These are the flowers that my hubby brought home the other day for ME!! Calla Lily's and Gerber daisies!!
Savannah with her "friends" on the couch. Carter says that when he brings her down in the morning he'll sit her with her "friends" and she'll eat breakfast. She has been becoming a lot more friendly with her stuffed animals lately. It's cute.

Yesterday I definitely had a top 10 moment with Savannah. Friday is my day to work at Borders, so the mornings can be kind of hectic getting myself and Savannah ready and making lunches for all 3 of us. Then I have to make sure I don't forget anything and take Savannah down to my Mom. Lately, I just can't get to work on time! At least 10-15 minutes late! So annoying.
Anyway, so here's my adorable daughter story...

Every morning Savannah pretty much has a cup of milk with Ovaltine in it (to TRY to bulk her up) and some cereal. Some days she'll sit in her highchair, but a lot of the time, we lay down a blanket in the family room and she'll sit there and eat. Yesterday she sat in her high chair though so that I could get my breakfast eaten and make lunches. So she's drinking her milk and eating her cereal and all the sudden she lifts her sippy cup up and says "More". She does this every morning. She loves her Ovaltine milk. (In fact this morning I didn't put Ovaltine in her milk, and she totally dissed it. Ovaltine snob!!) So I go over to get her cup and she says, "Thank You". I was so shocked, but she absolutely melted my heart! I was like, "Did you just say thank you?" She has never done that unprompted, and even when we try to prompt her she doesn't say it that well. This was so clear and she was using MANNERS! I can't even tell you how sweet of a moment it was. I got her more milk and when I went to give it back to her asked her, "What do you say?" She just started at me. I said "Thank you?". She goes "Thank you". So sweet.
At work people were asking me about my daughter and of course I had to tell them that story. Then last night Carter was changing her diaper and getting her ready for bed and all the sudden she says "Thank you". I was just like, Isn't that the sweetest thing ever? Once she saw that we were ohhhh and ahhhh-ing over her, she kept saying it. Anyway, I seriously thought to myself, this has got to be one of my top 10 moments with her since she's been born. Not that I could name 10 right this second, but I don't know that it would be top 5, but definitely top 10.

Right now though, my sweet daughter is pulling out and disrupting ALL OF MY ORGANIZED PICTURES!!

For the last 12 weeks Carter & I have been in a competition with some of his family members to see who could lose the most weight. The "Biggest Loser" competition. It ended today. Carter has lost 17 lbs!! (The thinnest I've ever known him to be.) Amazing to me. I, on the other hand, have lost 5 lbs. I really want to try to lose at least 5 more in the next two weeks before our vacation. Carter's amazing weight loss is mostly to change of diet. We've been eating better over the last 3 months; barely any red meat, low fat or fat free dairy, more fruits and nuts and less sweets, which is our downfall. I have to say, I really hate the fact that Carter can change his diet and work out "occasionally" and lose 17 lbs., but I can work out more than him and not lose more than 5 lbs.!! We should find out soon who won the whole competition, (days worked out was a factor too) and I hope it was Carter, he deserves it!!

Update

Savannah is just the cutest right now. She is saying so many new words and putting them together. She has always mimicked really well. Some of the new words or phrases she's saying are: Oh Boy, Where'd it go?, out, pretty, cute, movie, walk, goodbye. I'm sure theirs a few others, but I just can't think of them. She still loves to dance around when any music comes on and she loves to go outside and "walk" everywhere. If you let her go out, she does not want to come back in. Her hair is getting longer in the front and back, but if I put pigtails or a barrette in and then put her in the car to go somewhere, it's not in her hair when I pull her out of the car. She loves to make a mess of the computer room and sit on my lap when I'm on the computer. Tonight we decided to make some cookies and she wanted some chocolate chips. So we gave her some, but then she was freaking out and wanting more. We kept trying to get her to say Please & Thank you, but she was getting so upset that she wasn't about to say anything. Once the cookies were done, of course she wanted some, and she so enjoyed them. She got chocolate all over her mouth. She actually looked even more like Carter because it looked like she had a goatee and mustache all around her mouth. She really is just the sweetest little girl. She is such a joy to have in our lives!

Carter has spent the whole weekend sick and miserable and we're hoping he's better enough to go back to work tomorrow. He hates being sick and I hate when he's sick because he sleeps a lot and doesn't talk a lot, so I get kind of lonely. Today he feels a little better though, so crossing my fingers.

I've been doing lots of mystery shops lately and have a bunch coming up too. Saturday we spent all day at my families helping them with there yard. Well, I helped; Carter watched Savannah most of the time and took it easy. I actually enjoyed being outside and pulling weeds which is so unlike me because I'm not much of an outdoors or get dirty kind of girl. (Believe me, a few times I was looking around checking for spiders and bugs.) I do wish it wouldn't have been so windy and then it would have felt so nice out. My back and legs are pretty sore today though. At least it's a good workout!

3 1/2 weeks and we'll be in Hawaii! We're looking so forward to that!!

Silly girl

We had Savannah's car seat in the house on Friday night and whenever it's in the house, she likes to use it as a little seat for her. She decided to take a little time and read a book.

Best Buddies....big & small

Melissa and Stella came into town on Wednesday and we met them and there family at Chili's for lunch. Here are the two little ones meeting up after 9 months.


Savannah kept stealing Stella's cheerios and yogurt bites (she loved these) even though she had her own snacks and meal.
Then we came all came back to our house and took endless pictures of the two of them playing. Of course, if you look at Melissa's blog, they will be 10 times better of pictures, so check out hers. Savannah was fascinated with Melissa's camera; I think because it was so big.

They were playing with this stationary type toy that makes noises and plays music. I thought Stella would really like it and she seemed too.

Cute girls.
So it's really hard to get a picture with each of them looking at the camera. Darn it. This one is funny to me though because Stella is playing with Savannah's toy and Savannah is playing with Stella's toy. Real friends share!
I think Savannah really liked Melissa (what's not to like) because she just went right over and sat next to her.

If Melissa sends me some GOOD pictures, I'll post some. I don't have a good one of the four of us on my camera. Bummer. Anyway, it was great to see them (and the rest of the Lund clan) and let the little girls play and the big girls talk. Hope to see you girls soon!!

This ones just cute. Love the jellies!
She likes to look out the window sometimes.

Savannah loves to go over to Carter's alarm clock every morning and start pressing buttons and turn on the music. Every morning I have to push it back as far as I can so she stops messing with it.