Sahii Spot: December cheer...

Looking at the archive of the blog it appears that I started this thing just over 4 years ago now... that's a pretty amazing to me that something I started on a whim just to see what a "blog" was is still active.... anyway, it is and now about what you are really here to see....

So we are starting off this month well. Sara is now sleeping exclusively in a "big girl" bed, which is great, except that we now have 3:30 am visits to our room that we didn't before... we are hoping that the up in the middle of the night and up early bit will wear off after she gets more comfortable sleeping in the new bed... getting her to go to sleep is a bit more of a challenge too, but that is probably quite normal.

We had her 2.5 year appt with the doc, which went well, not even a peep during her flu shot - a first - and she is back into the 95th percentile on both height and weight... she has grown over 2.25 inches in the last 6 months alone to 38". And our arms are definitely feeling the extra weight that goes with that growth.

We've started getting into the holiday spirit here too. The tree is up and decorated and the other decorations are up too... we actually have Danette's Santa Bears out for the first time since Sara was born, so that has added a little excitement to the living room :) Sara is also all about Frosty the Snowman lately too, having watched it on DVD, and singing along with the music at school.

Yesterday was pretty crazy, the little girl was up a bit too early shall we say... we actually went out for a little breakfast and Home Depot time and back home by 9am or something like that. Then in the late afternoon, Sara had her first serious birthday party to go to. It was at a local place that has a bunch of those inflatable bouncers for kids and the whole place can be rented for a party. Man, did she have a good time, and got a serious workout (as did I helping her and a few of her friends up the largest inflatable slide, hmmm, maybe I shouldn't have canceled that gym membership....). After the party (complete with ice cream birthday cake) we went straight to another party, my department's annual holiday party (read, more chocolate and cookies within Sara's reach). We stayed just a little while, but needless to say it was a long day, but she did great.

Danette and the baby-to-be-named-later are doing well too. The little one is doing more stretching and swimming around and trying to keep up with her big sister's growth spurts as well. 28 weeks down now, less than 3 months to go! We are making a little progress on physical preparations at least, the new dresser for Sara arrives this week so that we can move the one with the changing station into the baby's room. Also, keeping up with my plan for making sure that all kids have sufficient pictures taken of them, a new digital camera is arriving this week, basically I will only have myself to blame for poor pictures now :)

And speaking of pictures...