Helicopters

Abigail loves helicopters. She's been pretty obsessed with them for a while. She loves to look at them in the sky, play with toy ones, listen to them...all of it! Every morning before Daddy goes to work, they look at helicopters on the computer together. It's adorable. The pink one right now is her favorite:-)

Not so coincidentally, Abigail's room was right outside of the medevac pad while Abigail was in the hospital. Whenever we heard one coming, we took her to the window to look at it. This was big because Abigail for a while, Abigail did not feel well enough to get out of bed. Now whenever Abigail ever hears a helicopter, she'll say "Help people with boo boos." The other morning while we were sitting there playing with Play Doh, we heard a helicopter. Abigail said her usual "Help people with boo boos" and then said "No hospital. No open heart. No Mommy and Daddy bye bye."  Apparently she still remembers everything quite well. She didn't say it in a "I'm scared" way....more of a "this is matter of fact" way. Kind of took us by surprise. I guess we should have suspected her to remember it. Abigail has the craziest memory! It was a huge part of her life and, of course, our lives as well. One that I think we all came out changed and stronger than ever! 

So in honor of Abigail's love of helicopters and airplanes, we took her to the Air and Space Museum. It was incredible! Soooo many planes!! It is seriously so neat. It is a perfect place to take children. Super educational and lots and lots of open space to run. Great activity for the winter months. Who knows.....maybe Abigail will be flying a helicopter one day helping people with their boo boos:-)

This picture was taken right before we left for the museum. Of course we forgot to take the camera IN the actual museum.....