A Fun Week

Abby got to see all of her grandparents this past week, so she had lots of fun with all the extra attention. My parents spent a week in Springfield for their vacation and stopped by our house on their way back home. They brought Abby a souvenier - Pig-a-Boo! - a farmyard peek-a-boo book that she LOVES. Every page has a different animal hiding under a flap that you lift up and say "neigh-a-boo" or "baa-a-boo" or whatever that animal's noise is, plus it's a touch and feel book, so she has lots of fun touching all the different animals. We probably spend at least 20 minutes every morning reading it, and she comes back to it throughout the day. It's her new favorite!

We also took a picnic lunch to Allerton Park. I think Dad has more pictures of it, but I didn't take too many so here's what we have. Mom met some people up in the gazebo in the Fu Dog Garden (where we got married!) who told her a ghost story associated with that garden. Apparently Robert Allerton had been married twice, and when his second wife found out that she was number two, she went up to the top of the gazebo and threw herself off. Now her ghost haunts the gazebo. I don't think she showed up in any of our wedding pictures, but we'll have to go back and check.





On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Adam and his dad tore off, repaired, and replaced the roof on our garage. It ended up being a lot more work than they had originally thought, since there were 4 or 5 layers of shingles and some termite damage that had to be repaired, but by noon on Sunday they were completely finished! Of course, there was still a lot of clean up to do. So many shingles!



We also took some pictures of Abby standing next to Joshua Giraffe. We had a little bit of trouble, since one of her favorite things to do with Joshua is push him down and yell "Boom!" You can see me trying to keep her from pushing him over long enough to get a picture.