At the pool

We got to go to the pool at the Y this week for a friend's party. It
was so fun watching James with Sariah. At first she held on as tight
as she could but by the end we couldn't get her out.

Painting in the bath

Somewhere we acquired some "bath" finger paint. It is basically dyed
soap that is water soluable and doesn't stain other things. I've tried
it before but Sariah wasn't into it with her fingers. Today for some
strange reason she was asking to color in her bath. So I grabbed a
paint brush this time. And she loved it!

Mimic

The funnest thing right now is to see what Sariah choses to mimic of
us. There have been several cute and funny things. A few are:

After breakfast the other morning she took her bowl and put it up to
her mouth and then acted like she was drinking the milk from the
bottom. (don't know where she saw that bad habit). :)

And she is already such a little mom. She will share her sippy with
her baby doll. But the best example is how she treats her bear. She
took bear and put her in the booster chair, hooked the straps, pulled
the tray over, got a bib and put that on, then asked for some
crackers. Sadly I couldn't get to my camera fast enough.

Lastly was the picture below. She grabbed an empty milk carton from
next to the recycle and a small glass. And proceeded to pour the milk
in the glass and the drink from the glass. (no worries she never drank
straight from the carton)

Come over Saturday

Hey ladies! I need a night to relax and be with friends. So this Saturday at 7pm come over! Bring something crafty or if you aren’t into crafts just come and you can help me with mine! Hehehe Come either way to hang out.

Those of you who are wanting to do lampworking with me, I will get out my torch for a little while and let you experiment. If you don’t know what that is- it is melting glass with a torch to make glass beads. Yes crafts with danger! Hehehe It is fun.

Just let me know if you think you can come.

I Conquered the Hill

So it has taken me a little while to put this on. But on the 6th, I conquered the hill! What hill you ask- Hospital Hill. I completed the 10K with 2 of my sisters, a niece, and a nephew. It was a really fun race. I haven't done one in quite sometime and having been so sick lately with morning sickness, I decided to walk it. So I walked all but the last mile and that I jogged.

My official results: 1 hour and 38 minutes and 56 seconds. Not bad for a pregnant woman at 4 months who has spent most of her weeks lately on the couch sick.

So you are probably thinking I'm nuts and perhaps I am. But there was a reason for doing this. We did the race in honor of my awesome dad who is battling pancreatic cancer. He amazes me every day with his strength and perseverance. I do not know how he does what he does. He is a fighter and will always be superman in my eyes.

We were able to raise $2,390 for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Although Pancreatic Cancer is the 4th leading cause of cancer death in the US, it constitutes less than 2% of National Cancer Institutes federal research. If you still want to donate, there is time. Please go to http://www.firstgiving.com/daddygirls.

What a night

So we live close to the airport. And the blessing and curse of that is that we often give rides and have people leaving their cars at our house. It is nice to be able to help out and we get to see people every time they travel.



This last time was for friends of ours that was going to Germany for 3 weeks. So last night they call to tell us they are here and about 10 minutes early. Then the fun began. We decided to both drive up so that we could just drop their car off and come home together. I get Sariah all packed up. Left my half cooked dinner and am ready to go... Then we can't find the keys to their car. After searching for about 45 minutes, we finally find them. James thought they were on a ring, but really they were in a baggie in his car. So after that part was over I get Sariah loaded up again. Then the car won't start. (our friends' car that is.) It is completely dead. So I pull our car around to charge it. And it took a little over 10 minutes to finally get enough juice in it to get it started. So about an hour after they arrived we head off to the airport.



Upon arrival, James out of habit pulls up and turns off the car. UH OH!! And of course it won't restart. It is dead again. So I make him pull the other car around since we are at the curb. We try to jump it and let the cables sit there for a while and still nothing. We are debating other options and did call the airport police/service people to come. Well after almost deciding to go home and get some tools, the airport people show up. And he pulls out these HUGE jumper cables and hooks those up and it starts right away. Turns out our cables were just not very good and really small so they weren't transferring enough power.

So over all the whole process took just over 2 hours. When normally it takes about 20 minutes. Ugh! It was a crazy night. And of course I didn't get dinner till really late. So I go super sick when we got home that night. Yuck!

Sunday shoes

Sariah is definately a girly girl. She loves shoes and trying them on.
Especially her mommy's: