Thursday, July 31, 2008

8 months


My dear Sadie~Rose,
The months are slipping by ever so quickly and we celebrated (and cried over) your 8 month birthday. Olivia cried several times through out the day, worried that she would wake up the next day and find you changed. She loves you so very much. You are an amazing little person.
You love your family.
You communicate with us by clicks of your tongue, pats on the chest, and little grunts.
You learned how to crawl the day before you turned 8 months. You went from crawling on Sunday, to crawling to furniture and standing up on Monday, to climbing on Wednesday.
I had you in your co-sleeper to keep you from crawling off the edge of the bed trying to fight the remotes away from your Dad. You crawled over to the side against the bed, stood up, stepped onto the edge of the co-sleeper, climbed onto the edge of the mattress, and crawled into my lap. You had the biggest grin on your face. You knew you had done something big and you were proud.
You get angry when we set you on the floor and don't set you in a standing position. You always want to stand.
You're very drawn to computers. No button is safe with you near by. You also like to play with electrical cords (unplugged of course.) This week we caught you several times trying to plug the camera cord into the computer. Such a smart baby.
You crawl under chairs and then sit there, banging your head and crying, until we remove you. Then we get to repeat the whole performance multiple times until we leave the room.
You love water. Any water.
If the bath is running, you try and leap out of my arms to get in or climb over the side of the tub. Thankfully it is too tall for any such nonsense at the point.
When you see the back door open, you make a beeline for it, hoping that you will get to go swimming. Splashing in the pool is enormously fun and entertaining.
Your swing in the back yard is a favorite place to hang out and we all take turns pushing you.
Your delighted giggles and squeals make it all the more joyful.
Your best friend is Ellis. When Olivia and I told you that we were going to see Ellis, you shrieked and started waving your hands in the air and "snuffing."
One of the most amusing things you do is "snuff" when you get excited or find something utterly fascinating. You wrinkle up your nose, open your mouth wide, and snuff. We've taken pictures, but they look silly. We call it your "mad monkey face."


Your in love with your Daddy. When ever he comes home you smile great big and start crawling towards him as quickly as possible. He'll scoop you up, cover you with kisses, and you giggle all the while, and then start clicking your tongue at him, to which he responds in kind.

Olivia will always be your biggest fan, I believe. Her little sister is The Best Sister in the World.
No other baby competes. She hugs you, kisses you, holds you, and generally tortures you all day long. Some times your fed up with all her "attentions" but when she plays peek-a-boo, you forgive all her many crimes against you. In the mornings, when you wake up, she'll walk in the room with big smile and say, "Good morning sister!" and you give her your happiest good morning smile in return. It always makes mommy's heart swell to see you both so overjoyed to see each other every single morning.
You still only have that one tooth. It's grown bigger, but no others have appeared.
You still have a pacie, we don't leave home with out it.
You ride in the seat of shopping carts now, but your still most favorite place to be is in the sling.
Paper and cardboard are not safe with you in the house. You love to crumple it, tear it, smoosh it, chew on it, suck on it, and mash it around. Who would have thought that paper could be so entertaining? Mirrors are are favorite toy, but not just the little tiny toy mirrors that are made specifically for babies. No, you prefer the big antique mirror over our bed, or if you must settle, one of Mommy's handheld mirrors. I think you might have a crush on yourself. :)

You can clap, and wave, and give big slobbery sugars to the ones you love.
When your upset with me you sit on the floor and say "bbbbbbb...buah.........bbbbb" with big tears running down your plump little cheeks. If all else fails, you'll start blowing raspberries because that always draws attention.
Since you have started crawling, you are very resistive to having you diaper changed. Very frustrating to mommy, who isn't use to having to wrestle you down to change you and having you cry through most of the change.


We still get comments every where we go about how beautiful you are, how unreal you seem, like a baby doll. But you are very real to us. We couldn't be any more happy than we are with you. You play with us, peek-a-boo is the favorite.
You like us to sing. You love dancing.
You and Olivia play "I'm gonna get you" all the time and you get so excited that at times I'm afraid I'm going to drop you as you squirm to find Olivia and then wiggle away before she can "get" you.
You and Ellis sit side by side in your matching bumbo's and play. Every so often you reach over and pat his arm or leg, give him a sweet smile and then try to take his toy. What else are good friend's for? :)
You are still our sweet happy baby girl. Growing and changing all the time. You stay in the nursery during church without a fuss. You smile at strangers, even flirting a little on occasion.
You are more interested in exploring and learning about your world than you are about eating.
You sleep pretty well still, but some nights are definitely better than others. You like your Daddy to be at home and in bed with us when it's time to go to sleep. We hang out at the beach, the park, the library, Ms. Rachael's house and in the pool. Those are the places you know best.
We would like to keep you this age, but since that's not possible, we try to write things down, take lots of pictures, some video, and hope to remember this sweet age that you are.

