Flower girl

I took this picture the other day. Sarah calls the flowers stars. At first I had no idea why she was saying there were stars in the yard...till she walked over and smelled a "star". I guess they do look like stars huh? :o)

Funny Girl

I didn't realize how long it had been since I posted last! Dave gave Sarah her bath tonight and told her she needed to get some creame in her hair (leave-in conditioner) to which she started singing "creamy in her hair...creamy everywhere..I love the creamy girl" LOL It was sung to the I love the flower girl song. I sang just a couple of lines to her when she was younger and sniffing the flowers outside. LOL She loves to sing this and insert her own lyrics. Most of the time she has us in stiches when she does it. She also has started singing her ABC's...she gets most of them..but towards the end she will change them...like X becomes S. So she is really close to saying it right. I want to record her saying them but as soon as she knows I'm listening she stops...or starts picking letters at random. We had a good day at the grocery store today. She didn't use the "I don't like him/her" at all. She actually said "I like that lady...she's nice" at the checkout. I praised her for saying that..told her that was nice thing to say. We dove full steam ahead into potty training today. I set up a posterboard with her name at the top and squares next to each day to put stickers in. She used the potty four times today...only had one accident (#2). I bought a few goodies at the Dollar Tree for her rewards. At first she said I don't want any rewards..I don't want to use the big potty. But when she got up this morning she was ready to wear big girl diapers. (pullups) Now she is running all over the house asking if it is bedtime! LOL I pray that means tonight will go smoothly as I am on duty. hehe Better get her tucked in!

Quiz Time!

Found this quiz on another bloggers site....

The Husband Quiz
The Husband Quiz

1. What is his name? Dave

2. How long have you been married? 7 years 5 months

3. How long did you date? Met in Feb, Married in September.

4. How old is he? 42

5. Who eats more? About the same..LOL

6. Who said "I love you" first? He did.

7. Who is taller? Same Height

8. Who sings better? I think we are pretty equal on this one. He sounds alot like Tom Petty..especially singing those songs. :o)

9. Who is smarter? Ohhh he is!

10. Whose temper is worse? Mine

11. Who does the laundry? Me...but he will help if I need him to.

12. Who does the dishes? The dishwasher..hehe..but again he helps me with it too.

13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? If you are standing at the end of the bed..he does

14. Who pays the bills? Me.

15. Who mows the lawn? Neither..we hire someone

16. Who cooks dinner? Me or we go out...he cooks about once every month or so...and it is yummy!

17. Who drives when you are together? In town..he does...long trips mainly me.

18. Who is more stubborn? Me

19. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Me.

20. Whose parents do you see the most? Mine..only because they tend to come here more often.

21. Who proposed? He did.

22. Who has more friends? He does

23. Who has more siblings? Same..2 each

24. Who wears the pants in the family? Me..LOL

2 years ago today...

We were in St. Petersburg Florida staring into our newborn daughters eyes. I still can't believe it has been 2 years already! We had her party on Saturday. The weather cooperated thank goodness. Lots more toys were added to Sarah's collection. Tonight we are heading out to dinner to celebrate her birth and Valentine's Day. I hope they will sing Happy Birthday to her. She will be sooo happy if they do! We talked to her Birth Mom on the phone. Even Sarah's half sister talked to her. She is too cute. And her half brother said Hi too. We saved a couple of gifts for her when we get back from dinner. One is a kitchen set that she is going to love for sure. The other is a stroller for her doll. She will really like that too. Daddy won't care too much about all the small pieces! haha But it will be worth it to see her happy face when they are all put together. I'm trying to take more pictures...but it seems like a week or so goes by before I get any. I will take alot more tonight..but I need to try and do a better job of taking the everyday ones. Anywho...I sure do miss those days where the most she could do was roll over! haha She couldn't get into trouble for sure. :o) I am liking this stage alot tho too. We can talk to each other and she gets most of what I am telling her. That is so neat. To hear her put several words together is wonderful. We have so much to look forward too this year. Hopefully the big one being potty training. I have a feeling once we go full time with it she will train really easy. Oh joy to not changing any more diapers!! ;o) This entry took me forever to write. We had a good dinner and she loved her gifts. Daddy even brought us chocolates home. YUMMO!! He is sooo sweet. We are lucky to have him in our life. I got a really cute pic of him and her that I put at the top of the post. Happy Birthday my baby girl and Happy Valentine's Day!!

One month from today..

