H is for Hat

I am still working on the alphabet book for Sage girl. I wanted to get a cute picture of her in the hat the Easter Bunny brought her, but she does not love the hat as much as I do! She sure looks cute in it though. After a few minutes of fighting her to put it on I gave up and put the camera away. Next thing I knew she had the hat on and was laughing. She's such a funny girl.

Thirsty?

LOVE this picture. Forgot to post this with the Easter post. After a long day of fun these two cuties were ready for a bath and bed. And yep, that's my girl drinking the bath water. I'm sure Kaylee was just about to take a sip too! 

Easter in Paradise

We all went up to Paradise on Saturday to spend some time and celebrate Easter together. It was so much fun. We colored eggs, went on an egg hunt, road the 4 wheelers, played kick ball, opened Easter baskets and ate a yummy lunch and dinner. It had been a while since we all went up to Paradise, so it was so nice to be together and the day was perfect. The Easter Bunny brought Sage and a bubble machine, a book, a Minnie  Mouse, a cute summer dress and hat and a sweet picture of Christ with children framed for her room. Sunday we went to church with Tony and Jeanne and then spent some time and had dinner with Grandma and Papa. It was such a nice Easter spent with family. We are so grateful for such wonderful families and grateful for our own little family of three. We are grateful for our Savior and knowledge we have that He lives!

early bath

This little girl insisted on taking a bath at 6:30 this morning. She followed me into the bathroom and kept signing bath. When I brought her back to the front room with me she just kept waving her arms up and down for bath and helped herself back to the bathroom. I really just wanted to lay on the carpet  cuddled up with a blanket as she played, but as you can see I gave in. She asks to take baths quite often throughout the day and I usually tell her "later" or distract her. She sure is a girl who know what she wants and when she wants it!

Silly Sage

We are in the process of making a video of our little bug, but until then here is just a little clip. It is too funny not to share. I took it of her yesterday.  I know I have said this before, but I will say it again... Sage is so funny! She is silly and has lots of personality. She is independent. She insists on feeding herself with a spoon, including lots of finger foods. So funny to watch her try and pick up a piece of toast with a spoon. Lots of times I have to put the food on the spoon for her and then she will put it in her mouth. She is also very helpful. This morning as I was putting clothes into the dryer she pulled them out faster than I could even get them in. She is also very curious. She has learned how to slide the closet doors open. She scared me to death the other day because she  had opened the sliding door and was outside on our balcony; Our balcony's railings are way too wide. She can fit right through them without any effort- so scary. Luckily she was distracted by a can of spray paint I had sitting out there... scary too, but at least she was safe.

 A few more things I want to remember about this girl:

• is eating a lot better. Some of her favorites include: strawberries, pears, bananas, ritz crackers, chicken, toast with butter and yogurt. 
• likes to walk on her knees
• screams at the top of her lungs to get peoples attention and then will smile and wave
• likes to brush her teeth
• signs: bath, brush teeth, all done, eat, milk, I hear something, dog
• if we ask her for our phone or keys she will get them for us
• the other day I read her the book Five Green and Speckled Frogs and when I was singing it a while later she remembered and went and got the book
• she likes to pull the pillows down off the couch and lay down on them
• gets so excited if we put a show on for her, but doesn't watch more then a minute 
• has been sleeping through the night most nights, but fights us often at nap time- we are trying to find a good routine.  
• LOVES her milk 
• gives good hugs

Conference weekend April 2012

My childhood friend Alicia and her family, which is a second family to me, came into town this weekend. Sage and I spent Friday with them shopping at the Gateway and we all went to dinner at Tucanos. Taylor took Sage home and I hung out with Alicia and Josie. We walked around City Creek and had a good time together. Saturday and Sunday was General Conference. We tried to time Sage's naps so we could really focus on the messages that were being shared. This was one of my favorite messages: Stop it!. (Even if you are not of our faith I would encourage you to watch it.) Saturday evening while Taylor went to dinner with his dad and brother and then to a meeting for the men in the church, Sage and I spent time with Jeanne, Jodie and her girls. Sunday morning Alicia and her family came by for a yummy breakfast of french toast, strawberries and bananas on their way out of town. It was so nice to visit with them and wish we could see them more often. We spent the day watching more of Conference, relaxing and napping. We were going to invite the Chezik's over for dinner, but they had already started dinner and we hadn't put our dinner in the crock pot yet, so they invited us over instead. Dinner was  delish and we love visiting with them. It was such a nice weekend spent being uplifted and spent with friends and family.

Downward-facing Dog

Sage has a new trick. She likes to do the downward-facing dog yoga move and she thinks it is so funny. I did it once and she picked it up and does it to be funny now. She also loves food. When I am preparing dinner she is right in the kitchen hanging on my side signing to me "eat".  I showed her dinner in the over the other night and told her, " in a minute" and she kept going back over to the oven for a look. She would point and look at me and sign "eat" over and over again.  I distracted her by showing her the downward-facing dog again and then she was busy being silly while she waited for dinner to be finished.