Ready for Hawaii

Gabby was so excited to go to Hawaii she put on her beach shoes, hat, and got her bucket. She said she needed her purse for the beach, too.

Welcome Maggie Leigh!

Jennifer and David welcomed Maggie Leigh at 9am this morning. She's only 6lbs and 18 1/2 inches, but she is 5 weeks early. Baby and mom are doing great. She's a little doll!

Gabby and David decided that is would be fun to make "snow angels" in the hospital room.

Christmas 2007

Gabby had a fabulous Christmas and got more than enough presents.

Gabby opened one present on Christmas Eve from Grandma and Grandpa DeVaux. It was cooking supplies. She was really excited to have an oven mitt and apron. I made her wait until the next day to make cookies.

Gabby's pile of presents from Santa

Gabby had a hard time going to sleep and an even harder time waking up. Nick forced her out of bed at 8:30. She was really excited about the Tootsie Roll Pops in her stocking.

Gabby in her new Sleeping Beauty costume.

Gabby with all her presents.

Christmas 2006

I was getting my video camera ready for tomorrow and I realized that I had some video from last year(yes, I definitely need to video more!). So I hope this posts ok. I can't believe how much Gabby has changed in a year. We spent Christmas with all the DeVauxs. Notice that in the background Madison is still opening gifts and everyone else has been done for a while. Merry Christmas!

Gabby & David

Gabby loves having David over to play. He came over on Thursday while Jenny was at the hospital (she's fine and home).

They enjoyed a bath together. David thought it was really funny to dump water on Gabby. Gabby didn't like it so much.

David stayed late, so I loaned him some of Gabby's jammies. These were the least girly that I could find. He's holding dresses for the dolls he was playing with. I'm not sure how soon David will be allowed back!

I think he looked kind of cute in Gabby's jammies.

Happy Birthday David! David's party was today. Gabby was gracious enough to assist David in opening his presents and blowing out his candles. It was a fun party and David got tons of great gifts.

Gabby Loves Her Bath!

Gabby will spend up to an hour every day in the bath (some days she'll take 2). There is a very intricate set of rules involving all her ducks. Normally, Green Ducky and Blue Ducky are not allowed in the tub (I haven't figured out what they did to be banished, but she throws them out and yells at them if I try to sneak them in). The pink duck is Mamma Duck and the big yellow duck is Daddy Duck. The duck with swim goggles is Super Ducky. There are baby ducks that are often in time out. Super Ducky does a lot of rescuing. It's pretty funny to listen to her go through all the duck drama.

On this day, she made a train out of her letters for all the animals. I can only assume that Green and Blue Ducky were allowed on the train since it was technically not in the tub.

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!

We got our Christmas tree last week and Gabby loved decorating it. She would put the ornaments in a couple of spots.

Christmas makes me a little crazy sometimes, too!

It snowed about 6 inches on Saturday. Gabby enjoyed throwing snowballs at me while I shoveled the walk and driveway(that is some hard work to do!)

I love this outfit on Gabby. I just got her the boots. For some reason, she wears the hat with this outfit. She won't any other hats, but she loves this one.