Memorial Day

We went over to our friends the Freemans for a Memorial day BBQ. Their daughter, Charlotte, is 10 months old. Abby is almost as tall as her but Charlotte definetly has couple pounds on her. They had fun reading books together... sort of.

Busy, busy

So much going on. Here's a few random shots of growing girl.

Chewing on her hand again.

Sitting in the garden outside her bedroom window.

Kisses from Daddy

Look she can already play piano with two hands!

Proton & Abby chillin'

Abby's cool new bathtub

No Air

No - I'm not talking about the Jordan Sparks song.

I'm talking about our air conditioning, it's broken. We just put it in a year and a half ago. Not cool. So Abby and I are sleeping in the basement tonight. Dave will too, but he's not home yet and we are already in our jammies because Abby crashed at 7:30 and I'm right behind her.

She had mixed veggies for dinner, carrots and peas. She was very unimpressed I think the weather plus the fact that shes just not a huge pea fan played into that. I like to think I've adjusted to Missouri summers but no way am I sleeping in this heat.

After dinner we played with Proton in the basement its probably 20 degrees cooler down here. It feels wonderful!

Check out her cool drool cap, don't worry I put pj's on her before bed.

Tonight Dave is off shooting a wedding with his previous mentioned friend Kai. So the air problem is on hold until tomorrow when his dad can come over and help figure out what is wrong. Let's hope it's something they can fix on their own.

Like my flowers? A potential guest (owns a flower shop) sent them to me, they want to get on my Saturday show to talk about a deal they have right now. I'm not having them on but the flowers are nice.

Exhausted

Busy day for the Pleimann girls. We had a morning playdate with Kari & Kyle. Kari and I worked together at The Picture People during college and Kyle is 3 months old. Abby was only interested in Kyle when I held him the rest of the time she was too busy sitting up and drooling everywhere!

Afterwards we headed up to FOX2 for a bbq/dessert contest. The winner of the contest gets a free personal day, 2nd prize gets half a day, and 3rd a bag of FOX2/CW11 goodies. I'm hoping for first. I don't know the results yet but I do know that after the judge had a bite my dessert disappeared rather quickly. I made candy bar pie, it was the only cold dessert. Everyone enjoyed it because it was close to 90 degrees and there was no shade. They also served lunch and had a bocce ball tournament. We had a quick meal, chatted up some channel 11 people I don't get to see too often and headed home. Abby was hot and so was Mama.

Like I said earlier I didn't have a camera but this is what Abby looked like when we got home.

Yep, that's an upside down Ribbit in the corner, he had a rough day too. Exhausted

Six Months Old

Today Abby is six months old. The weather was wonderful so we spent over an hour out in the backyard. Abby sat by herself, playing with her toys and watching Proton. It's amazing how quickly she has conquered sitting on her own. Abby enjoyed playing with the grass, she really wanted to eat it.
She's just too cute. I can't believe how fast the last six months have flown by. We love you Abacus!

Snack Time

Abby's favorite snack!

Family Portraits

On Saturday we had our friend Kai take our family portraits. Kai and Dave have been friends since high school and we all worked together at The Picture People in college. Kai is currently trying to start his own photography business. So we were his test family on Saturday. Despite trying to push her tooth through Abby was a trooper and did a great job. You can check out more of Kai's work on his website http://www.essence.carbonmade.com/.