Hug Sarah

So....Sarah was in her booster seat eating dinner, and when she was finished, she started playing with her food and spoon. She was twirling the spoon around, and then it fell on the floor, flinging yogurt everywhere. I looked at her and said something like, "Sarah, that was not nice. You played with your spoon and made a big mess. Mommy is sad." Sarah looked at me with her big puppy dog eyes, and then, instead of being upset that she was in trouble, she tried to cover for herself---she put her arms way out beside her and said, "Hug Sarah?" Then, when Jeremy and I started laughing and saying that no, she couldn't have a hug because mommy was still cleaning up the mess, she said, "Give a kiss?" Silly Sarah!

Congratulations Dr. Daddy!

Well, Jeremy did it! He's finally a Doctor! Of Physics, that is....we went to his graduation last weekend, and despite the HUGE cost of a cap and gown for a PhD, I'm really glad he walked. Here are some pics and a video from the ceremony.


Things have been really, really crazy busy around here lately. I seem to be moving from day to day like a zombie just doing what needs to be done for the next day. Hopefully after grad school this weekend and the last week of school next week, things will settle down for awhile! I am SO excited about spending the summer at home (more or less) with Sarah! I hope she's excited too and that she won't be too sad to be away from her friends at school!

If You're Happy and You Know It!

It's been a fun couple of weeks! This weekend we had a little graduation party for Jeremy. Several of his friends from work came and a few other friends, and it was so much fun to see all of the kids playing in the driveway. We had 5 kids here ranging from 6 months to 3 years. Sarah's toys really got a workout, and thankfully, she was OK with the idea of sharing. She was too busy eating Doritos anyway :-)

On Sunday afternoon we hung out at home and just relaxed. Sarah looks so grown up in her "big girl chair" with her "big girl water bottle." I can't believe she's almost 2! During the past couple of weeks she has really taken off with the "princess" idea. She will let you wash her hair in the tub if you tell her to wash her hair like a princess, and she LOVES to go get a new princess pull-up each morning. Her favorite for now is Cinderella, and if she's not asking to watch Barney, she's asking to watch "Cin-rella." She's also still bossy. For example, yesterday I was sitting in the computer chair looking at some papers while she watched tv. She came over to me, told me "hold you," and then as soon as I picked her up, she told me to "get up." Then she told me to "sit down couch Sarah." Basically, she can't do anything without one of us doing the same thing with her. Ughh!

After recording the perfect video of Sarah singing "If You're Happy and You Know It" a couple of weeks ago, I proceeded to record over it before uploading it to the computer--oops. So then I spent several more days trying to capture the moment again, but it just didn't happen. The clips in the video are takes #100 and 103. Just kidding....but they're not as good as the first one. However, my absolute favorite video of Sarah ever is the clip where she is laughing at the hopping toy bunny on the floor. What a laugh!

Finally, this was too funny not to write about: on Friday we were sitting in the driveway eating popsicles, and I took Sarah's shirt off so she wouldn't make a mess on it. The next thing out of Sarah's mouth was, pointing at ME, "take your shirt off." HA! Yeah, right, Sarah!