Much love my dearest little one,
Mommy

the world spins madly on...


I'm trying to find the time. Truly I am. I have some much to share. Lots of things on my mind like
-a new mom's group a friend and I have started and why.
-Sadie~Rose turning 8 months old and learning how to crawl.
-my new interest in scrap booking. It's been a long time.
-a new found place to get above mentioned supplies.
-Christmas. (yes, I'm crazy.)
-a really cool new online radio station.
-Olivia and a day in the life of a 5 year old.
-starting our new adventure in home schooling.
-a new recipe
-new ideas that are swirling.
-life changes and mind changes.
All good stuff. It just takes time. Thursday is the only day this week that I will be home.
Maybe that's not unusual for most of you, but for us it really turns our world upside down.
I plan to be back soon. I really do. But I think I'm going to have to give up sleep to get it all done.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Sunday afternoon

Sunday afternoon we went to the park to play with my new camera.
Here are a few of my favorite shots.
And guess what!
I'm actually in a few of them! :)












Thursday, July 17, 2008

I'm expecting

Yep, it's true.

I'm expecting.

I'm so excited!

We've been talking about for several months now.

Actually, I've practically been begging Mike.

He doesn't understand why I think I need another one right now.

But, I convinced him.

It wasn't that difficult

plus I did all the work.

How could he complain?

Anyways, it's happening

and I couldn't be more ecstatic.

Pretty soon I'll be able to hold it

(her? he? I haven't been able to decide yet.)

I've spent hours on the computer

dreaming,

hoping,

praying that one day

my dream will come true.

And it finally happen.

Yep, it did.

I mean, it was bound to at some point

I just didn't know that my persuasive powers were that good

and it would happen so soon.

Want to see a picture?

I'm so in love,

I just can't help but show you a little sneak peek.

Click here.

After you take a look,

leave me a comment at tell me how lucky I am. :)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

A walk in the garden

On our way to Oklahoma we stopped at my parents place in Tennessee.
They are growing a huge garden again this year, but instead of just canning it all for the winter they are selling their produce at the Memphis Farmer's Market and they are part of a CSA.
All very cool stuff, and very hip. I'm so proud of them.
They took us on a little walk and showed us their favorites, their new tries, their heirlooms.
And it was so exciting and fun to get to share ideas, swap stories, and be a very micro-blip part of this up and coming part of America and the whole awareness of natural, organic, locally grown movement.





My mom grows awesome zinnias.


Marmee and Sadie~Rose with the kitty cats.

Dad picking squash.


Green cherry tomatoes.

Three varieties of ripe cherries.
(Mom told me that last week she sent
18 lbs (!!!!)
of cherry tomatoes to the farmer's market.)
Both my girl's love the country, being outside,
and of course,
all the animals. :)

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Home Sweet Home

Hello all! We've been home a week, but it's been a whirlwind week and I just got all my pictures downloaded Friday. I feel like I've fallen off the blogging bandwagon!
We had a wonderful time visiting all of our family and I'm sure the next several posts will be photos of our visit. We had a blast on the 4th. Mike's brother, Jarrett, and his lovely wife, Bobby Sue, hosted the whole family at their home in the country. We were given the royal tour of their home (which they are renovating from the studs up!), picked raspberries in their back yard, went fishing in their pond nib the front yard, ate amazing food (including Greg's famous homemade ice cream), and shot off lots and lots of fireworks. I believe they were at it for something like 5 hours. Yeah...a lot of fireworks. :) I've got lots more pictures to share and some news, so make sure you come back!


Greg and Jarrett at the smoker.


Our pick of the day. Fresh raspberries!


Mike and Rose being ever so cute .


Catching a break from all the fireworks
on the front porch.


The Dad's hanging out down at the dock
(us youngins' were making quite a bit of noise,
plus I was roaming around with my camera. lol)


Homemade chocolate chip ice cream with fresh raspberries!

Olivia watching the action.
Olivia became a serious fire works aficionado,
I'm not sure how many bottle rockets she shot off
but I know we started off the afternoon with 50-some
and ended the night with 0.
If that tells you something.

A lite bottle rocket.

One of the boy's fountains.

After Olivia ran out of bottle rockets,
she moved on sparklers.
Not nearly as impressive sound wise,
but it shows up a lot better in the dark.
I think a wonderful day was had by all.
Thank you Bobbie Sue and Jarrett,
for having all of us.
We loved it.

Friday, July 04, 2008

Happy 4th of July


the 4th
Originally uploaded by Fairlightday

I hope you are all having a wonderful, delicious, and lovely day celebrating our glorious country with your families!

 
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