Abbey's Expanding Vocabulary

Abbey has been saying several new words each day and at dinner tonight she surprised us with two more, neither of which we taught her (I swear!). We decided to go out for a family dinner at a kid-friendly pizza buffet restaurant. After a few slices of pizza, Scott went up to the dessert section of the buffet and brought back a few things for us to all share: a cinnamon roll, a brownie, and a pizza slice with an apple strudel topping. Abbey enjoyed a bite of the apple strudel pizza and then pointed to the plate and said "brownie" (or more like bow-ie). We were both like , "where did she learn that?" So I cut her a piece and she popped it in her mouth and asked for more. After a few more, she licked her fingers and said, "chocolate" (chaw-ate). I honestly think that she has only had a bite of something chocolate 2-3 times, so she didn't learn these words from us....we are chalking that up to day care.

Professional Spoon User

Abbey's coordination has really improved in this last month and Scott and I now declare that she is a professional spoon user and clearly a lefty. She can even eat peas and cheerios with milk with a spoon now (a few do still occasionally go over her shoulder though)...and yogurt is a breeze. Abbey is just delighted with each bite and loves to proclaim "mmmm." This might even inspire Poppy Waun to eat peas!

New pictures posted

As promised, I finally got around to putting up new pictures. I posted back-dated blog posts for the new stuff. Please check it out, and email me if you have any problems with the site... I think everything should be working now! Hopefully this new format will make it easier to quickly put things up, as they happen!

Welcome to the new Waun.net! (Take 2)

Welcome to the new Waun.net! It's the second major redesign of the site in the last 2 months. I've been running the site off of a computer in the house until now, but I just didn't have enough bandwidth to do what I was trying to do. Instead, I have a variety of Google services powering the back-end of the website (although the visual style should be identical to the changes made last month). If something doesn't look right on your browser, please let me know!

For now, I'm going to try to continue to host the photo albums from home... we'll see if it slows the site down too much. I'm using Blogger to power the blog, and a site called "Vimeo" to serve up videos. We'll see how these services work out... I might need to change things up again.

This weekend, I'll try to catch up on pictures... I haven't put anything up since February. As I add albums, I'll add blog posts, and back-date them so they appear chronologically.