Christmas commentary, etc.

We had such a wonderful Christmas. We got so spoiled and feel so grateful to everyone for their generosity. Here's a few things we each got:

Savannah: lots of cute clothes, a vacuum, baby doll, guitar, bath toys, a farmhouse toy set, shoes, DVDs, gift cards, etc...

Rashel: pj's, Britney Spears album (no, I didn't already have it), the Deceptively Delicious cookbook, cute shirts, socks, gift cards, a curling iron, a new diaper bag, etc...

Carter: Lost Season 3, shirts, I think a total of 11 dvds, mostly superhero ones to add to his collection, a new shaver, a box of oreos (haha, I don't buy them very often), etc...

We also got $$, a griddle (yay!), candles, blankets and lots of candy!!
See how spoiled we are?

It was a great holiday! Spending Christmas eve/morning with the Cherrys was so fun. We left around 10:30 am and got to my families around 12:30pm. We had dinner with my family and went to see the Chipmunk Movie later. It was so cute and the animation is great. Savannah was dancing throughout all the songs. It was hilarious.

Speaking of Savannah, she is crazy teething. I swear she has like 4 teeth coming in RIGHT NOW! She was not very happy last night. We've been giving her Tylenol and putting orajel on her gums; that's how I realized their were way more coming in than we thought. Before we know it, she's going to have a full set of chompers.

Christmas Afternoon

Papa and Savannah.
Opening her baby doll.
I guess she understands that you have to feed the baby.
Daddy getting "Lost: Season 3".
I did not pose her for this picture. I swear. This was the day after Christmas, in her new outfit, hugging her baby.

Christmas Morning

Wake up!!
Look at all those presents! That's really only half of them. They went up high on the shelves and wherever we could fit them.
Ok guys, I'm ready.
Mommy and Savannah.

Christmas Eve

Savannah with Uncle Steve and Aunt Shelby.
Caren, Larissa and Kacey.
Grandma and Savannah and Jake and Acacia decided to dance.
Grandma B with her 3 granddaughters; Savannah, Acacia and Catherine.
And here's the sleepy 4th granddaughter, Meredith.

Having fun

Playing with Grandpa on the floor.


This was a giggle fit she was having the other day. It was pretty funny.
This was at the mall; all the girls sitting in a little car that you can push around the mall.

A new accomplishment 12/16

Today Savannah and I were hanging out in the family room and all the sudden she went over to the stairs. I thought that she went over there to sit on the step like she's been doing the past couple days, so I just stayed on the couch. A minute later I called her name and looked over and didn't see her on the step or hear her. So I walked over there and she wasn't there. I started freaking out. I looked by the other couch and boxes because I wondered if she was hiding, but she wasn't. I was calling her name, but of course she wouldn't answer. So I ran upstairs and she was standing at the top of the stairs waiting for me. Now, I was thinking, "holy crap, how did she get up here, she can't climb the stairs". So I got freaked out for a second thinking someone was in our house and took her upstairs, but I knew that was very unlikely. So then it hit me that SHE climbed the stairs all by herself, without me even knowing. That scared me because she could have fallen and I wouldn't have even known until I heard a tumble. So I took her back down the stairs to the bottom and she climbed up again. That's when I got out the video camera and made sure to document this moment. I just feel like it is way to soon for her to be climbing stairs, but I don't know. I do know that now we need a gate on the stairs because I'm not going to chase her up their 20 times a day. And when she gets up there she goes running to all the rooms. I can tell that she's very proud of herself for doing this. So when Carter came home from work I told him and he freaked. He couldn't believe it. Well, we had to go to church so showing him was on hold. When we got back from church that was the first thing we did and Carter was like standing right next to her because he was afraid she'd fall, but she is really good at it. I just can't believe that she went from going on one step to climbing like 25 in one day. We're very excited for her new accomplishment, but very scared too of her falling. Well, I just wanted to share that story, but I've got to go bake some sugar cookies with my Mom and Savannah.



At the top of the stairs.

She's getting more hair.

This was yesterday, 12/15. She just attempted the 1st or 2nd step. She likes to go sit on the step and just hang out.

Savannah in her cute new snowman pajamas. I think she's going to have to wear them on Christmas Eve.
Wearing Mommy's beanie.

This is what Savannah wore to go see Santa yesterday. We took her to Smith's grocery store because we heard he was going to be there and we had to do our grocery shopping so why not? She cried sitting on his lap by herself, so we had to get in the picture with her.

Today

I decided to snap one of her while I'm over here at my families. She's not very happy about having to be in her pack 'n play right now, so I'm giving her snacks and she gave me a nice toothy grin with food in her mouth.

