Mother`s Day Part 2 & Dancing

You can`t imagine my surprise when Sarah walked into the kitchen last night with this ring box - Sarah and Daddy had got me this beautiful family ring for Mother`s Day - it just wasn`t finished for the actual day - I just love it, it`s just perfect - what I always wanted!

Sarah still loves her music and wants it on all the time. She is always breaking into spontaneous dances or bopping her head to the music.


She even loves to get her Pink Kitty included in her dance numbers.

Some kind of dance program or class is definitely something we are going to have to look into very shortly.

Last Few Days

We started with baking a cake - Daddy had been working a lot of shifts at the fire hall so we surprised him with a cake the other day - Sarah likes to help with all the stirring
And with the clean up
Pink Kitty has now become a constant companion and was there to watch the icing and sprinkles put on the cake - Sarah does seem to have some evidence on her face to show that she had to do some sampling of the icing while it was being applied

After dinner - Daddy and Sarah had some fun playing fishy on the head

Earlier in the week - Sarah and Kitty were having fun with sunglasses - here, Sarah is hanging out, looking cool with two of her kitties - Pink Kitty and Brandy

Today Sarah had a fun day - she started with taking Kitty for a ride on her bike - Kitty rides in the back.

Then she had visits from Grandma and Uncle Greg - Uncle Greg, Aunt Janice, Rachael and Liam brought Sarah a lovely dollie and this really nice hat from their vacation in Florida - Uncle Greg loves playing with Sarah and they had lots of fun playing with their new hats.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day,

I got up this morning and Wes had left this beautiful basket of flowers for me before he went off for work - there was also a card from Sarah that she had signed and a card from Wes. A nice way to start off the day.

Then it was off to visit Grandma and give her her Mother's Day gift - we stayed for a little snack before we left to go home.

I also received some lovely "First" Mother's Day surprises from my friends and family - thanks so much, Laura, Gayle, Dayna and Heather.

Last night Grandma, Sarah and I attended the Waiting Mommies dinner - this was Sarah's first time to the dinner as the previous one was held during our visit to China. This is a wonderful group of women who are all at some process of adoption - we meet every other month for dinner. In honour of Mother's day - siblings and Grandmothers were invited. Sarah was so well behaved, ate a big dinner and played with Grandma and sat so well - here she is building another one of her towers with the creamers.
Over the last week we have been enjoying different things - here Sarah is enjoying playing with water.
Sarah is also loves Mommies old purse and especially her car keys - she didn't exactly say were she was off to but it couldn't have been too far as she had taken her socks off once again - but she does seem to be ready to head out to the car.

Planting Bulbs

Our Sarah has been a very busy girl these days - as you can see she loves her phones - sometimes she has two going at once but it seems that Mommy's cell phone works best - she takes her phone calls very seriously - we are thinking that she is talking to her broker in these pictures - buy, sell - order new baby CD's - remembering to charge to Daddy's credit card.

Today though, she was helping Daddy plant his favourite flowers - gladiolas. it was a nice day and it took some persuasion but when I mentioned that it was best to be very helpful with Daddy before he gets his credit card bill with all her baby CD charges - she decided to help out.

Janice and Rachael were a big help with our garden this year - it's a new garden and we had nothing in it but weeds - a couple of weekends ago they came over on a beautiful Saturday and dug up all our garden, weeded it, then Wes went and got some topsoil to fill it in. Janice had split a lot of her perennials and brought them over and then she and Rachael planted them all for us - what a huge help!!!! There is no way I would have the garden so far along without their help -thanks so much!

Back to the cups

Sarah has receintly gone back to playing with her cups. She will stack them up and then take a step back and admire her work - she gets this look on her face of awe at the creation she has made - just too cute for words. She also likes Daddy to stack up the cups and she then runs over and knocks them all down, clearing the table - then kills herself laughing at what just happened. She is also very much a big ham. So tonight she was again playing with her cups and admiring her work - I was admiring her work with her and then wanted to see if I could get a picture. Since the camera was on the other side of the room - I wasn't sure if I could get the camera and back in time to get a picture of this lovely tower. I told Sarah that I wanted to get a picture and she ran over with me to get the camera - I told her to go back to the cups and I would take her picture and she ran back over and I was able to get her to stand beside the tower to get her picture. She willing posed and I asked her to show her teeth and I got a couple of big smiles. I don't have the best camera so I had to take several pictures just to get these two as she is willing to pose but doesn't stand still so most of them were blurry. But not to worry - I just told her I wanted to take another picture and she was willing to pose once again. Then she wants to see herself in the picture so I always have to show her on the camera - the second picture she is pointing to her lovely teeth - since that's how I got her to smile and I think because we took so many pictures to get two that were non-blurry she felt that I wasn't sure where her teeth were so she was pointing them out. That's our Sarah - always willing to help out. You will also notice that the stethoscope is still in the picture - she is still playing doctor - Bear, Brandy, myself and Sarah all had exams this evening. You will be happy to know that we all checked out just fine.

