We had a fun day! As always, whenever I want to get a posed picture, Hannah starts screaming and Abby decides she no longer likes taking pictures! We may actually not get to see Abby’s face in her second year of life due to this new issue she is having with the camera  In the evening we went with Chris and Kelly to Kelly’s parents house. First we went to a small park and the kids had so much fun! Then we walked down the street a block or so to watch the fireworks. We had an excellent view without all of the traffic!

Family Pic

Swinging before the fireworks.

Refusing to open her eyes to see the fireworks!

She opened them and then decided she “LOVED” them. Here she is watching with Daddy.

Abby was feeling pretty good. We decided to get out of the house (finally!!!) and head to the zoo with our friend Maddie! We got to see so many fun animals this time! We were super close to the Hippo! And even got to see a brand new baby giraffe!

Ah… Olivia and her crazy gifts. Abby just loves her Uniqua ears. We wore them most of the day and watched the rain.

We are still trying to get a handle on the reflux. It seems we can usually predict the screaming now. But poor little Hannah is following right in Abigail’s footsteps (if not over stepping). We seem to be catching a few more smiles these days… Enjoy!

Well, time to fess up. We didn’t tell everyone because we didn’t want you to worry… But Abby had a lovely week of Hand Mouth and Foot Disease last week. This is in no way related to Hoof and Mouth Disease that cows get by the way She was miserable. We were miserable. You can google it if you want to know more… but basically we started out with a 103 degree fever and it just went downhill from there. She had these ulcers in her mouth and throat (she didn’t get the hand/foot part) that prevented her from swallowing… ANYTHING. Gah! She couldn’t even swallow the liquid Motrin to help out with her fever/pain. She would try to drink milk or water but would end up screaming after she swallowed. It was so hard to watch. We spent roughly three solid days holding her and letting her cry. She didn’t eat or even swallow her own drool. After those three days, her fever broke and she was eating and drinking a few things. After about a week she was 70%. We are now over 10 days out of it and she seems to be 100% fine. I’ve never even heard of half of the crazy things kids get now. I suppose where I come from Mom would just say, “Yup, looks like she’s sick.” LOL