Brian Head

We took a quick trip to Brian Head to enjoy the mountain air before Chris's tri.

 

 

 

 This little chipmunk made its way into the cabin through the stovepipe...Chris blocked its pathway in and it spent the rest of our trip sitting on the vent outside.

 

 

 

10 months

Happy 10 months, Savannah!

You are getting to be such a fun and cute little girl and we are having a great time learning more and more about your personality.  Here are a few things you have done this month:

Little miss explorer.  Now that you are an expert crawler, you can get to many more places with greater speed.  You have enjoyed the freedom to use the kitchen table, chairs, and highchair as your personal jungle gym and  you even tried to hang from the table...sorry, sweetie, you are just not tall or strong enough...yet.  You like to find funny places to crawl like under your crib, over the bars on the bottom of chairs, through the bottom space of you exersaucer...and you often find yourself stuck in one of these silly places.

The pool has been a lot warmer, thanks to AZ spring weather, and you love to splash!  You like to be held by daddy, mommy, or float in your little floatie-as long as you are in the water.  You get so excited when we turn on your bath because you know you get to play in the water and you even get excited and crawl to the side of the shower when mommy or daddy turns the water on for our shower.  I think you would take 10 baths a day if we let you!

8 teeth!  And they all are getting so big that they show in most of your cute smiles and laughs.  Here's to hoping for a little break before the molars decide to ruin our nights!

It was fun celebrating my first mother's day with my sweet little daughter.  Thanks for being part of our family and making me a mommy!  I love you so much!!

You got to watch daddy graduate with his MBA-hooray! You were so cute in your own little graduation gown.  Daddy has been home a lot between his graduation and the start of working in a few weeks so you have been able to spend a lot of time with him.  He loves to take you on walks to the park and to look at the animals in the store.  You go crazy at the pets in the mall pet store and neither one of you get tired of going to PetSmart.

We found out this month that you are going to be a big sister to a little sister!  You were so cute and quiet in the ultrasound and when the technician announced it was a girl, you giggled like you already knew.  It was very sweet.  Are you ready to share everything??
 
Love you, sweet Savannah!

Announcing...

9 Months

Happy 9 months, sweet Savannah!

You can crawl!  Hooray for this day!  This has been so fun to watch you learn how to navigate around the apartment.  It has dramatically helped your separation anxiety as you can just follow us from room to room.  You love the kitchen...even though you can't open any cupboards...maybe it's just a new room that you have hardly been in before.  You also love the bathrooms (maybe it's the non-carpeted floor??) and cry if the door is closed, regardless of if someone is in the bathroom or not.  You have started to be a little daring in where you crawl-over and under and through chairs, the highchair, toys, it's fun to watch you explore.

You are eating more foods!  For breakfast you like to have pancakes with us, bananas, cheerios, or yogurt bites.  You tried waffles twice but gagged on them both times-maybe they are too dry?  Lunch is usually a fruit (LOVE pears, like peaches, tried avocados, like mangoes), bread (gerber snacks, cheerios), maybe a veggie and yogurt or yogurt bites.  Lunchtime has become quite the production and a loooonger adventure with you eating solids.  Dinner is a bread (cereal, cheerios, piece of bread, gerber snacks), veggie (LOVE green beans, like carrots-but don't swallow them), protein (yogurt, bits of hamburger, refried beans), and something new we are eating we think it would be fun for you to try.  You really like to chew and chew and chew...and chew but we would love to see some more swallowing happen!


1st time in the pool-LOVED it!  And loved your yellow floaty ring that will save mommy's arms this summer.  
1st time in the sand at the park.  You explored a little at first but now you love it. You comb your fingers through it, pick up fistfuls to hold over your shoulders and dump on/down your shirt, and hardly put it in your mouth...unless you find a leaf or stick.

My friend Sarah watched you while we went to the temple this month and you were SO good!  You took a nap for her and woke up happy-the only time you cried was when we walked back in the door and said hello!  This is good because we expect to go on many more dates and want you to be happy while we are gone.

You just popped through tooth #7.  Lovely.  This made for some lovely nights and diapers.

We lowered your crib mattress! You learned to pull up in your crib.  You like to sit up now during the night and your naps.  Unfortunately you do not lay yourself back down yet, even though you can.  You have also been caught standing up in your crib once by each mommy and daddy.  You are growing up so fast!

What funny faces you makes.  You make a cheesy grin/squinty eyes, huff and puff through your nose, circle your mouth in an "o", and otherwise experimenting with those cute little lips of yours.

We love you, little girl!

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.