The other morning Aaron had taken the cushion off this chair making it a little lower to the ground and Abby quickly seized the opportunity.
These are some pictures from last Sunday - Aaron just recently graduated to the big swing!
On Tuesday the kids went to the dentist. They did so well!
Aaron asked for a bagel treat afterwards and I obliged!
Aaron is now in his third round of lessons and has graduated to the classes where I don't have to get in the water with him. He is doing great - we can not believe his progress in just one year!
We love to see him enjoying himself in the water. 
He can swim about six feet on his own.
Last weekend she started standing up on her own in the middle of the floor with nothing to pull up on or support her. And she has started to 'cruise' holding onto furniture.
She's starting to really notice what other people eat and she's starting to gain opinions on her options!
She is chattering ALL the time. Wow is she trying to talk. She is picking up more signs, too.
She gives high fives and she waves bye and she claps her hands. She also pumps her fist when I say 'Rejoice'!
This is a tradition they started last year and it's a blast. Aaron, of course, was more interested in the backhoes than the animals!
Learning to drive
Watching a llama show. He really wanted to get in there and play in the dirt!
Abby checking out the animals with Dee.
Abby is fun and sweet and smiley. She is into everything and everything is in her mouth! She is a super crawler and she loves to climb, but she is nowhere near walking. She pulls up, but she doesn't even try to walk holding on to furniture and she doesn't stand alone.
She is a big eater. At this point she mostly eats vegetables, but she has tried and liked turkey and ham. She doesn't have the vegetarian bent her brother does, but she does LOVE soy 'meats'. She loves fruit except for raspberries. She likes beans. As far as grains go she eats Baby Oatmeal and Cheerios though she did have her first piece of whole wheat toast this weekend and she really liked that. She is still nursing...ummm...a lot, but I have started in the past couple of days trying to wean her down to four times a day. Once we get in a groove with that I'll start really working on weaning her. We did introduce the sippy cup this weekend and she is working on that. She did not reject it the way her brother did and we are seeing pretty good progress already.
She wears 18 month clothes and size 3 diapers. She sleeps from about 6:30pm until 6:30am without waking. She takes an early morning nap around 8 and sleeps for an hour to an hour and a half. She takes a nap right after lunch and sleeps about an hour and a half.
She's got six teeth in and she may be working on a few more. 
She enjoys books (chewing on them and listening to them being read). She loves the Alphabet Train she got for Christmas and Silly Town (the absolute best gift EVER. Aaron got it from Grandma Sheri and Grandpa Tom when he was nine months old. It has been played with almost every single day since. I have plenty of Blog posts with Silly Town in the background). She loves looking outside and being outside. She loves watching her brother and playing with him. It is so fun to watch them interacting now. She LOVES to play peekaboo. Not only does she hide her eyes, she crouches down and ducks her head so she is really hidden. HA!
Given the opportunity, he would do this until he ran out of cleaner!
And Abby got this Abby Cadabby outfit in the same package. It is an outfit with pink pants and it is super cute. It came in so handy today because it was cold and rainy and we had MOPS. I learned that Abby loves hoods! She thinks they are awfully fun and she actually leaves them on her head. Aaron loves hoods, too, by the way.
And this is Abby's Columbia ski jacket for when we go to Breckenridge this Spring. Isn't it SO sweet?
Aaron rode this ride most of the time - we have a TON of pictures with the mouse
And Cilla pretty much stayed on this ride!
Abby spent her first Chuck E Cheese experience munching Cheerios
and getting some lovin' from Rebekah!
