Dars!

We broke down and finally let Savannah ride in the "dar" (car) attached to the grocery cart.  She was beyond thrilled of course.  She kept yelling Dar! Dar! and honking the horn and steering the steering wheel.  It was a big day for her! Now I'm sure we can never go to the grocery store without it now! Hah :) [and its already got a seat for baby brother when he gets big enough!]

Weekend Part Two

More pics from our weekend...

Family Pic after church! It was our Independence Day Celebrate Sunday so we all dressed appropriately. :)

Somebody couldn't stand not being in the picture.

Love you Daddy!

Cuties!

Reading the Foot Book.  My fave book (one of them, anyway) from my childhood!

She is loving the Foot Book! Every day we read it at least once!

Random Weekend-Ness

We had the best weekend around here! Not because of any particular plan or anything we did, but Savannah was just so pleasant and easy.  She's been throwing "fits" since just about the day she stopped being colicky, therefore pleasant and easy are not two words I would usually use to describe my sweetie.  Love her. But not a laid-back child. This weekend was a 180 degree difference for her! She and I had a mama-daughter shopping day on Saturday getting things for her and for the house and for baby brother, and she was SO good in the car, getting in and out a lot, sitting in the stroller, listening when I would ask her not to walk away from me in a store, just so well-behaved and generally excited to be out and about!  She took a great two hour nap on Saturday (usually it's around 1 or 1 1/2 hour nap) and just in general did not fuss about anything or have any crying fits or anything.  Sunday was the same way and we had lots going on at church, errands to run, dinner and visiting with Nana and Gran, and lots around the house in between. BUT, she woke up without screaming, went to sleep without any tears, didn't terrorize the kitties any, and so on and so on.  I am so proud of her! It made my whole weekend.  AND, in the midst of her wonderfulness, she was cutting her last two teeth she had to get in before her 2 year molars! She broke through both her bottom eye teeth (cuspids?) on Saturday and never made a peep about it.  Star child :)

I hope you had as good a weekend as we did.  I've got LOTS of pictures, so I'll share some today and some from Birc's phone tomorrow.

baby brother outfits from a local consignment store!

Savannah selfie

working out with Daddy.  (the treadmill is not actually ON, don't worry)

but she thinks it is!

at Red Lobster in a big girl booster for the first time!

DIY-ing just like CC and Grandad

Grandad will have to show me how to use this, I only like the popping sound it makes when I let it go!

Caddo sandwich! (you do see him in between us, right?)

My grown up girl!  She's getting so tall and little-girlish!

Note about our bottom drawer in the kitchen: It's Savannah's play drawer.  So if you ever actually need a spoon or spatula or whisk, you should wash it first.  I would bet she's licked it at least once.  

At Nana and Gran's we saw a TURTLE!

She loved it but it went away...

So she waved bye bye tu-tle!

Happy Independence Day!

From our little firecracker! :) She's sure sassy and spicy and spunky.  :)

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Wednesday!

It's a...

BOY! We are so thrilled to hear about another healthy baby coming to join our family! It is always such a relief to see the baby moving around with all his fingers and toes and arms and legs on that ultrasound, after you know he's in there but you don't know for sure if everything is growing like it's supposed to.  All my boy mama friends will have to send me good sites and links and advice for boy fun, ok?!
We had a little reveal party for our parents and Anna and Aaron on Monday night after we found out. It was super fun! Enjoy the pictures!

We had a taco salad bar.  Tasty!

We cut open a cake to tell everybody! 

Yay for brothers!

Our Weekend

We had nothing really planned this weekend besides two dinner things on Saturday and Sunday nights, and church Sunday morning.  We managed to pack a lot in though, and I am so happy to tentatively say that Savannah is hopefully paci-free! She hasn't had a paci at all for one second (or seen one for that matter as we've hidden all of them) since Friday night.  I am SO impressed with her and proud of her! She has had a very strong attachment to her paci since she was about 5 months old or so, and I have been dreading it and putting off getting rid of that thing since she first got hooked on it! After her first plane ride and Disney trip, however, we thought it was NOW or never.  So Birc and I decided that this weekend was the weekend to do the 3-day method of cold turkey getting rid of it. And we've stuck to it and Savannah has done so awesome and SO much better than I thought she would! She surprises me sometimes with her smarts and her ability to adapt to something new and different.  What a lucky mama I am to have such a wonderful girl :)  [i have some blurry and terrible-quality pictures I'm going to post, that I took of her sleeping with her mouth wide open! She is going to be quite the drooler without this paci, I tell ya!]

Her AWESOME UNCLE AARON also decided to come over and build/install/put in/sweat buckets a Sand Box that is SO amazing! It has a wood lid and everything that folds back into two benches for sitting on and playing which is the coolest thing I have ever seen.  Savannah already loves it and wants to go play outside every moment we are at home inside! Thanks Aaron!

finished project

mid-dig.  He only picked the hottest day of 2013 to start.  I felt so bad!

this is her "cheese" face! so cute

Savannah also had her first bloody nose this weekend, while playing outside and "helping" us clean up and get Aaron all finished up.  She was running in our grass and literally faceplanted into the ground without catching herself at all.  She came up with a mouthful of dirt and then a big nose bleed in her left nostril only.  She recovered quickly and this mama was happy to have a doctor present! That's why she's had a quick bath here and it only in a diaper and her hair is cray-cray.

I am also trying out a new and very temporary hair-do on Savannah.  Her hair in the front is getting so long that it is hanging down to her mouth and nose, and it is driving her crazy.  I try to sweep it to the side and keep an alligator clip/bow in it to keep it out of her face but those inevitably come out and then she's pulling at her hair and pushing it up and out of her face constantly.  So she's going with a Pebbles look for a short time.  She won't keep pigtails in for a whole day or a ponytail (I think maybe it hurts her head after a while since her hair is so short and the ponytails are so tight)  She doesn't even notice it on the top of her head and never messes with it, and it keeps all the long hair out of her face.  But she has so much short hair that's coming in and it looks like bangs, which I don't want to have to deal with styling and maintaining so we are just trying to let it all grow out at one time.