everyone...it's hard to believe that our little girl is going to be one soon! She is actually now 2 weeks shy of 1 but it's been busy here so hence the late post. Abigail keeps mommy and daddy very busy. We have now had to officially babyproof the house. Well, we are still working on it. Our little stair climber made it necessary for a gate to be put up so she can't crawl over to the stairs 20 times in a row to climb them. She is SO ready to walk now...and took her first 3 steps on Sat. 3/26...walking from mommy to daddy! We were so thrilled to both be able to see this huge milestone! Not that she has done is since, but she is getting very ready. She stands without holding on for a while...and is cruising around the furniture. At daycare, she has just this week been "promoted" to the toddler room. I think they did it a little early because she's been spending her days crawling under the cribs and trying to push them across the room. Our monkey girl is doing SO well in the new room. She has taken 1 1/2 -2 hour naps all week...a first for her! She is usually a 30 minute napper...so we are SO excited to see if she still does this on the weekend so mommy can get some stuff done around here! We are anxiously awaiting our big news for tomorrow...finding out if Abby is going to be a big sister to a brother or sister! And staying busy w/ our first birthday party plans:)))