Sadie

The costume that caused a lot of grief. It finally came and its awesome. :0)

My Little Reader

This is how I find Sadie most days. Curled up with a good book. :) A girl after my own heart. Says the mom who read two (yes two) books in 36 hours. *sigh* There's nothing like a good book. She's currently reading Junie B. The boss of Lunch.
I'm wanting to get her some of the Magic Treehouse (is that right LD?) books for Christmas. Right now she enjoys American Girl, Junie B, Amelia Bedila and we found her a Babysitters club little sister book at a garage sale that she enjoyed. Any other good book suggestions for her?
Are there any good Christian kids series out there? With all the toy recalls- call me a paranoid parent, but I am looking for any fun alternative to toys for Christmas gifts for the kiddos.
Leave me a comment with suggestions.

Sadie's Christmas Wish...

Saturday Update

Called the ped's office, got the call back telling us to take her to ER. She has Scarlet Fever.
Basically Strep throat with a rash. This is at least her fifth time in a 12 month period that she's had strep. We're planning a trip to see her doctor Monday- and then go from there.

Greetings from Rhode Island

A week or so ago, I emailed my two email loops asking people if they would be interested in sending the kids a post card representing their state to the kids. Imagine the kids surprise today when they recieved a BOX from Rhode Island. :) Included was a wonderful letter detailing the items she had sent, which included the state rock, a 16 oz bottle of the state drink, a deck of cards with Rhode Island on them, a lapel pin, some post cards, brochures etc. Very cool. :)

Sadie Singing

Sadie sang with the childrens church last Sunday. :) Here's the video: (oh, at one point I pan up to see one of my little bros, and then at another, I try to pan up to the screen to see if I can get my other brother, but couldn't see him)

Bargains today....Etc

Had my pic taken today for the paper. :)

Took Connor to Learning Rx, got some interesting news. :) I'll go into more details once we talk with them on Wednesday.

Um, lets see. Hung out at my grandmothers for a bit, and then headed to Marshall for our chiro appt. We got out of there earlier than I thought we would- so anyway, I decided to go to a consignment shop over there and try to find first day outfits for the kids. Let me backtrack a bit there- I had been drooling over this skirt for Sadie at Old Navy- a long denim skirt- soo cute! But it was $24.50 I just can't bring myself to spend that much on one skirt. lol I just bought her some clothes off the classifieds board for $25, but that is three complete childrens place outfits, and a pair of old navy jeans- plus shipping! lol

I digress- I go to this consignment shop and fine the exact skirt for $4!!!!! Perfect condition. Yeah! I was very happy. She picked out a cute pink button up top to go with it- on a side note- does anyone know why I can't place a picture below words? and then type more, and then another pic? Its kinda annoying.

So anyway- after I left that shop I went to another and found a shirt for Connor, and a bunch of scrapbook stuff for a great deal! A pack of paper for $3 and some stamps etc for $2. :)

Next post will be pics. :)

Oh, say a prayer for Grace. She has a dr's appt at 10:40 in the morning, I think she might have cellulitis in her finger. Its definatly infected. :(

Scrap Layouts of Sadie's Party

Ok, you should be able to click each page and make it bigger. :)

Memory Lane....

Happy 7th Birthday to my beautiful Sadie-Cat. :*)
We're having a girls night out tonight- I'll bring my camera and post pics late tonight or tomorrow.

The Big Reveal Video

The Big Reveal

So the Rotan trip has been a big secret around these parts. :) Kaitlin sent a video revealing the surprise to Sadie- here's a still pic of the first time she watched it. She doesnt' do big reactions...lol But after everyone left she asked to watch it again. (she ended up watching it four times) and is now bubbling over "can I take this?" "can I wear this on the trip?" "How many sleeps?" "Can we pack this" "how long is it going to take" LOL It will be a long 11 days. :)

Birthday Girl :)

Her actual birthday is Tuesday. I can't believe she's almost 7!!! I'm about to go upload some videos. :)

Have to Share

I took these pics of Sadie and Matthew this evening. :) My bookends as I call them. LOL (ya know oldest/youngest, just happen to be the only brunettes heehee)

Little bit of this and that...

Have you ever heard of paperbackswap.com? Someone in the cheapcycle group told me about it and I'm in love! I got the kids two books, Sadie a Junie B, and Connor a Henry and Mudge- A school book for Sadie- 2nd grade brain teasers, I'm also waiting for Dr James Dobsons Bringing up Boys- and I'm getting rid of some of my old books. Yeah! So go check it out. :)


Sadie lost her other tooth just a few minutes ago. I'll post a picture later.

All my lack of sleep this past week has caught up with me today. I'm so tired- and Connor got into red dye this past weekend, so I have no opportunity for rest. *sigh*
*yawn* Its taken me an hour to write this post- so I'll close for now and leave the rest for a nother post.

Alert the Tooth-Fairy!!!

We have a lost toother! :)

This is actually her third lost tooth- but she lost the other two about a year ago- I was starting to get worried since she wasn't losing anymore- but then all of a sudden she has four loose teeth! :) She'll probably lose another bottom one within a couple of days- then her two front top teeth are lose as well, so they'll go shortly after.

Girls Room Part 1

New bow hangers



New curtains :) Paint on the walls. I'll take pics of the rest tomorrow after we put Grace's bed together. I'm really excited about it. It all came together great- all the colors blend together so well, and its really looking "fun" :)

Sisters

Locks of Love

Sadie decided a while back that she wanted to cut her hair for locks of love. After I cut Grace's hair today, she decided she was ready. We cut 11 inches off her hair. Eeek! It looks really cute though. :)

Awww :*)

Sadie is spening the night at a friends house tonight. Its her first overnight at a friends. :)
Its actually her first "just because" overnight. She was very excited...but it was bittersweet for me to leave her. :) I'm sure she'll have a blast though. The girls had a long list of stuff they wanted to do. :) And they "had" to staty up all night. But somehow I think they are probably already asleep by now. Always have the grand ideas of seeing the sun rise before they close their eyes, but it never really happens like that. lol

We'll see if we have "the" phone call, though I don't think we will. She called about 11 or so to tell us goodnight. So I bet she'll be fine.

My Sweet Lil'Lady/VBS Week 2

I forgot to update on Sadie's eye appt the other day. I had called and made the appt back in January because she was getting bad headaches after school. Anyway, her eyes are perfect- 20/20 vision. He feels that she has either chronic sinusitis (sp?) or migraines. Both Aaron and I get migraines, and he told me that if one parent gets them then 50% of their children will too. However if both parents get them then 75% of their children will get them. :(So he is writting a letter to Dr C to recommend either a CT scan or MRI to check her sinuses, and for "anything bad" as he put it. I'll be taking her and Connor for their yearly check ups after we get back from Rotan.

Today was her second day of VBS (they do it once a week) She really seems to be enjoying it. Jaime says it takes her a while to warm up, but I'm sure once she gets to know some of the other girls she'll be just as social as they are. :)

She's such a sweet child if I do say so myself. We were looking through pictures about a month ago, and she saw some of me with long hair and was asking about my haircut- I explained about locks of love- what it is and what they do- she immidiately asked if she could do that too. So she is growing her hair out for locks of love. :) She has such a generous and giving heart. I would like her to grow it out a few more inches so that it can be cut to about her shoulders. I'll be sure to post before and afters when she has it done. :)