Chiquita Banana!

(Chloe's FAVORITE!)

Yummy... leftovers...

Leave no corner (of my mouth) un...licked!

Scoopin' in some misses with the THUMB.

Once there was a snowman...

SMALL, small, small.

Too much excitement...

Four Months!

Chloe.

Chloe has been experiencing many firsts during this month, so I thought I should share. She will be five months on the eighteenth, but all these milestones have happened within this month...

1. Chloe experienced her first real 'belly laugh. Which is extremely contagious, adorable, and genuine. Her eyes light up and her whole body just melts.
2. She SLEEPS THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!! This is an amazing gift to both her and myself... well, to Mike too since I make him go get her when she wakes;) She sleeps til 4 am (it was 5 before the time change... I tried to explain this to her, but she doesn't seem to care).
3. She eats baby cereal. This attributes to the sleeping all night. Poor girl is just Hung-ry! She does enjoy eating very much (big surprise) but has a hard time keeping her thumb out of her mouth long enough to finish. It's a great new hobby for her, he he!
4. She rolls back to front and front to back and all around in a circle kindof like clock hands on a clock. I can't figure out how she does it yet, but one second she's heads up, then she's heads down... tick-tock, tick-tock.
5. She loves toys now. She's figured out how to grab things and move them straight to her mouth. Including my fry-holding hand... she got that to her mouth once too. She was that of a hungry parana!
6. She has outgrown her shoes, though her feet haven't grown. She used to be able to wear newborn shoes because her feet were so small, but now they are too chubby from top to bottom, so though they haven't grown in length, they no longer fit... and, the bigger sizes just come off. So, she's been sportin socks for awhile.
7. First Halloween, costumes, and trick-or-treating! This didn't phase her much, but she sure was cute!
   
   

Happy Halloween from Oz...

Mom, Do we have a rope???

I have been getting a lot of commentary on a recent Saydee-ism, so I thought I better share with all. My grandma Lynne broke her hip during the latter part of June. For any of you who don't know my grandma, don't get the wrong idea. She is not some frail, weak, 'grandma' of a grandma. She is a VERY strong-bodied, strong-minded, sharp, motivated, busy woman. She has more energy than me the majority of the time and, to give her a little less confidence, don't let ME fool you either... she's not even an oldy. Both her and my mother were young mommas, making her under 40 when I was born. Sorry, Grams if that's too much info:).. gotta set the scene! Ok, so she broke her hip by tripping over this so-called 'dog' named Britches. She is a very large snorting, stinky, slow and overweight bull dog, who despite my description is adorable, but BIG nonetheless.

A week or so after surgery on her hip, my grandma and Grandpa Dave came over for a visit when they were in town. They had been to the grocery store and were driving the bug which is already small when unoccupied, so there was only room for bum number one and bum number two. No room for Saydee's bum. Sayd hadn't seen Grams and Gramps for several days, maybe even a week. Before Chloe came around and prior to the big hip ordeal, we visited our grandparents every Monday for supper, so this separation was just too much for Sayd. She REALLY, REALLY wanted to go to their house, but Grandpa just kept telling her there was no room. As a joke Grandpa said, "We'd have to pull Grandma behind the car if you came." Saydee paused for only a moment. Looked up at me and said, "Mom, do we have any rope???"