Princess in PJ's

Royalty..it is the theme for the day! Had to share! She already has the wave down.

Easter

We had a wonderful Easter weekend minus some cooking setbacks! Our oven decided to quit Saturday afternoon as I was cooking for our brunch we were hosting on Easter Sunday. We were able to borrow our neighbor's oven and everything was great! Yummy food and fun company! The Easter bunny visited Sarah after church on Sunday and I think she enjoyed pulling all of the stickers off of her eggs more than anything! We had an egg hunt with Tia, Ryan, Ben, Lisa and Alex after our brunch and Dylan jumped in to help claim the hard boiled eggs. Way to go D! Sarah LOVES to tell us about the "bunny" and how they "hop"!

18 months!

Sweet Sarah turned 18 months old this past Wednesday! What a memorable 18 months it has been so far! She is a very busy girl who is always trying to learn something new ( sometimes by testing her limits). :)

She loves to talk and is starting to put her words together to communicate pretty well! Way to go Sarah! She has started to pretend play with her dolls and play house. She loves to sing and play all instruments especially her Daddy's guitar and our piano. She can run, climb, spin in a circle and march. Sarah uses her own fork and is trying really hard to be independent with her spoon too.

She LOVES Sesame Street and asks for Elmo and Ernie all day! She has learned to feed Dylan by herself ( with us watching from the sidelines of course) and wants to "feed" him all day...Dylan seems fine with this but we are having to teach her that he only eats twice a day. She helps her Daddy water the garden with the hose and takes her laundry to the laundry room...my favorite!

I am going to list all of the words she knows and how she says them so we can remember it...sorry it is so long...she is a talker!

Height: 31 1/4 inches 40%
Weight: 23.15 lbs. 45%
Head Circum.: 46.4 cm. 45%

Sarah's words:
uh-oh done up sit (s-ee-t) outside (ow-sign) down juice (jus) milk (mi-t) water (wa-wa) sausage nana (banana) cheese shoe flip flop (flop-flop) hi bye bye hola (ahh-we) swing (wee) slide fish (shish) monkey (muntee) cow (moo) horse (moo or neigh) duck (duck duck) bird ( bir) bunny hop head shoulders ( show-oo) eyes ears nose (nos) mouth ( moww) toes teeth eat Nanny Papa Tia (ti-ti) Cheers! piano (pan-o) guitar (tar) phone book baby rock pat scratch Elmo (olmo) Abby Ernie 1-2-3 (two...three) A-B-C (she sings A-C-D-C) purse keyes Dylan (D-D) Mama Dada love you (ove- uu)

I know there are more but there are the first that come to mind adn she is learning more everyday!

Horses, Fiesta, and Wedding Bells

All three of which have taken place in the last week....whew!!! It has been a busy one!
We enjoyed a weekend at the Ranch relaxing, eating and learning how to use sunscreen ( that was me..Sarah is a pro already). Sarah enjoyed riding horses with Tia. And when I say riding horses, I mean in a small circle but Sarah thought it was a trail ride and waved to her audience the entire time.

She then had the chance to have a taste of Fiesta at the Battle of Flowers parade, and again has no idea that what she saw was the forming of the parade and the float participants practicing...whatever works ( it was in the shade)! She was dressed in yellow like all of the Battle of Flower ladies and enjoyed seeing Pappy in his Cavalier uniform riding a horse. The second we got in the car she was out cold and sleep hard for a couple of hours. It is hard being Fiesta royalty!

She practiced Easter egg hunting and seemed to enjoy her first taste of a Peep...makes me gag, which Nanny thought was funny. By the way, she eats the ears first off of the bunny. We will see if her practice makes perfect when she hunts eggs next Sunday!

And last but not least, we traveled up to Waco for Saturday morning to celebrate the wedding of Jordan's grandmother. It was so cute and precious! All of the little great grand-kids were scooting up and down the steps during the ceremony and enjoyed throwing out the rose petals...at least Sarah did not eat them! She entertained the entire time and the minute we were in the car to head home she was asleep...seems to be a pattern here.

I love to share!

Austin Children's Museum

Jordan and I took Sarah to visit the Austin Children's Museum on Monday morning for Baby Bloomers, a time when the museum is only open for ages 3 and under with story time and music. Sarah enjoyed watching all of the other kids at first and then finally got comfortable to start playing herself! She liked the green slide, watching the train circle the room, playing with the balls and instruments. We finished off our morning with a burger at Nau's in Austin and went home for a good nap!

I also included some pictures from this weekend when Sarah was helping in the yard and played for the first time in the sprinkler sans pants. :)