Meeting Sarah: Catching Up

It's been a little while since my last posting and people have been asking when I will get to updating the blog - so here I am - delinquent but here. This post is going to be a bit of a mishmash of pictures.

Here is Sarah all dressed up to go to my work for her first visit - it took us a while to get ourselves organized for the visit so we were much later going than I wanted. Sarah had a great visit and really enjoyed running around the office - unfortunately I was not coordinated enough to take pictures while I was there - luckily Wes had taken this picture before we left. Once again everyone at work was so excited and supportive and a special thanks to Bev and Antonella for the gifts for Sarah - she has really been enjoying them.

Sarah still loves building her towers and was especially proud of this one. Daddy had to help lift her up to complete the construction but she did all the stacking herself. Very talented little girl.

Sarah has acquired a couple more stuffed friends - doggie and monkey - they were acquired on a visit to the Hallmark store when getting Daddy's Father's Day card and she just had to have them. They have been joining us on several outings - yes all three of them and on some naps and night-time sleeps - it can get a little crowed in the crib at times, but Sarah has no problem sharing.

Sarah is very much like her Daddy and is a little groggy first thing in the morning - that is until she has had a chance to read the paper. Sarah and Daddy get the paper together in the morning although it is a race to see who actually gets to it first - Sarah got the paper first on this day - Pink Kitty likes to read the paper along with Sarah.

Daddy and Sarah have an agreement - Sarah gets the car pages and Daddy gets the sports pages. As you can see - Sarah has already found the car page - it's going to be a good morning.

The Town of Whitby had a Community Day where they had all the Town and Regional Services together to show what they do and had some fun activities as well. It was held at the Fire Department Headquarters and Sarah got to pose on the antique Fire Truck.

Daddy's Platoon Chief was working that day and made sure Sarah got a Fire Hat which she gladly posed for a picture. It's a little hard to see but it says Fire Chief on the hat - that would make Sarah Daddy's boss - seems rather appropriate.

Since Uncle Greg is a Durham Regional Police Officer, Sarah had to get a picture in a police car.

Here she is showing her Uncle Greg her best - "Okay, your going to get a ticket for that" face - you may want to notice that Pink Kitty is riding along as Sarah's partner for the day.

We have been taking advantage of our seasonal passes for the Zoo and Sarah really seems to enjoy it more each time we go.

Although the deer does have to wait for Sarah to point out passing cars and trucks on the road - here she make sure Daddy takes notice.

I guess Sarah thought Daddy needed lots of help this day as she helps him push the stroller onto the next animals who need feeding.

Sarah is getting better at trying to feed the animals each time we go - here she is once again helping Daddy feed the donkey.

Wes's cousin Angie got married this summer in England and had a family Garden reception when they got back. It was held at a Community Centre in Brooklin and it had a small playground outside. Wes's cousin's daughter Kiley took a shine to Sarah and they became best friends. It was so nice to see Sarah feel so comfortable with her and Kiley was just wonderful with Sarah. Kiley was so sweet with Sarah and was so attentive and looked after her like a mother hen.

Kiley had to lift Sarah up onto the teeter totter - not a small feet considering Kiley is not a whole lot bigger than Sarah.

It's a bit noisy but I just had to try and get a video of Kiley helping Sarah on the slide. Sarah just loves slides but this slide was a bit bigger than what she was used to so Kiley and Sarah worked out a great system which basically was all about Sarah. You really get to see how well Kiley looked after Sarah and how Sarah waits for her help - just so sweet.

Congratulations Angie and Matt - it was beautiful reception and we had a wonderful time.

To finish up the catch-up posting, Sarah and I went out to dinner tonight with a very close friend, Nancy. Daddy was busy working nights so we thought it was a great time to visit with Nancy. We had a great meal and lots of fun.