My little Baker!

Sailor loves to help out in the kitchen every chance she gets. Granny Wanda supplied her with all kinds baking supplies for desserts! Lots of cake mix, brownies, and sprinkles, sprinkles, sprinkles!!!

Brighton doing his part!!

Thanks Granny Wanda, they turned out great!

Splash Pad!

Sailor, Brighton and I have met up with Amanda and Eli the past couple of weeks at the splash pad in Farragut. Sailor, my little water dog, has loved it!

Brighton-3wk and Sailor-2 year checkups!

This post is a little behind but I still wanted to document our trip! I have never thought of myself as being claustrophobic until this doctor visit. 3 weeks ago Sailor and Brighton were scheduled for their checkups and I thought the timing was good, we would just kill two birds with one stone and go at the same time...wrong answer! Try squeezing Joe, me, Sailor, Brighton, two nurses, and the doctor into a 6 x 8 room with two plynths and a sink. Maybe that would not have been too bad except Sailor screamed the entire time. I explained to our pediatrictian this was very atypical for her. He really did not acknowledge me and never missed a beat with his questioning. Needless to say next time we will just make two trips to the doctor. As I said in an earlier post, Sailor is doing excellent with potty training. The nurses wanted a urine sample so off we went to go potty carrying our "special little potty" to capture the urine. I guess Sailor had stage fright, she could not go. So for the remainder of the visit she wanted to go back to the potty to use the "special potty" which really meant she wanted to go play. This only lead to more screaming each time we left the bathroom unsuccessful. Finally she did go potty and we collected the sample. Dr. Fogle asked if she was weened from the bottle and we said not at night and naptime...So she proceeded to screem "I want bottle", I am sure he thinks we are lying about that. He asked if she is putting 2-3 words together while she is screeming "I need to go potty and I want my bottle" I am not sure why he could not answer that question himself. Anyway Joe answered Brighton's nurse and I tried to keep up with Sailor's. I am probably exaggerating a little but it was not a good experience.
Brighton's 3 weeks stats
10lb 14 oz...79%
22in...69%
head circumference 37.5cm...41%

Sailor's 2 year stats
25lb 8oz...34%
34in...61%
head circumference 47.6cm...53%

Take my downstairs!

Sailor and Joe have an afternoon event that occurs daily. She calls daddy on the phone, usually on his way home from work and asks him to "take my downstairs". She refers to herself as "my" instead of "me". She often speaks in 3rd person, "watch Sailor do it", or "Sailor feed Brighton", but she also says things like "watch my do it" or "let my do it". Anyway, back to my story. Downstairs in our basement is a pile of junk toys that belonged to my nephews that accumulated over the years. They are random things like yugioh cards, McDonald's happy meal toys, little cars, etc... Joe lets Sailor go down and shop every day. She gets to pick 2 or 3 things each day. She thinks this is the greatest thing and looks forward to it everyday! One day last week this is what she came up with...a red Pirates of the Caribbean do rag, a shrek watch, Ripley's light up necklace and a numbers counting book. The only bad thing is all these random junk toys are once again scattered around my house. Note to self, I should have thrown all this stuff away a long time ago but it is awful cute that she loves this so much.

Sailor and Brighton August 2009

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Happy Birthday Sailor!!

Sailor's birthday was August 22!

It is so hard to believe Sailor is already two! She is growing up so fast right before my eyes. Sailor is so independent already and has, of course, been in the terrible two's for several months now! She is into everything, she pulls things out faster than I can put them up. She does not like for me to be on the computer but loves to be on it herself. She has assumed ownership of my Ipod and has her own play list. Of course, at the top of the list is...Single Ladies, Boom Pow and Poker Face, and yes she sings along!! She repeats everything, so watch what you say. She will quickly say, "we don't say that", after spouting out something she knows is not appropriate. She no longer likes Beamer and hits him regularly only to follow with, "It was an accident". Sailor is doing great with potty training. Some days are better than others with the occasional accident. She naps well in the afternoon but fights sleep like nothing else at nighttime.

We decided to have a downsized party this year with only family. We were hoping to get downsized gifts as well seeing that toyland has taken over our home. Joe still had to drive his truck up to Nana and Pop's pool fence to load up her loot! I am not sure how that has happened either, it is like I blinked and it was invasion of toyland and I am not sure how to correct this problem. Sailor had a great time at her party. All she asked for was balloons and birthday cake. Of course she got those along with a few other items.

Brighton's first boat ride!

Should have been in Church! And yes he is a little young to venture out on the boat but oh well we did it anyway. All summer Joe, Sailor and I went out for breakfast on the water and tried all the marinas around who serve breakfast. We have decided we like the lighthouse at Euchee best. We talked about how much fun and good it is that Nana and Pop decided to finally get their boat out of storage and take Brighton on his first ride. Well I am getting to the should have been in Church part. We decided to go out Sunday morning since we did not think we were ready to take Brighton to Church yet and beat the crowds to the buffett! Well needless to say we did not quite make the early bird special. Half way to Euchee Nana and Pop's boat began to stall a little and after a short time would not go any faster than a swift idle. We decided we better make a hard right and head for my grandparent's house to check things out. It gets a little worse. About half way from where the boat stalled and began to idle it stopped completely. So, everyone we knew to call for help were of course where they should be, in Church. Joe began to paddle, too bad I did not get a picture of him sitting on the front of the boat, it was quite comical, however, by this point I am second guessing my decision to take my one and half week old for his first boat ride. I know this sounds a little silly that I was just then second guessing. Anyway, long story short, a nice fisherman came along and gave us a short tow to my grandparents where we docked our non-working boat, boarded theirs and proceeded to arrowhead, a much closer marina, and had lunch instead of breakfast! Joe, Pop and I drove in to town and picked up Pop's trailer and Nana's car with car seats while Nana, Sailor and Brighton waited in the air conditioning and had a nice visit with GrannyFran and Granddaddy. The funny thing is Pop's boat fired right up and ran like a champ when they went back to get it out of the water. Who knows, sometimes boats are nothing but trouble. Brighton not only took his first ride but got ride on two boats all in the same day! Moral of this story is, don't try to beat the church crowd, join them after attending with them!