My Little Owl

While Savannah was sick we were pretty much house-ridden the whole time but she would, every afternoon, bang on the back door towards the swing set and yell, "weeee!  weeeee! swwwiiiinnngggg! ssswwwwiiiinnnnngggggg!" and then fake cry [whining with NO TEARS] until we could distract her or decide it was warm enough to venture outside for 5-10 minutes.  For a while now, she's known she needs her "aket" [jacket] to go outside and she also usually needs her owl hat.  So while she was sick she'd go over to the hat/scarf/glove basket and grab her hat and pull it on and go to the back door.  And all around the house.  Smarty pants.

this is in front of the cat/workout room where we have to put a gate so she doesn't go digging in the cat food.  :)

Dressing Up

Savannah got an adorable dress-up trunk from her cousins Anna and Aiden at Christmas and she's taken a really big interest in it lately.  She's loving the shoes especially. And I love the pom poms best.  The fairy wings are a close second in the adorable-ness category.

Valentine's Day + Weekend Review

We've had a busy few days around here.  Miss Savannah got ahold of a nasty fever virus on Wednesday that kept us out of commission, really, until Monday.  She's been fever-free since Saturday night sometime but we missed all church activities and Soup Sunday (an event with Anna's workplace that is super fun and tasty) today (Sunday) just to be on the safe side.  I'll try not to overload you with pictures and spread it out over a few days. [after finishing the post, sorry to say I did overload you with pictures.  sorry.]

Take-home art activity for Savannah's school.  Decorate the heart any way you choose!

Girl's got 100 degree temp but you can't tell!

Gran's tongue! 

Bubbles! The cats love them as much as Savannah does.  It's hilarious :) 

I'm gonna BITE them mama!

Savannah made her valentines for her classmates.  She's stamping them here.

work in progress

finished product! Savannah stamped the cupid and put the glued heart wherever she wanted! I did the cutting obviously and wrote the message after she did her thing. 

Savannah's valentine basket! Target dollar aisle was great :)

Mille's sugar cookies for Savannah's valentine party on Thursday. Which she ended up missing since her fever returned with a vengeance.  

cookies for her teachers, class party, and valentines for her friends and another class they exchanged with!

She got tons of valentine goodies! A chicken from Nana and Gran (there's a story behind the beloved chicken), a puzzle and the adorable homemade dress from CC and Grandad, and the basket of goodies from Birc and me.

Valentine morning she was doing great, no fever, and happy as a clam opening her goodies.  She loved the soccer ball of course.

As I said earlier, Savannah got a terrible fever that returned while she was at school so all our Valentine plans went out the window.  We ended up grabbing a quick burger at MooYah.  Happy Valentine's Day to us!

How we spent the rest of the weekend.

Poor baby.

You know even though I hate for Savannah to be sick and could not wait for her to be better, all the cuddles and snuggles were so wonderful.  My normally tornado-esque busy girl actually sat on my lap for more than 2 minutes, hugged me, cuddled for hours, and just wanted to be on me or held by me all the time.  I loved that part of it but hated every other part since she felt so badly.

Valentine's Schmalentine's

This is the face of a girl who ended up with over 103 when she woke up from her nap at daycare today.      She and I had a day at home yesterday when she ran a low-grade fever all morning and early afternoon. It was gone by 3 though and she never acted sick. We aren't sure what she's got yet as we are waiting for test results but Dr. Uncle Aaron has checked her out and it's either some sort of fever virus or a UTI.  Since she has Hydronephrosis, Aaron wants her to have her urine checked anytime there's a high fever with no other symptoms that he can find.  So we will wait for that to culture and see what it says.

I should have known when I dropped her off and she looked at me like this that she was sick. Poor baby.

Needless to say our Valentine's Day didn't go as planned but that is A-OK as long as my baby is ok! I got to spend it with my loves and so it is good no matter what.  I'll update tomorrow or the weekend with lots of fun pictures to come!

We've Been Busy!

We've been busy and I haven't had a chance to blog lately but hopefully I'll catch back up.  This weekend we had a chance to hang out with Birc's sister and her kiddos which was so fun! Savannah wanted to do everything Anna and Aiden did! 

In other news, Savannah has discovered her love for mud and all things outside. We've been going outside to play every day that we can and she immediately [after swinging and sliding first] wants to dig in the dirt, pull up rocks, and throw leaves around.  The girl is getting D.I.R.T.Y.  :) It's adorable!

she's also sampled a taste of the dirt.  She didn't love it but still went back for more!

Savannah wore a cute poodle dress the other day so I had to snap some pictures! As you can see, though, she was NOT in the right frame of mind to smile for a pic at the same time as showing off her cute dress.  So I say, oh well!

Poor Birc always gets called in to help me with photo shoots...neither of them like them!

We've got a big Valentine's Day planned today and hope you feel some love from everyone you love!  I'll try to blog about our day tomorrow! Happy Valentine's Day to you guys!

14 Months and the Weekend

Sorry for the lack of post yesterday...busy times with work make for no pictures which mean no posts. But, never fear, the weekend is near! And my BABY is a whopping 14 months old as of Wednesday.  Crazy how time flies. Here's my sunshine baby [what I call her every day] in her sunshine dress before school today! [please excuse our disaster of a bathroom-she trashes it daily while I'm getting ready]

seriously.  the girl likes to clean the floors.  no joke. LOVES scrubbing anything.

CC Love

We've all got some love for Mama, Cara, CC, whatever you might call her! We celebrated big for her birthday Tuesday night since Anna and Aaron got back in town and we had a great time! We had good food but mainly just good fun hanging out with each other.  I know I am a broken record with this but I just LOVE my family and my family time.  It makes me the happiest when I've gotten to hang out with all of us at one time and it also usually involves good food.  Which Aaron provided tonight, a homemade apple cake! YUM! [he even did the awesome powdered sugar art with a cake stencil-what a Stevie Homemaker] :) Anna and Aaron are like gourmet chefs over at their house though, so I shouldn't be surprised.  They make dinners that have like 5 dishes, each with at least 10 ingredients, and everything is so tasty.  Birc and I make fast meals that have under 5 ingredients and usually bread or salad for a side.  Hah! At least we have goals.  Anyway, Happy Wednesday to you!

Hanging out with CC and playing hooky from school Tuesday!

this girl was SLEEPY and CC could not wake her up for anything!

Happy Birthday to my pretty mama!

See? Aaron could be missing his other calling [besides kids] with this baking thing.