Through a Childs Eyes

Behind...

2010-09-06T21:32:00.000-07:00

I feel pretty behind on everything lately...but this is why so I don't mind too much:)

So I have about 10 things I want to blog about (you know, like my child being born) but since I never have time to do even one I just wanted to write down these things Savannah says about Kylar before I forget them:)

"He's our happy baby!"
"He gots cute feets!"
"He's too happy!" (she means so happy)
I want to make them a princess and a frog for Halloween and when I asked Savannah if that sounded good she started crying and said "No! Kylar a princess too!"
"Wake up baby!!!"
"He's nice!"
"He gots nice hairs"
"This a baby doll Kylar!" (she likes to show him her baby dolls)
"Oh no, he needs his been-ty!"
"He's got kee-cups!"
"He neeze! (sneezed)"
"He likes you, he likes you!"

I have been pleasantly surprised at how much she likes being a sister...here's hoping it lasts because I'm loving our new baby and think he's a keeper:)

Happy Fathers Day!

2010-06-20T09:04:00.000-07:00

We love Dad around here! Mornings, not so much...

Hope everyone has a great Fathers Day:)

Trekkies...

2010-05-11T22:38:00.000-07:00

I am in the sad situation of being outnumbered by Star Trek fans and despite my insistance that I should get to choose some shows too they remained unconvinced...

Flower Planting.

2010-05-03T21:21:00.000-07:00

Today we gave up our title of Most Successful Weed Farmers and planted these instead:) Savannah loved to help water the flowers once I convinced her that pulling off the blossoms and shoving them into the dirt wouldn't turn out!

Before:

After: (Savannah kept crying because her shirt was "a mess!" from the dirt so we gave up on the shirt altogether.)

Easter & David's Birthday

2010-04-12T18:20:00.000-07:00

We decided to let Savannah dye eggs at like 10pm on Saturday night because I'm on top of stuff like that:)

She thought that was the best game ever...

She started crying when there were no more eggs to dye (even though the girl had 2 whole dozen all to herself!)

On Easter morning, Savannah was skeptical about her tall basket at first...

But once she saw her ball she was all smiles!

And she caught on to the egg-hunting pretty quickly.

Emily and Stephen came over and had Easter brunch with us and also watched General Conference. It was all about Christ which I appreciated since it was in fact Easter:) It was a nice day.

David turned 28 and he let Savannah help blow out the candles on his strawberry pie since she was too scared of her own candles last week! For his birthday he got clothes and hats from me (like always:) and 3 fantasy books (which Kevin helped me pick out cause lets face it, I'm not your go-to girl for fantasy!) and movie passes and tons of his favorite snacks from Savannah! Then we had dinner at brick oven just the 3 of us:) He says he feels exactly the same:)

Also, we are expecting and new baby in August and...

I'm excited! (and scared:)

TWO!

2010-03-28T20:26:00.000-07:00

Savannah turned two on Friday and we celebrated with her friends Payton and Addi (and their parents:) on Saturday. We took her to Farm Country to see the animals, then ate at California Pizza Kitchen then opened presents and had strawberry shortcake at our house.

I tried to take a few photos of my 2 year old before we left but she just acted her age so these are all we got!:)

Savannah loved feeding corn to this pony. She thought it was so funny that it licked her hand and wasn't scared at all!

And she was mad because I wouldn't get a bunny out for her:(

I think this was her favorite thing. She held on all by herself and just pet the pony like riding ponies was old news:) She is definitely not afraid of horses!

When we tried to open presents all Savannah cared about was her balloons and her new sunglasses! So Payton opened most of her presents for her...

These cute baby lawn chairs were from Grandma Childs.

Even though she didn't care about big horses, these candles are what made her nervous!

This morning in her new monkey pjs that Grandma Milne got for her. She loves them because we told her they were Curious George pjs:)

We love you Savannah!!!

2 Little Monkeys...

2010-02-17T07:34:00.000-08:00

This is Savannah with her cousin Jackson who I babysit everyday. I was getting ready to put them in the bath the other day and they ran away and this is what I found. Savannah was bossing Jackson around trying to teach him to jump on her bed with her! They are definitely entering the 2-year old jump-and-climb-on-everything stage. I figure I can keep these pictures and bring them out when they are 15 and hate each other!

Hawaii 2009

2010-02-07T08:14:00.000-08:00

Here are our photos from out trip to Maui from November 15-21st. Our friend Valerie won a trip for 4 at her work and we were the lucky ones they picked to go! She definitely wins friend of the year in my book!!! Savannah stayed with her Aunt Tasha and Uncle Ammon who we REALLY appreciate!!! They braved 3 kids under 3 for a week so we could go! Here is what we did...

Les and Valerie in front of the condo that we stayed at. It was called Aina Nalu and I would definitely stay there again!

We went to the store for some essentials...

Our first day at the beach (David is even wearing shorts!)

I thought this was the prettiest beach we saw, even though it hurt to walk on!

They looked like 2 six year olds playing:)

We also did a snorkeling trip to the Molokini crater and i took pictures with an underwater camera (which i am confident will not turn out well anyway) so this isn't my photo but we went here and saw the giant sea turtles at Turtle town which was my favorite part. They were huge! Our captain said there is a $10,000 fine for touching one (which just made me want to touch one).

