Huneysuckles!!

Abby has learned what I consider to be a part of a healthy childhood: the joy of honeysuckles. There are some people we know that have never done it: finding a perfectly yellowed suckle (that sounds wrong), pulling the little green part off, and pulling the honey out to eat. Or drink. I guess it's more of a liquid, right?




She really liked it, and didn't want to leave at the end. She also had fun picking flowers and giving them to mommy.



And Abby is going to turn out to be a great chef; every time there is baking going on she wants to get involved. We're making cinnamon rolls here. And they turned out pretty good!




That is Abby's little rolling pin that she uses to help me. Unfortunately, in the packing we've been doing, Daddy's rolling pin was put in a box somewhere. So we had to take turns using the little one:)

Abby is really getting into sharing pretty much everything with mom and dad. Whenever she's eating something, we hear "Mama (or Dada), want some [whatever] too? or if she's playing with something, she always wants to give us a turn. The other day this was painfully obvious. There was a foul funk in the air, and Jodi thought that it may have been her. So she flipped Abby around and did the parent thing, where you smell your kid's behind. I know you other parents know exactly what I'm talking about. After Jodi gave her a whiff and concluded she hadn't crapped herself, Abby giggled for a second, then turned her butt toward me and said, "Dada, want to smell, too?" We all (including Abby) laughed for a bit, but I don't think Abby knew exactly what we were laughing about. Ah, the joy of children.