22 months old

This is what a 22 month old looks like around my house!

I pull out the camera and she tries to hide and flips around.

She will move quickly out of this stage....I hope!

Sarah is sweet and lovable...when she wants to be.

She is also very busy and loves to get into everything...all the time!

Sarah can sing the whole ABC song, can count to 10, and will tell us some colors correctly.

She also loves to tell us happy birthday...all the time!

Potty training is going well too. I am letting her run the show with the potty training since she is still under 2...and I hope it works well.

Sarah loves to watch Dora and Blue's Clues.

Baby girl isn't a baby anymore.

fall/halloween decorations

Happy Halloween month!

It not only looks like fall around here, but it feels like it too.

Thought I would share a little of our fall/halloween decorations with you.

The little pumpkins on my table and the two halloween bottles were purchased at one of the fall bazaars while we lived in the UK.

We need to find a really cool picture to hang above our fireplace/mantel....

it will remain empty until the "right one" is found!

I love my fall daisy flowers...they come out every year! They are in a vase I purchased while we lived in California. We have so many keepsakes from all over the world!

Museum visit

Things to do in Dayton with a family.....Boonshoft museum.

One of the best things I did after we moved here was to get an annual membership to this museum. Not only can we go whenever we want for free....there is two sister sites we haven't checked out yet....and we get discounts on like 300 other places....

Today was Rob's first time going with us...since we normally go when the girls are out of school and he is working.

We showed him as much of the museum as we could.

The first picture is everyone checking out the Meerkats. They were more active today than we have ever seen them! Super cute watching them with a worker. They were trying to sniff and check her out and then they would run and try to hide from her.

We played with puzzles and magnets.

Rob didn't get the memo...but all the girls had our ECU shirts on today!

I think Sarah remembered the museum and wanted to play with everthing! She was so excited and would play a little bit then say..."all done Mom"!

Cheese!

The girls love love love the water table!

Sarah went down the little kids slide all on her own!

I was able to do a little more with Sarah since Rob was with us to keep an eye on the big girls.

The girls had so much fun showing Rob around and I think he enjoyed the museum too.

***side note for Kristy......the puzzle room has moved on and has been replaced with a Robot exhibit. It isn't as much fun, but will do for the next few months.

There is also a really cool exhibit about jewelry too (it replaced a toy exhibit!

I like that exhibits change and there is always something new around the corner. We will be spending a lot of chilly winter days playing at the Boonshoft museum!

Sugarcreek Metropark

We switched it up today and Rob was the main photographer and we took our smaller, older camera.

We headed out with a packed lunch to one of the local metroparks for a hike today.

Rob and the girls were all off, so today's weather was just icing on the cake for a fun day outside!

The leaves were changing and lots had already fallen and it was perfect weather for a hike around the park.

It was easy trails and Sarah was able to walk most of the way. She is a born hiker! I carried her as much as she would let me, but she needed to collect some sticks and rocks and just wanted to be like the big girls and walk with a stick!

I think Sarah has almost outgrown the Moby Wrap, she didn't want to get in it completely, but the way I used it really helped me carry her. I'm so happy I have been working out because it wasn't too tough on me carrying an extra 25ish lbs!

The girls love the outdoors and are great hikers!

Sarah decided to ride her stick like a witches broom!

The girls were using walking sticks we picked up on a hike in England.

We walked a little under 3 miles and will try and go back for the longer trail.

We had a great day out and look forward to finding more places to explore!

Sarah jumping Oct 2011

Build and grow

Dad and me time!

Today Rob took the big girls to a workshop at Lowes!

It is free and the girls LOVED it!

They not only built something....they got to keep the safety goggles and aprons.

They earned a patch for completing the build and I will sew them on the aprons before their next building adventure.

They built a cute little monster machine!

Show us your life~Pets

I decided to get in on Show Us Your Life over at www.kellyskornerblog.com. This post is all about my older girl, Sissy!

Sissy is a 12 year old beagle-lab mix. She was a rescue from eastern North Carolina. We were on a wait list with the local ASPCA for a small dog. One Sunday in August 1999 we received a call that a litter was separated from their Mom and there was no room at the local center for them, so they were trying to find them homes quick.

We went to one of the workers homes and I feel in love with my tiny little fur-ball as soon as I saw her. She was not in good health and needed lot's of TLC and Vet attention because of her living conditions and being weened too soon.

We picked Sissy up and gave her a home just days before hurricane Floyd hit eastern NC.

Sissy has always been the sweetest dog (unless you get out the nail trimmers)!

We had a min-pin when we rescued Sissy, but he freaked out when we brought our oldest home from the hospital and we had to find him a new home with no children.......but Sissy loved Meghan from day one and became her protector and best friend.

Sissy has welcomed each one of the girls with open paws!ha

Sissy didn't get to meet Sarah until she was 7 months old. We moved to England in 2007 and Sissy went and stayed with her grandparents for three years while we lived abroad. It worked out great for all of us and we missed Sissy, but in 2010 she moved back in with us and it feels like she was never gone.

Sissy has lived in 4 states and flown across the country twice. Sissy has seen the Atlantic and Pacific oceans (but didn't go in because she does not like to swim..)

She is starting to show her age more and more and I don't want to even think of the day when she is gone.

She loves to beg for food, bark at nothing and steal food from the girls!