It's been a while since my last update so I thought I'd better get one out before the craziness of Sarah's birthday party, etc overtake me.
First of all I'd like to announce that Sarah now has another cousin. My sister Gwyn and her husband Tim had a baby girl today. I understand that after more than 24 hours in labour because the baby was posterior (sunny side up) she was delivered naturally with the help of forceps this afternoon in Victoria. No details yet, but I'm sure the proud parents will share them when they are rested from their long ordeal.
Now - on to the business of Super Sarah who has turned the corner with regards to her vocabulary during the past week or so and is now absolutely hilarious! Dale took Friday off before he went away last weekend (Yves and Amanda Soulard's wedding) so we took the bikes and the bike trailer and went to Fort Whyte park near our house for a coffee and a walk around. Sarah loves wearing her bike helmet and getting into the bike trailer.
Dale was home again on Monday and gone from Tuesday to Friday so Sarah and I were alone together for the better part of a week. We went to St. Vital park last weekend since it was so beautiful and we did some pictures of Sarah in the leaves. The best part of it all, as far as she was concerned, was piling the leaves.
I bought a lot of apples at the store to make applesauce so Sarah helped out with the washing part. Any chance to do some washing and you can be sure she's in there! She's also decided that clothing is optional. Sometimes it's a bit of a fight to convince her that she has to wear clothes to leave the house!
Wow! That is one extremely well washed apple! Washed with much love, I might add. Sarah still LOVES apples!
One German Chocolate cake with caramel icing by request.
On Saturday it was Dale's birthday so Sarah 'helped' him blow out the candles. A day or so before he got home she started talking about birthdays. I'm sure I didn't mention it first so I have no idea where the concept of birthday came from (maybe from a TV show?). Our friends from over the fence, Mike, Lisa and Sophia came over to help us celebrate.
Sarah wasn't so sure about all this blowing out of the candles part of things, but she LOVED the cake part. She calls it happy birthday cake which I think is a great name for it so that's what we're calling it in our house from now on.
Playdough is also a favourite at our house. Below is an animal that Sarah and I made together. She called it both a bunny and an elephant. Does that make it a bunphant or an eleunny? Not sure but I thought it was pretty funny looking. Any chance to take a picture!
Sarah fits into her Daddy's shirt with him in it.
She's also just perfected the cheesy smile.
As I mentioned earlier, Sarah's vocabulary is expanding exponentially these days. Last night she looked outside (it had been raining cats and dogs all day) and she said, 'look at the rain! What is happening?' We took this to mean that she was commenting on the fact that the rain just wouldn't stop!
Sarah can also reliably count to 4 and she can count to ten without the number 5 and the number 8. She's coming along, though! :o) Her great interest in numbers stems from the fact that she loves playing hide and seek. She's very good at seeking but she doesn't get the hiding part. Usually after you open your eyes from counting to ten and saying, 'ready or not, here I come' she's standing right in front of you. We also count the time before we go 'bump' over the railroad tracks. We go, '1, 2, 3, 4...bump!'
She's also become a Dora freak. She walks around saying 'swipper, no swipping' all day long. She's also into dolls, doll strollers, the doll bed that Dale brought back with him from Ikea in Edmonton and anything else that you can think of that has anything to do with dolls.
Dale bought Sarah a big girl bed, quilt, bedding as well as the doll bed in Ikea in Edmonton while he was there last weekend. We also bought his brother's Altima and Dale drove it back to Winnipeg. Now we need to sell the Xterra...any takers? :o)
On Thanksgiving Day I did a 5 km road race in our neighbourhood (just getting back into the running thing) and Sarah and Dale came along to cheer me on. Apparently Sarah discovered worms on the walk back to the house. It had been raining all weekend here so there were lots of worms on the road. She thought they were really cool until they were wiggling around in her hand so she'd ask Dale to take it away. As soon as he took it, she'd ask for it to be back in her hand. Hilarious. I'm sorry I missed it.
