This last weekend goes down as THE best experience I have shared with Abby ever.
We went to Disney Princesses on Ice!
I wish I could have captured everything on video. Abby was excited for days!! (We only bought the tickets a week ahead of time, otherwise she would have been excited for months:)). She dressed the part (princess T-shirt, Tutu, glitter lip gloss), and was a ball of contained energy. Seriously, when Abby is super excited about something, she doesn't bounce off the walls right away... she holds it all in, almost gets a little clingy, but constantly looks around, stutters a little, smiles, laughs... you know she's excited!
We walked into the Target Center, which could have been renamed toddler princess center (plus one mom totally decked out as Snow White... slightly creepy), and Abby's confusion with the mural of basketball players ("But Mooom, where are the princesses??") turned into a 1000 watt smile as soon as we saw the vendors with princess goodies. There were a few displays you could walk by with various Disney scenes, and we snapped a few pics. By this time, AJ's look of confusion started to return... like she thought this was it, this was what we had come for. But... then we took our seats, the lights dimmed, the announcer welcomed us to the show, and TINKERBELL skated out onto the rink. The look on Abby's face was the most beautiful, heartwarming, priceless picture I have ever seen. It was like watching one of her dreams come true right before her eyes, and it brought tears of absolute joy to my eyes.
She sat as her contained little bundle of energy through most of the first half... and then we saw Belle, and Abby literally jumped out of her seat, bounced around, exclaimed that her favorite princess was here, and from that point on, her butt hardly occupied her seat!
Then, the other night, I tucked her in, we sang a couple songs, and then Abby looked at me and said, "Mom, can we talk about rainbows?" A little surprised, I said "Sure!?", and she proceeded to tell me, "Because they're in the sky, and then it's raining, and they have orange and red and blue, and then the people take them out, and I don't know why. I don't know where they go. Where are the rainbows?" I'm not entirely sure how I responded, but whatever I said satisfied her, and she was asleep shortly thereafter!
Jett-man... still no words, really, but I feel like we're getting closer and closer... Rather than learn verbal skills, he is spending his down time perfecting his jump shot. He shoots at his 3.5 foot hoop from 3 feet away! It's pretty funny/amazing to watch, but our luck, he'll become a wrestler:). One of Grandma Connie's co-workers saw Jett the other day and commented on his big hands (??) and how he'll be a great swimmer.... we'll see... he won't get that genetically!
He's also a crazy, crazy boy. Climbing, jumping, running into things. Actually, not running... very rarely does he actually run or walk. It's more of a skip/gallop, depending on how fast he wants to get from point A to point B!
We are gearing up for our first legit family vacation. Florida in 2 weeks! It'll be great family time, and I'm pretty excited for the beach and the pool, not to mention sunshine, flip flops and skirts!
