Happy 1st birthday Sweet Anna

Seems like a lot of happy birthday posts lately doesn't it? Well with two August birthdays 5 days apart, that is what we do in August. I have had a lot of fun planning and doing, but am really glad that we have another year before doing it again. Happy 1st Birthday Anna! Today was all your day and you had a blast. Your ice cream party was so much fun. You especially loved your cake. You ate and ate and ate and loved every bite. You got icing all in your hair and we had to give you a bath because you were a mess. Anna, I honestly can not believe that you are 1. How did this day get here so fast. This day a year ago, we were at baptist hospital loving on you and your little 6 pound 15 ounce self. You personality is still in the works but what I can see, at one, it is going to be so much fun. You love your sister and you love Jack. You do not like loud noises and you really don't like to be put down. You like to be held most of the time and you really like for me to be in the room at all times. You have not mastered playing on your own yet but I guess that will come with time. At walmart or the grocery store you do not want to ride in the cart but you want me to hold you and push the cart. Even though this is kind of hard, I do love that you want your Mama. You laugh a lot and are really close to learning to walk. I think about a week or two and you will be all over the house. You will eat anything and you understand everything I say. When I say "Do you want a bottle?", you start to fuss and point toward the kitchen. When I say "Are you ready for bed, you start to fuss and I know that this means yes. You love to play on my bed and "roughhouse" as Sallie calls it. Your sister refers to you as Anna Banana and even told your sister that this is her name. I am sure that you will not like this name later on in life but for now it is kind of cute. You are a true joy Anna. Your first year of life has been filled with little sleep, laughter, learning, juggling, and lots of smiles. I can not wait to see your little personality continue to develop. Youaare a true blessing to me and your Daddy as well as your sister and I am so honored and lucky to be your Mama!! Happy Birthday baby girl......

A recap of our busy birthday

Wow! Today was a really busy and fun day. Sallie has literally celebrated her birthday from the time that her feet hit the floor this morning until tonight at 9 pm. She has milked this day for all it is worth. Here are some pictures to show you what she has done. We started with gift opening, then went to her first day at school, then came home and ate the last cupcake from school for lunch. this is cupcake #2 for the day. Woke up from nap and went to Baskin Robbins for ice cream with Peppy and Pops, answered lots of birthday phone calls in between, had a watermelon birthday celebration with Daddy with sparklers, played with Ella and got to open presents from Peppy, Pops and Ella and Sam, hopped on my bouncy ball all day long, and finally went to bed with no supper and a belly full of junk. Now how could anyone ask for a better day? She is now asleep with a new watch on and a bouncy ball on the edge of her bed waiting for her in the morning.

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Look at me, I am 3

Well, Sallie is officially three. It is late on her birthday night and I was just thinking back to that day three years ago when Sallie was born. It was about 5:20 pm and our lives changed (for the better) and Sallie Celess Warren was born. I can not believe that she is three tomorrow. I know that we always say this every year for whatever age she turns however 3 just sounds so grown and not my baby anymore. Sallie, you can do so much at three that I am seriously in awe everyday. Your vocabulary has blossomed and continues to blossom daily. You are saying things that I really have no idea where they came from. You were watching Anna eat yesterday and said "slow down tiger". Not sure where this came from but you make me laugh outloud daily. You threw Jack some bread on the floor last night and said "there it is ding dong". I know that this is not nice but I could not control my laughter. I am sure that you heard someone say this (may have been me, sorry Jack). You are a sponge. You have really gotten into facial expressions lately and ask me a lot "Mama, why do you have those lines on your face". You are referring to a look on my face where my forehead and in between my eyebrows are squinched up. I may be thinking or worried ect... however half the time not even realizing that I am making this face. You are really into telling me about things that you did "last week" or last year". You love to say "when I was a baby....I.....". You also love to talk about "when I am a mommy, I can drink diet coke, or chew gum, or ect". You love your sister and when I am not right there, I catch you being sweet to her and giving her all kinds of love. When I am around and giving her attention, you like to do otherwise. You can go potty by yourself, dress yourself put on your shoes, brush your teeth, and you are such a good helper with Jack. You love to let him outside in the mornings and feed him in the afternoon. You love your Daddy and love to help him work on special projects. You love your friends, school, and your grandparents. You love to come in our room in the mornings and climb in bed for a little snuggle time (which I love). You always offer up kisses just because. You are a passy lover and you love your tv time. You are the most brave and mischievous child I have ever known. The mischievous side gets you in trouble. I have to remove myself many times to laugh at the things that you get into. You think of everything and nothing gets past you. I always find my stool in the most odd places where you have seen something that you need a little height to get to. You are the happiest, cutest, sweetest little girl and we are so proud of you. Happy 3rd Birthday Sallie. I am the luckiest Mama ever and can not imagine my life without you.

Birthday parties and more..

