New Gabby Things!

   The past few months my little girl has been growing up even more than I could have imagined.  She is into many new things, including dress up, purses, barbies, dinosaurs, dancing, pumpkins, oh and things like not listening and "run away!"  as she likes to call it.  Most things are fun, but then there are the times where she tries to test me and refuses to listen... such as today at the store when she wanted to touch everything!  

    Dress up is something that she likes to do only occasionally but is becoming more fun, like tonight she put on a pink tulle dress and pretended to be a ballerina.  Ballet is another thing she has gotten into lately, no clue where she picked it up but she dances and talks about it and now we have two new books to go along with the theme.  A few weeks back dress up consisted of putting on a fun dress, necklaces and lipslick (lip gloss).   Boots go with everything, rain ones are even better!  It helps that we now have new frog rain boots and little ugg type boots.  

    Gabby has two purses, first is her Tatiana bag- pink and usually filled with goldfish crackers for snack.  Her new purse I bought to tease Molly, who has been coveting a giraffe print bag.  Gabby is just always up on style so she has her very own giraffe bag!  

     I wasn't going to buy a Barbie quite yet, but I needed some new small toys for our long airplane ride to NY.  Gabby was first introduced to a Barbie at stroller class when an older girl had one, but wouldn't let Gabby play with it (she was very intrigued by it).  We have Damatina, Latino (fake brand) Barbie... we have re-named her Jenny From The Block, I couldn't help it with the outfit she came with (knee boots, a poncho and a large floppy hat).  In NY we got "princess" Barbie who is really a ballerina.  On sale I found beach Barbie who is wearing a swimsuit and has sunglasses.  That is our collection, and trying to keep track of all the little things they come with is laughable.  

   One thing that has not changed is her LOVE for books!  We could spend the entire day reading all of her books and that would make her totally happy!  Even though we have a large number of books, reading 30 or so a day we go through the same ones frequently.  Gabby can tell you just about every word of every book.  I think the girl has a photographic memory b/c I really am amazed by things she knows.  Just this week we bought a bundle of new books at the second hand store (cheap and necessary b/c the NEX rarely gets new books in).  After reading the Clifford book a total of 3 times she knew each page!  Another thing about the books is that become scattered all over the house.  While I was on the phone this week she sat quietly and took each book out of her book case, looking at each one.  A total of 3 books were left IN, all the rest were in a pile on the floor!  

   Well here are some pictures to enjoy of our sweet Gabby Jean doing some of her new favorite things.

    Oh and a few funny things that she said today.  At lunch she had ham, after eating what was on her plate she had this short conversation with herself "Where the ham go?"  "In the BELLY!"  For dinner I had cut up cucumbers and put rice wine vinegar on them, Clayton asked her if she was going to eat cucumbers with vinegar.  Gabby signed drink and said "Drink Vinegar!"  She proceeded to eat about an entire cucumber soaked in vinegar, then drank the vinegar off the plate telling us, spicy! It is funny that we were trying to get her to eat the pizza and not just cucumber!  I swear the girl will eat almost anything!