Full of New Surprises

It seems like it has been a long time since Abrielle has had several firsts occur. What a fun last couple of weeks. Abrielle is in love with being outside. She would stay outside with her hands freezing cold all day before she would want to come in. She loves the snow. We got to go to Mammoth CA to snowboard for three days a couple weeks ago. She had so much fun. We of course had our own little sledding area out of the porch of the lodge. She would convince anyone she could to take her outside by bringing them her snow clothes. Before she even eats breakfast she is looking for her jacket and shoes so she can try to convince me to go outside. Today she got her shoe on over her pajamas. She loves to eat snow. She will just bend over and put her whole face in the snow to get a bite of it. We compromised one night and gave her a cup of snow, which she thoughtfully shared with the dogs, Ellie and Caneel. The other morning she was babbling off some long old jargon and then ran into her room, and got two boots out of her closet, one rain boot and one snow boot. Both are too big. She put them on herself and brought me her jacket. As you can sort of see she is still in her pajamas.

Abrielle has had several firsts the last few weeks. She learned to unlock the doors in the house. She now will try to turn any lock she can reach (even during music class). She is a little obsessive about some things. Locks, shoes, being outside and playing with water are what she loves right now. She also learned to get water out of the fridge. I came into the kitchen and there was a swimming pool of water and she was soaked head to toe with cold water. I got home the other night and asked Brent why her doll is soaked thinking she took it into the tub. Brent said she tried to give it a drink. If I give her a cup of a little water in it she enjoys pouring it from one cup to another. Surprisingly she usually does great poring spilling very little then spilling the whole cup by kicking it over or something when she moves to get another cup. Abrielle also entertained our Bible study last night when she learned to climb out of her crib. We all were entertained as Brent was on a mission to find out just exactly how she gets out. All this to say we have had a great last few weeks enjoying Abrielle.