Tuesday, September 21, 2010

I can’t believe it has been so long since I’ve blogged, I feel sure that I will regret this later.

Savannah will be 15 months old next week; she gets more adorable and more hilarious by the day. In the last week she has started giving kisses, she will either lean in towards your lips with her mouth closed or with it wide open – it’s a surprise every time! Sometimes when I’m rocking her before bed I’ll think she’s asleep and all of a sudden she’ll lift her head off my shoulder, turn her face towards mine, lean in for a kiss and put her head back on my shoulder. Melts. My. Heart.

She also loves to give hugs, one of my favorite times of day is first thing in the morning when I go into her room and she’s sitting up in her crib with a big smile on her face reaching out for me to pick her up. Once I do, she wraps her arms and legs around me and we just snuggle for a minute or so. Then we always open the blinds and go to let the doggies out, she knows where we’re going so when we get halfway across the house and she just starts giggling at the thought of seeing the dogs.
 She is very friendly, always talking to whoever we pass while we’re out and about. She’s also quite the flirt, she’ll great familiar faces and all females with a, “Hi!” while most males get a, “Heeeeey…” Ridiculously funny. She also waves bye to EVERYONE, although not always when prompted.

She knows where her toes and her belly button are and she won’t just point to her belly button, she will lift up her shirt or dress, bend her head down to see it and poke at it with her cute little fingers until she’s really sure you’ve seen it. I’m sure we’ll regret this later too.

She loves to point and ask, “What’s that?” Although it usually sounds more like, “wa saaa”, we know what she’s trying to say. Her favorite things to point at are airplanes; from the backyard she assumes anything that makes a noise when it goes by is an airplane. FedEx truck driving by, airplane. Moving van, airplane. Motorcycle, airplane.

She is 25% tantrums and 75% hilarious. When she isn’t throwing herself on the ground and flailing her arms and legs (oh yes, those kinds of tantrums), we are constantly laughing with her. Just last week James discovered that if he jumps over her while she’s standing she’ll crack up, which cracks us up. So there’s been a lot of jumping in our house lately. I noticed this weekend that she’s really started to mimic us, we had some chips and salsa out on Saturday and she grabbed a chip out of the bowl and promptly dipped it into the salsa.

She LOVES being outside, unfortunately the mosquitos love her sweetness and they bite her and those bites turn into big welts. As much as those welts bother us, thankfully those welts don’t seem to bother her. We’ve got a big bottle of Off near the door to ward them well, off.  Works great but smells awful, I'd bathe her 12 times a day if it meant not seeing these.
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This little mischevious grin is present more than it's not.  On an unrelated note, how cute is she in her strawberry muumuu (aka nightgown)?
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One of her new favorite things is to "make cookies" which is basically just stirring around air or whatever else she throws in the bowl such as a ball.
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Modeling her new dress that her Gammie made for her and playing in one of her new favorite toys, an empty diaper box, with our neighbor.
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Monday, August 23, 2010

We haven't really had very much blog worthy action around these parts lately but I think I can pull together a highlights reel...

Earlier this month Savannah, Grandma and I took a quick trip down to Tampa for my nephew's baptism, we had a great time but I kept joking that it was the worst weekend of her life because most of the time she was restrained in either a carseat or highchair, but she did really well considering  she's on the move constantly and doesn't like to sit still.  I was so happy when we got to the party and there were kids her age to play with, unfortunately she wanted nothing to do with them except when they had food to share...wonder where she learned that from? 

They wouldn't let us take pictures during the baptism ceremony and by the time it was over, Fisher was hungry and therefore not a very happy baby so we didn't go too many afterward either. He actually did really well with the actual baptism part, the water didn't seem to bother him in the least!

From Fisher's Baptism

From Fisher's Baptism


Lunch and party...
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This look says, "Mom, I am over these pictures.  Where's my mac & cheese?"
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Savannah's 5th tooth poked through on August 16th, no pictures yet but the internet tells me it's her left lateral incisor or for those of us that aren't the least bit intersted in dentistry, the one next to her top front tooth.  I can feel the one on the other side but it hasn't poked through yet.

