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Videos!

With gift money from Christmas we bought a new video camera. This camera writes the video on an SD card instead of a tape. So, it allows us to have individual files for each video clip we take. Basically what that means is that it's much easier for us to upload videos. So, we have taken a few test videos that we thought you might enjoy.

Some of you may have been privileged enough to hear the famous "monkey cry" before. This is a clip of a semi-monkey cry. Not the full thing, but should give you an idea.


In the last couple of days, Abby has been attempting to hold her bottle on her own! Yesterday she was actually using both hands to hold it.

Bedtime Routine/ 4 weeks old

We started a bedtime routine last night. Since all of our company has cleared out Abby has had a hard time adjusting to the quiet. Tuesday night she fought sleep for a long time but when she crashed she stayed asleep for five hours! I thought I'd won the lottery. I got up to check on her twice since I had to pump. But I paid the price Wednesday for a quiet night, she never slept for more than 45 minutes. It was a very long-fussy day.

So after talking to our pals Matt & Linda who have a four month old we started Abby's bedtime routine. Which worked magic, Abby cooperated and was asleep by 8:30p and didn't wake until 1:30a for a feeding, YEAH! After falling back asleep at 2a she sleeped until 5:45a. It's wonderful.

Today she's been napping better, much shorter than the 2 hours I was just getting used to but she's not as fussy as she was yesterday.

We are going up to Dave's school this afternoon so she can see where daddy works.

Today Abby is 4 weeks old, seems like forever since she was born. She's getting so big already. Abby is becoming quite the talker ( I don't know where she gets it) she loves laying on her playmat and talking to the animals hanging above her. Here are some latest pictures.

This is how Abby fell asleep in my arms the other night. Such a deep thinker.


I've been trying new styles with Abby's hair. It's getting thinner but I don't think she's going to lose it all, at least I hope not.

More Family Time

We had more family visiting this weekend. My dad, sister, brother and sister-in-law spent the weekend at Casa Pleimann bonding with Abby.
The weekend was very low key, we played lots of Wii and Jon cooked for everyone. Abby had a great time being passed around and Proton was glad for some attention as well. Abby did have her first restaurant experience, she slept through the whole thing...
Here are some pics from the big weekend.

Meeting Uncle Jon


Meeting Aunt Anna


Napping with Aunt Sally something we are both good at!


Bonding with Grandpa Bo


Looking for a good Wii game? We played Blood Trauma - Jon, Anna and Dave walked around all weekend calling each other doctor and talking about surgery.


And check out Abby's cool new blanket from Auntie Sally


No more visitors scheduled to stay with us in the near future hopefully, we will have a quiet weekend.
In th

Please don't report us!

So we have very tall windows in the bedrooms, and in Abby's room we have cut the cord to make one of the windows safer but the one facing the front of the house hasn't been cut yet.
Well yesterday the mailman came to the door to drop off a package and since the Christmas tree is in front of the window Proton can only see out the front from the window in Abby's room. I was feeding the baby when the mailman came. So I just yelled for him to leave the package on the steps. About 20 minutes passed before I went into Abby's room to lay her down.... and this is what I found.



Now both Dave and I know this could have been much worse and have since fixed the cord. Proton is a quiet dog and never made a sound and just continued to stand there while I got the camera and caught this humiliating moment.

Pictures!

I borrowed a big ornament that my parents hang up every year to take some pictures. My goal was to take some cute pictures with Abby's reflection. I think it went well.





And my favorite, our beautiful Christmas present:

An Update

Life has been busy lately, hence the lack of many posts lately. School and Abby have been consuming a large amount of my time. But, just 2 weeks until Christmas break!

Here's what's new in the life of Abigail. Her umbilical cord fell off just a couple of days ago. Everything looks good, and we're trying to decide if she's going to have an "inny" or an "outy."

Abby slept in her crib overnight for the first time last night! Up to this point, she has been staying in our room in the bassinet. The problem is that she makes little noises all night. Not crying, not really fussing, but just making noises here an there as she falls back to sleep. This keeps both Peggy and I awake more than necessary. Plus, we knew her sleeping in the room with us was only a part time thing anyways.

