Proud Mama Moment

As you know, Trinity is in kindergarten this year. She is young for her class (September birthday), so she will be repeating kindergarten next year at another school. There are some kids in her class that are more than a year older than her! So I guess I should get to the point of this post; today Trinity received her very first report card (they operate in quarters, not six weeks like I'm used to)! Being in kindergarten they don't receive A's or B's or anything like that, not even numbers/percentages, they just receive one of the three following marks: Student has met the standard, Student is making progress, and Student requires support. There are 34 areas in which they received performance reviews and of the 34 areas 21 were marked "student has met the standard" and 13 were marked "Student is making progress"! Wow! These are standard on which they are graded on from day one of kindergarten and are expected to meet by the end of the year! Wow! I am so proud at how well Trinity is applying herself and how eager she is to learn! She is going to be SOOOO ahead of the game next year, let's hope she doesn't get too bored:)

Okay, I know she's going to kill me when she's a teenager and reads this, but I just had to write it down so she knows how well she's done since my memory tends to fail from time-to-time.

There is also a hand written note on her report card that says, "Trinity is doing great. I'm very pleased with her progress. Mrs. S"

I'm so proud!!!!!!! I love my princess and am always proud of her, no matter what!

Hinckley-Abbott Family Reunion

This weekend we drove down to Houston (well, actually Spring) and had our annual get-together with Greg's aunt and all her kids and grandkids. It was such a blast! There were 11 kids there total and Trinity was the second oldest! It was hard to walk anywhere without almost stepping on a little one! The girls all had a really great time! There was only one girl other than our three, so they got to play a lot of things they don't play at home and the other folks were exposed to a lot of Barbie and Princess stuff they don't normally see (of course the girls had to take a huge suitcase full of Barbie and My Little Pony stuff). The weather was so great (or should I say so HOT) that the kids actually got in the pool...HELLO, it's mid-October! It was amazing to see all those Abbott kids swimming! The two year olds didn't even need floats or anything and they would swim down to the bottom of the pool or from one side to the other...holy cow!

Pops with his baby girls

Trinity and Emory in pool

Emory and Aunt Mary

Nana and Aiden

Uncle Matt and his Ballerina Barbie

Trinity, Cade and Cory

All the beautiful children!

(Trinity, Emory, Aiden, Cade, Cory

Reid, Clark, Brennan, Addison, Drew, Taylor)

I really enjoyed visiting with Greg's cousins and their spouses, it's been way too long! We all get along really well and have a great time together! Every time we see each other we talk about needing to take a vacation together or something and it never pans out. I guess with six individual families and all the kiddos there's just too much going on to really coordinate schedules. We hope this year we will actually be able to pull it off.

and the chaos continues!

What a fun and crazy evening it's been around our house! You'd think we'd each had a Jolt Cola or something tonight! For those of you that don't remember Jolt, it had twice the sugar and twice the caffeine, it was before all this Red Bull and crazy energy drinks. So during all the fun times this evening we've discovered a new trick of Addison's and we wanted to share it with you.

In Greg's defense, they'd been at this for quite sometime before I got the camera out, so his arm was really tired!

You got it dude!

We are so grateful to have my sister in our lives! There are some things she feels obligated to teach the girls, Greg and I don't see them as necessary lessons however. Something about "her right as a Nini"? She would never teach them anything bad or something they SHOULDN'T know, just things that...well they're typical Nini. Here's one example for you, Emory started saying this in the middle of dinner, so I grabbed the camera to record these fun moments:)



What did kids do before digital cameras?

Pajama Day

Last Monday Trinity's class had 'Pajama Day' during school. They had been studying the letter 'P' the week before, so they wore their Pajamas, took Pillows, had Pancakes, and all kinds of other P stuff. She had such a great time and was SO excited to wear her pajamas to school I had to take pictures.

Trinity and Addison before school

Trinity and Jenna Green

Trinity and Emma

Trinity and Peyton

Trinity at 9 months

We have such great friends! Kelly Cardwell sent me a pictures she had saved from when Trinity was nine months old. Yea Kelly! Don't I feel like a terrible mom! I had saved all the pictures on my computer at work, but I don't exactly have that computer any more. They're all still on CD somewhere, but those got all mixed up and it would take me forever to go through them all! Anyway, here is Trinity at nine months:

It will be any day now that Addison gives up her army crawl, so I tried to capture it on video today. I've got to figure out why my camera records so dark, but hopefully you can see what's going on. She is so cute!

