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The last few weeks around here have been filled with nothin' but the yuckies! Last week I had a rotten case of vertigo. One day I spent the entire day in about 10 square feet of our downstairs with Sarabeth. It was one of those days where I wish I could have just called in sick...but those days are no more. Matt left for work and I set up shop where I could care for Sarabeth without having to run into any walls or fall over. By Tuesday I was getting worse so I had the doc call me in a script for nausea. It slowly got better and by the end of the week I was good to go. Friday night Sarabeth woke up vomitting. Lovely. We had a grand b-day party at the zoo on Saturday and I LOVE THE ZOO! She didn't seem like she was sick although she did vomit another 2-3 times that morning and at the zoo...yes we went anyway. We had to skip an event that I really wanted to be at on Saturday night. (Thank you God for testing if my priorities were in line, they weren't-hence the zoo o...

Well, the tutu turned out so cute, but Sarabeth was not impressed. I think she found it a bit much. So for now it will hang in her room...mama tried!

Sarabeth has really started moving around a lot lately. She so wiggly when I hold her and she wants to touch and grab everything! She's scooting around kind of crawling but not yet all the way. She is pulling herself up on everything and standing! Today I found her on top of her Bumbo chair: Then later on she tried standing up while balancing on my leg: Every day she tries something new. Here she is trying to peek into the tall toy basket: Nevertheless, she's so much fun! She's starting to really understand "playing" and has started picking out favorite toys. I notice some go untouched and others she carries everywhere. Here are a couple of her favorites.

I've seen these tutu's everywhere and haven't found one that I can afford yet so I decided to make my own...by "my own" I mean for Sarabeth :) It only cost $7 to make and it took me about an hour. I'll have some pictures of her in it tomorrow, but here's how it turned out.

Sarabeth LOVES Rowdy and Roscoe. Roscoe is the beagle and he really doesn't have anything to do with her. He just sniffs and moves along. Rowdy on the other hand, licks her to death and she loves it! He lets her pull on his ears and grab is eyes. She gets so excited when she sees them.

What a joy to be a mom. Yesterday was like having another birthday this year. Matt was so sweet and spent the day Saturday with Sarabeth while I slept, a lot! He managed to secretly make me a flower box for outside my kitchen window. I woke up to this on Sunday morning: (please excuse the bad roots, not to mention the dirty hair) The card says "mommy" and you can see the flower box in the crib (no babies were harmed during the taking of this picture) We had a great day at church and then spent the afternoon buying flowers to plant in my new window box and in the front beds. I told Matt a few weeks ago that I would like to plant some flowers for Mother's Day. What I meant was I wanted flowers planted for Mother's Day...oops! So what was meant to be a family affair soon turned into a one man show: We, I mean Matt stayed up very late and only made it through a few plants. Poor thing! I will have some completed pictures later this week. I really did enjoy my day, ...

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Sarabeth loves to sleep with her blanket over her face. Matter of fact, she can't fall asleep without something covering her eyes. Usually if she doesn't have her blanket she uses her arm. This time she used something else... Fast Asleep

Sleeping Beauty Play time Yum Yum Where are you going? Sweetness! Peek a Boo! "I'm helping with laundry, it's mostly mine anyway." Stike a Pose Sarabeth! Dear Sarabeth, I look at you and can't believe how fast the time flies. Everyone always tells me that you will grow up fast...you have. You had your 6 months shots today and did very well. You only cried briefly and then fell fast asleep on the way home. You are such a good baby. You've learned to sit up on your own, which is your favorite way to play. You are scooting and army crawling everywhere. You even ventured off the side of the bed last week. I have so much fun playing with you. Your favorite toys are mommy's cell phone and anything that has a cord on it that you can chew on. I know these aren't age appropriate things to play with so you will usually settle for your snap together plastic toys and anything that makes noise. You are so much fun to be around. You have a constant smile on...