Abigail, the noisy girl

Contrary to these pictures, Abby is quite noisy. Her personal "volume" has gotten louder recently. I attribute it to the fact that, to be heard around here, she basically has to yell and scream! With 4 kids, 3 of them being teens (or almost teens......is that "tween") and boys, they tend to be loud and obnoxious.

The other day she fell asleep on Billy's lap (cutest thing ever, she fits in the crook of his arm so snugly!). He needed to get up to make dinner (no, he doesn't usually make dinner but this night he was making pigs in a blanket and wanted to experiment with cheese.....who am I to argue?) so he sat her on me. She kind of woke up, with a little help from me (it was 5:30.....she needed to get up or she would never have gone to sleep later that night). So she gets down on the floor and I went into the kitchen to help Billy with the crescent rolls (you need a degree in "rolling crescent" rolls, I swear.......Jamie taught me...he learned in Culinary Arts at the VoTech). I came back in to see her passed out up against the foot rest! We let her sleep for a few more minutes...partly because it took me ten minutes to get my Stupid Camera (it's official name) to work and I didn't want to miss this moment.

Isn't she such a munchkin face? I took this the day Louise came over with homemade sugar cookies. Um, they were THE BEST cookies I ever had (and saw....).

Now it's no secret that I am lacking in the cooking/baking area. But one thing I can (or thought I could) make are cookies. I can bake chocolate chip cookies and my peanut butter ones aren't too shabby either. But these sugar cookies and ginger bread cookies were baked to perfection! Literally, perfect. It helps that she is talented with the whole cooking thing and she has a great cookie sheet (note to self, ask Louise again what pan it is so I can get one too) and between her and her kids, the creativity just "oozed" it's way onto to these cookies. One talented family those guys are!