the two have touched!

wanted to drop a quick note sadie is sleeping and emily is cooing in grandma's arm

the trip went well

sadie slept on the plane and played with the teenage girls coat that was sitting next to us

so on a scale of 1 to 10 the air plane travel was a 10!

ALL the passengers were surprised at how good sadie was

well got to keep this short but sadie and emily have been playing

emily is showing sadie how to keep her shoes on and how she can sip from a sippy cup!

here is a few pictures from the trip

will write more when we land back in cleveland

until than....

week 35 - uh oh!

the word of the week is uh oh!
in one week sadie has learned how to stand up from a sitting position without holding onto anything and actually stand for less than a minute before toppling over
her crawling has gained speed leaving us all running after her as she eye balls all the things she is not suppose to play with
sometimes i wonder how toy stores stay in business when babies prefer outlets, wax paper, keys, cell phones and of course remote controls
we are getting ready for out trip to rhode island to meet aunt holly uncle john and cousin emily
heres a picture of cousin emily (think sadie has competition for cutieness!)
so what to pack and how easy will be it be to get through security?
ah you would think i would have a plan....i am in the process of creating a plan.....this is what i have so far
bring sadie and don't pack her in the luggage right?
anyways i am going to wear sadie in her front pack
i have books to read to her on the plane small toys she can chew on and a couple of sippy cups and binkies.....so i think that is covered
i am planning on packing 5 sleepers, 5 outfits, 1 jacket, diapers, bath time books, bath time soap, organic string cheese and organic purely O's
that should cover everything if not
rhode island is the home base for CVS so can pick up any loose ends right?
(for all the safety minded individuals out there there is a car seat waiting for us in RI so we got that covered)
wish us luck and stay tuned we might get a chance to update with pictures etc during the trip
PS. don't forget this weekend is a rocking weekend at the beachland ballroom on saturday night aaron's band the lawton brothers will be playing go check out the rockin' daddy
the following movie is of mimi cracking sadie up before music class
that is the other thing sadie does now she cracks her self up when she spits her food out or she watches her adults doing silly things!

week 34 - why crawl when one can walk?

on monday everyone asks.....
how was your weekend? do anything fun?
my answer to that is......
i watched sadie play leaning tower of baby all weekend as she tested her feet and coordination!
it is amazing how fast things happen
and how quickly the leaning tower of baby topples
aaron and i look back to what seems like years ago but was only four months at were our little girl
was: she was cooing and learning how to turn over
now it is elmo all the time crawling everywhere and nothing can be left alone until she has tried to pull herself up on it!
even frankie has been witness to this as sadie crawls towards her with a little fist out to grab and pull a tail or an ear!
this week sadie has replaced maaaaa maaa and daaaa daaa with "elmo bo" meaning elmo book and "enimo bo" which means animal book
she waves hello and goodbye to her reflection in the window and the mirror, first thing in the morning when she see da waking up, when mimi or bumpa arrive, when ma goes to work or comes home basically ALL the time
she talks non stop loves listening to 80's punk rock and drums on her high chair nightly
aaron is back on his normal schedule
YIPPPPEEEE! so we are parents together again
very nice i actually get to see my husband in the day light
so what this means besides seeing each other, eating meals together it also means time to start working on the hosue once again!
we finally hung up some of our art work etc this past weekend and put up child gates.....
which one would think is an easy task until you enter "the collinwood zone"
the collinwood zone aka our house means nothing is square, level or remotely easy.....
so the gates are installed you can open and close them so that being said sadie has a new containment unit the living room!
still need to put face plates on the outlets (that is weekend project #2) which means patching walls and touch up paint
but that will be of course after ALL the shoveling we are expecting to do
yes cleveland is getting hit with winter!
we are down to the single digits and below with wind chill
expected six inches in a few hours and freezing rain to make things interesting
wish we were in hawaii.....for more reason than the weather welcome home danny!)
the tooth has officially shown its white and we are back to sleeping a somewhat normal schedule!
PS: if you are wondering...all these smiling pictures of sadie are not just special for the blog she really does smile and laugh ALL the time.