After a week in Little Rock for Gabi's birthday celebration, Mama and Gabi spent a week in Texas. Gramma Jane gave Gabi a pot and a spatula, which Gabi played with for hours, pretending to stir and stir.
Gabi stirring in the pot.
2/28/06
Gabi loves flowers. They are so colorful and pretty! When we were in Little Rock, we went out to eat, and Gabi so enthralled the waitress that she brought Gabi a rose to take home. This is one of Gramma Jane's flowers. Today (3/27/06) we went on a walk around the neighborhood, and one of the neighbors saw Gabi pointing at her flowers and picked two from her flower bed to give to Gabi -- Gabi is certainly starting early in getting gifts of flowers!
Gabi smelling a flower.
3/2/06
Gramma Jane and Mama took Gabi to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History to play in the hands-on learning room. We had lots of fun exploring, watching kids make bubbles, spinning discs on a rotating table, making colored shadows, digging for dinosaur bones, and other activities.
Gramma and Gabi at the Science and History Museum.
3/2/06
Mama and Gabi in front of a dinosaur.
3/2/06
We went to visit Gabi's second cousins (and Mama's cousin Jennifer) one afternoon. Jonathan is just five months older than Gabi!
Benjamin, Jennifer, Jonathan, Gabi, and Gramma
3/3/06
Gabi and Jessica playing piano.
3/3/06
Jonathan and Gabriella
3/3/06
Of course Mama had to see some high school friends, including Sydney. Here, Gabi is reading her new Tails book, specifically looking at her favorite page with the shiny peacock feathers.
Sydney and Gabi reading a book.
3/3/06
Gabi loved to look at the figures of birds that Gramma Jane has decorating a bookshelf, and she and Gramma Jane would go outside to listen to and watch the real birds every day. Gramma Jane even taught Gabi how to kiss the little bird. Mama and Papa are very thankful for this, because now we get kisses, too!
Gabi kissing Gramma's bird figure.
(You can see Gabi's two little teeth in this pictures, too!)
3/4/06
Gabi loves to type on the keyboard when someone is working on the computer. One day, Gabi managed to delete one of Uncle Brian's files! Uncle Brian was very good-natured and just laughed.
Gabi playing on Uncle Brian's computer.
3/5/06
Grampa, Gabi, and Mama took a trip down to Austin to visit Uncle Scott and Uncle Stephen, and we got to meet Scott's girlfriend Amy, too. We spent the afternoon at the park during the kite festival, watching the people and the dogs as well as all the kites.
Gabi and Uncle Scott
3/5/06
Gabi and Amy
3/5/06
Uncle Stephen, Gabi, and Mama
3/5/06
Mama and Gabi watch a puppy.
3/5/06
Gabi petting the puppy.
3/5/06
Gabi points at the kites with Uncle Stephen.
3/5/06
Gabi, Amy, and Uncle Scott at the park.
3/5/06
