Classic Gabbie!

Our little Doodle Bug (Gabbies favorite nick-name) is definitely starting to get a solid personality. We've been lucky enough to catch some of that developing personality on camera to share with all of you.

Here she is getting ready for church... as you can see she's sleeping...

What we love about this picture is how alert Gabbie's eyes are. This was also a picture of the first time that she held her rattle all by herself... well, daddy helped her get it in her hand.

She was pretty intrigued by the rattle, but her favorite pass-time lately is just to lay on her back and kick and flail her arms. She has so much fun doing it.

One day last week she got a little sick. She had a really stuffy nose and her temperature got a little higher than normal. She wasn't high enough to go to the doctors or anything, but we decided that it would probably be a good idea to put a wet washcloth on her forehead.

At first she didn't really like the washcloth, as can be seen by her irratated but not enough to cry about it face above, but after a while she kinda liked it. This is her "I'm kinda sad, but I'll get over it face." You can tell this one by the straight lips and slightly scrunched up forehead and nose.

When she got into her basinett She started having some fun with the towel. She would slowly grab it with her hand and sneakily pull it off when she thought Mom and Dad wouldn't notice.

In the end she would usually just start annoying herself because she would get it off of her forehead just far enough to get it on her face.

Mom's favorite thing about that night was making Gabbie look like an Ancient Egyptian princess. Doodle Bug was just interested in the camera. (You can tell that she's interested in something when she sticks her tongue out like that... it means she's trying to figure something out... she gets that from her Daddy... he used to do that a ton when he was a little kid.)

Here's classic Gabbie bed time. She has to be in her C-pillow lately... we think it makes her feel like she's in someone's arms. If you notice, she also has her Binki right next to her mouth.

Another fun thing that she does when she is sleeping is put her arms in funny positions. She'll either put them on her tummy like the picture above, or she'll put them up next to her head as if she is trying to put them behind her head... but not quite under her head.

Mom caught Dad sleeping on the couch the other day too... he woke up right as she took the picture... he must have been pretty tired... (don't know why... Mom is the one who usually gets up with Gabs at night... It's quite possible that Dad has selective narcolepsy between the hours of 11 and 6 a.m.)

These last pictures are some great pictures of Gabbie's giggles.

We really have a great baby. Truly, I don't think that there has ever been a time that she has cried without there being an easily discernible legitimate reason.

In fact, another fun thing about Gabbie's personality is when she is irritated with you... instead of crying really loud, she will start this pouty... Hm, I'm mad at you, hm... cry where her lower lip will curl up and quiver, not a whole lot of noise will come out, her eyebrows and nose will scrunch up, and she will make a sort of njwhu, njwhu, breath, njwhu, breath, njwhu, silence, Njwhu... almost as if she were trying to say, "I'm mad at you Dad... hmf. I'm just mad and I'm gonna pout about it until you do something to change it... Hmf." ... anyway, I wish I could record it so that you could hear what it sounds like... it's pretty cute, and really it shows her smart and passive personality... she definitely got a good mixture of genes from Christy and I.