Our last day we drove to Honolua Bay before having to go to the airport. There are lots of surfing competitions held here.

I want to go back:)

Ava's Rule

2009-11-04T22:16:00.001-08:00

This is the daughter of a photographer in Australia I really like. She died when she locked herself in her family's car in the family's driveway. Just thought I'd share it because I didn't actively think to always lock the car doors until I read her story.

Haircut hating.

2009-10-25T15:43:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I took Savannah to my friend Nicole for a new haircut. We survived but just barely!

Not sure what's going on...

Thinking she might be okay with it...

Decided that NO she is definately not ok with this!

Later I let her watch movies with her cousin Keely and she has since forgiven me:) And I love her hair and think it fits her personality!

San Francisco

2009-10-25T08:02:00.000-07:00

We took this trip to San Francisco with my family at the beginning of July. This is what my parents gave our family for Christmas last year instead of presents and I really like the idea - its something that will actually be remembered and it makes Christmas way less stressful! So thanks Mom and Dad! I like where we live but sometimes its fun to get out of Provo! And I can't think of more contrasting locations than Provo and San Francisco!

So here's all the stuff we did:

Nike Missile Site (only my dad can find this stuff!)

This site was active during the cold war. The tour guide said there was one stretch of 4 days where the soldiers were underground in this bunker just waiting for the command to push the button to launch (and start the "mutually assured destruction"). How comforting.

Driving across the Golden Gate Bridge

Touring WWII gun posts under a hill

My dad was enthralled with these:)

Emily was also thrilled as you can see:)

She'd rather take pictures to send to her fiance!

Touring boats on the piers

Anna in one of many of her mormon action shots:)

She was trying to point to Alcatraz behind us which is what i'm laughing at.

Savannah was obsessed with the little whale toy we bought her on the pier

loved this sign:)

Anna's mormon action shot #2:)

Eating clam chowder and harassing the birds at Boudins (which i totally recommend:)

Alcatraz - this was my favorite part of the trip - the tour is really well done.

they said a lot of prisoners got really good at knitting:)

one of the escape attempts climbed down this water tower.

this was another escape attempt - they made fake heads to put in their beds out of paper and glue and real hair.

This was the solitary confinement cell. The tour guide said it was the law to leave the lights on but the guards just turned them off anyway so the people in this cell would be left for days in the dark. One former prisoner said he would tear a button off of his shirt and throw it in the air and listen to where it landed and then search for it in the dark until he found it. He said he would play this game all day to keep from going crazy!

Here is the view from the rec yard - it would suck to be able to hear and see and smell San Francisco while being stuck on that island!

this is hole in the ceiling where soldiers dropped in granades during one of the escape attempts where 3 prisoners took the guards guns and killed several people. Because this happened they changed the laws to not allow guns inside some parts (i don't know if this is true everywhere or not).

This is where the granades landed

This is the Catholic mission and the original adobe church here is the oldest building in San Francisco. Here is the oldest building:

Of course David would point out the dead guys in the floor:)

This is the new chapel that is used today.

Still not sure what was up with this broom(?)

At Lombard Street

Ghiradelli Square

Savannah eating her chocolate

Fisherman's Wharf

Freezing at the beach

During one of many van rides

we made it

Chinatown

ha ha

Savannah in the china doll outfit Grandma bought her:)

So this was unfortunate!!!

So was this!

Emily was laughing so hard at me that she fell off the back!

There we go... this was the picture we were going for!

Savannah learned pretty quickly that all these grandparents and aunts were much more patient than mom...

They played uno for an hour with her

and let her slide down the stairs a hundred times

and sang songs to her

and took her outside all the time!

Saying goodbye at the airport

Swingset

2009-08-24T08:31:00.001-07:00

Our friends Les and Valerie got a new swingset and they gave us their old one. Savannah LOVES it! If we want her to do anything we can just bribe her with that swing! She will spend hours on it if we let her! The only thing is she throws a huge fit anytime its time to get off and go inside!

Summer Stuff...

2009-08-17T19:53:00.000-07:00

Here's what we've been up to this summer...

Swimming with Aunt Emily and Izzy and Ezra

Finding snails with cousins Keely, Destiny, & Syerra

Unhappily picking raspberries at Grandma Bowen's house

Free slurpies on 7/11

Visiting cousin Rylee and riding a four-wheeler with Uncle James

Playing with cousins Lexie, Kayslee, & Kierra

Celebrating cousin Jackson's first birthday

Visiting Grandma Childs

Running through the sprinklers with friends Addy and Payton

(i love Payton's racing stance!)

More sprinklers and bubbles with friend Abby

Eating happy meals:)

Watching TV together (I look drugged but I love that this I'm her favorite TV chair:)

Savannah wearing her summer "outfit of choice"

We also took an awesome trip to San Francisco with all of my family but it deserves its own post (coming as soon as I get my act together:)

*Also, Savannah has not had her binky for 2 weeks and I am pretty darn proud of myself:)

5K Through the Lavender

2009-07-22T08:17:00.001-07:00

On July 11th my sister Emily, my neice Brianna and I did the 5K through the lavender in Mona. I'll tell you my time when I run one with a time I'm proud of but I ran the whole thing which is what I was going for so I was happy. We only got pictures of Brianna finishing because the camera was in the car so Emily had to finish to unlock the car:)

Brianna crossing the finish line

Emily & Brianna with their swag bags. Brianna was laughing at me for being unreasonably excited about these:) She was right they were kind of crappy but I was still excited about the free stuff...I think its a symptom of couponing:)

Note to self: no close ups after running!

