Changing...

Okay I am still trying to find a blog background that works for me, and is unique. I will keep working on it, but I think it is pretty cool that I got the header to be transparent... mostly. Man I wish I paid more attention to Html coding. Okay, I will just have to learn as I go. :)

What We Have Been Up To!

We have been up to a few things since the last time I wrote. Sarah is now seven months. I can't believe it. Time passes so quickly. A few of the the things she likes to do now are... laughing, she has quite a sense of humor. She loves to crawl, and stand and get into everything. She definitely would rather walk then crawl, if she could just figure how to get herself up. Toes are fascinating... and tasty (eeww!), and can be polished (not painted). The iron headboard can be hours of entertainment, especially when mommy is exhausted, and just wants her to go to bed.

She loves food. Crackers were a big hit and defintely a great adventure each and everytime. She is picking up some great signs - milk, water, eat, MORE (she loves this one...). You can tell her little mind is just going, going, going.

She spent a good twenty minutes last night "chasing" this Care Bear in circles on the tile. Every time she would reach for it... it would slide off to the side. She was deeply amused. (Man who didn't love Care Bears, I'm so excited we kept some of these toys - Thanks Nonna) She is also learning to share willingly. She plays with everyone from peek-a-boo, to where'd it go. She absolutely loves Duke, and is constantly enticing him, even when he tries to herd her with his barking.

Steve's brother Chris, stopped down from Utah, and spent the evening visiting with us. It was an unexpected surprise, but Sarah was definitely fascinated with her Daddy's brother.

For Father's Day we made Daddy a card, and Sarah worked hard to eat the pen and the card and sign it at the same time. Thanks to Ms. Kelli, we finally put together the picture frame from Valentine's Day and add a Daddy and daughter pic to it. I think it turned out too cute.

Auntie came and watched her while Mommy and Daddy went and moved classrooms for hopefully the last time in a long while. (More to come on that in another post) We spent time with Nonna, and of course doing our favorite thing... shopping, which gained us a great new pal.It says all the letters of the alphabet, all the sounds, colors, and plays the tune ABC's if you pull the string, which she does constantly because she has a thing for cords (see the next pic). But it also plays 26 songs... I don't know whether to be happy about that or terrified. And for those of you crazy people... if you try to make it say a bad word... it responds with a "that tickles" instead of finishing the word.

Lastly, yep here is my cherub trying to attack the camera cord. She can find a cord a million miles away, and knows that it drives everyone crazy when she puts them in her mouth!

It's been a busy couple of days... but man, it's never dull!

Bubble Wrap

I am going to invest in good 'ole bubblewrap.

Not for packing or sending an expensive object across the country, but for my Daughter.

In the last week she has bunked her head on more things that you can imagine. She has even rolled off the bed (mind you this is the third time if you are keeping track), been imprinted by the carseat, and been wacked in the head by the "boys" of the house.

Just this morning I placed her in her crib to run and grab the camera. She was just in a good mood and the light was right, so we were going to do a photo shoot. I come upstairs to find her trying to stand in the crib... no biggie. I walk over to Hooray her again, and boom, her little feet slip out from underneath her, and she bunks on the crib. UGh!

Luckily for her and me, I believe God has bubble wrapped her himself. Except for a tiny bruise on the forehead, from wacking it on the wall as she was standing and playing, she has come away unscathed from all incidents this week. Astounding.

I, on the otherhand, am just about to lose it. How will she ever make it to a ripe 'ole age at this rate?

Someone with a young child, mentioned to me you feel as if you have put dent in the brand new car when kids get hurt. Taking them to the doctor over it is like saying... did I break it, can you fix it?

So far we have been blessed. I know I can't keep her free of a few accidents, but I've decided if God has wrapped her, I will just trust, with a little diligence on the parental part, we will continue to keep her safe, except for a few bumps and bruises.

RaNDoMs

Ugh! It erased... so sorry.

Milestones

Today, I decided to do a few pictures of this girl of ours. I just wanted to show how a normal morning looked, and to capture the fact that she had learned to sit up all on her own.

So here she is enjoying her toys and doing her best to show how good she is at sitting unassisted. She watched some TV, thanks to Daddy she already has some primetime choices.

Then she proceeded to give us a grin or two, and I should have known that this one meant she was up to something.

She was....

my six and half month old, not only learned to sit up unassisted, but she decided that she would

CRAWL

I cannot believe it! She has been scooting and army crawling for weeks, but seriously?! She got up on all fours, turned towards me and MOVED. With tears I grabbed her and hurrayed the craziness out of her. Daddy was right there too, and that just makes it the best.

Then of course I was in hot pursuit of catching it on camera, and as you can see in the above picture, once she does something she doesn't stop.

Note: I have caught nearly everything on camera... rolling, sitting, crawling...etc. :)

Where has the time gone? She was just a little bug a few months ago, and now she's a crawler.

UGH!

Well, I hope she slows down a bit, I want to keep her my little girl a while longer.

Did I mention this afternoon she has taken to pulling up?