Abbie's 3rd birthday and other events

I haven't been blogging very often lately, so I wanted to make a point to sit down and at least write a little about our week. Weeks like this have very little down time for me, which I miss but at the same time I enjoyed every part of my busyness this week. I had an opportunity to teach at church on Wed, an opportunity to sub orchestra at Fremont Jr. High on Friday, and I have had rehearsals for a concert I am playing tonight. Our family got to celebrate Abbie's birthday which was also on Friday and we are still working hard planning her ballerina party coming up on March 10. This has also been a HUGE week for Abbie as she gave up sucking her thumb.  We are on day 5 of no thumb now and we are planning to take her to Peter Piper this Thursday to celebrate!  I am not going to write much about it, cause we have been talking to her about it for at least a year, and I could probably go on forever about it, but she is really proud of herself and overall it has been a great change. She does take much longer to fall asleep now, but I think in time that will get easier for her. Timmy is starting to get his personality out a lot more and he gets SO excited anytime we go outside.  He completely LOVES it, he still isn't walking so I am really excited for when he is walking and we can do more things outside!  Abbie and I have had some interesting conversations this week.  One of them went like this, "What is your name?" says Abbie, I reply "My name is mommy." Her response, "No your name is Marget". Okay you are right my name is Margaret, but you get to call me Mommy.  We repeated this conversation a few times and then she went through the whole process again with daddy but hasn't brought it up again since then. She also just lately has been completely fascinated with weddings and wedding rings, and has used multiple items pretending they are her wedding ring and of course she has asked to wear my actual wedding ring as well. It is cute, and make me wonder what she is really thinking sometimes. The relationship between her and her brother is always something cute for me to watch.  Yesterday she started saying Timmy and I are best friends forever and then she would hug him.  She did this multiple times as well and I thought it was SO cute!! The weather has been gorgeous here outside this week even hitting the low 80's so we have really been enjoying living in AZ this week! Here are a few pictures.