They had a pick-your-own lavender bouquet thing and I'm so mad because I came home and set mine on the counter and forgot about it for three days so it promptly died:(

I'm definatley getting some different shorts! I didn't realize how "12-year-old-boy" I look in these!

4th of July

2009-07-08T09:27:00.000-07:00

For the Fourth of July we started out by going to the parade in Provo (along with the rest of the entire state!) Savannah wasn't scared by the loud stuff at all, instead she thought it was funny. Everytime a firetruck or canon would go by she would just laugh and laugh! Then we went home and watched a movie until we went to grandma bowen's house at 6 for birthday cake (she turned 82 on the fourth of july:) Then we went to my sister-in-law Tasha's family's fireworks show. They had a bounce house which Savannah loved, although she didn't even care about the fireworks! I was so mad I forgot my camera for the evening stuff but we had a lot of fun. David even came to the parade with us so I think that makes it a successful holiday!

Family Pictures

2009-06-29T11:01:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday we went out the lavender fields to do our family pictures. My sister Emily took all these for us and I like how they came out even though Savannah was so mad the whole time! Thanks Emily!

Michael's Wedding

2009-05-20T19:02:00.000-07:00

One of my best friends from high school got married this weekend and my sister Emily was a trooper and drove all the way to Vegas with me! David had to finish a project and couldn't come so it was just me, Emily, & Savannah. We left at 4:30 on Saturday morning so I could be at his sealing at noon and then drove to my grandparents house in Cedar City after their reception (which took forever because we forgot the fact that it takes much longer to get down the strip at 11pm on a Saturday night). Emily was driving and she was sooo mad at all the drunk people who wouldn't get out of the street. Savannah slept most of the way both ways which was great except that by the time we got to my grandparents Savannah was all rested and ready to play. I had been up for almost 24 hours and I was so mad! Emily was laughing at me all day the next day because she said she would wake up to me quietly yelling things like "this is not a choice Savannah, you have to go to sleep!" and "stop banging grandma's cupboards, its 4am!" So it was a whirlwind, not at all relaxing trip but I was so glad I got to be at Michael's wedding (when I got married he came to our sealing all by himself). Plus his wife Britt is such a cutie:) Their reception was really nice and I kept laughing at Emily (who hates being the center of attention) because she kept saying "when I get married will everyone look at me?!" and when I told her yes she just said "oh that is not going to be a fun day..." I bet she will change her mind.

waiting for Michael and Britt to come out...

Some friends from my parents ward in California took us to lunch at Panda Express and let Savannah take a nap in their hotel room so thanks to the Demasters for being so sweet! Here is Savannah running laps around panda express. I stripped her down to a onesie because she was definately not used to the heat!

getting ready in the hotel bathroom - I was trying to keep Savannah distracted from playing with all the toilet paper while I combed our sweaty hair!

me & michael (as you can see, I apprently got very sunburned!)

As you can see I didn't bring my nice camera because I didn't want to worry about it but it sure shows in the pictures!

Worried.

2009-05-18T15:27:00.000-07:00

Just in case you were wondering who runs the show around here...

First Sidewalk Chalk

2009-05-12T13:10:00.000-07:00

Maybe this will help Savannah draw on her dad's office floor less...or more...I guess we'll see!

Happy Mother's Day

2009-05-10T16:33:00.000-07:00

As you can see, I had a great Mother's Day...

I love being a mom and am blessed to have a great one too.

New Favorite Shoes

2009-05-03T15:10:00.001-07:00

All this past week my sister Anna has been staying with us while she waited for the people she was driving to California with to finish school. Savannah loved her all week and sometimes she didn't want anything to do with me, she only wanted her aunt Anna! (who is admittedly lots more fun). One of the days Anna was here we took Savannah shoe shopping because all her shoes are getting too small. We looked at a few places and Savannah just stared at her feet when we tried different shoes on her, but seemed bored all around. But when I grabbed these little white sandals off the shelf she started yelling and pointing at them and wanted to hold them and look at them. I put them on her feet and when I tried to take them off to try on another pair she started to cry and point at them because she had clearly made her decision. I let her keep them on her feet when we went to check out and she was hilarious with a giant smile on her face. She kept kicking her feet around like she was all proud of her pretty shoes and she hasn't wanted to take them off since. Last night I was taking some photos in Salt Lake so David was watching Savannah and she went to sleep and when she woke up he said she cried and cried. He tried to feed her, tried to take her outside, tried to give her a binky, and the thing that finally calmed her down was to put her shoes back on. When I finally got home around midnight she still had her sandals on. And then this morning when I got her dressed for church I put some black shoes on her that matched her dress and she cried until I put her sandals back on...I told David he better start saving seeing as our one year old already has a shoe addiction.

(Savannah also finally learned to go down the stairs by herself instead of just crying at the top).

Easter 2009

2009-04-14T16:18:00.000-07:00

Once Savannah saw her candy she didn't care about looking at me for a picture one bit!