My little baby turns 2! Before I started typing this, she was playing with her little potty that talks. She lifted the lid and it said "open" to which she said "closed" then it said "up" and she said "down". I am amazed at all she knows. We have people tell us all the time how smart she is..or they can't believe she can speak so well. Yup we are so proud of her! We got a scare at the pool this weekend. Well I did..Daddy was on the other side and couldn't see us. She is able to walk on the bottom of the baby pool. She decided to walk over to the edge and grab a toy out of the box. Her feel must have slipped cause she went under water. I swear it felt like an eternity before I got to her and got her back in my arms. I was only a little ways away. I thought she would lose it, but she was pretty calm. She wanted to go right back to standing on the bottom. Mommy on the other hand took a little longer to calm down. Dave made up a song when she was little that goes like this..Good morning Sarah..how are you my sarah..how are you doing today? Your hungry and thirsty and need a new diadie...that's how you are doing today. Well Daddy will change you and then he will feed you...and then we will be on our way. He went a couple of months without singing it..and just started it up again recently. Now Sarah will ask (ALOT) "How you doin today Mama?" I usually say "Great Sarah. How are you?" To which she says " I doin fine or I ok Mama". LOL Took me a little while to figure out that she got the question from her Poppa's song. So sweet! She always wants to kiss our pain away.."I make it betta". And it always does. I hope she never looses that caring and sweet side!

Christmas Eve

I sit here realizing how much I am blessed. In 25 minutes it will be Christmas..I still need to vacuum and bring up presents from the basement, help set up Santa's gifts...and for some reason it took till now to really hit me how lucky I am...I mean I always knew it...just certain times really make it stand out. I have a beautiful family...Husband who loves me to pieces and a precious baby girl who tells me she loves me all the time. We have so much to be thankful for. I can't wait till the morning when Sarah wakes up and opens all of her gifts. It's the best feeling to see her so happy and excited. Sure we went overboard with gifts. But it is so much fun to buy for her. We went to Christmas Eve service tonight. I got teary eyed when we sang certain songs. I really miss going to church on a regular basis. Sarah was really good. She swayed to the music and even tried to sing a couple of songs. It was really cute. She would clap after each song. There is a guy in the choir that looks alot like Santa. Dave and I wondered if she would see him. Well the last few songs had the choir spread out all over the church..and Santa was a couple of rows down from us. Sure enough, when the choir finished and started to leave..she shouts..."there's santa!" LOL I told her Jesus' birthday was tomorrow. She smiled at that. I want her to know our Lord. She likes to pray. Randomly she will say things like "Thank you Jesus for this box, and for cookies and for Poppa and Mama". (she was sitting in an empty storage container) My heart just swells and I am so proud of her! Isn't childhood innocence the best?! Well better rap this up. I hope that everyone can know the love of our Lord..especially this time of year. Merry Christmas!!!

Another new addition!

Well we decided to take Minnie (guinea pig) back to the pet store. She just wasn't warming up to us...too jumpy and waaaay to messy! I really wanted a dog...for years actually. I talked Dave into going to the local animal shelter and a no kill shelter about 45 minutes from here. The local shelter had a couple of cuties..so we kept them in mind as we headed to the open house at the other shelter. I had done a little searching on their website and really wanted to meet a dog named Sweetie. We got there about an hour after they opened and the place was packed. They had so many cats it was unreal. Alot of the dogs were either gone or spoken for. But Sweetie was the "greeter". The first dog you saw when you walked through the door on the dog side. We looked at her...thought she was cute..but had several patches on skin with little hair. So we kind of went on. I just wasn't drawn to any of the other dogs in the 2nd room. We came back out and I asked to see Sweetie again. The lady got her out of the cage and let me walk her outside a little. Good night that dog is strong! If I had ski's on she would have pulled me all over the place. lol I could see why people were passing her by...the way she looked..but I looked past that and saw a gentle dog. She wasnt jumping all over us like the first shelter dogs did. She wasn't barking like crazy..and all the ladies that worked at the shelter loved her. I asked Dave if we could adopt her and he said yeah. I was so suprised they let us take her home that day. We had to bring home meds for her for her skin. We took her to the vet today and found out she isn't as "well" as they made her out to be. We got her more meds and special shampoo. Hopefully with that and lots of love we can get her coat back to what it use to be. She is really a lovebug. If we leave the room she follows us..or if she doesn't she is always waiting with a big kiss..or at least a paw to the chest. Sarah really gets along well with her too. She has tried to ride her a couple of times and Sweetie just lays there. If they ride together in the back of the SUV..Sweetie is usually right next to Sarah. It is sooo cute! I hope they can be best buddies as they grow up together.