Abby also got her first real bath today. We used her bathtub for the first time instead of just "wipe downs" that we had done previously. She smells soooo much better!



We put up Abby's first Christmas tree today! She slept in her swing while we worked, but she was definitely the best supervisor we've ever had for this project.

And now the part that everyone is waiting for, more pictures!

Abby looking so cute in her carseat with adorable hat knitted by Great Aunt Cupcake.


Abby in her crib, waiting to be picked up.


Then we decided to take some early Christmas pictures of Abigail.


This is when mommy was holding her with the tree in the background.

Grams Visit

For the past week Grams has been visiting from Minnesota. Abby and Grams did a lot of fun stuff like make a gingerbread house and eat a lot of buckeye balls!
Grams drove down on Thanksgiving Day (also her birthday) and stayed a whole week!
Abby spent a lot of afternoons napping on Grams lap so Mommy could catch up on sleep. Here's a look at the weeks activites.

Abby meeting Grams for the first time.


Check out Abby's cool new sock/shoes


Mommy and Daddy decorating the gingerbread house, check out Abby's smile.


This outfit was Mommy's, her Great Aunt Peggy gave her this outfit and now it fits me. The doll is a gift from Abby's Great Aunt Shannon in MN.


Three generations


Thanks for visiting Grams.

Growing up green isn't easy!!

Today, we have a guest post from the one and only....Abby!

I'm one week old today! Hooray!

Mommy and daddy (mostly daddy) have decided to bring me up green. Apparently it's not just about saving the environment, but also about saving mommy and daddy some money (which means they can buy me some toys, oh yeah, and also maybe send me to college!)

Today, daddy spent some time raking and mowing the leaves so that he could put them in the compost pile. He composts most of our leftover food too. He also prepared the strawberry bed by putting straw on top of them. Hopefully next june we'll have some delicious strawberries.

Also, daddy makes me drink room temperature milk. Apparently, daddy says you can't microwave breast milk. I don't even know what a microwave is.....Daddy could run it under warm water, but he doesn't like to waste hot water, so I just drink it at room temperature.

Here I am looking adorable in my first cloth diaper! Mommy and daddy started using those today, and I must say, its gone fairly well. Mommy and daddy have yet to wash any, but I think they're ready.


And here is the clothesline that daddy put up to hang dry his and my clothes and diapers. Here you can see my laundry drying. Daddy's even going to put my diapers up there for the whole neighborhood to see! Can you believe that? I don't see him hanging his underwear up there. Oh, wait, yes he does....


And here I am at Thanksgiving with my favorite great grandpa Pleimann.


And here I am with my favorite great grandma Buerck.


And here I am with my favorite cousin Lily! I am so proud of her...she didn't want to hold me in the hospital, but tonight she was so happy to hold me! And she did such a good job too! I can't wait to get older so we can play together.

The Joys of Parenthood

We (and by we, I mean Abby) had TWO, yes TWO, major blowouts today. In the first, Peggy was changing her (and by her, I mean Abby) diaper. Just after Peggy took the old diaper off....EXPLOSION! We won't get into the details, but lots of laundry needs to be done. Apparently she pooped and peed at the same time. Then, just a couple hours later, I noticed she (and by she, I mean Abby) was a little stinky. So, we went to change her and noticed poop on her onesie. The diaper just didn't do the trick.

All you cloth diaper haters out there can stop the hatin' right now, because we haven't put cloth diapers on her yet! Our good friends Matt and Linda recommended not to start the for about a week or so. Again, I won't get into the details but the poops at the beginning are nothing short of road tar....anywho....

I think we're going to start the cloth diapers tomorrow instead of today like we were planning (just in time for grandma Colleen to come to town).

And now, what you've all been waiting for, more pictures!

Baby Abby has found her thumb! Auntie Sally (a chronic thumbsucker), is very proud. Interestingly, there is a orthodontist in the same building as Abby's pediatrician. You have to choose which door to enter when you go in the front door. I told Abby that we'd probably be there in a few short years. I'm sure the thumb sucking will only help that.