My sisters came over for brunch after church. Later that evening we went to David's brother James' house for dinner with his family but I didn't have a camera:)

The past little while we have been going to visit Grandma Bowen twice a month and she invited Savannah to come hunt for eggs at her house in Santaquin. Savannah was funny because once she found one egg she just wanted to sit down and open it and didn't care about finding any more! But she liked picking them up when we pointed them out to her:)

I think Savannah will look a lot like her cousin Kayslee (on the left) when she gets older! Kayslee was so cute with her at the egg hunt, she would pick her up and carry her from place to place and hold her hand. I think she liked that everyone told her that Savannah looks like her:) And Savannah loves to be around big kids so she loved following Lexie and Kayslee all over the place!

3 silly girls...

David's Birthday

2009-04-14T16:13:00.000-07:00

David is 27! For his birthday, we went to eat at Outback and then to see the new Fast & the Furious Movie while our friend Robin watched Savannah for us. Here is David opening his presents (with lots of help from Savannah).

(David told me this shirt was too trendy for him to wear...we'll see!)

Here is David's cherry pie

David

Love Bug.

2009-04-14T15:17:00.001-07:00

Savannah's First Birthday Party

2009-04-09T15:21:00.000-07:00

Savannah is 1! Here are the pictures from her first birthday party. Her party was at 6 in the evening and she didn't take a nap all day so by the time it got started she fell asleep! We had to wake her up to do her cake and she hated her bounce house because she couldn't stand up by herself! Oh well, she is in fact one whether she enjoyed her party or not! We love you Savannah!

running laps around the yard right before she fell asleep...

here are her cousins enjoying the bounce house with or without her!

here are all the cousins at her party...Brianna, Kayslee, Lexie, Kierra, Izzy, & Ezra (I think I have such pretty nieces and such a pretty baby Ezra!)

this is how Savannah felt about being woken up to take pictures:

party people...

Once Savannah got her cupcakes she decided this party was okay after all!

opening some presents:

dancing to anna's cell phone...

plotting to take over the world...

with Grandma Bowen and Grandma Childs:

With Grandma and Grandpa Childs:

With Grandma and Grandpa Milne (we had to take this another day because my dad (along with tons of other people!) got really sick the day of her party!)

With Aunt Anna and Aunt Julie:

Our Baby Nerd:)

2009-03-10T22:24:00.000-07:00

If Savannah has the choice of doing anything she wants in the house you will always find her at the computer! She loves it and its so funny because anytime one of us is not sitting in the computer chair she sneaks up and starts typing away. But she's not content poking at the keyboard with one finger - she has to use both hands and wiggle the mouse every so often. Its so funny to see, but very unhelpful! Yesterday morning David turned on the computer to start working and he said "whoa what happened..." because Savannah had managed to change the theme so all the words were purple and green...It's probably rotting her brain or ruining her corneas or something but I hope not because she's attracted to it like a magnet!

Here she noticed me taking pictures and decided she wanted to get my camera instead. Notice her red cheeks - we've been walking every morning and we both got so sunburned today because of all the new snow and wind! (and she is filthy from eating a sucker so I could keep shopping today:)

Also Savannah has 6 teeth now. She jumped from 2 to 6 in about 2 days! 4 on top 2 on bottom. I about lost it when she was up whining till 4AM! on Saturday night but now its all clear.

Pink Squeaky Shoes

2009-03-05T21:46:00.000-08:00

A few weeks ago, I found these pink shoes for Savannah. I actually didn't know they squeaked till after I got them but Savannah loved them and they are what made her get really good at walking on her own. She loves that she can make them squeak herself! So I would recommend them to anyone who wants their kid to walk! I love that Savannah walks - lots of people told me it would be so much harder but even though I have to chase her around, I think its a thousand times easier than listening to her whine and whine at what she wants when she couldn't reach it herself! (and yes I posed those shoes like that...don't ask, I'm pretty sure its a disease!)

(Sorry this video is sideways, I didn't know it would come out like that...Here is our big walking girl...

Catch-up

2009-03-05T21:33:00.000-08:00

With David working from home now (he quit Process Model to do his own consulting work), my computer time has been cut down a lot! So here are some things we've done that I would've posted about if David wasn't working (or playing World of Warcraft) on the computer...

We went to the Bean Museum at BYU to see the photo exibit that I entered (I didn't win anything but the exhibit is pretty cool. Here is Savannah and David next to the giant bear...this picture makes me very glad its dead!

We went to a cousins dinner at my Grandparents house in Bluffdale - it was fun except I never know what to say to my cousins because I only see them every few years. (Its like, "so you had a kid...good job!")

This is my cousin Heather and her baby Jordan - Jordan is 6 months older but they are the exact same height and weight:)

Savannah and I with matching messy hair...

Savannah always wants to use her own spoon now - not to feed herself but to shovel everything on the floor:

This is as much as you can catch of David in a picture without being more sneaky:)

Savannah with curlers in her hair and her favorite toy in the world (the remote).

Also my new photo website is finally up! heidisphotography.net

Savannah's Giant Valentine

2009-03-05T20:46:00.000-08:00

On Valentines Day David came home with this giant singing balloon for Savannah. She loves it and has been dancing to it since then! (cute as it is,David and I are ready to pop that thing:)

Here she is dancing...

