Christmas 2011

Christmas came and went in a blur this year.  It's been a hectic few weeks for us, as we have had many holiday celebrations, but we've also suffered a tragic loss in our family.  The weekend began with the annual X-mas party at Aunty Alice's house on friday, followed by Aunty Pat's house on saturday, and lastly Aunty Diane's house on sunday.  As always, Sadie the party animal, had a blast at every one of the parties and stayed up waaaay past her bedtime each night.

This year....we went to watch Paisley and Chase open their presents on X-mas morning, then in the afternoon, everyone came to watch Sadie open her presents.  Good thing cousin Paisley offered to open the majority of Sadie's presents for her (otherwise...it would have taken the whole day!).   We are very grateful to everyone for their generosity and thoughtfulness....with all her new toys and books, we can probably open a day-care & a boutique here at our house!   

I'm still working on more pictures....mommy got a new SONY camcorder from daddy for Christmas, but as it turns out, it's not compatible with my computer (mac), so I cannot download the footage!  Who would have thought?!?!  I think there's a way, but need to research it more.  Hopefully more pics & video to come.   

Sadie w/ Santa @ Kahala Mall (12/15/11)

Caught her red-handed (12/22!)

Guilty elf-face (Thanks for the festive shirt, Aunty Jenn)

"This one's mine...and this one's mine......and this one too"

Mini-Minn with Minnie Mouse.  We have Christmas lights on our house this year!

Everyone looks better when standing in front of a Nieman Marcus tree!

Aunty Diane's house (12/25/11)

BEDHEAD!

Sadie's hair looks like this every morning!  It takes about half an hour for it to settle down :)

Thanksgiving 2011

Just a few pics from Thanksgiving dinner at Grammie's house, including one of a very few family pics of the three of us.  It was a rough week for Sadie, as she got a big bruise on her face after falling in the bathtub and had two episodes of minor hives (Jamba juice and Yoplait yogurt).

My Gym: Week #2

Poor Sadie, had not one.....not two.......not even three......, but FOUR vaccinations this morning at 9am, but she was still ecstatic to go to my gym today at 9:20am!!  She seems to have gotten the hang of the stretches and singing during "circle time," and had fun with lots of new activities today, which included: cones & rings, a relay race, head-stands, and her favorite activity of all: the ZIP-LINE!

Week #3 (11/19/11) pics:

Hanging rings

"Waterbed" group swing

See-saw

Week 4: Sadie went on a weekday w/ daddy...no pics :(

Week 5 (12/3/11): Sadie has vastly improved her skills, and now pays almost full attention to the warm ups and circle time introductions.  

GO Bows!

Sadie attended her first UH sporting event, an exhibition game featuring UH versus HPU.  The game started a little after 7pm, which is normally her bedtime, so we were a little worried if she would "last", but she accomplished the goal, which was to make it through the first half of the game.  She seemed to really enjoy the atmosphere: the crowd, the band, the lights, the music, etc.  We had cousin Paisley there to show her the ropes on how to cheer ("De-Fense....De-Fense" and "Go, Bows, Go!") and dance (row the canoe) when the band played.  Soon, she'll be competing with her big cousin to get the Jack in the Box coupons that drop from the blimp at half time!  (As Paisley would say: "the blimp knows me, Paisley!".....she hit the jackpot this week and got FOUR coupons!)

We left at half time and headed straight home, where Sadie drank her bottle and was out faster than a light at about 9pm.

Say MOM! & Say DAD!

I'm a WADDLER!

Today was Sadie's very first "class"....the waddler class for 14-22 month old children @ My Gym.  It started off a bit rocky with Sadie being a little fussy since she actually could have went down for a nap had we been at home.  It didn't take long though, for her to adjust to the settings and start having fun.  We started off with warm-ups with all the children and parents along the red circle.  We did some up and down stretches, some twists, some bending, and also arm circles.  For the most part, she stayed with either mommy or daddy and did about 70% of the stretches....for the other 30% of the time she wandered in the circle checking out the other kids and parents.  (Pretty good, since she was probably the youngest, or one of the youngest in the class at just over 13 months).

We next did some "adventures," which included setting up different types of planks which all landed at the "airport."  This activity was a little too advanced for her, but she did take a few steps on the balance beam, with Grammie's help.

 

The next adventure was the group swing and also individual swings, which Sadie enjoyed thoroughly.

 

The third adventure was "individual play," in which they encouraged the parents to stay as far away as they were comfortable with, and let their children play with the toys and other children.  This is one activity that Sadie excelled at.....she did not even look up once to see where we were!  At one point, we thought the little turtle pool she is sitting in had a motor in to toss and turn the toys, but it turned out that she was kicking her legs under all the toys and making them rumble herself!....everyone had a good laugh at that.

Next, they had a short puppet show, which she also enjoyed.  She was right front and center watching the action.  And finally, we sang the "bye bye song," to which she clapped her hands and danced joyfully.  Not the perfect student, but off to a very strong start!