She's Got Personality

We're beginning to get a glimpse of which kid Abigail will be in school...

The other day Abigail was eating lunch with her friend Ruby at the small table and the two were giggling quite a lot. While this is not unusual, the guilty look in their eyes betrayed them. I quickly found out that Abigail was eating orange peel to make Ruby laugh. I vaguely remember a cousin doing this same thing over Christmas...

Abigail has also turned very shy, as most of you know. Yesterday we went to library story time and there were a lot of children there. Abigail was safe in my lap and was warming up to everything quite nicely. We came to 'Bean Bag Rock' time- where the kids go up and get bean bags to dance with. Abigail got up to get hers. We haven't been in several months, but when we were going before, she would go up to get her bean bags slowly, waiting until she was almost the last kid to get hers. This is not because she is polite, but because she is afraid of getting knocked over.

Well, yesterday she stood up and took a few cautious steps and then looked back to me, still walking. "Watch where you are going Abigail!" Unfortunately, there was another little girl not watching where she was going either. She was backing up to her mother and was going a little faster than Abigail. The two bumped together and Abigail was the one to fall over. I can still remember her leg coming up in the air and the shocked look on her face. It was a gentle fall sideways, one she probably does at least twice a day with no harm done. This time, however, she quickly got up and ran over to my lap, crying-almost wailing, and burying her face in my chest. The poor kid was mortified! She was eventually able to get up and go get her bags, but only with me in tow :).

Here is a picture of Abigail with just-after-bath-hair

No, we don't put anything in it but detangler! Crazy, huh?