car seat dancer

On the way to Grandma Lucas' birthday party Rian said "We should put her on you tube". She does love to dance, but in her car seat!?! But who can resist John Bon Jovi? (or is it Jon?-Michelle-you will know that question)

For the 2 people who will actually watch this (Deb and Kina). It gets better at the end. I do love it when she spits while laughing. I think she was a little camera shy. Her moves were better before the camera came out.

more birthday pics of importance

We took Rian to Little America for the breakfast buffet also. He was able to meet the head chef and get a tour of the kitchen. When we left we found a special visitor on the car.

Sweet sisters

more sweetness

Sarah at Build-a-bear (while the boys were at the sports store). She found a dog that she fell in love with. I was strong and didn't buy it for her.

My mom insisted on a hug and possibly a kiss for Rian to get the present she brought. If you are 14 there might not be anything worse than kissing your Grandma....no matter what the present is. But he handled it well. What was the present? A special coin for his collection.

Candy?

After a little too much ice cream Sarah was full of energy on the way home. She made us laugh. One thing she was doing is signing "candy". She has recently learned this sign. She will stand at the freezer door and sign this for frozen junior mints. It is too cute so we give her one.
She has figured us out. She stands at the freezer quite often now.:)

Kindergarten Graduation and show stopper

Jake had the cutest graduation program. He loved the songs they had been learning all year. Luckily I was able to get a front row seat (you have to arrive very early to do that). And sitting on the front row gave Sal a lot of room to show off.

The first thing that happened was she had a dirty diaper. I took her out to change her. She escaped from me while I found a place to deposit the diaper and took off for the gym. Right when she got to the door a song had ended and everyone clapped. Sal thought it was for her and she stopped and got this big smile on her face. I didn't see it but Brad laughed for a long time about it.

Then she liked to dance to the songs. Boy does she have some moves. The video camera that I always take with me to programs was sitting home on the counter. But it was hard not to watch her.

She did try to join the kindergartners a few times and we would run up and grab her. I don't know if everyone else thought she was as cute as we did that day.

Way to go Jake! I know you can't wait for 1st grade. But I can. Sal and I will miss you.

like mother...

like daughter.

Smile for the camera?

This is the funny smile she gives me when I pull
out the camera. It just makes me smile to see such
a smile.

She still loves shoes. She is carrying Paige's shoe in this picture. And wearing one of my favorite spring shirts. She loves her new freedom of walking. She will just walk in circles just because she can.

She has also figured out how to open the cupboards. She loves to unload whatever she can find. Or hand me things one by one.

just hanging around

Sarah has figured out how to use the rocking chair and climb onto our ottoman. Luckily it is not far to the floor. She hasn't fallen off much but will carefully hop down expecting the fall. Notice she is holding a shoe! :)

The rocking chair was mine when I was little. I was going to recover it but a neighbor saw it and told me to leave it like it was. She thought it was beautiful. Since I am so sentimental I agreed. I didn't want to recover it anyway. But it would be cute in pink.

Shoes

I FINALLY found some shoes at Target for Sarah. It seemed they never had the right size and style that I wanted. I wasn't sure if she would wear them because the cute boots I bought for the winter she wouldn't put on at all. But she loves these. She does not like for them to be taken off at night. She will carry them around if they happen to be off.

Then at Gardner Village I found another pair. I wanted a nicer pair to wear with dresses. She loves these too! And so do I!

I also love that she picked up to the sign for shoes right away!

Shoes come in handy since this is what we spend most of our time doing. She is such a funny walker. I think she thinks she can do it and then she lets go of our hand or whatever she is hanging on to and then wobbles and falls. It is too cute. Even when she holds one hand she is very wobbly. Maybe it is her 17 pound body that makes her look funny. And that sweet smile she usually has is bigger than life.

more!?!

Sarah is becoming such a copycat lately. Works out great for signing. In the bottom picture she is signing "more". She can sign: milk, more, all done, no, shoes, and dog. She can play "peek-a-boo" and blow kisses and smack her lips together. She knows to smile when the camera comes out. She will put the phone to her ear and jabber away. So sweet.