Swinging, Sliding, Bubbles and Ice Cream!

What a great weekend! It was the first weekend in a long while where our little family of 3 could spend so much time together (family of 4, if you include our furry baby). We shared the weekend doing new things with Abigail, so I took some pictures to mark the occasion and to share.

Friday morning Abby and I took Robby to work just so we could get out the house. When we picked him on that evening, we had to exit off the interstate and tend to a SCREAMING baby in the backseat. I honestly think she is getting more and more uncomfortable in her carseat - she's almost at the weight limit - that, combined with teething = quite a fuss. After we gave her a doll and calmed her down, we just sporadically decided to go eat at Chili's, which was just a 1/4 mile down the road. It was the best, most relaxed meal the three of us have shared in a while! I don't know what made it so good and enjoyable, but just remembering it now kindles warmth in my heart. We got the three courses for two people for $2o meal, which I must say, is quite a bargain. Normally, we will just skip the dessert, but since it was included we chose Chocolate Molten Cake (yum, yum) which has vanilla ice cream on it. We were at one of those two person booths (with a highchair) so of course Abigail could reach any and every thing on the table. We shared her first real ice cream with her.

She would make this face every time after giving her a bite of ice cream - she didn't like how cold it was at first. By the time she ate it, she was smiling and opening right up for the next bite, but I couldn't get any of that on camera. So, even though you can't tell how much she loved it by this picture, take my word - she LOVES ice cream!

On Saturday, after a long day of umpiring for Robby and laundry for me, plus a short jaunt to the mall to get Colby a birthday present for his upcoming party (SIX already?), we gave Abigail a bath to help her unwind. A surprise for her --- it was her first BUBBLE bath!

She is a big fan of the bubbles!

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Finally -- some hair! Look at that curl in the back!

Since a "cold" front came in early this morning, the temperature stayed below 95 degrees today! When it isn't so blistering hot outside, we like to take Chance and Abby out for what we call a "Family Walk." The length of it depends on the weather and how tired we are, but since all was well today, we walked to the park. I put Abby in her first big girl swing (still the "baby" swing - I call it the big girl swing because it's not like her Graco infant swing that we have here), and I also slid down the slide with her. The first slide I took her on was the little bitty slide (it was made for adults to slide with their babies, just not very high). Since we were up and down the slide so fast, Robby didn't get any good pics even though we did it three times. After that, we switched and I took the pics. :)

Swinging - we didn't get too high at first.

Trying to make it go.

My precious sweetheart!

Daddy pushing her a little higher!

After she liked the itty bitty slide with me, Robby took her on the twisty slide.

She loved the last one, so now he wanted to take her on the "Megatron" twisty slide.


Ready?

Daddy loved it; not so sure about Abby.

Chance met a friend while we were there, too.

The medium slide. The last one before we left. It's funny how the moving objects (R&A) are in focus, and all of the still objects are blurry. My camera is amazing!

Over all, she loved it and we will be making many more park trips!