auntie veronica

meet abby 'baby bear' my 3yr old niece. she spent a week with us in austin.

she's cute, strong minded willed, and full of energy! niki and i had a lot of fun with her around!!
the first day at the house was a little rough. my poor abby was sick. she woke up with a tummy ache. it was a bit scary having a sick kiddo in the house... the immediately  call my mom! once my mom had talked me down from my small panic, i called her mom (^_^) and she knew right away what her baby needed. (♥ moms are wonderful ♥) i had to go to the store to get some crackers and coke (her mom's miracle cure) and poor abby was sick in the store. good thing i was fast enough to grab a bag from the bakery just in time or it could have been really icky.  twice we had to make a b-line for the bathroom. i bought pepto, children's tylenol, and kids tums but never opened them because the coke and crackers worked! yahoo!!!

a little bit of down time with a movie (we saw annie at least twice a day while she was here) and she was ready to go swimming again. we went for a short swim the night before and she told me time and time again she was ready to go even though she felt bad.
on wednesday we went to the zilker park. she loved the slides and the swings. i think the swings were her favorite because she made me push her till my wrists started to hurt (^_^).

i learned that walking more than half a mile is a bit much for a 3yr old. after playing her 'lil heart out on the playground we did the mile long hike home with her on my shoulders. *whew* i went to target straight away to buy us a cheap stroller.

that night our friends jessica, devon, kristy, jared and 'lil baby franko went to the long center with us to watch an outdoor movie. armed with a blanket and a stroller we were good to go. it was late and we had a busy day so i propped the stroller op on two wheels and rocked her to sleep. she slept like a log. i thought to myself "babies are easy" HAHA!


jessica told me about the children's museum in downtown. she had taken devon's nephew there and said he had loads of fun. early thursday morning we strolled on over there. they had tons of stuff for kids of all ages to do. she started off in the kitchen area washing and cooking me some yummy plastic grub. then we meandered through the rest of the place playing with dominos, milking cows, playing train conductors, building with blocks ... the list goes on and on. they had a story time and we listened till she got hungry so we left to eat our lunches that i packed. what an awesome place for kids! she had so much fun.

on our walk home from the museum we stopped at butler park for a cool down by the fountain.  here is a video of abby playing in liz carpenter fountain.



here is another video of her singing to me while i cook.


see what i mean by super cute!!!