This was Savannah's valentine for her Dad:

And these were the pretty flowers David got me:

Snowmobile Season

2009-02-03T14:13:00.000-08:00

It took a long time to arrive this year, but David was happy when there was finally enough snow for he and his friend Les to go snowmobiling. I'm always afraid they're gonna die in an avalanche but David keeps telling me they only go places that are fairly safe. (However with the stories he comes home with about people being lifeflighted out of the canyons, I still have my doubts...)

Here David is with his 2 babies...

Savannah is always so excited when he gets home, and this week she helped him park the truck:)

10 months old

2009-01-26T00:47:00.001-08:00

I can't believe Savannah is 10 months old today! Here she is in the cute dress my friend Robin brought back from Mexico for her. (I'm sad it is already almost too small but Robin said the vendor guy in Mexico just kept saying "one size fits all!" - ha ha.) But I still love it:)

Here are some other things Savannah likes to do as a 10 month old:

give kisses (which are really open-mouth bites!)...

eat apples...(I bite it for her and then she sucks out all the juice and then yells at me until I bite it again for her so she can get more juice!) I have loved apples since I was a baby too so this is funny to me:)

get rides in the laundry basket - the other day she was in there for like a half hour and would just not put her legs down if I tried to take her out - after I was done pushing her she just wanted to sit there!

Savannah also likes to crawl everywhere as fast as she can!

Some other things Savannah does are:

-clap her hands
-drink from a sippy cup
-mimic every intonation of my voice when I talk to her
-tear up tissues into little pieces like its her life's mission
-throw things out of the dishwasher
-pull everything out of all the trash cans
-pull out all her diapers from the baskets I keep them in
-dance to music on tv, hymns in church, and the drums from the weird band in the basement across the street from us!
-walk all around the house by herself as long as someone follows her (she checks to make sure you are still there and starts crying and sits down to crawl if she finds she's by herself.)

Savannah and Abby

2009-01-26T00:41:00.000-08:00

My friend Crystal and I trade babysitting a lot and these 2 girls are so funny to watch together! They love to feed each other goldfish and hand each other toys. Abby is older than Savannah and can walk really well (Savannah just cruises along the couch unless you pick her up and put her in the middle of the room) and so if Abby starts walking anywhere without her Savannah starts yelling until Abby comes back! She also cries every time Abby has to go home!:(

Happy New Year!

2009-01-02T15:04:00.000-08:00

This is pretty much how we've spent the past 2 weeks!

This year David had a lot of vacation time saved up and he had to either use it or lose it so it's been fun to have him home with us for the past 2 weeks. Some of my favorite things about this vacation-at-home were:

-after our niece Alli's blessing, we came home and took a 4 hour nap together - all three of us! Savannah was between us in our bed and she would wake up, see us sleeping and close her eyes like us until she fell asleep again! It was great! (and really unusual!)

-we ate a lot of junk like cookies, taco bell, pizza, chinese food, and coke:)

-we slept in really late a few days!

-we went to Zoo Lights at Hogle Zoo to see my sister in law Aubree sing and Savannah loved watching her sing - it was so cute! She also really liked all the lights.

-we spent Christmas day with David's parents and our little nieces loved it when David would hold Savannah and chase them around with her.

-I got to hold my new niece Alli and new nephew Ezra multiple times:)

-I was all caught up on my picture orders (I'm not anymore!)

-Savannah learned how to walk about 10 steps by herself between David and I. All she wants to do is walk all the time. (I didn't even have a chance to say that she started crawling all over about 3 weeks ago - she's decided she doesn't really like that stage and she'd rather just walk already). It's cute because she is like Dumbo with his magic feather - she will walk all over if you just hold onto one of her fingers and then she'll take about 10 steps by herself when you let go, then she'll realize you let go and dive toward your hands again.

-We went out to dinner with our friends Les and Valerie on New Year's Eve. We went to P.F. Changs for chinese food. It was one of my favorite things because we had fun with Les and Valerie but I have to say I'm really unimpressed with that restaurant. Everyone always raves about how good it is and even though I did like their famous lettuce wraps I'd still rather go to Outback any day! And our waitress was the rudest I've ever had anywhere! But anyway, I'm really happy our family is doing well and I think this will be a good year!

Savannah's First Christmas

2009-01-02T13:08:00.000-08:00

We were here at home for Christmas this year (this was the first Christmas ever I haven't been with my whole family). It was actually a lot of fun because we were able to just sit at home without the stress of traveling somewhere. Like most kids Savannah's age, she was mostly into the wrapping paper...

she also thought it tasted great...

But after awhile she got the hang of ripping off paper while David held her presents for her.

And even though she didn't seem to care about most of the stuff she got she did love her new shoes!

She liked her stocking too. Her Great-grandma Childs made it for her. She made me one too so here we are with our matching stockings (even though I look like I'm 12 years old!)

Here she is with her Dad.

This is her new walker (which we gave her several weeks ago for my sake!)

She also loved her new glowworm doll (it plays lullabies). Here she is dancing to it!

This is her with her presents...by this time all she cared about was the jerky she is chewing on!

Here is my present from David...it may not look like much but I have been wanting this flash for over a year so I had a great Christmas! (I also got a faster card reader which saves tons of time when I'm transfering pictures!) David isn't a huge romantic but I'll take this kind of present over jewlery any day!