I couldn't resist

Savannah was conked out the other day so I just had to take pictures of it.

She's shown a little interest in the Christmas tree; mostly taking off a few ornaments. Right now we even have presents under there and she doesn't even care. I give that another 2 years and she'll be wondering.
The PHONE. Well, one of the 4 that we have. This is the one that talks in spanish sometimes.
It's unbelievable to me that she really sounds like she is speaking her own language and that she just carries on having conversations with someone on the phone.
I love this outfit!

Pictures, Finally

My mom has this huge bear at her house and we finally got Savannah to warm up to it because she was scared of it for awhile.

One of Savannah's favorite things to do is to get into our entertainment center and take out as many movies and cds as she can. Lately, she'll totally examine the movie so it looks like she's reading it.

Update

Savannah is getting quite feisty these days. She is in love, and I mean in LOVE with our cell phones. She screams if we take them away from her. And I mean SCREAMS! Has a full on tantrum and won't stop crying until we give it back. Now, we don't really like her playing with them because, well, they're dirty, and we're afraid that she'll accidentally call someone, in CHINA. She loves music right now too. And she dances along to it. It is so funny. I really think that she may have a career that involves music and electronics. Say, a music producer. Haha. In a world of male producers, probably not, but I'll settle for the next Julianne Hough. (Dancing with the stars two time winner.She is amazing.) She is getting molars in right now, which seems so early to me, but I don't know. One is in and the other is on it's way. She is almost starting to run. Tonight Ronald was chasing her around and it really seemed like she was running away from him. The other day she and I were down stairs and Carter went up stairs, and a minute or so went by and I thought she was just standing by the stairs waiting for Carter to come back down, and I looked over and didn't see her. I looked down the hallway to the kitchen and she wasn't there, so I was like, Where'd she go? I got up and walked over to the stairs and she was on the second step!! I didn't even see her go up it. That scares me, but she seems too intimidated to go up any higher. She seems to be getting more hair too and she's been wearing little barrettes too. She's starting to say a few more words or phrases too. I swear the other day she said Hola? She has this little phone that talks in Spanish, so I think she may have heard it from that. Well, that's my update for now, sorry for not posting and pictures but I don't have my wire with me to transfer from my camera. I'll try to get some on soon.

Last night 11/26

Savannah Paige, Savannah Paige, what can I say? She is growing up. She is walking all over the place, getting into everything, and getting more teeth! She isn't wanting to sleep through the night anymore, and wakes up at random times, and of course, Daddy needs his sleep to go to work in the morning, so Mommy has to get up and TRY to be the bad guy and make her go back to sleep, but it never seems to work because Mommy is so tired and doesn't want to fight her, so Savannah ends up in our bed, not making it much more possible for me to sleep with either her feet or hands slapping me every five minutes. How you like that run on sentence?
Savannah is eating lots of new things too. Most of the time she eats what we do, but we still buy some baby food. She likes spaghetti, pizza, macaroni and cheese, and she still likes her mixed cereal in the morning. At lunch, most of the time she has a turkey or ham and cheese sandwich. Yes, I give my daughter cheese even though I don't eat it. Except on pizza. She loves her sandwiches. And crackers. And Milk. She really doesn't drink much juice because we want to save her teeth, but every now and then she gets some. Oh, and does she know when we have goodies. Especially ice cream. We'll be sitting on the couch with OUR ice cream and she comes over and wedges her way between our legs and gives us this puppy dog sweet face and of course we give her some. And then she wants more. And more. Until we run out.
She says Mama and Dada all the time now. Mostly Mama right now. Everything is Mama. She also says Hi and Bye, accompanied by a dainty little wave. She randomly does it too. She says hi to everyone. But only when she feels like it. If we try to make her, she won't of course. She jabbers up a storm all day. She really is adorable in the morning, but half the time I'm still sleepy and irritated that I'm up, that I don't notice.
Carter is working a ton right now, getting lots of overtime (yippee, now it's actually paid overtime), but he's enjoying his job. I'm trying to get Christmas shopping done, Christmas pictures taken, cards ready, along with all my other daily duties.. But it's a fun time of year and I love it.



Look at Savannah's nice little scratch that she gave herself. Right before we're going to take pictures tomorrow.
Ohhhh....
If you look real close, you can see her two top teeth.
I just thought this was funny.

Playing ball with Granny Goose.

Here is my other Christmas dress too! It's a little bit big, but she'll grow into it. If she'd just keep the bow on for more than five seconds, that would be great!