Growing girl

Abby is growing so fast! Up until about a week ago, she HATED it when we put her on her belly for "tummy time." She would last about 3 seconds until she would start crying. Then, all of a sudden, I put her on her belly and she actually enjoyed it!! She can hold her head up so high now and look around, and is ALMOST rolling over! She can roll up onto her side, but hasn't quite figured out how to make it all the way over- she doesn't know where her arms need to go in order to be able to roll. We get really excited every time she seems to get close- it's pretty hilarious how excited we get over the little things these days!

She has also finally started grabbing at her toys and bringing them to her mouth. For a while she coudln't quite figure out how to get her hands where she wanted them- she would get both fists really close to a toy, bring them together, and inevitably miss the toy by a few inches. Now that she's figured out her new trick, she can't seem to get enough of it!


Double fisted!

Best Friends

Our handsome pup loves his Abby-cakes

the winners..

The boys won. poo.

Head & Foot

Anyone who knows my family well knows that we Berlin's LOVE to play games. Whenever we get together, most likely every evening will be spent playing some sort of card game or Setler's. And, we tend to get a little competitive. Tonight the ladies (my Grandmother and I) SPANKED the gents (Andy and my Grandfather) in the card game Head & Foot. If you've never playerd Head & Foot I highly recommend it, it provides hours of fun.


Winning faces:



That is, of corse, unless you are loosing, as you can see from the pictures below.

Loosing faces:



To be fair, we are actually tied. The past four nights the ladies have won twice and the gents have won twice, so tomorrow morning we have the tie-breaker. Will keep you posted...

My loves

Best daddy of the year award goes to...




I fell in love with him all over again the day Abby was born, and I fall in love with him more every day as I watch him adore our sweet girl.

Three months!

Abby is three months old today! I was looking back at some of the pictures from when she was first born, and it's amazing to me to see how much she has changed in just three months! She has grown a TON- she is becoming quite the chunker, with the cutest chunky legs and round little belly. She weighs 12 pounds now, and for the first time the other day I noticed that she actually is starting to feel sort of heavy when I carry her. Here are some pictures of what she's been up to lately

Playing with her talking Tigger with her Grandmommy Berlin


Abby LOVES to take a bath. She loves to relax in the warm water, and spends most of the time licking the water when she can reach it with her mouth.


Andy is the best Dad!! He loves his little girl so much, it warms my heart to watch him dote on her.


Abby and her buddy Jaden get play time together twice a week. They love laying underneeth one of their play gymns together. It is so fun to have another baby that she can grow with!



Abby is starting to be more aware of Bruiser, as he loves to come up to her and sniff her face, lick her hands, and is generally very curious about her. He is so sweet and gentle with her! I can't wait for then to play together when she gets bigger.

Since she can sit up now without falling over (when she is supported, that is) I recently started putting Abby in her "big girl chair" when I am cooking or doing dishes in the kitchen. She LOVES to be up on my level, instead of in her swing on the floor, because she can watch me and interact with me better.


She also recently started interacting with some of her stuffed animals. Before she was pretty clueless about them. She loves it when they give her "kisses," and loves to give them big hugs.


Her lammy is by FAR her favorite. When she is in a playful mood and I hand it to her, she squeals really loud and rolls around with it, sticking it in her mouth and "talking" to it.

And then when she gets tired, her lammy helps her fall asleep.


She discovered her hands a while ago, and lately has figured out how to suck on her fist or a few fingers, and much prefers this to her pacifier. However, she gets frustrated pretty quickly if she can't get the right fingers in her mouth or can't get her fist in her mouth in just the right way, its pretty funny to watch!

Abby mostly sleeps with her hands above her head. I swaddle her for her naps and at bedtime, but she always finds a way to break out of the swaddle and get her arms like this within the first 10 minutes of falling asleep. Sometimes she stirrs and starts whacking herself in her face because she still doesnt control her hands perfectly yet.


This hat swallowed her whole the first time she wore it when she was a couple of days old, and now it barely fits! Shes growing so fast!


Well, that's it for now! In case you haven't noticed, we are absolutely and completely in love with our sweet girl, and totally obsessed with documenting every moment!!

Welcome, baby Weymouth!!

The funniest thing happened today. This morning I told Abby that her new best friend, Natalie Elizabeth Weymouth was born yesterday afternoon at 3:33, and that she would get to meet her soon, and that they were going to have so much fun together! I then left the room for a few minutes and when I came back, this is how I found Abby! She was just so excited to hear the news, she has been waiting for her little friend to be born for three long months, and just couldn't wait to send Natalie a note.





Congratulations, Andy and Lex!! Words could not do justice to describe how EXCITED we are for you that your little one is finally here! Daughters are such a special gift from the Lord, we pray that you enjoy every day more and more as she grows and captures your heart. Cant wait to have our girls grow up together!!

On a side note, isnt our daughter amazing? Writing and spelling already.... must be all the classical music we played for her while she was in the womb...