An update at last!! I know it's been forever since I've updated, and I figured I better do it before more time passes and I get even lazier! I'm a posting machine today, there are two other posts under this one, mostly of pictures, of our summer. We have had a packed summer, but it's been great-it flew by! Our last adventure was up to Massachusetts to see Matt's family, and we were so excited to see everyone. Before we left for Mass, Abby had an appointment at Chester County with someone from PT, and her neonatologist. They were thrilled to see how big Abby is-they both said they never get babies in with rolls like Abby has-she's got plenty for everyone!! They also said Abby looked great and is developing right on track. They were surprised at how well she sat up by herself and played-well mostly chewed-with all the toys. They were a little concerned that her verbal skills were a little behind and said she might need speech therapy, but that won't come for a while and since everything else is on track they weren't too concerned. Overall Abby is wonderful and we go back in November.
After our appointment we headed up to Mass, a six hour car ride. The ride up wasn't too bad, Abby was worn out from the appointment, and of course Roxy slept the whole way! Our visit to Mass was great, we had so much fun. We were happy that everyone was finally able to meet Abby and see how well she is doing. We kept busy while we were there. We spent a lot of time just hanging out with the family, and everyone was more than willing to help with Abby-although I don't think anyone was jumping to change any diapers!!! We also had some day trips. We took Abby to Martha's Vineyard, we went to see Uncle David on the Cape and Matt and I even went on a date. Luckily no one minded babysitting Abby-and Roxy, so Matt and I went out for drinks, dinner, and of course a little shopping. There was also a party for Matt's grandmother, (who just turned 96!) so we were able to see the rest of the family, most of whom we haven't seen since last summer or maybe even longer. We had a great time, looooong car ride and all. Hopefully we'll be seeing them again soon. Here are some pics from our trip.....

Abby at great gram's party.. Abby with her cousins

Martha's Vineyard, ready for some shopping

Martha's Vineyard..

I know she looks like she's doing a push up! She's so close to crawling she just can't figure out how to move her arms and legs at the same times...

two more posts below, lots of pics!! :)

So this post is a little unorganized, I forgot to put the pictures in before I started writting-so you'll just have to see them first!! Here is Abby in the pool at Aunt Kim's, Abby and Roxy fighting over toys of course, and Abby and her cousins-not sure why Moira is in a bathing suit...it was about 10am I think and she just had to have it on!





Here are some pictures from the rest of our summer. We had a great summer, but it went by too fast, we spent a lot of time with family and friends, and Abby has loved every minute of it. There lots of 'firsts' for Abby recently, first beach visit-and you know we LOVE the beach, first dip in a pool, first really long car ride...And Matt and I love seeing all of her 'firsts', it's amazing to see her experience each new adventure, even if it's a new food she's trying, and we can't wait to see what each day brings. Recently, I've been trying to organize all of our pictures of the little miss, there are a whole lot of them, and I came across the ones from when she was first born and I still can't believe we made it through all that. We look at Abby now and see how healthy and wonderful she is, and she's growing into this beautiful little girl-it really just floors us. I'll say it a million times I'm sure, but we couldn't have gotten through all that without our friends and family, Abby is really lucky to grow up in such a loving family and around our great friends-there's never a shortage of her adoring fans...Matt and I never forget how lucky we are :) (guess I was feeling a bit mushy tonight...) Anyway, back to the pictures.....

On more post to go........

These pictures are from our fabulous beach trip back in June-I know it's been forever since I've updated!! We had a wonderful time, Abby loved hanging with her cousin Marcus, and we were just happy to be away from home, here are the highlights!

Abby didn't love her first dip in the ocean, it was a little cold..... Abby and Marcus just hanging out....

Fourth of July pictures........

getting ready to hit the beach in her new bikini!!