Happy Mother's Day!

Mother's Day was very special this year. It was my very first one. I have to say it was probably the best one yet and I look forward to many, many more. I am so blessed to be the mom to such a wonderful, special little girl. I could just go on and on and describe her in so many different ways but I will stop and tell everyone about my great day. We began the day a little stressed I must say as are all Sunday mornings. I thought we were doing really well on time but of course not, we made it to church just as the choir began to sing after meeting Heather in the parking lot to say Happy Mother's Day and she gave me a framed note she and Sailor had worked on together along with two books from Sailor for us to read together. Luckily we scored a back row seat just big enough for Joe, Sailor, mom, dad and me. After church Joe and Sailor gave me my mother's Day present, A nectarine tree for Sailor and me to plant so we will always remember our first Mother's day together! Joe, Sailor and I went to visit Granny Wanda next. We did not take any pictures there because Granny Wanda did not want her picture made. We had a great time visiting! Next we headed to Granny Fran and Granddaddy's. Needless to say Sailor was worn out by this time but we still had a good visit. We ended the night at Nana and Pop's. Sailor had a big day. I am so happy to be a mom and especially Sailor's mom. I hope everyone else had as good a day as I did, Happy Mother's Day!

What, Mom, What?

Mom, Sailor and me
Dad, Sailor and me


Dad and Granny Fran

Granny Fran and Granddaddy

Sailor got to try out "Ollie", this toy has been a favorite of all the grand kids and great grand kids at Granny Fran and Granddaddy's.

Sailor meets Eli and Noah!

Friday night we were able to go to a cookout at our friend's Mitch and Susan's to celebrate Mitch's birthday back in April. Susan and Mitch and Jay and Amanda have new babies. They were both born on the same day, in the same hospital! Sailor had a big time playing in the grass with all the boys. All the big boys got to play in the grass also with an intense game of Cornhole! We all ended up inside as a storm blew in chatting and watching the different stages of babies. We had a great time.

Sailor was concerned with Noah crying and wanted to console him!

Sailor was loving dancing with Donnie, He is practicing for baby Maddox on the way. Hope I have the spelling right?

Sailor wouldn't crawl in the grass, Mitchell's grass was way too healthy!

Eli did not mind the stiff grass, He was comfortable anywhere!

Sailor and Thomas. Sailor says...what daddy, I'm not flirting!

Eli says, "don't squeeze too hard".

Sailor says, "Oh I'm sorry, did I hurt you"?

WE HAVE TEETH!!

I am a little behind the times these days. I have been slowly working on this same little post for a whole week. Wednesday before last Sailor finally got two teeth. She had been a little more fussy than usual and had a few restless nights. Sure enough two bottom teeth broke through on Wednesday. She is just changing and growing so fast. It seems like overnight she has learned so many new things. She began crawling as I wrote about before in a previous post. She has learned to wave bye, bye and is beginning to babble bye, bye on cue! I am finding just like other moms are saying, I have less and less time to blog. I will try to keep up. I have not been able to get any pictures of her teeth yet. I will post them as soon as I get them! I thought these pictures were just cute of her sitting in the grass on our day off!

My new book!

Sailor loves to chew on everything including all of her books. We usually get about halfway through a good story and the book goes straight to the mouth. Aunt Heather decided to put her newly learned sewing skills to work. She created Sailor a brand new Mother Goose Story book made completely from fabric. Sailor loves it, she can chew on it all she wants and then I can put it the washer to clean it up. It says volume 1 on the cover...can't wait for next volume. Thanks Aunt Heather.

A job well done!

Sailor and Pop!
This past weekend Pop rebuilt their deck to get ready for summer. Here is Pop and Sailor standing on the finished product. I thought I got more of the deck in the picture but obviously not. The new white railing adds a great touch and will look great after the new white fence is installed this coming weekend! Sailor can't wait for it to get a little warmer to swim in the new pool. We put our feet in today...just a little cold! Great job Pop.
O.K. Nana I promised not to blog this pic but it was too good to pass up. What a beautiful day!

I have a question?

I am very apprehensive about deleting pictures from my memory cards for my camera. I have them saved on my camera, computer and a flash drive and some of them uploaded to shutterfly. I know this is probably a little crazy and it DRIVES Joe crazy because every time I go to use my camera I have to scroll through and find a picture to delete so I can take one. Back to my question. My computer is starting to bog down because of all the memory the pictures are taking up. I was wondering how all of you save or backup your pictures. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Sailor is 8 months!

Watch out! Here I come.

I learned in school that 8 months is a critical age and stage that babies go through. Most of their reflexes that they are born with are integrated by now meaning their movements are much more coordinated and purposeful. All of this makes much more sense to me now that I am watching Sailor grow, learn and change. I think pediatrics would have made much more sense then and probably been a little easier had I had a child way back then. Anyway, Sailor is 8 months. It is officially time for a baby gate! We also apparently need sideboards for the bed, our bed that is. Joe laid Sailor down for literally seconds while going into the bathroom for a washcloth and BAM, she hit the floor. We have read all the stuff about not putting them on high objects at this age because they can move so quickly. Well, I think you live and learn. Once again she was fine after a few good tears. She finally got the hang of crawling really good the middle of last week. I think it was the 23rd, but I think it is safe to say when she turned 8 months. She is starting to pull up and getting into everything. She is able to go from sitting to crawling and back up again to sitting from laying down. She loves to ride-a-little-horsey and does it best for Nana. She is talking more and more each day, but I think she is definitely saying mama best and most, ha,ha! Her expressions are hilarious. She makes the funniest faces at Joe. I have a few on video and plan to post them soon. Still no teeth, we check everyday but nothing. I can't figure it out, she goes through stages where she drools so much and chews on everything but still no toofers.

Did I say into everything! Sailor loves just everything and anything that is not her's. Here she is wanting to chew on Peyton's Wii gun.