Given how much Abigail loves to say her own name, I figured her first properly pronounced three-word sentence would include it, and sure enough, I was right. As we pulled into our driveway after a five-hour car trip last weekend, she looked at me and said, calmly but firmly, “Pick Abby up!”
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Archive for November, 2009
Heavy lifting, bad mothering, I do it all
Posted in family, tagged abigail, family, motherhood on 11.19.2009 | 8 Comments »
I lift up heart, eyes
Posted in family, tagged abigail, motherhood on 11.4.2009 | 6 Comments »
I first noticed it on our flight to San Antonio. Abigail was sitting on my lap, and we were reading a story together, and then she glanced up at me through her lashes and I saw the smallest, faintest little pale grey patches on the white part of her right eye. Upon closer examination, I [...]
All Hallows’ Eve
Posted in family, photos, tagged abigail, holidays, photos on 11.3.2009 | Leave a Comment »
We borrowed an adorable lamb costume from our goddaughter Madeline, which I intended to have Abby wear for Halloween, but then I remembered that I had my old dirndl — sent to me by my aunt when she was stationed in Heidelberg years ago — and I had never tried it on Abigail. Sentimentality [...]
