me too!

the internet has been overrun with the predictable year-end top 10 lists of everything, so i figure that i can have a couple of top 10 lists as well. it's my right as an american.

10 fave abby moments of 2006 (in no particular order)

1. abby learning how to play with kishi with her "kee-toy", which is a strip of multicolored fleece attached to a plastic stick. they run laps around the dining room table, get tired out, and everyone wins.

2. boating on lake kegonsa. a beautiful august day, and we all had a blast.

3. abby discovers olive garden salad. luckily we got a couple of gift cards, so we can definitely keep enjoying the salad-y goodness into 2007.

4. abby's vocabulary explosion. this started in october when all of a sudden she started putting words together and it just snowballed from there. now she's basically talking in sentences and sounding so grown-up.

5. abby loves music! she loves to dance to an interesting collection of music...from techno remixes of roxette, to polyphonic spree, to they might be giants...her taste in music is beyond eclectic.

6. abby eats an entire box of macaroni and cheese. not only did this happen, but it happened more than once. that's my girl.

7. the social butterfly. it never failed that every time we went to the grocery store or target or any store that she would charm the pants off of everyone. she always said hi to everyone she saw, and flirted with cashiers like you wouldn't believe. those overworked target cashiers always remember her.

8. her new friends: elmo, blue, and nemo. i wonder if there's significance to the 4-letter names.

9. every morning for the past month, as we're coming down the stairs, i hear..."play house!" we got her the fisher-price little people house for her birthday and even a month later it's the biggest player in the toy wars here.

10. the whole year. just seeing how much she's grown and how much her personality has changed in the last year is incredible. she's definitely developed her own character and is one of the funniest people we've ever met.