We celebrated Sallie's 3rd birthday a little early this year. We had a Thursday night party at leapin Lizards on July 30th. She turns 3 on August 10th. We had a joint party with Sallie's cousin, Ella and it worked out great. They have a lot of mutual friends due to being in the same class at school last year. Sallie loves Leapin Lizards and the party was a hit. She played her heart out. We brought presents home to open and let her stay up late to open her gifts. We will do a little candle in her muffin for breakfast on her real birthday as it is on a Monday which is also her first day of her new class at school so it will be really busy. She got all kinds of fun birthday gifts. We did not let her open gifts from us yet as she will get to open those on her real birthday as well.

The summer is flying by. We got out teacher assignments for Sallie and Anna's new classes starting on August 10th. Sallie's new teacher is Mrs. Vickie and Anna's new teacher is Mrs. Stepahine. We can not wait to get to know them. Sallie had Mrs. Stephanie so I am familiar with her classroom however do not know anything about Sallie's new teacher. We are excited about school starting but nervous about the adjustments that we will make with new teachers and new classrooms. Can you believe that Anna will be sitting at a big girl table and not in a high chair at school. She will also be taking a nap on a cot....I must get pictures of this. I know that Sallie adjusted just fine and she will too. We are going to try and make one last beach trip before the school year starts back up. We have all next week off so it will be nice to spend lots of time doing fun summer things before we go back to school.

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

Ok so this post is a little late but we celebrated Ward's birthday July 19th in Charleston. Happy Birthday Ward!!! Just the two of us and no kids. It was really nice to get away and be kidfree for the entire weekend. We went out to eat, shopped a lot and went out on the boat. My parents kept the girls at our house and they had a great time. It was nice to get away but I missed them and was glad to get back home on Sunday. Of course by Sunday night I was ready to go again. Just kidding!! Right before we got home, Sallie fell over a pair of shoes and into a plastic toy that we have and she busted her lip. We ended up taking her to the ER to make sure that she did not need stitches. After about 2 hours and who knows how much money, they let us come home stitch free. I was very relived that she did not need stitches and surprised at how quickly her lip has healed. I must brag on her though because she was so brave the entire time. I could not believe it. While driving to the ER she said that she was going to let the Dr stitch up her lip. She let the doctor look at her lip, take her temp, and weigh her with no problems at all. She was talking the entire time and did not even come close to tears. I was so proud of her. She really has NO FEAR. I think that I was more afraid than she was. Anyway, after many surprises for being so brave, we came home and all is well. I tried to get a close up of her lip but did not get a really good one. I will post it along with a picture of Ward blowing out his candles on his homemade ice cream cookie sandwich. Mind you, this picture was taken after the emergency room Sunday night so we were all a little tired and Anna is not in the picture because I had already put her to bed.

Someones trash, another persons treasure

We went on a walk yesterday and out of the corner of my eye I saw a Barbie jeep upside down in some trash pile on the side of someones house. We had both kids..one walking and one being pushed in a little toy car. Another words, no free hands. Anyway, we managed to each pick up one side of the jeep and haul it to our house. We washed it and looked inside and the person that put it on the trash pile left the battery in it with the battery charger. Amazing. I was so excited to see if it really worked. We charged it over night and this morning tested it out. It works like a charm. Sallie was so excited about it that the first thing that she said this morning was "where is my jeep?". Anyway, it goes a little faster than I would like for it to go and we need to get a seatbelt for Anna's side but other than that, it is as good as new. Sallie has a really hard time steering it right now but she will get that with time. I am really excited about my find. We had been talking about getting the girls one together for Christmas. I just saved myself about $250!! Thanks to whoever thought it was trash.

"I already know how to feed my Baby"

Look what Anna knows how to do... Anna has really gotten into mimicking things that I do and things that Sallie does lately. She really just started doing this while we were at the beach for July 4th. It is so cute. I really do not remember Sallie doing this as much. Anna takes shoes and tries to put them on her feet. She also takes Ward's hats and tries to put them on her head. She can hold up a cell phone and put it to her ear (she sees way too much of this). Soon she will be trying to text! It is all really cute and she will work with a pair of shoes for a while before giving up. Last night while giving Sallie a bath, Anna was in Sallie's room playing with her babies. I gave her the bottle and told her to feed the baby and sure enough she put the bottle right to the baby's mouth. It was so cute. I had to get the camera and get her picture feeding the baby. I am sure glad that Anna likes the babies because I have been tyring to push baby dolls on Sallie since birth and she could careless about them. Give her a screwdriver or a outside toy and she is good to go. Give her a nice and expensive baby doll and she will loose her for months and not even notice that the doll is missing until I find the baby in the bottom of the dirty clothes hamper that does not get used in our closet. I have not even gotten Anna a baby doll yet and she already loves them. Go figure!!! I think that I am going to have two completely different little personalities in my household and I love it already.