I just wanted to take a minute to let everyone know what a wonderful person my grandma is and also realize how much we love her. She is an amazing, caring women whose greatest love and devotion is to her family. We're grateful for all the love and support she has generously bestowed on us and look forward to spending life throughout eternity with her. She has courageously fought her way through countless trials in her life. To name only a few, she laid her husband to rest at an early age as well as the passing of an infant daughter, fought breast cancer, and now cancer in her liver. She has been strong and has fought a good fight and will continue to do so until the end (which is only the beginning)! We love you Grandma and keep you in our prayers!
Before and after
With Uncle Matt
I know this seems to be a monopoly of Sam on this blog, but he's learning and doing so many new things every day and they grow up so fast. Grandma doesn't get to see these milestones and neither do a lot of others, though they see him frequently. Both of the girls spoke at least a little sign language and I believe it helped their speech development. I hope to do the same with Sam, although I haven't been as diligent with it. He has been saying "finished" for awhile now, but I don't believe he has connected the sign to the meaning simply because he does it frequently and not usually when he is actually finished. This was the first time he has said more though, he finally figured out he could get more if he did it. I guess we just needed to give him something he liked enough. He doesn't have the fine motor skills enough to make it "understandable," but as long as I know what he's saying, that's all that matters. What word should I teach next?
We decided to bring in the car from the garage so Sam could actually enjoy it. I remember when the girls loved riding this around our apartment (the days before we had a yard to play in). He of course loves it.
The videos I take at night always turn out real dark, sorry. We really want Sam to start walking before our trip because I won't let him do any crawling at the park and he's going to get real ancy. He's come a little way because he can keep up with the lion most of the time as opposed to a month ago when he would fall the minute the lion started to move. He still gets too scared when he finds himself standing alone and immediately sits down. Taylor is in the background talking to the video camera. She thinks she is recording. One of Sam's upper teeth is finding its way out. He once again has a cold/fever. I really don't like this time of year. It appears that Sams tear duct is plugged still in at least one eye, but you won't see me going back. Supposedly it's supposed to fix itself of the problem eventually, so I'd rather let it take its course then go through that again. Once he's past 13 months I don't think they would do it anymore anyway and it takes almost two months to get into his doctor.
Thanks to those who helped me figure out the background. It took me a while to get it figured out. I'll have to play around with it a little more until I get something I really like, but I don't have the time right now.
Most of you know I thrive off of good deals. Especially when they're free. I've had a good weekend. Sam is absolutely going to love his new toddler bed when he gets a little bigger. It's a race car bed just like you see in the picture. We also ended up with another toddler bed that has pink rails (we have no use for it now, but maybe in the future)? We also ended up with a lot of new clothes. I actually have jeans that fit me now! I love Craigslist and Freecycle!!!
I was also wondering, I've noticed some real cute backgrounds on other people's blogs and was wondering if anyone would be willing to explain how they do it. I know how to change templates, but how do you choose your backgrounds (ie: hearts for Valentines day). I get bored with the look of my blog.
Thanks for the Valentine shirts Grandma!
Matching shirts from Aunt Shirley.
Swinging in his swing during a spurt of warm weather.
Happy Valentines day from us!
Thanks to Grandma for always sending fun packages. The girls were begging to have a tea party when the valentine package arrived so the Valentine treats were a big hit as well as the outfits for the animals. Of course Sam had to be a part of it all.
