Hands on Weekend!

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Sadie, Hands-on

This past weekend Adam was off so we went up to Jacksonville and took Sadie to the Hands-on Children's museum. It was a lot of fun! Sadie got to play in the "vet" are, the "substation", the "grocery store" and some other fun little areas. It made me want to go back to Chicago and take her to the children's museum there again. Now that she can really have fun! She seemed to really enjoy herself. After, we went over to the avenues mall. We walked around and got some lunch. Then we came home. We were all really worn out by then (as you can see from the picture!). Sunday Adam played baseball at the park with some friends and Sadie and I hung out with Gigi. It was nice to see Gigi and play. Today was back to work for Adam and I and back to school for Sadie. Adam and I went to bed very late last night, we got sucked into a movie that ended very late and then stayed up talking about it for a while. So, early to bed for us tonight. Adam has to be to work at 5:30am!!! Yuck! Other than that, we are just doing our thing. Enjoying our life. Loves

Sadie, Sadie, pretty lady

It's been a while since I've posted. Nothing really exciting or even note worthy has happened. Just normal life. Work, play, sleep, repeat! Sadie had her 2 year check up with Dr. Rosi. She is 21.5 pounds and 32.25 inches tall. She is our tiny dancer (hee hee). Dr. Rosi said that she is on the very low end of the growth scale but that for Sadie's growth scale, she is doing great. She said that she will most likely just always be very petite; And that she is developing her motor skills and everything else at or beyond where she should be. Dr. Rosi was very impressed with her cognitive skills and said that is well over the growth curve in that aspect. Adam and I were very happy to hear that. She didn't have to get any shots this time. She was supposed to get one, but because it's almost back to school time they had run out. Dr. Rosi has Sadie on a very spread out shot schedule anyway, due to her size and her (Dr. Rosi) and our wishes, so we will get that shot soon. We do run in to occasions where there are things that she HAS to have because of daycare. I think we're both okay with that though. I am not totally against shots, just not all at once and back to back. But, I digress.

We have 2 wedding coming up in the next little bit. My cousin Crystal is getting married (yay!). Her wedding is next month in Atlanta, well actually outside of Atlanta. On a lake! We are planning on driving up there. I am really excited. Also, Adam's best friend, Booby, and his girlfriend Liz are getting married in January. In Vegas!! Adam is the best man so we HAVE to go (oh darn). I'm VERY excited to go to Vegas. It is a theme wedding, Star Wars. So, we will be dressing up (Pics to follow...lol).

Other than that, we are just chugging along. We are going to try and do something fun this weekend. Adam is off on Saturday (yippee). Loves.

Head of the class.

I wanted to post some pictures from the last few days to show how grown up Sadie is starting to look! I love her teeth. They look like little chicklets! I also wanted to post a picture of the new "baby" in the house. This is not a very good picture of it, as it doesn't really show the incredible detail of eye lashes and hair and veins! I took it to work last week and freaked a couple of people out. Adam took it to work and put it in a box and made his regional manager run around and scream like a little girl! Hilarious. Sadie likes is sometimes and sometimes she points at it and says "no baby" in a very stern voice. I don't know what baby did but it was in trouble! So right before Sadie turned 2, we spoke with the directors of her daycare to find out the transition process to the 2 year old class. Adam, the directors and I all agreed that we would go very slow as Sadie doesn't adjust to new situations quickly (not a problem, that's just her). So they tried her for the afternoon 2 days in a row and she did great. Had a super fun time. Wednesday and Thursday, they tried her for a whole day and she did great. So On Friday morning I met with one of the directors again to see how she thought Sadie was doing. She and I were both pleasantly surprised that Sadie was doing extremely well and we decided to start her in the new class on Monday (Yesterday). She has been having a ball and learning lots of new stuff. I am so happy and proud of her. She is just amazing. Other than that nothing too exciting has been going on. Adam had to work on my Bday so I spent the day pretty much by myself. But, I did get my hair cut and my eyebrows waxed! Adam and I went out to dinner later in the evening and I found out Elliot and Henry are giving me a Wii for my Bday!! WooHoo!!! Guitar hero, here I come! This is the last year of my twenties! Adam will be 30 in 2 months. I'll have to start planning a good present for him soon! I'm off this weekend and am looking forward to relaxing! Loves.

Sadie's 2nd Bday Party

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Sadie's birthday party

I am trying out a new way to post slideshows, when I have a lot of pics to post. I saw this on another blog and I wanted to try it. Photobucket is what I normally use but it hasn't been loading correctly and I want to see if this site works better...

Anyways. Sadie's party was great! We had a pool party at the Shugans'. Adam's brothers were there, my sisters Mellina and Ryan came and my niece Amalise and her friend and Kristin, Benny, Ciara and Devon. It was a great group. Luckily we planned the party perfectly. Everyone got there and went swimming while the food was cooking, we got out and ate and got to swim a bit more. Then, it started to get dark and the sky opened up. Everyone helped get everything inside before it started to rain. Then we did presents. Sadie got a lot of great stuff. Most notably was from Henry's girlfriend, Kayti and her mom. Her mother makes dolls and made Sadie this incredibly real looking doll (pics to follow). It was so real that when I looked in the bag to get the gift out for Sadie I yelped a little! After presents we did cake and sang to Sadie and then just hung out as everyone kind of started to depart. It was a great day and Sadie didn't have a nap but was perfect and had a blast! I can't believe she is 2. She did pass out by the time I was pulling out of the Shugans' neighborhood but she only slept for about 30 minutes and went to bed quickly that night.

In other big news...Sadie has been in the 2 year old class in the afternoons, the last 2 days! Ms. Jenny said she had a great time singing and dancing with the other kids. I am so proud of her. She is growing and becoming such a sweet, silly, fun little girl. Everyone has been saying "uh oh, here come the terrible 2's" but I couldn't ask for a better child. If this is her "terrible", then bring it on! And anyways, toddlers are supposed to be a little feisty. She is just such a joy in our lives. I'm glad that everyone had fun at her party and that she enjoyed herself and everyone else! Loves.

Happy Birthday Sadie!!!!!!!

So, Sadie is 2! I am a little sad, but I love seeing her grow and change. It was a pretty low key bday for her.

This past week and a half has been kind of crazy. On a high note, one of my best friends, Jenn, had her baby boy. He is beautiful and I am so happy for her. That was on Thursday night. Earlier in the week, was a major low. In the middle of the night Monday night/Tuesday morning, Carolina's (Ross's girlfriend)parents house was broken into and her little (16 years old) brother was killed. I won't go into details but it was a long, sad week. We went to the funeral on Thursday and it was super sad. So, I have been trying to remember how incredibly blessed I am and remember to take the time out to love my husband and daughter and everyone around me and not take ANYTHING for granted.

On a happier note. Sadie spent her birthday with Adam and I. We played and swam and had lunch with Bubbe, Grandpa and uncle Henry. It was a great day. Gigi and Granddaddy sent her balloons and Adam and I gave her one of our presents (the chalk board). She got to play with her new present from Mama and Papa (the doll cradle). She also spent some time in her other present from Adam and I, which we had given her a few weeks ago. She was growing out of her little chair/rocker that she loves to sit in. So, Mom and I went down to Pottery Barn kids and bought her a big overstuffed kids chair. She loves it and I love that the cover is washable! We are having a Bday party for her on Sunday so more Bday pics to follow. My sister Mellina and her daughter Jerilyn are coming down from Jacksonville tomorrow and staying with us this weekend. I am super excited for that. Sadie and Jer bear will get lots of good cousin time. ;)


Oh! the first pic is the banner I made for Sadie's Bday party on Sunday. She LOVES Yo Gabba Gabba, so that's sort of the theme. The decorations are only online and they are kinda pricey. So, I used my printer and some good ol' fashion hard work and made some cute stuff. I'll post pics of the other stuff I made!

4th of July...Happy Bday America!

Just wanted to post some cute pics from the 4th of July. We went out to my Mom and Tommy's house and had a BBQ with family and friends and then they did fireworks in the pasture. Unfortunately I missed most of the fireworks because Sadie does NOT like them. Oh well, maybe next year! Other than that Sadie had a great time. Adam even got to come out and have fun. Usually holidays fall on a day he has to work. He got to set off fireworks and have fun too!

