happy birthday, dan!

we celebrated danny's 29th birthday yesterday! it was pretty low key because danny doesn't like to make a big deal out of his birthday and because i wore myself out doing abbey's birthday on monday (when i was supposed to be on bed rest...). so last night we had chinese takeout for dinner and a frosting free lemon (birthday) cake topped with nerds for dessert. danny's family all got on the webcam to sing him happy birthday, and i think that really made his night. after we got the girls in bed we watched "clash of the titans". i ended up missing most of it because someone (abigail...) wouldn't stay in their bed. it was a nice night, though. a very simple birthday, but i think danny enjoyed it. next year i will not be on bed rest and we'll make a very big deal out of the big 3-0.

abbey turns 4!

my baby turned 4 on the 26th! i say it every year, and i will continue to say it, i can't believe how old she is! and i can't believe how quickly we've gotten to 4! it seems like every year is shorter and shorter.

this year we had a fancy nancy birthday. if you don't know who fancy nancy is, she is a little girl who loves everything fancy. fancy clothes, fancy decorations, fancy pets and especially fancy words. it's a wonderful little book series that introduces children to vocabulary that they otherwise wouldn't hear. abigail loves fancy nancy.

now, you can't have a fancy nancy birthday without an extraordinary (which is a fancy word for remarkable) birthday cake. i promised my child such a cake. a mistake? probably. it took me two days to create that monster, even with my mom helping me roll fondant all day (thanks, mom!). it didn't turn out quite as fancy as i had planned, but i ran out of time and energy. abbey loved it, even though it wasn't perfect, and was so proud to have such a fancy cake.

continuing with the theme of her party she received several fancy nancy books (abbey loves books!), a leapster, and a princess bicycle from mommy and daddy. she was so excited to open her presents, and she couldn't decide what she was going to play with first. it was so much fun to watch her dash back and forth between presents every couple of minutes.

abigail was ecstatic (which is a fancy word for very happy) to have danny's whole family and alyssa and jacob at her birthday party via web cams. i am so grateful for video chat, i don't know what we'd do without it.

here we go again

at our doctor appointment today we did a fetal fibronectin (fFN) test because i've been having so many contractions. the fFN test helps doctors test for preterm labor and delivery. unfortunately, our test came back positive, though we weren't surprised. so, i am back on bedrest (boo) until at least 32 weeks but probably 34 weeks, if we make it that long. luckily we have lots of wonderful family to help us this time and we won't have to leave the girls with strangers, like we did in utah.