9 months old!

I can't believe another month has passed by! Addison is nine months old now, I'm not ready for all the baby time to be over! If you have any suggestions as to how to slow down the clock, I'm still open! I took Addison for her nine month check-up this morning and here are her measurements:
weight: 17 lbs (20%)
length: 27" (35%)
head: 18" (90%)

For comparison purposes (and since I didn't have a blog back then), here are Trinity's and Emory's measurements from nine months of age:

Trinity's stats at 9 months:
weight: 19 lbs 12 ozs (70%)
length: 28 3/4" (85%)
head: 18" (90%)

Emory's stats at 9 months:
weight: 18lbs 12 ozs (50%)
length: 28 1/2" (80%)
head: 18" (90%)

So I guess it's safe to say that all three girls have incredibly large brains and will be set to take over the world with their incredible genius powers! I can't believe how tiny Addison is compared to her sisters! The pediatrician said that's just how she is, she has never been over 50% in height or weight, so there is nothing to worry about by her size. I'm sure she will eventually raise her percentage, at least in height! I don't think she has a prayer in the world to be less than 5'9" tall, the shortest person in either of our families is 5' 8.5"!

This month has been quite a month for Addison's development! She has started blowing kisses (not on demand most of the time), getting crazy fast at her army crawl and is on her hands and knees more and more every day, she is standing well while holding onto the table (she went for about 30 minutes last weekend), she is talking and moving non-stop (just like Trinity did), she is almost always happy, she is giving kisses (hasn't mastered closing her mouth for them quite yet so they're a little slimy- but I wouldn't trade the drool for the world!), she thinks cat food and dog food are delicacies, she LOVES to dance to music and surprisingly she is pretty good at staying with the rhythm of the song, she has the most precious and infectious laugh on the planet (she does this little shaky thing with her voice, I'm trying to catch it on video), she is incredibly tough (if she's not getting manhandled by her sisters then she doesn't know what to think), she LOVES the 'uh-oh' game, and will do just about anything to get your attention!

She is quite the thumb sucker too, urgh! We remind her to stop every time we catch her, but it doesn't seem to be doing any good and she won't suck on a pacifier to save her life! I asked the doc about this today and he said not to try to stop her, it will add more stress and cause her to look for it for comfort even more; most toddlers quit on their own and if she doesn't then we will deal with it when the time is right...yea! She looks so cute sucking her thumb!

What a wonderful little girl! I am so grateful to have her as a part of our family, we are all so blessed to have her; the joy she adds is immeasurable! I am incredibly lucky to get to spend so much time with her! Thanks Greg for making it possible!

I love my family!

So here is Addison's nine month picture with Mr., you can go back to seven and eight months to see how much she's grown and changed.

Here is a picture of Emory at nine months for you to check out. I don't have any of Trinity on the computer, I will look for one to add, or if anyone has one they can forward to me that would be awesome!

Friday night at Snuffer's

If you haven't ever been to Snuffer's, you're really missing out! Greg hadn't been in a while (a couple of weeks at least), so he had to get his fix on Friday night. We asked his mom if she and David would like to join us...we hadn't seen them in a couple of weeks either...and they did! We had a great time visiting with Mimi and David and eating cheese fries and all kinds of other artery hardening foods! The girls were all dressed in their fall clothes for the special occasion! They really miss their Mimi and David and were so excited to see them and get to spend some time with them. We look forward to our next outing!

We're famous!

So a buddy of ours from our days in Denton is a country music singer, Brian Houser. He also performs under the name of Beerman, those shows are awesome! If you've never taken the opportunity to go see him, I highly recommend it! Anyway, Brian sends out emails to remind everyone (several hundred people at least) about his upcoming gigs. He plays all the UNT home games in the tailgating parking lot, so he sends out reminders to his email list about those too. When he sent the reminder out for the game yesterday guess whose picture was on it...well check it out for yourself:

Some of our best memories from college and with our college friends are from Beerman shows! Greg and is fraternity brothers were incredibly loyal Beerman followers, and still are! They actually initiated him to their fraternity as an alumni. Great times!