Where's my baby?

It seems like overnight Sarah is leaving babyhood and turning straight into a toddler. She is trying to say some words. When you hand her something, she says "kee-koo" which we think is thank you. In this picture, she was eating a bowl of goldfish and when it was empty she came over to the counter and said "gol" and pointed. Oh my!

She is also getting very adept at eating with silverware. She still makes quite a mess, but she is very proud of herself.

And she loves brushing her teeth! Something that Cody despises to this very day. Maybe her enthusiasm will rub off on him.

Cody has been up to the usual with his daddy. Hunting, hunting and more hunting. On this day, Cody "shot" his stuffed puppy and bear and strung them up on the "skinning pole" (treadmill) to cut them up. No one will ever say he is not imaginitive!

Birthday party

I made Sarah's cakes for her birthday party. We all ate the big barbie cake and Sarah got the little one all to herself. At first she just kept sticking her finger into the same spot and sucking the icing off, then she dug in and ate a whole side.

Cody had fun helping her. He had been dying to do it since the day before when I made the cake while she was napping!

She let her cousins and brother open most of her presents, but she carried the boxes and the presents around to show everyone what she got.

She open one present all by herself. So much fun! Uncle Matt showed her where all the pieces go in her dollhouse, and how to work the little toilet.

Sarah really liked pushing around her new shopping cart. Cody also really likes it. I took Sarah for her one year appointment yesterday. She was 19 lb 5 oz and 28.65 inches long. Still a peanut! The appointment was uneventful except the doctor told me that when she passes out I should let her lay there until she comes around because the blood will flow to her head faster! Yikes.

Birthday portraits!

I just got my e-proofs from Sarah's birthday picture sitting. I couldn't wait until her birthday to post them. She is still at an age where she likes to get her pictures taken, or maybe it is different for girls, but she had a great time!

I so wanted to wear the hair clippy that matched her dress, and Shelby gave me the idea to put a gummy in her hair first. It stayed in just long enough for the photo shoot. Thanks, Shelby!

She walks all over the house pretending to talk on the phone, so the photographer grabbed a few shots of her while I was trying to get Cody settled down.

I really wanted to get a picture of her where you could see her little shoes, but this was the only full length one and she wasn't looking. Oh well! It's still adorable.

I wasn't planning to have any pictures of Cody taken, but she slipped one in while I was changing Sarah's outfit. Not bad!

Winter blahs

Sarah is turning into such a monkey. She might even be worse than Cody was. She loves climbing up on everything. Here she is standing on my scrapbooking paper. Hopefully she will still be interested in it when she is older!

We have been experimenting with hair clips and ponies lately. I bought Sarah some hair clips to wear with her birthday outfit, but I think that they will still be too big. This was Sarah's very first ponytail. Mike just laughed when he saw it.

Cody has been trying to help a lot in the kitchen. I try to think of things he can do to help with meals, and he gets so excited. Here, he is making jello! I can't believe how fast the time is going.

First Sleepover

My cousins little boy Jake came to stay over for 2 nights. Cody never had a sleepover and Jake never went to a sleepover, so we weren't sure how it was going to go, but they had a blast. Cody had a lot more fun taking a bath and getting ready for bed with Jake than he does with Sarah.

Despite my repeated admonishments not to jump on the air mattress, it was one of their favorite evening activities.

Mike got in on the action, showing them the proper way to shoot big game (me) across the living room.

Yesterday, we went to playday in town. Sarah has been pretending to talk on the phone a lot, and she really loved the little house because it had a phone in it.

Cody thoroughly enjoyed doing all the 2-person things with another kid his size. And, after a brief warming up period, Jake had a good time too!

They played out in the snow together for quite a while. This is the first time Cody got to use this swing! Cody took Jake for a hike through the woods to show him the hunting shack. When we got back to the house, Jake told him that swinging was more fun than hiking! I don't think Cody agreed.

Walkin' Baby!

Sarah is walking a lot more now. She took her first steps the day after Christmas, but (as she has been with everything) she has been really nonchalant about it, only walking when she really feels like it and sometimes not for a week at a time. About 2 weeks ago, I tried to put her size 2 shoes on and they wouldn't fit, so I got out her new size 3's. As soon as I put them on her and set her down, she took 10 steps across my kitchen! Mike said they were magic moccasins. (I see a scrapbook page title!) Anyway, she is pretty proud of herself in these pictures!

Outside fun!

We finally got to go outside the last couple of days. Sarah was fascinated with the snow until I dumped the sled and she did a face-plant. Oops!

The kids both love the sled, though. Cody did a good job holding Sarah so I could pull both of them, and then of course last night when Mike came home from work, we hooked a sled to the 4-wheeler and drove around for a while.

Cody even pulled Sarah on the sled by himself. He was really proud. I put the rope around his waist and he said he was a horse! I didn't have my camera outside that time, though. Cody's least favorite part of the day....Coming in! Even though his hands and face were as red as can be, he cried and screamed when I made him come in the house. A little cocoa made things a lot better!