More milestones and firsts

We did a couple of things this weekend that were new for Abby. Where to begin. This weekend we got to spend Saturday at Lao Nian and Lao Yie's to celebrate Abby's first Moon Festival. :) Too bad she's too little to eat moon cakes. That's the best part! Abby got to see Ruby A Yi again too which is always fun. Jo Jo was at ACL enjoying great music, I'm sure. One of these days I'm going to have to go to that.

Then we had a surprise visit from Uncle David who was in town touring with OneRepublic and I picked him up in downtown on my way home. It was Abby's first time in downtown. We had dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's - homemade pizza made from scratch. So good. Abby got to see both grandparents in one day!

Abby has outgrown her bouncey which was a great place to put her if you needed to do something real quick around the house. But now she can roll out of it so we retired the bouncey and started to put her on the playmat. Well now she can roll over and army crawl so you can't really step away anymore. Enter Graco's Baby Einstein Discover & Play. Abby's been great at standing since she was 1.5 - 2 months old so we thought why not get her a play thing she can stand in? Well, she LOVES it!

Abby's also getting good at assuming the crawl stance without actually crawling. We think it will only be a matter of weeks before we have a crawler on our hands! :)

We also tried rice cereal for the first time last night.  There are no pictures since we took a video but it's not worth posting.  It was completely unsuccessful so all you see is a crying baby opening her mouth wide open for the spoon and then pushing the cereal out with her tongue.  She'll figure it out soon enough.  :) 

We also preemptively lowered the mattress in the crib because Abby is going to start pulling herself up with her arms and super strong marshmallow quads soon.  I don't like that she's growing so fast but I love it when she reaches new milestones.  I am starting to understand why mom's love holding newborns.  There is just something so sweet and innocent when they are small and cuddly.  I miss it already.