Visit From Nanny Jack!

My grandma from Indiana, Nanny Jack, spent 2 weeks down here in North Carolina visiting all of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. We celebrated her birthday while she was here. I think she enjoyed getting to see all the little ones play and run around. We sure enjoyed her! I wish she and my Papaw lived closer though so that we could see them more often and spend more time with them! I miss them a lot! And always look forward to the time I get to spend with them!

Blog Slacker!

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. I left my camera at my parents house last weekend and have not been able to get it yet! I will be over there this weekend so will be able to get it then. So I will give you an update on Savannah and the bottle situation. She has been bottle free for almost 2 weeks. She has now gotten use to not having it. I just have to make sure that I fix her breakfast asap in the morning. She is very hungry. She has learned how to make the kissing sound with her lips and is blowing every one she sees kisses. It is so cute. She is also kissing us all the time. I think I get at least 25 kisses a day from her...on my leg...on my shoulder...on my lips...on my knee....everywhere. It is so sweet! I just love it! She has also learned where your eye is and will point to it and say "eye". We are now working on where our nose is. Well I will post some new pictures as soon as I get my camera back. I will also post an adorable video I took of her play "Where did Savannah go"? She covers up her face with her hands. It is so cute!

Bottles...bottles...bottles!

So I decided that it was time for Savannah to give up her last bottle, the morning bottle which had become very precious and dear to her. I knew the older she got the harder it would be to break her of this. So Monday morning I was determined that our house would for now on be free of bottles. I gave her pancakes as a reward that morning since that is her favorite breakfast meal! I knew it might be hard in the morning but I thought once we got through the first couple of mornings that we would be fine. Well since Monday morning my daughter has fussed and wined ALL day long EVERY day and today is Friday!! This morning while I was pouring her a sippy cup or milk she said "ba-ba"...and I said "no, we don't take bottles anymore this is a sippy of milk". I am told it may take a week or two before she "forgets" and adjusts to not having her morning bottle. Well at least hopefully I am almost half way there!! Even though at times I want to just give in and give her a bottle to make her happy...I won't b/c I know eventually I am going to have to do this and we have survived now without a bottle for close to a week!!!

So Precious!

Savannah giving her baby doll love and saying "Awww"! Too precious!

Mmm....Mmm...Good!

I fixed Savannah some mixed veggies for dinner tonight. She decided she did not want them and ended up throwing all of them on the floor instead. Our dog, Bo, loved her for this! She then continued to wine and point to what I had...ravioli....I decided to give her some to try, not knowing if she would like it or not. I am sure you can tell the answer to that! She LOVED it! And was a total mess! But too cute! I had to take a picture!

P.S. On another note....Savannah has been down to 1 bottle a day for a while now...the only bottle she still took was her morning bottle...and boy did she like it! She would wine and cry and even cry "Ba-ba, ba-ba" for it....well this morning was the first morning we did NOT have a bottle! We went all day for the first time without any! I think our bottle days are finally over! YAY!!!

Lake / Beach Trip

We celebrated Joel's birthday also while down at the beach. He turned 31 on July 7th. Happy Birthday!! Savannah is showing him the birthday card she picked out!

We had a wonderful time on our vacation. We met my husband's family up at their lake home and spent fourth of July weekend up there. We took Savannah on the boat and she got to see fireworks for the first time. She loved them both. However, did not care for the life vest too much!! We then left their lake house and followed them up to their beach home in Morehead City and spent the week there. We took Savannah to the beach and visited the aquarium. She had a great time at the beach and by the 2nd day was getting pretty brave walking out in the water with daddy. She would walk until the waves were waist deep on her. Her favorite thing to do at the beach though was to pick out shells and put them in her little cup. She did this forever! She also liked to walk out to the water and back again over and over. At the aquarium she was amazed at all the big and colorful fish. She kept pointing to all of them and saying "that" and then waving to them. It was so cute! We were greeted by pawpaw (my dad) when we arrived back home from our trip. He talked us into letting him take her back with him to surprise my mom. They live about an hour from us. So now our first night home after a week of vacation we are childless. Hence, me having the time to post pictures so quickly after returning home. Anyway, we had a wonderful trip and can't wait to be able to go and visit again!

Best Buddies!!

Our next door neighbor has a little boy exactly 3 months younger than Savannah. His name is Soren. They adorable each other and are best buds! Here are a few pictures I took the other day of them playing together!

Also...we will be leaving for vacation tomorrow morning and will be gone for about a week. We are heading up to my in-laws lake house and then to their beach house! YAY! I am so excited! I will post pictures from our trip when I return! Happy Fourth of July!