I wanted to take a picture of David in the new clothes I bought for him but he said no:) He pretty much always gets clothes from me because he hates buying clothes! Case in point: the other day he was wearing a shirt that was his oldest brother Daniel's when he was 15! He says its still perfectly good! I also got him some new hats because the one he's been wearing for the last five years is definately past its prime:)

Savannah's Looking Better

2009-01-02T13:03:00.000-08:00

Thank you to everyone who's shown so much interest in how Savannah is doing! She is looking so much better! Here is she is with her cousins Lexie and Kayslee who came to see her the day after we came home (they chose their own outfits:) Savannah loves playing with them and they will walk around with her all day so she loves it!

This is how she looked that night (a little like Frankenstein:(

And here is how she looked on Christmas day...

It looks even better now so we are really glad she is healing so well.

Savannah's Night in the Hospital

2008-12-20T10:15:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I was giving Savannah a bottle on the couch and I stood up and walked 2 steps away to grab something across the room. In that time Savannah reached for me and leaned over the edge of the couch and fell off right on top of a glass cup that was sitting on the floor next to the couch. It broke when she fell on it and cut the right side of her forehead pretty badly. She also got cut a little bit on her cheek bone and another pretty bad cut all along the back of her ear. David had just left so I called him and told him to come home right now because Savannah cut her head and is bleeding everywhere! (Needless to say he said okay.) We took her to the emergency room and a quick 5 hours later the facial surgeon came, and 50 stitches later she was all put back together again. The surgeon she will probably have a bad scar because the cut is right on top of her forehead muscle so it is under constant stress. I feel so bad. I hope her scar turns out better than they hope:( They kept her in the hospital overnight because it was midnight by the time they were all done. Here are some pictures of here this morning. She was her old happy self, even though she was such a sad little picture in her baby gown and monitor cords!

she looked like a little pirate with her big bandage!

she kept trying to eat all the cords and lights:)

I kept pulling her hand away from them and she's smiling because she thought it was a game i guess!

trying to escape...i thought that baby hospital gown was too cute, even though I wished it wasn't my baby wearing it!

as always, all Savannah wanted to do was walk!

poor baby
we were so glad she didn't get cut on her eye at all!

Savannah seems to be doing well. She could only have liquids all night and this morning. (They brought her chicken broth and a popsicle and apple juice and she gobbled up all those and when it was gone she just started yelling! The doctor finally said I could give her formula this morning so then she was happy and went right to sleep.) They gave me her tiny little anesthesia mask to keep - its hot pink:) Also, I did all the flowers for my friends wedding today (which I was planning to go to) but because the ER cut into my corsage-making time, my sisters came over at midnight and we made corsages till 4 in the morning when I went back to the hospital! So thanks to Emily and Anna...I know I was not a joy to work with at 2am! I hope Robin's wedding is amazing today! Savannah is sleeping right now so I am going to sleep to!

Deja Vu

2008-12-10T11:30:00.000-08:00

My mom saved this Christmas dress from when I was a baby and so I took pictures of Savannah in it too. I am 11 months old, and Savannah is only 8 1/2 months old but she is taller than I was so I wanted to take pictures while the dress still fit! It's very faded now, but it still looks pretty good for being 24 years old!

Thanksgiving in Cedar City

2008-12-10T01:43:00.000-08:00

This Thanksgiving my parents drove from California to be with my mom's parents in Cedar City. We met them there on Wednesday and stayed until Friday to visit. It was a fun trip. My parents even watched Savannah for us so David and I could see a movie. (that hadn't happened in awhile! I always use up all my babysitters for photo stuff). My Grandma and Mom made most of Thanksgiving dinner. My grandma is so funny. She always complains that she doesn't know how to make anything but she is actually a really good cook. Thanksgiving dinner was so good that no one even thought about taking pictures so all our pictures are from pie later on that night. (Savannah got more than a few bites).

the good cook who thinks she isn't...

David is always amused around my family (a family with only 4 girls works a lot differently than one with 8 boys).

Savannah walking as long as she wants...Grandpa Milne will let her walk around all day holding his hands. He never gets bored and puts her down to play by herself like her mom!

Grandpa Hanzon

Playing the piano with Grandma - Savannah loves music lately. I thought it was so cute how she kept leaning way back to look up at her like that.

Our four generations picture: Louise, Susan, Heidi & Savannah. Do you think we look alike?

New House

2008-12-10T00:07:00.000-08:00

We moved into our new house in Provo almost a month ago and that's how long its taken me to remember to get a picture before the sun goes down! We are excited not to just be paying rent anymore! It's an old house (1947) but it's all remodeled so its really cute inside and it has a huge backyard! (my dad keeps telling me with a yard like that I have to get chickens...Let's be honest, I would probably just give up eggs before dealing with gross chickens). I wanted to put our Christmas wreath up on the door before I took this picture but all I had handy was this Christmas baby...

I will post pictures of the rooms as soon as they are the way I want them:)

Savannah Irene - 8 months old

2008-12-09T23:38:00.000-08:00

At 8 months old Savannah:

-can crawl a little bit but thinks screaming is easier

-LOVES music. She waits for David's radio alarm to come on every morning and then dances as long as the music is on.

-Has 2 teeth (bottom front)

-Bites everything (including her parents)

-loves to walk around holding someone's hands

-interrupts all conversations with babbling until she is the loudest

-waves goodbye if she is in a good mood

-has tantrums complete with throwing back her head and kicking...hmm.

