Enjoying the Day!

Here are a few pictures of Savannah playing at our neighbors house today. She loves to play over there with her buddies Owen and Soren! She hasn't gotten to play outside in a couple of weeks. Between her being sick and the weather being cold we have been stuck in doors. So it was very nice to put on a light jacket today and enjoy the weather!

Snow Day!

Last week we had some snow come into the Carolina's. They were predicting 2-4 inches. I was so excited because Savannah has never seen snow or gotten to play in it yet because we didn't have any last year. Well as you can see we only ended up getting a dusting of snow which was gone by the afternoon. Not nearly enough to play in. Hopefully we will get a better snow before the winter is over. She did however, get to watch it snow for a little while. She just stared at it. It was very cute!

Random

Dear God, Thank you for my food...and please tell my mommy I can have 2 cookies! (Savannah was saying her prayer before having her dessert (a yummy cookie, or Coo-Coo as she calls them)

She loves to get "stickies" and put them all over herself

My poor baby when she was sick

Savannah is finally feeling better! Praise God! Here are a few random pictures I took recently. I thought they were cute! Will post more later!

Awards!

I was recently awarded a blog award by my friend Margaret (sohappilyus). Thanks Margaret! I love sharing our life's adventures with family and friends. And love even more knowing that people enjoy hearing about it.

The award states: "These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

I may be giving this award to some who have already received it, so I apologize in advance, but here are the eight people I'm passing the award on to:

1. The Bristow Fam
2. Cruisin With Cricket

3. The Garske's
4. Mom to 3 Little Flowers
5. The Mueller Crew
6. Mama Belly
7. The Art of Letting Go
8. A Girl Named Charlie

Quick Update

So I know I haven't blogged in while. I have not had much time alone and the time I have had I have been spending trying to pick up and clean the house. Savannah has really not been feeling well, which is why I haven't had much time. She wants me to hold her ALL the time and I have given in to her request since I know she really isn't feeling well. After 5 days of a temperature and seeing no improvement I decided I needed to take her back to the Dr. I took her on Tuesday and boy am I glad I did. It turns out she has RSV and an ear infection in BOTH ears! Poor thing! They gave me an antibiotic for her ear infections and told me just to keep a close eye on her cough and breathing. It has now been a week since she got sick. This has been the most sick she has ever been. Hopefully she will be good as new VERY soon! I hate to see her sick! I will post some pictures (I have to take some first) and update my blog again soon!

18 Month Appointment

Savannah turned 18 months on December 26th. She had her 18 month appointment with the Dr. yesterday. She is now 24.2 pounds (50th percentile) and 32 3/4 inches (90th percentile). It looks like she may be tall like her daddy. She has consistently stayed in the 75th-90th percentile in her height since she was 2 months old. Unfortunately, she ended up sick the night before her appointment so it became a well and sick visit. She has had a temp. of 100-101 for the last 3 days. Her little eyes and nose are runny like crazy, she has a really nasty wet cough, and is very hoarse when she talks. The Dr. said he thinks it is just an upper respiratory virus. I am listening to her cough as she sleeps in her bed while I am writing this. Poor thing! I hate it when she doesn't feel well!
Savannah's vocabulary has boomed in the last month. She is now able to repeat pretty much everything you say and is regularly saying short sentences to communicate with you. My favorite things she says right now are "Excuse me mama", "we'll be back" (she tells our dog Bo this when we are heading out the door, and "I don't know" (she will put her little hands up by her face when saying this...it is SO cute!). She has gotten very good at using a spoon and fork. She tries to sing the ABC's. You can easily understand her say A..B...C...D, but then it gets fuzzy. She can count to 3. She is still interested in the potty and practices going on it several times a day. I am taking it VERY slow and letting her decide when she wants to use it. She will run to the bathroom several times a day while she is going in her diaper/pull up. I will let her still sit on it and try. However, she does successfully potty in the big girl potty on average 1-2 times a day. She also has recently learned how to open our gates at the stairs. Therefore, Joel had to revamp them to add an extra lock. Savannah is really becoming a little toddler. I am enjoying watching her learn new things each day. I will post some new pictures of her soon!

Savannah's 1st Day of School

Today was Savannah's first day of school. She is going to be going 1 day a week for 3 hours. I think it will be very good for both her and I. However, I was a little nervous this morning while driving her to school. My mom told me it was "mommy nerves". She walked right in and started playing but then when it was time for me to leave she started crying. They said she cried for about 30 minutes and then she was ok. Believe it or not but I forgot my camera. I take pictures of everything else that goes on in her life and forgot it on her first day of school : ( I tried to go early in hopes to snap a few shots before she spotted me, but it didn't work. They were playing in the gym b/c it was raining outside and she spotted me right away. So....I took a picture of her work she brought home on the first day. I am going to try and take my camera next week and get a picture.