Sadie, Sadie Birthday Baby

My little Sade turned 1 today. 1!!!


At 1:

-She is still quite serious minded, but has become more carefree these past few months.


-She says Mama, Dada, and up.


-She also signs up a storm.
-She eats anything.


-She will not wear socks. She rips them off as soon as we put them on her.


-When she wants something she has started to shriek/scream until she gets our attention.


-She loves to hold the phone up to her ear and talk.


-She shakes her head yes and no and loves to clap (especially at herself).


-She thinks Jackson is hilarious, but when he gets too close to her, she becomes violent and hits him. He is the only person she hits.


-She squints when she smiles.
-She has 6 teeth. 2 on the bottom and 4 just starting to come in on the top.


-She loves to take a bath or shower. She stands at the edge of the shower and begs (by continually saying "uh, uh,uh") until we let her in.


-She adapts well to change.


-She is a walker, and an incredibly cute one at that.


-Nothing keeps her attention for more than one minute.


-She seems unaffected by temperature changes.

Happy Birthday Sadie. We love you!!

Wordless Wednesday

Another Lunch

Another Day, Another Lunch of Macaroni and Cheese:

Highly Developed

My Megan is quite the individual. She is a whole lot of things including independent and sure of herself. Recently Eric went to parent teacher conferences and told me a couple of things that I want to remember about her. After they discussed academics (which Megan did great on, WooHoo!) they talked about a few other things. Her teacher mentioned that Megan seems to have a highly developed sense of humor for her age, which the boys seemed to really respond to. Oh great! I asked Eric is she was referring to her new sarcastic nature. Megan is quite quick witted, and I admit that I do enjoy sarcasm, but I had no idea she had this persona at school. She also mentioned that Megan's desk was quite messy. When I asked Megan about it, I expected her to get defensive. But she just said, "Yep, that's pretty true." It made me laugh. She gets her messiness from me.

Megan expressing her individuality with hair.

This is how she did it the other morning. And for the record she wore it like this all day (including a trip to Costco and Wal-Mart).

Christmas, Christmas Time Was Here

I love Christmas. What else can I say? Ours was great this year. We started off the festivities by unwrapping one gift on Christmas Eve.

Jackson had a hard time deciding. He wanted to make sure he opened a "fun" one. I helped steer him away from any clothing items, and he was happy with his choice (a toy ATV).

Megan has know for quite a while which present she was going to open. It was a present from Jackson, and here is her reaction when she realized what it was:

It was a new skateboard. It was the only thing she asked for for Christmas.

Sadie tried to unwrap her gift. But once she discovered the ribbon, she wrapped it around her neck and was content with that.

I received a really cute black shirt from my sister-in-law Krista. However, now I would like to talk a bit about the gift Eric received. I am sure many of you that have seen Sportscenter have seen the numerous commercials for FatHeads. If you haven't, they are GIANT vinyl stickers that you place on your wall. Just picture a life size football player of your choice on the wall in your home. I mentioned to Eric that he can pretty well count on never receiving one as a gift, but I failed to remember that he has a few single brothers left who think that it is the perfect gift. So now I have a huge (5 ft. by 4ft.) SeaHawks helmet to display somewhere. Yeah right. I told Eric maybe this would be motivation for cleaning the garage so he could enjoy it out there.

CHRISTMAS DAY

Like everyday, Megan woke up early. However, she didn't come and wake us up, she just turned on the cartoons, like everyday, and waited for everyone to get up. I thought for sure Jackson would come and get us up when he woke up, but no. He just hopped on the couch and watched cartoons with Megan.

Santa Came

My mom playing with the kids. She is the best pretend player I know. She plays with them continually and they love it.

We finished off the day by playing the Wii Eric's family gave us. It is 2 days later and I have to admit that I have some soreness in my legs today. Either I am quite out of shape, or am a very vigorous player.

Flaky

I am way behind on blogging. In fact I am way behind in every aspect of my life. I am not done Christmas shopping (not even close), I have not wrapped a thing, I have scads of gifts to send to send at the post office, and my laundry is out of control. But why am I so far behind? It is because I tend to take on too many new projects at the worst possible times. Projects that could wait, but because I am impatient, I cannot make them wait. One I am really excited about (piano restoration), that I will post about soon, and one that is time consuming (redoing the kids rooms), but will be excited about when it is finally finished.

Any who, How can we not talk about the snow, and an actual snow day in Las Vegas? It was very strange that the day the kids were actually out of school was the sunniest and nicest day of the week, and the 3 days previous were rainy, snowy, and cold, but that is neither here nor there. Here are some pictures of the few little flakes we got at our house.

Flashback-To Last Christmas

Megan Said-Flashback Friday Edition

Megan: "Mom is Santa real?"
Me: "Of course!"
Megan: "Well yeah! First, there is different wrapping paper, and second, there is no way parents could afford to buy that many toys."

Sadie Said

Sadie Said: "UP"

Up is Sadie's official first word. She has been saying Mama and Dada for a while, but not always in relation to us, so I do not count them. She actually uses the word up, when she wants up, so I am counting it!

Now for some pictures of her yesterday. The hat didn't last too long.