Miss Savannah

 First time in the sand at the park

 First time in the pool

 First time in the DVDs

 Wish you could touch the banana stickiness that is everywhere!

 Cutest sleeper

 Lowered mattress because someone pulled to a stand in her crib

 Favorite playing position

 She kept busy during General Conference

 We love to read

Savannah loves daddy's guitar

Quilting

I have been working on a king size quilt for our bed.  

 Bottom Layer-can you tell where Savannah helped me flatten it out?

 Batting in the middle

Quilt top-all three layers are pinned together ready to be tied!

8 months

Happy 8 months, Savannah!

This month:
You like to make lots of noises and chatter away to yourself.  You say "blah, bah, bah, blah, bah" "fffffffff" "eshhhhh" "a-da-da-da-da" "ooooff" and "ya ya ya".  It's pretty cute!
You are so close to crawling!  You have figured out how to get up on your hands and knees (which you love to do in your crib-even in your sleep) and you rock back and forth.  Unfortunately, this usually takes you backwards, farther away from the toy you are trying to play with.  Keep it up, sweetheart!
You went on a grand vacation and proved that you can be a trouper in the car, but not so much sleeping in strange houses in your pack and play.  Oh well, we had fun anyways and you were able to meet all of you living great-grandparents!
You love to move.  Your arms or legs are constantly moving.  You like to flap your arms, kick your legs, clench and un-clench your fingers, scoot around in a circle on your tummy, get up on your hands and knees, and bend over while you are sitting up.  Hence, the picture is a little blurry because you would not stop moving.
You love to chew!  What a grand experience to you.  You have tried banana puffs, yogurt bites, banana pieces (you prefer biting off pieces of a larger chunk rather than little bites), pear pieces, baby carrots-you love to hold these and scrape some off during our dinnertime.  You are far more interested in what mommy and daddy are eating than what you are eating.  Yesterday I was feeding you mango baby food-one of your favorites.  When I brought a slice of pizza for my lunch, you stopped eating the mangoes and refused them, opening your mouth only when I held the pizza close.  Hmmm, sorry little one, you cannot eat everything we eat quite yet.
Separation anXIEty.  Holy smokes you are quite in love with your mommy and daddy.  You do not want either of us to move out of a 5 foot radius of you...even if the other one is right next to you.  You notice when daddy leaves for school now and you cry alligator tears when the door shuts.  It is better if we stand outside and wave bye-bye.  You hate when I walk into the closet to put something away for 3 seconds...and you let me know how much you don't like it!  You have quite the set of screamers on you when you feel abandoned.  But this all comes with the fact that you have started being more and more snuggly.  You give us loves and have even reached out to give us a hug.  You like to snuggly on my shoulder sometimes and give kisses.  We love it!
You love daddy!  The other day at church I was showing you a picture book of your family-mommy, daddy, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins.  You gave daddy's picture a big kiss.  It was so sweet!  We went through the whole book and you didn't kiss any other picture.  When we came back to daddy's pictures, you gave big kisses again.  It was so darling!  Good thing daddy can sit with us during 2nd hour!

We love you, sweetie, and can't wait to see how you continue to grow this next month.

Utah Trip

Savannah was a trooper in the many car rides

 Draper with Grandma Sexton

 Temple Square-Assembly Hall

 

 Families are Forever

 Savannah pumped her arms up and down the whole tour of the Beehive House

 Outside the Beehive house

 

 Happy Family

 Bountiful with Grandma and Grandpa Whatcott

 Wearin' Daddy's sunglasses in the car

 Evanston with the Haacks

 Orem with Grandpa Lewis

 

 Heber with the Sorensens

 Provo with Spencer

 Orem with the Dunns

 Orem with the Lisonbees

 Provo with David

What a fun, busy, car-filled trip we had.  We had such a great time visiting with family and friends and enjoying a beautiful spring week in Utah and Wyoming.

A month of pictures

 Mission Bay with Grandma and Mommy

 Torrey Pines with Daddy after his trip

 Kisses to her mirror friend

 Favorite activity: Watching cars

 Cutie patootie

 Savannah and Grandpa at Uncle Nathan's church bball game

 Trying an apple

 Uh-oh!  There must be a hole in my chin!

These next pictures are a sequence of events as Savannah learned that she now has access to things that are not directly on the ground in front of her:

 

 

7 months

Happy 7 months, Savannah!

This month:
You finally decided rolling over was a fun thing to do and now you never stop!  You can roll over whenever you want, even in the smaller confines of your crib.  It must be nice to finally feel a little in control of what toy you play with.
You have 4 big teeth and your top side 2 are slowly making their way through.  We love your toothy grin, especially when you squint your eyes to accentuate that cute smile.
Good thing it is nice weather!  You are having so much fun being outside at the park.  We took you to the tennis courts and you were very happy to just watch mommy and daddy play for a while.  You are excited for the thrill of sliding down slides with a lot of support from mommy or daddy and you absolutely love the swings.  You giggle and squeal when you are being pushed in one of the baby swings at the park near our house.
You love veggies more that fruit!  You eat green beans, peas, and carrots the best.  You also like sweet potatoes.  You like applesauce and peaches and bananas.  Pears have lost their appeal and mangoes were kind of ok.  Because you are such a reacher, we finally got you a high chair so that we can actually put something on the table when we have dinner.  You love it and we are excited to try some finger foods now that you have a big tray all to yourself.  We did give you a slice of apple to play with and you were so adorable as you would lick it, scrunch up your face, then lick it again.
You got to visit all your grandparents this month-lucky little girl!  You are starting to have a hard time accepting others holding you and the first little while at both houses were rocky, but you eventually warmed up to everyone and enjoyed the extra attention.  Your grandparents sure love you!
Naps are much better.  You have learned to stay up for about 3 hours at a time and consequently are sleeping for 1-2 hours at a time (instead of 25 minutes).  Mommy loves this!
You love to flap your hands up and down.  You do this when someone is holding you, when you are sitting up, and when you are drinking your bottle-and this time is when you often hit your head in your exuberance to whack those little arms.
Talk, talk, talk.  You are making more and more sounds everyday.  You like to listen to mommy and daddy make silly sounds.  You learned how to click your tongue on the top of your mouth with your mouth closed-quite an interesting trick but cute, of course.
You are such a cutie in the stores.  Everywhere we go, you get so many compliments on how cute you are.  At the dollar store on Valentine's Day, an old man even bought you a Valentine's balloon!  This balloon has been your favorite toy for the last few days, for sure.
You and mommy survived daddy's first business trip.  He had to fly to Modesto for a school project for 4 days.  We cheated a little bit and went to Grandpa and Grandma's house, but you really missed daddy a lot!  You were so excited to see him when he came back-you would not stop smiling and pumping your arms and legs.  You love him so much and he loves and missed you, too!

We love you so much!