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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Happy 2nd Birthday Sweet Sailor!

Our sweet little angel girl is 2 years old today!

and we love her to pieces.
I say this at every stage but she's so funny right now.  Such a mimic!  We really have to 'watch' what we say in front of her because she repeats it-ha!
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The biggest thing about you right now is your independence and strong willed personality.  It's your way or the highway.  You have to do everything yourself.  You try to get dressed yourself, put your shoes on, pick your bows out, take your diaper off, get your sippy cup, put your clothes in the laundry basket for me etc. etc....
Sometimes it makes me a little nervous because in the mornings you have already started to fight me a little bit on what you are going to wear.  You love to wear dresses though and are a total girly girl.  Every morning I get you dressed and then you lead me into the bathroom to do your hair.  You sit pretty good for me too while we decide your hairstyle for the day:)  You love to have your nails and toes painted and your favorite color is pink.  At least that's what you tell us;)  For the most part you know your colors.  (Nate and I laugh because it's a little different with the second one and education if you know what I mean. haha!)
 You love to be read to and your nursery rhyme board books are still your favorite.  Top two right now would be Say Say oh Playmate and Teddy Bear Teddy Bear.  According to you your favorite TV show is "Dura".....also known as Dora - we LOVE how you say it:)  But you NEVER sit and watch anything for too long.  I still rock you every night to bed.  It's my favorite time of the day.  We sit and rock and Grey sits on your couch in your room and we go over our day and what we did and the things we are thankful for.  It really is the best!  I think it's one of Grey's favorite times too:)
 You still LOVE to eat but are a TINY little thing.  We laugh a lot about this because we don't understand how a little thing like you can consume so much:)  I'm not even sure what you weigh these days.  We go to the doctor Monday for your two year check up.
 You absolutely ADORE your big brother Greyson but can definitely hold your own with him as well.  You don't back down for anything.  You two argue/bicker quite a bit just like siblings do but you love to do anything he is doing.
(Look at this picture...this was right as Greyson put his foot on the gas pedal....Sailor went flying back-haha!  Look out!)

You have this awesome spunkiness about you...I know you will do great things with that strong willed personality girl.  Another thing about you that we can never get over is your VOICE.  It kills me.  When I look at you I see this beautiful, little, blonde, blue eyed girl and then you talk and it's this DEEP, RASPY, STRONG voice. haha!  Hilarious!  I wouldn't change it for the world!
 You are getting more and more into the 'princesses'...Whenever we go to Grammy Ann's house you pull out the princess dresses and want to put them on.  You also love to grocery shop at home:)  You push your cart everywhere and gather things.  Sometimes dirty laundry;)  So, I check your grocery cart constantly.  And you NEVER leave the house without your purse.  NEVER!  And in that purse we can usually find your phone and a binkie.  Your two main necessities.  I'm thinking I need to 'break' you of the binkie soon, but I'm not worried about it.  It's your FAVORITE THING!
 You are such a daddy's girl...and let me tell you....you have your daddy WRAPPED around your little finger.


 Along with all your spunkiness comes cautiousness.  That is one thing about you....you never stray too far away from your daddy or I or whoever you're with.  And you don't 'dive' right into anything.  You have to know what it is, know what you're doing, know what it's about before moving forward.
 Sailor, you are intelligent, smart, funny, witty, sensitive, and beautiful all rolled into one.  You rock our world little girl!

I'm so thankful to have you Sailor and I look forward to so many mother/daughter things with you.  You and your brother are my most precious gifts.

Happy 2nd Birthday baby girl!  We love you to the moon!

Love,
Mama

Friday, June 28, 2013

Ears are pierced...Check!


I've been dying to pierce my daughter's ears.  We went a little while back and she wanted NOTHING to do with it.  So I've been trying all week but getting 2 girls at Claire's was a little tough.  I knew for sure she'd never let them do one at a time.  So, finally today there were two girls working...Gina also came with Giuliana.  My mom treated both the girls with piercings and new earrings.  Thanks grammy Ann! 

I didn't even think she was gonna cry at first....it was a delayed reaction...BUT then the tears came...

My job was to hold the cold cotton balls on her ears afterwards...


Next up was Giu Giu....

It wasn't funny but this picture cracks.me.up.  Giuliana didn't know what was coming....
Gina and I were both sweatin' this out...BELIEVE ME!



Actually it went better than I expected...Glad it's over and we are so glad we got to do it with our cousin!

Now sister and I can cross that one off the list;)  Still a longggg list of girly things we have to do together, but we are off to a good start:)

Happy Friday!

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Tubby Time!


 These two have been arguing like crazy lately...

And whatever Grey does...Sailie does...ALWAYS...

 I'm not proud of this....Greyson showed his sister to stick out her tongue...we've had some time outs because of it for both of them...

Sailor had her first 'bad' skinned knee....she fell on the concrete the other day...


Happy Tuesday!

Monday, June 24, 2013

Family weekend...


Adam, Georgia and Jayne came into town a couple weekends ago.  So, we did what we always do when it's a 'full family weekend' - we all huddle and crash at my mom and dad's.

The boys did some golfing, the women did some cooking (I personally put together a delicious salad;), and the kids did a whole lot of playing.


WARNING:  Picture Overload


 Papa Davey caught a raccoon, so we brought the kids to see it...can you see it there in the cage?  it just stared at us -

Sister is always the little mother to Giuliana - it's so fun to watch...

We found ourselves at the pool too;)
 a little choke hold never hurt anybody...

these 2 didn't do a whole lot of swimming...




And let me just say trying to get pictures of the kids was HARD WORK- it's hard to photograph kids - sheesh...but they are too funny....I don't think I have one with all of them looking but that's what makes them hilarious to look at:)
And let me tell you I have a million more of complete chaos and a million directors behind me telling the kids where to look - haha!  As you can see - it didn't work;)

Then we tried with Grammy Ann and Papa Mike -ooooooh the memories ;)


And Sunday brought us to Father's Day....so thankful for the men in my life...

hardy handshakes and little gifts of appreciation were exchanged....

I wanted Nate in this pic but he had to head to work and I didn't realize the sun was on my dad's face...


So...there you have it...cheers to family time

and glow sticks too;)
Happy Monday!