Vet Visit

Today we had to take Bear to the vets for his annual visit. Bear did well and we are waiting for some blood test results just to make sure everything is okay with him as he is getting older. When we took Sarah to the Dr.'s about her cold she was very interested in the Dr.'s stethoscope. She actually helped herself and the Dr. let her run around the room with it for a while - she popped it around the back of her neck like the Dr. had it - very cute. She was also quite reluctant to give it up when we were leaving. We didn't think much more about it until today at the Vets office. She again was interested in the Dr.'s stethoscope and after he examined Bear he made the mistake of getting down on Sarah's level and close enough for her to help herself to his stethoscope. He let her have it and she immediately walked over to Bear and started to examine him exactly like the vet had - Bear was not impressed since he had already endured one exam and wasn't interested in a second one but he was patient. When we got home I dug out my old one I had from school and Sarah started her examinations right away - as you can see Bear was once again her first patient - she crouches down a bit as the vet was listening on Bears side so Sarah has to try and get the same spot. She hasn't quite got the ear piece down - they are too tight for her to put in her ears but that's isn't going to stop the examination.

No one was spared as Brandy also had to get an exam - she didn't make herself too available. Bear is quite relieve in the background that Sarah has a new patient.

Once all the examinations were done for the time being - Sarah had some lunch and finished with the traditional bowl on the head - we had a hard time getting the shot since Sarah thought it was really funny to put it on her head then let it slide off but you kind of get the general idea.

Don't think the examinations are finished - Sarah proceed to play with the stethoscope the rest of the day on and off - I guess we will have to invest in a children's Dr.'s kit and we better start saving for either veterinarian or medical school. Here is Sarah in the traditional Dr. with stethoscope pose.

Easter Fun

We spent Easter Sunday at my Mom's house - as you can see - a beautiful table was set and Sarah had a lovely Easter Basket from Grandma waiting on her highchair in the corner.

Everyone had an enjoyable afternoon visiting. We were a little later as Sarah didn't take her nap until a little later in the day. Everyone was waiting for the little Empress to make her arrival.

Sarah woke up from her nap a little grumpy that day but Grandma was still very happy to see her and it didn't take too long for Sarah to come around.

After dinner has always been the traditional Easter egg hunt but we haven't had it for the last couple of years since Rachael, Liam and Gavin have gotten older so everyone was so excited that we were able to have one again this year. It was cool that night and Sarah had her coat on and cousin Liam's coat as well. It's traditional for the kids to go out for a walk while the Easter Bunny (Kevin) comes to Grandma's back yard.

Sarah had lots of help collecting all the eggs and chocolate that the Easter bunny left - cousin Gavin was nice enough to take pictures for me with my camera while we were all helping Sarah. It didn't take her long to pick up the routine - find the chocolate - pick it up - put it in the basket.

Even my Mom's dog Molly came out to help out - although I think she was a little upset that none of the chocolate ended up her way - sorry Molly - dogs can't have chocolate.

Uncle Greg finished the evening off with some magic tricks with Sarah's help - very, very cute and Sarah seemed to enjoy being Greg's assistant.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter Everyone,

Sarah woke very early this morning - even before Daddy had left for work. Not so good for Mommy. But we got an early start and got our breakfast and dressed up to visit Daddy at work today and bring him an Easter treat - unfortunately I forgot to bring the camera to record the visit. But I did remember to take pictures of Sarah making a surprise Easter treat for Daddy. As some of you know - Daddy is a bit of a cookie monster and lucky for me he likes this oatmeal cookie mix to which I add milk chocolate chips. Sarah wanted to help and I did remember to take pictures this time.

Here is Sarah putting the mix in the bowl - she had to make sure it all got in.

Sarah even helped with the mixing

She even checked to see if it was mixed properly - well actually I think she was trying to shake the oatmeal mix off to get to the chocolate chips as a few of those were sampled during the mixing process.

Then there was the patient waiting while they were cooking

Of course, after lunch we had to sample the cooking - Sarah was not impressed with the cookies - I think Daddy will be happy about that as he doesn't like to share his cookies too much.

Sarah is having a nap right now as the rest of the day will be busy, visiting at Grandma's house with the family and the big family turkey dinner. Daddy is going to meet us there after he finishes work - dinner will be a little later so Wes doesn't miss it - Grandma spoils her favorite son-in-law too. I've already packed the camera so I hope I remember to take pictures while at Grandma's house.