Janice visit, Lao Yie time, New fave thing to do dujour, Tooth #13

Wow, this past weekend solidified my hunch that I'm horrible at taking pictures when there is a large group around.  As I mentioned before, Janice and Aaron were in town so we had a big get-together at Ruby's house on Saturday.  I hope everyone else had as much fun as I did!  :)  Here are a few of my pictures from our playdate.

My mom, Sophia and Abby. 

OMG Sophia is sooo deliciously chubby and cute!

Janice and Elliott. 

Karen and Annabelle.

Annabelle and Tom. 

Can you tell which parent Annabelle looks more like?  I love it!

Ruby and Sophia.  Gotta love that wrist roll!

Abby insisted on wearing Annabelle's super cute sandals.  :)  Thanks Annabelle jie jie!

Elliott taking a nap on Kim's shoulder.  :)

Abby found a new way to sit on the bar stool.

Our attempt to get a picture of the cousins in burnt orange.  Obviously I was unable to get a decent picture of all 3 of them so I picked the one where Ruby looks good - haha!  GO HORNS!

Then on Monday my dad, Ruby and Elliott came over again and we had so much fun again!  My dad was so happy to be with his grandkids and they loved it too!  Abby really loves her Lao Yie and was super sweet with him.  :)

Lao Yie and Elliott. 

Elliott is getting so big and he's so strong!

Elliott and Mommy. 

Ruby is so in love with her little buddy!

I just love how Abby is leaning on Lao Yie.  She was extra sweet for some reason on this visit: never more than an arms reach away from her Lao Yie.  :)

She was absolutely fascinated by Lao Yie whistling.  Just kept staring and staring and you could almost see the wheels turning in her head.  My ever observant baby (aka future engineer) who always needs to evaluate how things work.

Lao Yie was super busy juggling 2 grandkids.  I sense a little jealousy on Abby's part....uh oh!  She was actually trying to kiss Elliott's little hand here.  :P

I just love Elliott's smile in this picture.  :)

Abby's new favorite thing to do dujour is to have us read books to her.  We literally go through 10-12 books a day.  That's 10-12 books but she wants some read over and over so I probably read about 20-25 "stories" to her a day.  Because it drives me NUTS to read the same books over and over, I keep adding books to the stack purely for my own sanity.  This latest book has been a hit-and-a-half.  You can't go wrong with a Mother Goose book and I got it in this size so she could hold it too.  Here she is "reading" on her own (aka break time for me).  I hope she continues to love books as much as I do!

And as a side note, tooth #13 made a surprise appearance.  Top right incisor.  She's been fussy the last 2 days and you'd think I would suspect teething by now but it still always surprises me.  :P  One of these days I'll wise up.