Adding to her vocabulary and Labor Day weekend

In the last few days Abby has added several new words to her vocabulary again!  :)  I kept a list in my purse so I wouldn't forget and here they are in list form:

1.  She calls Grandpa Bill "Bam-pa" - close enough.  :)
2.  She says "a-yi" everytime she sees Ruby or even a picture of Ruby. 
3.  She learned to say "mei-mei" (yet another character of Ni Hao, Kai Lan).
4.  She calls Baby Elliott "baby" now!  It's so cute!  And everytime she sees him, she'll say "ssshhh!!" because that's what we are always telling her since he sleeps a lot. 
5.  She can say and point to an apple now too, only it sounds more like "up-ball" - again, close enough! 
6.  And most importantly {drum roll, please}, she just started to say her own name this morning!!  I was soooo excited!  We called Da-Da at work and he heard it too.  "A-by" - oh I could listen to that all day.  We're so proud of her!

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Boy did we have a jam packed Labor Day weekend!  We started off Saturday with a tailgate and going to the UT vs. Rice game held here in the Reliant Stadium.  We had a great turn out at the tailgate and it was soooo great to see old friends again (yet another reason why I love football season).  AND, we were on TV for a millisecond during the 3rd quarter!  Our seats were awesome too - 20 yard line, row M. 

Bryce cooking up a storm, as usual.  Everything was delicious!

Sangeeta modeling the UT Young Alumni t-shirt.  :)

Most of our tailgaters.

Remind me to thank the random dude next to us for taking this blurry picture. 

The view from our awesome seats.

Our celebrity sighting!  Roger Clemens, Kasey Studdard and Mario Williams!

Then on Sunday we went to Grandma and Grandpa's to celebrate Grandma's birthday a few days early.  We tested out Abby's new floaty and she seems to like it but has to get used to it still. 

Then on Monday we went to Lao Nian and Lao Yie's for more family fun time.  :) 

Abby sure loves petting the "mao!"

She likes playing with Lao Yie too. :)

Baby Elliott looks so comfy on Lao Nian!

Abby likes riding on Da-Da's shoulders!

Here she is entertaining herself with her many books.

Then we finally got home and had some of our own family fun time.  :) 

 

The Great Wall of Dolls...oh, and Da-Da too.

And last but not least, 2 more non-crib sleeping baby pictures.