34 Weeks!

Pointing with four fingers is Annabelle’s favorite new thing to do. I think it means that she likes you. Or she is trying to sign something to us with her own made up sign. We are still trying to get her to learn to sign; right now it is simple things like mom, dad, eat, more, milk, dog, cat, bird, etc. She loves to say dadddadad and babababaab, d and b sounds seem to be all she can do right now. I practice mamamama but she wants no part of it. She and her daddy have started to wrestle with one another, he will pin her and she will laugh, then she does it to him. She thinks its hilarious, actually there is very little she doesn’t find funny. She has a personality so much like Jason’s that it scares me. I don’t know what to do with two of them, he is enough trouble! She gets better and better at crawling each day. My friend has let us borrow a table for her to play on and she has turned it into a walker. She will push it, straighten up, walk a few steps with it and then push some more. She had moved it from the couch to the front door a couple nights ago. I just hope she doesn’t slide down it and hit her face. Last night she fell on her butt, looked at me to see if she was supposed to cry or not but I knew she was okay so I laughed, then she laughed and she was okay. She also uses that table to help her stand. She will place two or three fingers on it and try to stand on her own.
She is a pretty brave little girl. This past weekend John Chandler was in the Bluegrass Games and at one of the games a guy was dressed in a plastic blow up costume thing. She had starred at him for awhile and when he came up to her she just gave him that, you are stupid look. I do not like mascots but looks like I’m going to have to suck it up because she does.
I believe she is going to be a nature girl. She loves to watch birds, squirrels and butterflies. We took mom to the Arboretum Sunday afternoon – Annabelle of course loves that place, so many pretty flowers to look at. Her daddy carried her around for awhile in her carrier, but then she got tired and we just pushed her around in the stroller. She never made a sound. Thankfully cooler weather is coming (no snakes) and we can go hiking at Red River Gorge.
I have been looking at themes for her birthday party and so far can not find the one that I want. I know the colors I want and I only want one or two plates that even say 1st birthday on them. I plan on buying most of my plates from Party City (much cheaper). December 11, 2009 is going to be a very bittersweet day for momma!