And now I'm just showing off

I was feeling wacky and confident this morning and thought i would take both kids out - in public, mind you - alone. And I was feeling so wacky and also confident that I felt like I could pull of a photoshoot. And I did. My goal was to get at least one 'Abby in a pot' picture to match Will's from his nine month shoot, and I did. She just screamed through the whole thing. But it was a happy scream. Will was nowhere to be found. See the fountains in the background? No way he was sitting still for a silly picture when there was water mischief to be had. 

Countdown to Canada

Camping Moose. Get it? Like we're camping...with moose...es? Meese? 

We are 51 days out from our Canadian vacation. Will is ridiculously excited. When we say "guess where we're going to today?" and we mean Target, he screams "Canada!!!". Then he's a little disappointed when we go to Target. We bought this cool little stroller that has a regular stroller bit on the front and Will can ride on the back. We figure we'll need it for the airport and the mall. We're going to the mall for a whole day. You might think it's just a plain old mall, but no. It'll take all day. If you feel like getting lost for a while on an insane website, check this mall out. Just click on play at the top of the page, Grandpa.  We're spending plenty of time camping and hiking and doing nature-ish stuff. One day we're doing to the Lake Louise Tea House. You make this giant hike and then in the most beautiful place ever, you actually have tea at a teahouse. I hope that's some seriously great tea. And we're even going to a glacier. I asked some Canadian friends of ours what it means when a Canadian tells a Texan 'dress warm' and you're going to a glacier. And they said "you don't need a parka or anything! i think my parents wore shorts and a t-shirt, maybe jeans." Too late. I already bought a gigantic parka for Abs, and though I'll be the laughing stock of Canada, she's wearing it at least for a photo! Anyway, we're super excited. Just got the kids passports yesterday... now, we just have to wait 51 days.

Will's new book

Will got a new book from AnneMarie. It's about this cat that turns into a dog and some kind of mummy business. don't worry about all that. It's a cute book and all, but the important part is the mummy part.

It's summer and we are bored stiff. right? So we bust out some toilet paper to kill a little time. And we wrapped up Argyle like a mummy.

And we wrapped up Will like a mummy. Now he keeps begging for toilet paper. I've created a monster. Or mummy, I guess.
And here's another random book related picture. Remember Max from Where the Wild Things Are? Well, that's him stuffed in Abby's shirt. I don't know how he got there. Do you?

Smiley Abby

Here's a random collection of Abby-ness these days. She's a one trick pony with her waving and "hi" right now. You just look at her and she smiles and waves and says hi. The other day she even did it through tears. It was sad and cute at the same time. So we're thinking about putting her to work at Wal-Mart as a door greeter. It's about time she brings in some money around here. 
Here she is eating her foot at the breakfast table. She pretty much eats everything these day from her toes to my grocery list. 
And here she is walking with Daddy. She's been practicing. Getting those legs ready. She can pull up on anything, including the wall. A few more months and she'll be off.