Abby's First Car

Yesterday we said goodbye to Abby's first car and purchased what very well may become Abby's first car. Confused? Let me explain...

When Abby was three days old, we brought her home from the hospital in our Mazda 626. She cried at first, but eventually fell asleep.

Over the next couple of months, she spent a lot of time sleeping in that car as we drove around DC.

The Mazda was old when we brought Abby home in it, so we eventually bought a new car. It has been our primary car since Abby was quite young. We brought Daniel home in it, but now it too is getting older. It was time for it to become our secondary car.

So, yesterday we said our goodbyes to the Mazda 626. We all loved that car and affectionately named it Mama Beluga. Abby said her sad goodbyes.

And Will and I posed with the Polaroid picture taken when we bought the Mazda fifteen years ago (it was three years old when we bought it).

With our goodbyes said, we were ready to say hello. Daniel approved of our new car. Although, he and I really liked the red Corvette parked next to it...

As we explained to Abby, this will be the car she learns to drive in. And possibly her first car -- maybe she'll drive off to college in this car??

We posed for a family photo...

...and we were off on our first road trip (to Decorah for lunch with Grandpa and Grandma Engelhardt)!

Daniel quickly decided the new car is nap worthy.

And I decided that Minnesota winters should indeed be accompanied with seat warmers!