-likes to get kisses

I wanted to take an angelic little baby picture with this cute pink baby bracelet her cousin Brianna bought for her but all she wanted to do was bite it.

Christmas Pictures

2008-11-16T22:09:00.000-08:00

We took Christmas card pictures today and I just wanted to share a few of my favorites. Our friend Micah took these for us - I think he did a great job! Thanks Micah! (and thanks to Tasha for clueing me in about the drug-like calming effect of dum-dums!)

New Hair

2008-10-30T13:21:00.001-07:00

Today I decided it was time for Savannah's first haircut...i'm sure you can see why. The picture above is before....

And here is after...

I think it makes her look like she's about 5 years old!

I got my hair chopped earlier this week too so now we have matching new hair.

(And sorry to my dad who is going to be so mad!...I decided that putting an end to the baby-mullet was the lesser of two evils!)

Packing Helper

2008-10-29T17:15:00.000-07:00

The last few days I've been working on packing up our stuff to move to the new house (more about that to come). Today I went into the next room to get another box and when I came back this is what I found...

Savannah was pulling out the wipes one by one, sucking on them a few times, then putting them in her pile and pulling out her next victim!

As you can probably guess, the packing is not going very steadily or surely! But I will say, even with Savannah's un-packing, it's about a million times better than doing it pregnant like last year!

Hanging Out With Dad

2008-10-29T15:38:00.000-07:00

Whenever i am working on photos Savannah and David hang out. These are pictures of them watching t.v. and playing video games. To be fair they also, play peekaboo, eat pickles and look at the leaves outside, but I didn't have pictures of those. Don't they look just alike?

Savannah is really into faces lately. Its cute until she pinches! She always tries to pick up your eye or nose or whatever so it really hurts!

Sometimes when David is playing Halo he dies in the game because Savannah is always trying to eat his controller or push the buttons! He's tried to give her her own controller but she only wants his because it has lights! She is very stubborn but very charming...I can't imagine where she gets it from...

My 2 favorite people!

TAG

2008-10-12T19:21:00.000-07:00

TAG - Let's see how QUIRKY i am...Tell us five unspectacular quirks of yours...

QUIRK #1 - I never stay mad very long...even if I try. It's not a good look on me:)

QUIRK #2 - I grew up with only sisters so I am pretty much in the dark on almost all things boys...i depend on people who know to fill me in!

QUIRK #3 - I hate when its overcast but I love the rain.

QUIRK #4 - I HATE dill pickles! I despise them more than any other food...the taste, the smell, the texture...so gross!

QUIRK #5 - I can't watch scary movies without being scared and having nightmares for weeks afterward. I'm like a five year old about them. For the same reason I hate haunted houses, scary costumes, & scary tv shows. I used to make my sisters tell me what was happening while i hid behind pillows! David won't let me watch them cause i'll wake him up at night screaming in my dreams!

I TAG Valerie, Crystal, and Debbie.

Pumpkin Patch

2008-10-11T14:19:00.000-07:00

Today we went to the pumpkin patch in Springville to choose a pumkpin. I thought Savannah would be excited cause they are so bright (not in these pictures, i still don't know why they upload grey, does anyone know?) but all she wanted to do was eat the leaves...hmm.

Doesn't David look excited:(
Choosing...
the pumpkin patch
we found it:)

Six Months Old!

2008-10-03T09:23:00.000-07:00

So I have no idea why these pictures are showing up grey on here but Savannah turned 6 months old on friday (September 26th) and this is what she looks like at 6 months old!
Thinking face, just like her daddy's!

At 6 months old Savannah can:
-sit up
-tell long stories by babbling
-laugh
-smile charmingly
-turn in a circle
-pick things up
-push up on her hands
-steal bites of mommy's food
-pull her own hair
-pull mommy's hair
-pretend to cough
-go through 4 outfits a day

Savannah is looking older every day and we love to watch her learn new things. My mom keeps telling me it will be harder when she can get around but I am still really anxious for her to be able to move around because she gets sooo frustrated that she can't do everything she wants to do!

Books and Thoughts

2008-09-19T21:59:00.000-07:00

My whole family loves to read but my sister Emily is especially excited about a new book all the time! This is the lastest book she recommended to me and I am almost finished with it. (I am a really fast reader but I have to say my pace is significantly slower with Savannah trying to eat all my pages!) It is Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and I would recommend it to anyone. Whatever your feelings are about Christianity or religion in general, this book will make you think about what you really believe. I think it is really intersting because he writes as a former atheist who has since converted to Christianity. Not all of his beliefs are the same as mine but it made me respect anyone who really thinks about and draws their own conclusions about why they believe what they do. I like to read different things all the time because it helps me get new perspectives that are different than my own take-care-of-a-baby-all-day perspective (which I actually love!) I have started reading to Savannah (despite her page-eating) because my mom reading to me is one of my favorite memories and a big reason why I like it so much. In fact one of my earliest memories is being really jealous when my sister
Emily was born because my mom said she could only read me three books now that she had to take care of Emily too! ha

Tiny Tights!