Feet

As you can see, Sadie seems to think that her foot is a phone! I think it is so funny how her foot is just there like someone else's foot. Like she's thinking "what's this foot doing here?". Cracks me up! The top 3 pics Adam took on Saturday. My Aunt Dona and Uncle Ron were in town from Alabama. Unfortunately I had to be at work for a resident party so I didn't get to see them. Adam, Sadie and my Mom went and had a great time. These are a few pics Adam took. Sadie is too cute! Other than that nothing too exciting going on here (not a bad thing). We went swimming over at Adam's parents' house this afternoon and just kind of hung out and did chores at home. I can't believe Sadie will be two in 10 days. So crazy. I am starting to get everything together for her Bday party. We are going to do a small party with parents and siblings at Adam's parents' house. I am making the decorations because what she wants is only available to order online and it's a little over priced for birthday decorations. We'll see how it turns out. So far I made part of the happy birthday banner. tonight I will do the cake toppers. I'm excited.

Sadie's 1st (real) boat ride

Today was a great Sunday! Adam, Sadie and I went out with my Mom and Tommy on their boat. we went down to Crystal river. It was a lot of fun. We drove down the river, had lunch and just hung out. We even got to see a manatee, it was like a foot away from my leg! We didn't get any pics with our camera but I think my Mom got some. I'll post those later. Sadie seemed to really enjoy the boat. She didn't love wearing the life vest, but, it has to be done! When we weren't riding, we took it off so she could be more comfortable. She loved moving and going fast! We had a really nice lunch and then slowly headed back. It was HOT HOT HOT by the time we got back to the boat ramp and Sadie (and all of us) were burning up. It was a lot of fun but it was nice to get back in the a/c. The river had NO air movement. I can't wait to go out again. Later in the evening, we went over to Adam's parents' house and swam in the pool. Adam's Mom, Irene, made peanut chicken and it was delicious (as usual). The pictures are backwards. The top one was this evening at the Shugans' Sadie kept covering Zena (the dog) with her blankie and rubbing her and saying "night night Zena". So cute. Well, I'm super tired so I am going to take a shower and go "night night". I hope everyone had a great weekend! Enjoy the pics.

What's old is new! Pics of Sadie below, next post! :)

My mom had given this china hutch (the top part is not in any pics but it is sitting in our office) a while back because she got a BEAUTIFUL buffet from Tommy's grandparent's house. I have always liked the "bones" of this piece bur it was always a little too country for me. When she gave it to me I asked her if she monded if Ipainted it. Well, that was in January...I fianlly did it. I LOVE how it turned out and I did it all myself, on my patio and in our office! This past Friday night I sanded it down (and striped the top), Saturday night I put a tarp down and painted it an off white to match our dining room chairs, after it was dry I put it on the patio and re-stained the top to match our dining table and the wood in the chairs. I also spray painted the brass handles, knobs and hinges black. I was going to get new handles but everything I liked as kind of expensive. I decided I would just paint the ones I had and save up for the ones I wanted...turns out I like these way better! Anyhow. I decided to leave the center door off and take the magnet off and leave it open. I am so happy with how it turned out. Any opinions? Loves

Big girl!!

Sadie is 23 months today!! In one month she will be 2! I can't believe it. The pics are kind of out of order, blogger uploads them weird. But, Sadie has been doing new stuff, most importantly sleeping in her "big girl" bed. We put the twin back in her room, just to try it for naps, and left her crib up. She took a nap in it, then that night she climbed up in there at bed time. We let her sleep in it. The whole next week she kept choosing to sleep in that bed! After a week of her doing that we took her crib down! She loves her new bed. The pics don't show it but we did put a bed rail up so she won't fall out. She did sleep in it for naps without one but I was a little worried she would roll out. So, now the crib is under our bed until we another have another baby or decide we're done making babies! Luckily we have a huge, tall bed to store it under (thanks Mama & Papa).



The other new thing Sadie has been doing is playing with her baby doll. All of a sudden she decided she wanted to be a little mommy. She rocks it and holds it and covers it with her blankie. She was even giving it her milk the other day. I got her little stroller down and she pushes the baby around in it. So cute! She'll say "night night baby" and put it on the pillow and cover it with the blankie. Oh my gosh, I love that kid. Such a sweetie. I love to see how she's changing so much. At the same time I wish she would stop! Enjoy the pics. Loves

Sadie's Playhouse

Here it is!! I fina;;y posted pics of Sadie's playhouse! We got this on Satuday and she's been enjoying it since Adam put it together on Sunday. She is cute going in and out, smiling and giggling. I love that kid. Enjoy the pics! Loves