Belly Button

Today in the bath tub Savannah discovered her belly button! It was SO funny, she kept pinching it as if to try to pull it off. She even attempted to say belly button, but it came out like "bee bum". The rest of the evening was spent asking her where her belly button was!

She also has a new love of pillow fights! I haven't seen her laugh that hard since we visited my grandmother's dog!

Savannah's Mischief!

I was making dinner the other night, while Savannah was crawling/walking along the cabinets hanging out with London (my parents German Shepard). Savannah started playing with the door to London's kennel. A few minutes later I look over and Savannah has shut herself and London in the kennel! I wish I had a camera handy at that moment, but I didn't. Sorry you'll just have to imagine it!

One Determined Kiddo

Savannah can be a very messy eater. One day after a particularly messy meal I put her in the bath tub with the water running and unplugged to give her a quick rinse before her nap. I turned around to get some soap to wash off her extremely sticky legs. When I turned back towards Savannah she had the tub stopper and was trying to force it upside down into the drain. She was determined to have time to play in the bath!

"Thankfuls!"

Someone once told me that silverware that wasn't used at a place setting were called thankfuls, because you didn't have to wash them. Such a small thing to be thankful for. Today I am thankful for:

• my testimony of Jesus Christ and the restored gospel
• a loving, supportive husband
• a beautiful, sweet daughter
• a helpful family that has helped us in more ways than they could possibly know
• awesome friends that keep me going
• teething tablets and Motrin
• space heaters
• hot chocolate
• Village Natural Therapy foaming bath oil
  

Lil' Miss Personality

Yesterday I went down to Dad's print shop to help them finish up a project they were working on. Savannah came with me and sat in her stroller for a while till she got tired of that. I was finally brave enough to let her run around the shop, which made me very nervous because I didn't want her to ruin anything!!! In the middle of the shop is a counter top with three open shelves under it. On the very bottom shelf there was a few boxes and a stack of paper. I of course had to move the paper because Savannah wouldn't leave it alone. When I moved the paper it created an empty "crawl space". Savannah kept herself entertained for about 30 minutes crawling through the space to the other side of the counter and back. She sat in the shelf giggling and then would crawl back out, proud of her discovery of a new "play place". I wish I had pictures of it, but I don't.

Banana Bread

Over Thanksgiving Savannah discovered banana bread, and now can't seem to get enough! This morning when she woke up I fed her a bottle. Which she drank quickly and was ready for more. We went down stairs fixed another half of a bottle and then I grabbed a piece of banana bread for myself. The second Savannah saw the banana bread she forgot ALL about her bottle. She was SOOOO excited. She was actually shaking, she was that excited!

NASA Space Center

Today was a LONG, but fun day! For the adults at least. It was a little rough for poor lil' Savannah. 1 hour ride there, mostly sitting in her stroller or being held and over an hour ride back! Needless to say she was frustrated by the time we got home! But very happy to be out of her seat and playing in the bath tub. Unfortunately I forgot the camera so we don't have any pictures. Savannah had fun in one of the exhibits at the Space Center. The things hanging from the ceiling kept her thoroughly entertained (for a while at least). She starred up at them with her mouth wide open and an expression that seemed to say "why are they up there, and how do I get up there." She tried to reach the astronaut suit that was hanging, but was too short to reach it. In one of the presentations Savannah was making one of her noises that can not acuately be described but I will attempt it. It almost sounds like Donald Duck's laugh...but not...ok that's as close as I can get. Anyway! SO she's making her "not quite Donald Duck" noise and the guy behind us sticks his tongue out at her, so of course she wanted to play, which got WAY too loud for the presentation. However it was pretty funny.

Carpe Diem

Destination: Nashville,TN
Date: April 24th
Event: Country Music Marathon

Info: I am training to run 26.2 miles in the Nashville, TN Country Music Marathon. I'm super excited. I've never run a marathon before, but have always wanted to. The opportunity came up and so here goes nothing. At this point my goal is to finish it. I figure after running a full marathon I can do anything.

Camera Attack

I got the camera out the other day to take a picture of Savannah walking. She got so excited about the camera!

FuN at the zOo!

Chris has Mondays and Tuesdays off work now. SOOOO, we decided to spend the afternoon at the Zoo. We all had a blast! The weather couldn't have been more perfect. And we almost saw EVERYTHING (we missed the bird exhibit, apparently it closes before everything else does..oops).
Arriving at the Zoo! Savannah fell asleep in the car, so she's a bit groggy in this picture. She's looking at the Macaws. She started screeching like them. Chris turned to me and said, "See we didn't need to go to the zoo, we have our own zoo at home!"

One of their indoor fish exhibits has a tunnel going through the middle of the tank. Chris took a picture of Savannah and I crawling through it. Its meant for kids, so it was a tight fit...
Savannah in front of the giraffe that was only one month older than her. But quite a bit bigger! The baby giraffe at 8 months old stood 6ft tall and weighed 296 pounds.
The baby elephant that kept climbing up on the rocks and stepping down and then would do it again. Savannah thought he was cool for all of about, oh I don't know 2 seconds. The kids watching the elephants around her were MUCH more interesting.
Savannah getting excited about the camera. That's the "baby" giraffe behind us
Savannah is watching the elephant across the way.

The big kids playing! Savannah had fallen asleep at this point. Which was a bummer because we were almost to the petting zoo and the animals were actually out playing. Unlike last time, it was too hot so they were all laying around under the shade.