Greetings from my sick bed

Sage after eating her lunch

Jeramy went back to work a couple of weeks ago, which has taken us a bit to get back into our grove. So needless to say the timing of my illness wasn't the greatest. The back of my throat was all white and I was sick and felt like my brain was floating...yuck...Jeramy luckily didn't have work yesterday so I have been quarintined in the sick room all weekend. He didn't make it without any fun though...he made me this happy face lunch for me...what a sweetheart!

Other than that, just being a stay at home mom to a very fiesty 2 year old. They weren't kidding when they say a switch goes off at 2. Any other ages I should be aware of?

Also, I sent away to make my blog posts into a book (thank you Julie and blog2print.com). I took all of my posts and hardbound it like a yearbook. There are over 100 pages and I think it only cost me around $87. It is going to be such a great thing for Sage to have when she grows up, or we are not around. I plan on doing it every year. You should check it out. You never know how long this blog thing will be up for, and I wanted to make sure I had a hard copy.

2 Years Old!

Hard to believe our baby girl is now 2 (well not really as we are experiences the terrible two's)! Harder yet to belive is that at her UW appointment and Dr's Apointment she weighed 21 pounds with a diaper on, So she finally passed the 20 pound mark! Everything went well. Of course she is not on the percentile charts for her weight, but is in the 50% percentile for height (can't complain for being tall and skinny) and has a bigger head and feet than most premies. During the psychologicall evaluation, she passed all of the tests and exceeded some as well. She just needs to work on her verbs. I was surprised, she even hugged the doctor...I think the doctor was taken aback as she said "no kid has ever hugged me before." After that we got special attention!

But probably the biggest milestone she has mastered is that she went to the bathroom 3 times on her big potty! If you would have told me 5 years ago this news would excite me beyond anything else you could have told me, I wouldn't have believed you, but no words can explain the way you feel. (sorry to my non-parent friends as I know we talk about poop and pee alot lol)

She cried the ENTIRE time during this shoot. We brought the bearsskin rug and sheds, and of course Mommy had to throw in a tutu, but I kept telling the photographer to keep shooting, if she was crying that is ok because we wanted to capture the 2 year old moment and I think we got it!

Christmas, Birthday's and Some Pretty Ugly Sweaters

The spoiled 20 pound Birthday Girl

Her train village set from Halmoni and Paw;
She also wanted lots of tonka dump trucks
but no dolls...hmm

My Girls and our Memorable Poses from THS
and this year's sweater competiton

All of the ugly sweaters and all of the good

sports who played along..and the winner was

Uncle Nick, with Auntie Malea a close 2nd. Auntie Jessica

bought Sage her first purse, which ironically

matched her sweater perfectly!

Sage on her podeum, being Little Miss Priss

Chuck E Cheese aint got nothing on our living

room!

Sage waiting for her guests to arrive, eating her

favorite...PIZZA

So since Sage's birthday is on Dec 30th we really had a marathon Christmas and Birthday Parties for her...We did 4 different houses for Christmas and then turned around and hosted another 3 birthday parties for Sage. She LOVED all of the gifts from everyone, but I am sure she got a little overwhelmed with all of her great gifts! She even got up during opening presents and stood up on the table and shh'd the kids, and then half way through she decided to enjoy a movie in her room..lol.. One of her favorite gifts was the trainset my parents got for her on it's own table and it is like a village, she spends hours in there playing with that. So I am going to do a half birthday in the summer maybe the 2nd or 3rd Saturday of June every year (if it doesn't interrupt Sturgeon season) so that we can space it out, and have a BBQ or something and enjoy being outside, and going to the park by our house or our backyard. Plus with the dates set for the same week every year, hopefully it will provide a good excuse to get together with family I don't usually get to see during the holiday's because of the weather and Mountain Pass. Also, fitting 35 people including 15 kids was a little much in our house the way it is laid out, plus all of the toys, it made it seem like Chuck E Cheese. Aside from our usual Christmas stops, we also hosted 2 different birthday's for her. The one at our house was Dora for the kids, and ugly Christmas sweaters for the adults! Everyone was such a good sport and Uncle Nick won the award with his disasterous sweater that came with finger warmers...it honestly looked better inside out...lol. I have been lucky enough to have the same core of girlfriends since elementary, middle and high school, and I can always count on them to participate in themed parties. I actually dug out a bunch of our old highschool dance pictures and we recreated one with our most embarassing poses...such as underware showing, tounge out, and Jessica and my favorite slumpy big butt picture...LOL. We get togetether alot for girlsnights and now husband and kids nights, which is always fun!

All in all we had a wonderful holiday/birthday season with family and friends. We are so blessed to have you all in our lives and knowing that you love our daughter so much. Incase we didn't get a chance to thank everyone for all of their great gifts, we really appreciate them and you all. One thing we learned to tell "Santa" next year is to assemble before hand out of the box so you can deal with all of the annoying twistie ties, or the plastic that you need a chainsaw to get through, and to make sure we have all of the necissary batteries!

Hope you and your families had a wonderful holiday season, I can't believe our baby girl is 2 (well I get reminders when she throws a fit or does her "terrible twos" outbursts. lol). I will post some more pictures soon!

For (Great) Grandpa

Jeramy's Grandpa, who had been an Olympia Fireman for 30 years, passed away surrounded by family. The night before he died the Christmas Santa Firetruck passed our house and we were able to show Grandpa the video which he loved. This is also a video of them at the zoo a few years ago, and of Jeramy, Sage, and his Mom and Dad putting up ornaments. When I walked out of the room at the hospital I saw a stocking that said Pat H (my Grandma). It is the signs, the firetruck, the stocking, that lets us know they are always with us. We love you!!

Potty Time!

This is what I found while stumbling into the kitchen. While we have not officially started potty training yet as we are still tring to win the crib wars, we moved her potty seat into the livingroom or kitchen so she can sit on it and get use to it with no pressure. Guess this is her idea of using the potty!

Santa from Cabelas and THE FACE

So of course we did our Santa pictures at Cabelas again this year. I was a little fearful going in that Sage would freak out, but her and Santa bonded over their matching outfits and she did great, no tears or anything. In fact she kept going back to talk to him while we were waiting for our picture. Here is a picture of her dress and hat that my mom got her, as well as her Seahawks cheerleading outfit that she wears on Sundays, because we all know they could use the help. She wore her Husky's cheerleading outfit (because you know she is a born Husky) during Apple Cup and to all of my Cougar friends and family, we all know that that did the trick...lol

Also, lately she has been doing this thing we call "the face" it is SO funny and if you ask her to do the face she will do it to anyone. Last night she had the nurses laughing. It really is super funny, I think we are in trouble. lol

Thanks to everyone for their prayers for Gpa Cal..he is out of ICU and on a hospital floor now. He is a stubborn old man and I think that is what keeps getting him through...now we just have to work on shutting him up so he keeps his oxygen levels down. He is such a proud grandpa, great grandpa and dad that he wants to tell anyone who will listen how great his family is. I am just glad he is out of the ICU and Sage finally got to see him, she was in her santa suit so I think it made him happy!

Future CEO

"What do you need now? Can't you see I am busy"

"No No No, that isn't how you do it"

"UGG I will just do it myself!"

These pictures crack me up...she brought her little laptop and play phone to her table and was talking on the phone while playing with the mouse and computer like she was working. She was very animated at whom ever she was talking to, and aparantly was late for a meeting since the last picture she looks pretty aggitated, or the phone call didn't go the way she wanted it to. Look out for Sage Super CEO someday! She means business!