Abby is already preparing to follow in her daddy's footsteps by being a teacher when she grows up. Here, you see her practicing the "raise your hand if you have a question technique." I called on her, and she just farted, and then laughed....she is her daddy's child.



Abby, being just plain adorable:



As many of you know, Peggy and I are quite the photographers (it's how we met after all). So, of course we had to do a naked baby shot. Abby was not very cooperative, so we may have to do it again soon, but here is the best shot we got.

More updates and pictures!

It's been a busy couple of days. Abby is doing great, as is her mommy. She had her first checkup today, and is well on her way to getting back up to her birth weight. She's currently at 8 pounds 10 ounces. Clearly mommy is feeding her well.

I got puked on for the first time last night. I usually do the burpings, because that's what I'm good at. I'm not quite so good at the breastfeeding, haha. Usually Abby gives me a couple good burps then falls asleep on my chest. Not last night! I gave her a bottle so Peggy could get some sleep. She ate a bunch. Then I was burping her and, blllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh....everywhere. I was laying in bed at the time. It got all over me, all over the pillow and all over the bedsheets. Luckily, Abby didn't get any on her! Imagine that!

Alot of people have been asking if Abby looks more like me or her mother. So, we'll let you decide! I think it's pretty conclusive. In fact, I think Abby might be an exact replica of her mother, but maybe you'll have a different opinion. I put up a new poll on the right side. Feel free to vote.

David as a baby:


Peggy as a baby:


And baby Abigail, well, as a baby:

More Pictures!

Before the pictures, just a quick update. The first night home was TOUGH! We weren't sure if we were ever going to get some sleep. But, around midnight, baby Abby finally got to sleep. But then she woke up again around 12:30 to feed. She got some food, and then went down for the night. She didn't wake up again until around 5:00!! And today she's done so much sleeping! We had a couple successful feedings, which makes mommy and daddy very happy, since she didn't have such a good day in this department yesterday. It helps that mommy is producing a TON of milk today. Abby was milking on one and Peggy was dripping like a leaky faucet on the other!

Needless to say, today has been much much better than yesterday....and daddy is excited to introduce baby Abby to his favorite (soon to be her favorite) show tonight, The Big Bang Theory. Abby is looking forward to daddy's weekly singing of the theme song.

So, here's some pictures:

First of all, click here to see (and order if you would like) her hospital pictures.

We also downloaded almost all of the pictures from the hospital stay to snapfish. We are going to be putting in everyones emails that we can think of. You should be getting an email if we have yours. If not, please send one of us an email and we will add you to the list. If you don't want to do that, and you have facebook, then all of the photos are also there, under both of our profiles.

We're home!

We made it home this afternoon around 2:00PM. All is well. As soon as we walked in the door Abby decided it was feeding time and wouldn't stop crying! We didn't even get the car unloaded! But, after that, she took a nice long nap. We're about to do another feeding, but thought we would post some pictures before we do. More to follow, but enjoy!

We didn't post this one earlier. This was in the OR...you can see baby Abigail's head just starting to poke out of Peggy's belly.


Matt and Linda brought their beautiful daughter Charlotte up to visit her future BFF:


Kevin was quite excited to hold baby Abby.


As was Ryan.


Abby's first Mizzou outfit! Daddy was so excited to buy her a little cheerleader outfit.


Abby LOOOOOOOOOVES tummy time with daddy. Daddy has become very good at burping during this time! She feel asleep on me last night for more than an hour. Peggy was a trooper and fought the pain to get in a few good photos.


She was zonked!

All's Well

Abby's one day old! Here are some more pictures from last night and today. Just in case you didn't believe that David changed diapers, here's proof. Notice the rolled up sleeves.



Abby's had several visitors, including Uncle Mike, Aunt Erin and Cousin Lily, and of course Grandpa and Grandma.







She's such a sweet baby.









If all continues to go well, the new Pleimann family will be coming home Sunday.