Hoarder?

This morning Daniel called me at work to ask if I knew where Sadie's brush was. I thought for a second and suggested the goldfish box. What do you know? There it was (along with other toys, toothbrushes, and cleaning products).

Sadie gathers all of the stuff she likes in 3 places:

1)the goldfish box on the first floor (currently contains: 2 toothbrushes, hair detangler spray, brush, a few cleaning products, 2 balls, refrigerator magnets, and straws)
2)the empty diaper box in her room (currently contains:Daniel's hats, her doll aptly named "baby", pajamas, and a swim diaper or two)
3)the bathtub (currently contains: all bath toys, bottles of any product (i.e. extra shampoo, lotion, perfume) she can get her hands on, and this morning- Daniel's phone)

Do we have a hoarder on our hands?

Or maybe we should stop keeping empty boxes?

(Yes, Sadie is only wearing one sock. She pulled the other one off and refused to let me put it back on)

Older Sister

This crazy older-sister-t0-be becomes more of a little girl all the time- lately this includes violence and lots and lots of whining but some cute stuff also. When we went to the Creamery for ice cream recently she insisted on sitting on the seat by herself.

Sadie had her 15 month check-up last week and she continues to be tall (82nd percentile- to Daniel's delight- this is the only thing he wants to know about from her appointments) and about average weight. I could have sworn she has packed on some pounds in the past few months, but no, up 2 pounds for a grand total of 22 1/2 pounds from her 12 month appointment.

We also experienced Sadie with the stomach flu for the first time last weekend. We ushered in Daylight Savings with chili-laden barf all over the crib. Sadie was sound asleep on top of it. Daniel let me take Sadie and get in our bed with her while he cleaned it up. Such a gentleman.

Food for Thought

I absolutely love these thoughts on Mormonism my mom sent me:

click here

Nothing cute

In case you were wondering about the baking french fry on my stomach costume idea I mentioned the other day, yes, I am pregnant. I wracked/racked (you can spell it either way) my brain to come up with something creative and cute to let the blog-reading world know, but I am plum out of any good ideas. This kid is already getting the shaft. Oh well. I dealt with it my whole life- the hand-me-downs, the shared attention, the comparisons, the beat-downs and bossiness of older siblings, etc. He/she will get over it.

So, that all being said, it is no less exciting this time around. The fact of the matter is that we will have another person joining our family. We do realize how incredibly fortunate we are. (Also, in case you were wondering but won't ask- this is was not a surprise- it was prayed and planned for.)

This kid is already trying to be different in that I was really nauseous for the first couple months (I was rarely nauseous with Sadie). I am just about 13 weeks pregnant- due May 14th. I think I look about 17 weeks pregnant so that is just great. But you can decide for yourself.

Here's me at 14 weeks with Sadie:

Now at 13 weeks with baby #2



There you have it....in May 2011 we will be a family of four.

Halloween

Here they are in all their glory

A crazy hamburger and a goofy hot dog
(I did not join in on the fast food theme- I didn't dress up, although if I had I probably would have been a short-order cook and stuck a french fry on my stomach that was "baking in the oven" or something totally original like that)

Sadie got to wear her costume many times. A few times just to play around the house. Once to show off for her parents' coworkers and the basketball team. And once to the ward Halloween party.

It's pretty safe to say that our ward Halloween party was the best night of Sadie's life. Not exaggerating one bit.

At first she stayed somewhat close to us. She'd wander off a bit and then come running back like this. Then she noticed all the other stuff going on and she took off and never looked back. Not once. She could have cared less if we were there.

She ran around the middle of the cake walk and occasionally danced.

She attempted (multiple times) to go directly for the prizes behind the partition in the ward party classic- the fishing game.

At one point Sadie noticed this baby and rocked her in the car seat for a while. If you think that baby looks huge- she isn't (at least not for her age)- she is about a month younger than Sadie. Her parents keep her in the car seat a lot- we haven't figured it out yet.

She clapped for herself when she won a costume award.

She continued to clap for herself while posing for a photo op with Daniel, who was awesome and wore his costume the whole night despite being called "big wiener" by multiple people.

Sadie grabbed herself a cupcake from the food table and took off to play some more.

We could not convince Sadie to go home. She was literally having the time of her life. She wasn't playing with other kids- she just wandered around by herself watching the games (thinking she was a part of some of them), trying to take stuff from other kids, and moving on whenever she felt like it.

When we got home we convinced Sadie to put on the hot dog costume for one more awesome picture.

New Obsession

Any kind of empty bag or box.
It will be filled with toys, toothbrushes, cleaning products, trash, and if there is enough space, Sadie.

On Sunday morning she got in and out of this bag for about an hour.

Hot Halloween Tip

For all those of you who live in Utah-

head over to 260 S 300 E in Orem.
One of my coworkers does this amazing Halloween display in her yard. Display isn't even the right word, it is almost a show.
And it's free!

On October 30th and 31st they have live people mixed in to the show. It really is amazing. Here are some pictures from our visit in 2008.

Part of the yard- fuzzy because of the fog machine

One of the creepy people (this one wasn't real). When they put live people in the yard you can never tell who is real and who is fake until they jump at you.