Month 9!

^Our precious baby girl Sarah. Finally posting a picture from our first official Mother's Day reading our nighttime story.

^ Lets get those 2 new bottom teeth to work! Real Spaghetti and applesauce for dinner More on her face than in her mouth.

^ Happy to be able to get around to anywhere she wants. (video to come) A short break/pose in between crawling. In her process of learning to crawl I'm impressed with Sarah's great yoga skills. She's awesome at down dog and plank. The kitties are her favorite thing to crawl to. Auz will stay and let her pull on her hair. Nimbus runs and hides.

^Weighing in at 18 1/2 pounds (45%), Height: 28 1/2 inches (75%), and Head Circ: 17.72" (80%)

^The standing has begun! This was the first time she pulled herself up on her crib! Not only did she not want to take a nap, but she looks a little terrified about what to do next. Time to lower the crib even more!

Other milestones of the month:

-Starting to do actions along with us when we sing: popcorn popping, twinkle twinkle, and pat-a-cake! Loves it when we sing songs and likes peek-a-boo.

-Goes from tummy to sitting, sitting to crawling stance, tries to pull herself up.

-Starting to walk if we hold her hands.

-Stands pretty steady and confident when holding on to something.

-Knows 2 words, "dada" (most popular) and an occasional "mama". Looks when we call her name.

-Starting to understand words (i think) like kiss, up, eat, more and "hi". Starting to wave when we say "hi".

-Eating most any solid food cut up...grapes, toast, peaches, bananas, lunch meat, cheese, crackers, cheerios, etc. Yogurt is her new favorite.

-Can use sippy cup, but not very interested in water.

-Loves books, toys, chapstick, cell phones and remotes.

-Very social. She peeks her head to the side, screeches and stares at people until they look at her and then smiles.

-Very ticklish. We can get a good belly laugh if we sqeeze her legs and arms.

-Loves tub time!

-Loves to pull mommys hair and daddy's glasses and leg hair. OUCH!

-Naps are always a struggle these days. Sarah wants to play during naps. Unfortunately she hasn't learned how to sleep sitting up. :) There is usually always crying before naps and we're lucky if we get 2 good naps in.  Are we really that fun to play with?

Wonderful Weekend in Monterey

BMW GT Series Race at Laguna Seca

A fun weekend at the races.

The cars were so loud that we had to have ear-plugs for everyone.

This car was going about 150 mph.  (I love this camera!!)

My favorite Ferrari!!  Surprisingly, this car came in last place.

Hmmm...why did we lose this race???

This Porsche was SOOOO fast!!!

This Ford GT (550 hp) was sitting in the parking lot.

I grew some "special" facial hair for the weekend.  I just wanted to fit in.

Some cool flowers that were growing at our hotel.

Hey Hot Mama's!!!!!

No Sarah, Not Dadda...Say Mama!!!

Sarah Rules This House

Eight + months!

I'm always so late on these. :)

Milestones for the month:

-Loves all baby foods and anything else we'll give her.

-Started eating puffs and cherrios

-Sleeps 7pm-6/7am- no more night wakings

-2 naps, usually 1-2 hours

-Uses sippy cup

-Knows how to scoot/army crawl-crawling soon to come

-Says, "num, num, num" and "ma, ma, ma" and screams

-Loves "bright baby" books

-Loves "baby einstein" dvds

-Loves songs with actions, mostly "popcorn popping"

-Shakes her head back & forth

-First time with a runny/stuffy nose (We think it's teething-still no teeth)

-Loves the swimming pool

-Love tub time with daddy

^Loves to peek her head to the side

^Loves to play and practice her new tricks for quite a while in her crib before and after naps.

Our little Glow worm! Pretty sure it's one of the most fun stages.

Los Altos Hills 10k/5k (Trail-Running)

The Ladies. 

 The ones who drag their wonderful, supportive husbands 

to these things.  Don't they look excited?!?

The Men.

The dedicated and loving men who faithfully support the ladies.

The Babies.

The ones who were wondering what the heck they were doing in the 

cold and the sunshine so early in the morning.

The only actual 'running' picture.

Sarah (with her pretend Mommy) meeting a horse for the first time.

Our little family after the race.

Kaylynn and Brook

Paul and Rebecca

Ben and Whitney

Ryan, Maren and Leah

The whole running crew.  

(this is a few minutes before we drove to a restaurant 

and replaced all lost calories - and then some)

Maybe a little too early for some......

Congrats to Everyone for finishing! Especially Brook, Ryan & Ben who placed for their age groups and Lindsey & Whitney who finished in 59 minutes. Posted by Ed.

Time

I'm having an issue with time these days. I feel so much pressure (caused by myself) to do so many things throughout the day. I feel so torn between reading, TV, emailing, blogging, cleaning, playing with Sarah, exercising, journaling, scrapbooking, socializing, organizing...etc. I'm sure you all struggle with balancing all of these things as well. I was thinking I would try my darnedest to break up my time into hours and make sure I split it all up by only allowing myself an hour of blogging a day, and hour of exercise, and so on, but I'm looking for any ideas for ways that you all balance out your time.

I was also thinking about the way time has changed things. It used to be that I got together with someone to communicate and visit. Visiting in person turned to a phone call now and then. A phone call turned into a personal letter or email/text to someone. And now even personal emailing is disappearing and now it's a blogging world where the mind set is, "I'm too busy to talk/type/write. If you want to see what is going on in my life come and look at my blog." It's convenient and saves time, but for what? More time to be lazy and watch TV or be introvert? Nothing will replace talking to someone face to face. I fear the world will slowly be socially impaired if we keep this up. I am a culprit for sure!!

Sarah Becomes a Model

Sarah recently had the opportunity to model for a photographer's marketing campaign.  She did a great job so we thought we would share our favorites.  Enjoy!!

Tsafrir (Mike) Melamed did an awesome job! This was his first time shooting a baby and he's very interested in shooting more babies. If you'd like to use his services or to see more of his photography/more of Sarah go to www.photostm.com/web/flash_gallery.html or www.photostm.com/blog/blogger.html. I would highly recommend him to anyone! We've seen some of his wedding shots and family shots...phenomenal!

SLC Trip & 1/2 Marathon

A little piece of heaven

Catch up of a few cute pics of my sweet family.