Sarah's Bathtime Adventures

Tonight after feeding Sarah, I gave her a bath in the kitchen sink. Since she is quickly outgrowing the sink, I wanted to steal a few pictures of her to remember what a wonderful age this is. She is developing personality more and more! It is getting more fun (and more work) by the day. She is giggling more now and says a few words "mama, dada, baba" and does a whole lot a babbling that we don't understand at all. I can't believe that tomorrow she turns 10 months old. It is flying by! If you click on the picture above to enlarge, you can see Sarah's one little tooth coming in!Sarah trying to taste the water. My camera was a second too late. She was opening her mouth under the faucet and drinking. Funny. Splish, splash, I am taking a bath!
This last picture was taken on Sunday 9/20/09 morning. Sarah loves when I play the piano. She always has. When she was newborn and didn't move around, I would swaddle her in blankets and either lay her on the couch or cradle her in my lap and play. It would calm her. She likes music. Now that she can move around, she wants to play too. As soon as she hears the piano start playing, she crawls in, pulls herself to standing and plays any note her fingers can reach. I play the piano in Relief Society at church, so I have to have help now entertaining her while I play the hymns or she adds in lots of notes that don't belong.

Dodgers Stink!

We were invited to take a limo ride to the Giants game tonight with some friends that play softball with Chris. The Giants played the Dodgers... and there were almost as many blue shirts in the crowd as there were in Giants colors. So the chants sounded like "Let's go, blah, blah" as people tried shouting their teams name louder than their neighbor. And of course since the rivalry between the two teams causes much excitement in the park, we saw lots of people kicked out of the game. That was entertainment in itself. Unfortunately, the Giants lost.... but at least we had a great Sheboygan Bratwurst and some garlic fries that were so strong, I may still taste them next week. Nothing like a Sheboygan at the ball field!

Sarah's first tooth

Late breaking news... Sarah cut her 1st tooth today (9/10/09). Very exciting!

Oh Happy Day!

Today was Sarah's 6 month follow up appointment at the Children's Hospital. Great news! They stated they could not tell at all which side her torticollis had been on, AND that she is DONE with physical therapy. I was so happy for the specialist to release us from any further physical therapy as the drives to Fresno have been such a pain in the neck (no pun intended). :)

3 day weekends rule!

Thank goodness for 3 day weekends! This weekend has been fun and the fun ain't over yet! To reinforce good behavior at school, James has a behavior jar. When he is good, we add marshmallows to the jar. When he fills up the jar, he gets to pick a reward. He likes this and the first reward he asked for was to have a camp out at Papa Hampton's house. So that's what we did this weekend. We had a barbecue and were so happy to have my Uncle Ron and his kids, Aaron and Holly; as well as my Aunt Debbie, Uncle Randy, Todd (just recently home from his mission), Scott & Rhonda with their children Jackson and Grace. It was great! Chris barbecued delicious burgers. We set up our little village of tents and the kids rotated back and forth between watching movies on the outside projector (just like the old drive-in movies) and roasting marshmallows by the fire. All in all, fun times. Today we had the kids over for swimming and fun. It was nice to have everyone together (even my brother Brent came up yesterday from Arizona to surprise the kids for a visit. We haven't seen him since Christmas so it is quite a treat. Anyway, here is some pictures...love to you! This picture is Claire (left) and Sarah (right) playing on the blanket. Sarah absolutely LOVED Claire and to be watched very carefully as not to maul her while trying to give her lots of hugs and kisses. This is Sarah learning to play Peek-a-boo repeatedly sitting and standing in this bucket!