Madison had her 2 year well check this week. I was amazed when the doctor started by examaning her head and turned to me and asked "was she a preemie?" This was the first time she'd seen Maddy since it's a new doc. I told her yes and she said "what? about 35 weeks maybe earlier?" I said yes, and she said she could tell by the shape and size of her head...what?!? Wow! She laughed at how tiny Madison is. Her little legs are no bigger than twigs. I can put my thumb and middle finger around her thigh and they touch! She has such tiny arms and little face too! But that belly of hers is as round as it can be and it just pops out there! I don't remember how tall she is, but she's a mere 22.4lbs and she'll be 26 months old tomorrow!! She's just wearing 18-24 months but the waistbands are big on her but she needs the length. When you look at her she seems so tiny and you might expect to hear little baby babble come out of her so the doc was shocked when Madison pointed to a chair and said "I wanna sit dair an see Ma-ison!" She wanted to look in the mirror. The doctor laughed and said well that answers my question of "how is her speech?" LOL She was going to ask if Maddy was putting at least 2 or 3 words together to make short sentences. HA! I think she skipped that and went straight to full length sentences...then again look who her big sister is!! Abby sits and plays "school" with her and tells her to repeat this and that and the other and Maddy does every bit of it! Abby is a natural teacher!
Speaking of, a note came home in Abby's communication book from school recently. It read "It's so good to have Abby back and feeling better! I can definately tell she is a big sister! She is observant and always quick and willing to help others. Today I found her at a table helping a friend write their letters!" I asked Abby about it and she said "Yep! It was Paul. He didn't write his P right so I showed him how to do it! And I helped him write other letters too Mommy!" I shook my head and chuckled...She's in preschool and "tutoring" her peers already...boy are her teachers going to have their hands full with her! She's so smart and constantly picking up stuff on her own. She started preschool already able to write all of her letters. By the second week she came home and could write all of her numbers. I can ask her what time it is (on digital clock) and she'll say "it's six thirty three"...she's been wanting to learn time on the "big clock" so we're working on that little by little. She can spell over half of her classmates names (there are 16 kids in the class), she's already learned to spell a few words like cat, love, daddy and a few others. I sometimes feel like I can't keep up with her. She can work my iphone better than me and knows how to text her daddy at that! Actually she knows how to text anybody but is only suppose to text her daddy! She brought my phone to me the other day and (by the way...she was talking to someone on it) said here mommy it's Lisa. What?! Apparently she went into a text convo with my friend Lisa and decided to text her. She texted a bunch of letters but then gave herself away by texting her name! hahaha So, Lisa called my cell and since I wasn't in the room, of course, Abby answered and talked to her before bringing me the phone. Oh did we have a good laugh! Now, Abby KNOWS she's not supposed to text anyone but her daddy because I don't want her bugging everyone in my contacts with random letters, smileys and goodness knows what else. So what had Abby done?? After texting Lisa, she went back into the conversation and deleted ONLY her texts!! WHAT?!!? I couldn't believe how smart and sneaky she was about it. Man she is something else. We are really going to have our hands full in a few years! Oh WHO AM I KIDDING!?!?! We have our hands full NOW!!! She is so funny and keeps us laughing. But there is also a tenderness, sweetness, and loving side of her that will move you to tears. And she's been that way since she was an infant when I'd hold her on my lap and cry after Faith die, hurting so bad, and she would look at me with those huge hazel eyes (at 6 months old) and reach up and wipe the tears off of my face and lay her head on my shoulder and pat my face or my back. God knew I'd need her, His timing is perfect. When he gave her to us he was already showing us that his grace would be sufficient in the coming months and I think that's why he gave us her name...Abigail (Father's joy/gives joy) and Grace...no explanation needed. She does bring us so much joy and everyday I think of how God's grace is sufficient and how his timing was so perfect when he gave us Abigail Grace!
She is precious. You have plenty to write about with those three.
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