David - age three months

 Baby David, at three months, he just cut his first two teeth!

 

Savannah and her little galpal, Lorelei...


This pic was taken at Aspire! Dance studio. Amy, our hostess, has sold her dance studio after two and a half years of ownership. She's very excited to spend more time with her son, Max, and her hubs. I recall how she once told me how incredibly outrageous rental space was. Yikes! She's am awesome girl! She had been hosting play dates at the studio on some Fridays. When we first started attending, us moms would keep the tots occupied on mats with baby toys. Now, they kick balls and run amuck! WoW! Luke was there, too!

First three word sentence!

Savannah: Daddy outside ba....

Me: What?

Savannah: Daddy outside balcony.

Me: Oh! Balcony! What's he doing out there?

Savannah: Lights!

He was hanging up the Christmas lights.

Boy, what a rush of joy and pride!!

Gotta go...Miss Smarts want me to, "Get up, mommy!"

Dolls

More and more, Savannah is showing interest in caring for her dolls. Today, she asked me to take down the macaroni angel from the Christmas tree so that she could diaper and feed it. We sang to the angel and cradled it. We also made pretend soup for the ornament and a cup of pretend juice to go with her meal. Savannah really grasps the activity of nurturing and I just love playing along with her. It amazes me how much she's grown since the day we brought her home from the hospital. I remember when she wasn't even able to hold her head up. She's my little heart.

I love you, Savannah!

God's little gift to me

My darling Savannah really shone today. She asked me for "juice", but that's not the beauty of it, wait for it. Savvy is a milk-and-water-only girl per doc's orders. Her little buddy, Devin, a juice boy, comes over once a week. His mommy packs apple juice and he loves it. Sometimes Sneaky Savvy swipes a sip and grins at me when I catch her gulping it down as fast as she can, while she can. Her asking me for juice is common and normal for toddlerhood. I told her she can have milk instead, so I washed her cup and hooked her up with cold milk. As she takes the cup from me, she says, "Mom juice, TOO!" How does she know to say, "too"?!? I know God was smiling at my reaction. "Mom juice, too!" Grinning from ear to ear, I poured myself a glass of milk, sat down next to my girl, and we drank our milk through straws, like the cool girls do. What a sweetheart she is. She used her new word later this morning while she was helping me make the bed. She was jumping on the bed as I was protecting Luke's head from happy bare feet. She stops, grabs my finger and says, "Mommy, up!" "No, mommy's not going to jump on the bed right now." "Mommy, up! Mommy, jump, TOO!" How could I resist?! So I clamored up and bounced around until I was out of breath, which didn't take very long. Luke remained unharmed and was actually smiling at us the whole time. God must have been watching us, too.

About Savannah V. Blake

1. She is twenty one months old.
2. She still sleeps in her crib.
3. She likes to sit in my lap so that we can read books together.
4. She enjoys it when we all pack up and go have lunch with Daddy.
5. She's highly intelligent.
6. She can jump off a step and land with both feet.
7. She's a lil' Spitfire this Halloween.
8. She likes raisins.
9. She's not afraid of bugs.
10. She can sign these words:

more
eat
drink
ice cream (a favorite this past summer)
bread
cookies
pancakes
cracker
cheese
diaper change
potty
poop

dog
cat
bird
chicken
squirrel
fish
duck

book
car
airplane
bath
rain
moon
brush my teeth

playground
slide
swing

crying
sleep

hot
cold
cook
bike
baby
and bug(one that she made up and it stuck!)

We don't sign as much now that she's learning to talk. Her vocabulary pretty much exploded at 19 months and on. I'd heard it happens that way, but to actually see and hear my baby go through it is definitely one of life's treasures.

I love my babies and we're truly blessed.. (They're actually His kids.) I don't know exactly why, but He wanted us to have them 17 months apart. They say God has a sense of humor. :) (See my other blog for those crazy moments)

Music and teeth

If I say, "Music", Savannah starts bobbing up and down and swinging those cute arms of hers. What a doll. Recently, we've started listening to instrumental jazz while we clean up or over a shared lunch. We both enjoy it.

She's also getting so much better at brushing her teeth. It used to be that she would suck the toothpaste right off the brush and we literally had to wrestle her to get those pretty white teeth polished. Now, she opens wide and lets us get in there. :) I use regular grown up toothpaste, just a SMALL, SMALL amount. Too much swallowed fluoride can be dangerous! I initially started out with Baby Einstein toothpaste, it tastes like berries and other sweet things. The pediatrician had even told me not do it, because she would only suck it off and then I'd have trouble breaking the habit when using our own "dangerous" toothpaste. I should've listened to him. I also should've also listened to him when he said to forgo the toothbrush all together and use a washcloth and water to clean her new teeth. I thought he was crazy, she would bite down hard! Both Judd and I wondered if Dr. Vannaman had ever used his own technique!