2008-09-19T21:05:00.000-07:00

So I think everyone should live with a baby girl sometime in their lives if only to have a reason to buy baby tights! They are my favorite piece of baby clothing! Savannah's legs look so chubby in these! (As you can see I was so excited to buy these I didn't think that she doesn't really have anything to wear them with yet!) Savannah is in this stage where she doesn't like if anyone walks away from her while she's looking at them - that's why she's looking at me like this!
This picture cracks me up she looks like she's doing the Captain Morgan pose off! This picture makes me laugh cause David is looking at her like he just caught a big fish! (He was getting a little exasperated at me cause I made him help me take pictures just cause of her new tights!)

Big Girl Ponytail

2008-09-19T21:01:00.000-07:00

I just had to show everyone my baby's big girl ponytail. I took these pictures because I thinks she looks so old now that her hair is long enough to put all in one ponytail (well almost long enough).
Doesn't she look like a big kid in this picture?!

New Purple Dress

2008-09-19T20:24:00.000-07:00

A few days ago I went shopping for a baby shower gift at the Children's Place and ended buying this adorable dress for Savannah even though I planned not to buy anything else...hmmm...i'll have to work on that...But I also decided I love that store! But I'll justify my purchase by pointing out how adorable she looks in her baby leggings!

Even David thought so:)

Also, the other day I was in the dollar store and Savannah started throwing a big-kid tantrum and reaching for this bear. Once she grabbed it she proceeded to bite it all over...probably because she knew I'd feel bad if I didn't buy it once she spit all over it. I guess I should just enjoy this time when the toy she has to have only costs a dollar!

Savannah Hates Shocktarts

2008-09-07T19:22:00.000-07:00

Today after church David was eating some Shocktarts and Savannah started whining and reaching for them. I said I didn't think she would like them but she kept whining so he gave her a taste. As you can see from her sour face she quickly discovered she does not like Shocktarts!

New Clothes and Bows

2008-09-05T00:30:00.001-07:00

When we woke up on Labor Day to the middle of a hail storm we thought we'd better get Savannah some warmer clothes that actually fit, because all she had that really fit were shorts and sunsuits! So (against David's will) we went shopping! David usually couldn't care less about clothes but he picked this shirt out for Savannah all by himself so I thought that was pretty cute:) Then I found these baby jeans for her and we bought some new bows from a lady my sister in law Aubree told me about and her ensemble was complete! (At least for the moment).

Splash!

2008-09-03T00:35:00.001-07:00

Yesterday when i was giving Savannah a bath I splashed the water with her hand and she started cracking up. She never thought that was funny before but last night she would just laugh laugh everytime I splashed her. She was funny though because she didn't understand that she could splash. She would just look up at me like "why has my entertainment stopped?!!"

Boys and Their Toys (and their little girls)

2008-09-02T20:59:00.000-07:00

On Labor Day our friend Micah came over with his new rock-climbing little car so we went out in a field past Springville so he and David could try it out (actually i was told it is definately not a cute little car, it is an "RC Crawler" but whatever:) Savannah was scared of it at first and started crying but after awhile she wouldn't stop look at it wherever it went! It thought it was funny because it looks like a good size toy for her instead of Micah and David.

Mesmerized with Micah
I was laughing at the boys because they took all these "portraits" of the car!

Savannah was all enthralled by this pile of bricks for some reason! She wouldn't look up for anything!
Apparently lots of boys like to bring their trucks and play in the mud around here...

After this guy drove through that mud his truck wouldn't start for a minute and he looked REALLY worried so we thought it was probably his dad's truck or something!
So recently Savannah learned how to fake cough and she thinks it is the funniest thing! (I think she caught on that she gets a lot of attention when she caughs because I'm always scared she is choking) For this picture Micah was standing behind me coughing and coughing until she started laughing!

Savanna's a Married Woman!!

2008-08-30T17:58:00.000-07:00

No, not my Savannah, but our good friend from California who is also named Savanna:) Her brother Michael is one of my best friends from high school and my sister Anna was a bridesmaid so my sisters Emily and Anna and I all drove up to the Salt Lake Temple for her wedding on Thursday. She looked beautiful and it was perfect weather for her wedding (I was jealous because our wedding day was practically a blizzard!)

The cute bride and groom!
Beautiful Bride
My sister Anna is the second bridesmaid from the right:)
Anna and Savanna
My friend Randi came all the way from New York to be there! I think she should just stay here permanently and bum around at my house! On the right is my friend Micheal (big Savanna's brother:)

cute bridesmaids
Me and Michael
Micheal said he's still confused that I have a baby:)
My sister Emily watching Savannah for me while I take a million pictures
Thanks emily!

How does such a little girl take up so much bed?!!!

2008-08-30T17:51:00.000-07:00

I just thought I'd show everyone the culprit of our on-going sleep deprivation! Savannah usually starts out the night in her crib, but when I bring her in our room to feed her I sometimes forget to take her back to her room and so she kicks and pokes us for the rest of the night. Most mornings David and I are huddled next to the edges of our bed with Savannah sprawled out in the middle! (I guess I only have myself to blame!)

We've succombed to the blogging:)

2008-08-27T21:14:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone I am excited we finally have a blog. I figured I better make one when my mom started asking how come everyone else has one and she wished I did too! Our baby Savannah just turned 5 months old yesterday so I took her picture and it's probably my favorite ever! So I figure it's a good way to start my blogging attempts! More to come, just bare with me until I learn how to make this cute:)