Unfortunately those teeth resulted in what I think she would call her worst week ever - lots of drooling and swallowing of extra saliva caused lots and lots of pooping and diaper rash like we've never seen.  Poor thing would scream whenever we laid her on the changing table and it only got worse once her little tush had to be wiped.  Thankfully Grandma had the week off and was able to take care of her and give her lots of extra love so she didn't have to go to daycare. Yay Grandma!

It has been raining almost every afternoon and we've discovered that she loves to play in the rain, or at least play on the porch while it rains.
From SGN - 14th Month
From SGN - 14th Month
From SGN - 14th Month


I got bored while we were driving to Tampa and since Savannah was relatively immobile due to the carseat, I took the opportunity to paint her toes!  I had nail polish all over me but we managed not to get any on her or in the car, which I know my mom is thankful for.
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And some random pictures from the month...
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Monday, August 9, 2010

1 year photos

My cousin took some pictures for us for Savannah's first birthday, a month and a half later I'm finally getting around to posting them.

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Savannah got this phone for her birthday and she LOVES it, I think Daddy might really enjoy it too.

On the move!

Savannah is now walking about 95% of the time, it's hard for us to pinpoint exactly when she started walking more as it seems like it happened very quickly.  She went from mostly crawling to mostly walking in the span of about 2 days!

In this video you'll see her walk from the office to the living room.  Randomly she has a credit card in her mouth, I don't think she'd ever put it in her mouth before then and hasn't done it since. At the end you'll get a glimpse of the fort we made her, she was wildly unimpressed with our work. 

And eventually I'll remember while I'm taking video that it can't be rotated later.  Oh well, it's better than nothing.

NOLA

My mom turned 60 in July and we certainly stretched the celebration out for as long as possible, 3 weeks to be exact! We had a family dinner on her actual birthday, a pool party the next weekend and then a girls weekend in New Orleans the weekend after that. 

She suggested this no kids, girls weekend back in May and I immediately started freaking out about leaving Savannah for a weekend.  For 2 months I got anxious everytime I thought about it and once the plane tickets were purchased it got even worse. 

I knew that she would be ok and that James would be ok but I wasn't sure that I would be ok.  The one thing that kept sticking out in my mind was, what if the plane crashes and I don't make it home?  She would have no memories of me aside from pictures and the posts in this blog. 

I cried when we left the house, I thanked the Lord when we landed safely in Nashville and thanked Him again when we landed safely in New Orleans, little did I know I needed to be worried about the taxi ride from the airport to the hotel - we definitely took the scenic route and counted 15 bullet holes in the windshield of the conversion van (complete with oriental rugs) and a driver that didn't seem to understand even the most basic English and couldn't count to three, as in 3 people in the car - I am happy to report that no additional bullet holes were put there during our trip.

Thankfully we were able to Skype (I LOVE technology) both nights I was away and I obviously made it home in one piece.  I know that her daddy took good care of her and checked on her 3,000 times before he went to bed just like I do.  We're so lucky to have him.

Our flight to NOLA left bright and early at 6:20 a.m. which meant we were up at 4:00 a.m. - you should never have to set your alarm for 4:00 a.m. regardless of what you have planned.  Getting up that early is even less fun on 90 minutes of sleep.  Savannah seemed to have an allergic reaction to some dandruff shampoo (the pediatrician's suggestion for clearning up a little case of cradle cap) and didn't sleep well, James and I were taking turns trying to get her down but eventually I just took over since I could sleep on the plane and he had to go to work.  Nothing a little (big) Starbucks can't fix.

Somehow Sharri managed to put on make-up and even look excited about being awake.
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Heading out to eat some lunch and hit the casino, looking a little more awake.
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My sister hadn't arrived yet so we went to the pool for a little bit and snuck in a nap.  After she arrived we went out to dinner and then to Pat O'Brien's for hurricanes and piano bar fun.  Sharri and I were unimpressed at first but thankfully better entertainers arrived and saved the night!
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Lafayette Square
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We took the trolley down to the nicer area of New Orleans, thankfully there was one as I was beginning to question if a nice area even existed and saw Loyola University, Tulane, some beautiful houses with cool landscaping and beads in the trees leftover from Mardi Gras.
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