February 12 X 12

February 12th fell on a Sunday this year. I had let Abby sleep with her music maker and she wanted to play with it first thing in the morning. It was dark enough when she woke up that I was able to convince her it was still nighttime. We snuggled in her room with her techno light/lullaby maker until the sunshine finally made its way into her room.

Snuggle time with Dad while breakfast was being prepared. She's watching Peep and the Big Wide World no doubt. Abby is still wearing the patch. She's going to have surgery on both eyes in a few weeks. Fluke is freaking out. I'm holding it together. Surgery in general is scary but surgery involving your child is just hard to wrap your mind around.

We made this German pancake. It was really puffed up. After the powdered sugar was applied...

it started puffing out steam and fell immediately. It was super cool to watch. It tasted like sweet Yorkshire pudding.

We were all dressed up for church so we decided to do a quick family photo shoot. How cute is this kid? She packs her own backpack every week for church. It is always fun to see what items she picks. A bed from the doll house! Stickers with no paper! Random stuffed animals! I usually find her a task to work on while I edit her choices.

Here's the best one of the whole family.

After church and just before bedtime Abby had to get some bouncing in. She played with a hippity-hop at her cousins' house and loved it. Fluke bought her this one and she takes it with her to bed (where it gets put up where she can't reach it) and she gets back on it as soon as she is out of bed in the morning.

Pre-bed gymnastics. Every night Abby convinces Fluke to throw her in the air or balance her on his feet while he's laying on his back. Scares me to death. I assume they are doing some pre-workout stretching here.

Silly faces.

Sweet faces.

Laughing at Dad doing something silly just to make us laugh.

Not officially taken on the 12th...we were at the library a few days before and Abby was concerned about this book that was falling apart. She showed it to the librarian who said it would be thrown away unless Abby would like to keep it. She was so excited and held on to this ratty thing all night.