Finally!

I was finally able to get a picture of Sarah smiling!! She smiles all the time now. When I see that she's in a good mood and all smiles, I run get my camera and that's a wrap! As soon as she sees the camera, she just looks at me like I am a crazy person! But not today....

Enjoy these, because who knows when I will be able to catch the next smiles on camera!

Who turned out the lights?

So I was in the kitchen cleaning bottles and what not, and I left Sarah on the floor to play. As usual, she is babbling on and on and giggling at herself, when after I few minutes, I realize it's quite in the living room....

apparently in her efforts of rolling over this time, she took her blanket with her! I took the blanket off her head and she just started to smile real big...as if to say "Thanks, I wasn't sure how to get out of that one!" On a side note...Look at those cute chubby little legs!!

First week of Daycare

Sarah started daycare this week...so we could both get in a new routine before school starts....which is next week!! (Teacher's start Wed. students on Fri.)

So I turned out to be a much bigger softy than I thought I would!! All summer, I dreamed of the day I would have a break...any break and I got it Monday! You would think I would have been turning cartwheels when I left her- Not so my friend! And all of you mommas out there know what I am about to say....I CRIED! Yep ole tough skin here cried myself all the way to McD's for a Large Fully loaded coke and a nice greasy sausage biscuit to ease my emotions!

I could feel myself holding Sarah very tightly when I was dropping her off for the first time and turning my body just ever so slightly as if to protect her from the ladies at the daycare...as if to say "You can't have my baby!!" Then finally I just did it..."Here, where do you want me to put her?" I asked them "I gotta get out of here!" They took her and she did just fine...as I figured she would!

I then sent Andy a text "So sad..."
He replied "Why"
Me: "Um daycare! I just left our child with STRANGERS!"
Andy: "Ha!"
Have I mentioned before that when I grow up I want to be a dad?!?!

Any way, we have survived the week. We got up each day and treated it like a real school day. I have been getting up at 6 (school starts at 7:25!!) and then getting Sarah up by 6:40ish and we were on our way! Monday when I had to wake her up, I just stood over her bed pondering how exactly I would wake her...in her 4 short months of life, I have never had to wake her up- nor did I dare! But luckily, she's been waking up with a smile and has fallen into our new routine very nicely...and so have I.

She has pretty much kept to the same routine we had while she was with me...she eats, she plays, she poops and she naps...who knew she could do all of that without me by her side?! She's such a big girl!

"Bubbles, Bubbles"

This week "Bubbles, Bubbles"...next week "Gone with The Wind"

(gotta keep it southern ya know!)

Blog Printing...

If you recall, awhile back I had asked if any one knew of a good place to print your blog...I think it was decided that Blog2Print was pretty much the only place to have this done. When I first checked it out, I wasn't really impressed, however, they have made some great new improvements to their process and I have recently ordered 3 books!!!

My friend Michelle at Krewe of Carlton was the first to try the books...I took one look at hers and had to get my blog printed! I love it!!!

Not really sure why this pic uploaded this way but whatever....anyway, the books remind me of a school year book as far as the cover and binding goes. You can pick what pic you want to go on the front and back, as well as what you want to read on the binding...mine says "Jacobsen Jambalaya 2008" and then 2009 for 2009...duh. I choose to split mine in to two books Jan- Jun and July to Dec. for each year. I started blogging in '08 so I just made one book for that year.

I have decided that every year, I will use a different cover so that way I can keep them separated easily. Also new to the site is the ability to have your post line up with the pics...I don't know if you looked at it before, but it used to put all of the pics at the top and the words off to the side or on the bottom. You can also select which posts you want to be published now. So I was able to take out the random "Happy What-ever's" and not print them.

Since I am not a scrapbook-er...I love this idea and I feel that the cost of the book is about equivalent to scrap booking and the time that goes into doing it. My 2009 books were about 45 bucks each...and 2008 was less because obviously I didn't have the whole year.

I highly recommend these books...especially if your like me and think the internet is just a phase and will no longer be there for you to look at!! ;0) Call me old fashion, I like to turn some pages every now and then!

So if you are interested check them out here Blog2Print this is the site link that they sent me to share with you with the potential to get a free book. (just felt like I needed to let you know that)

Who's that baby?

'Cause man she is CUTE!

Sarah is really starting to enjoy her ExerSaucer (yes, that's what this over stimulating-coming at you from all sides infant toy is called!) There are many, many spots for this thing to make noise, however, Andy and I -being the smart parents we are- have only put batteries in one part of it for right now. We plan on letting her hear of all the sounds soon...welllll, maybe later.

First Bite

Our first time using a spoon was Sunday night. I say "our" because look at that bite I put on the spoon...REALLY?!?! poor baby, it's no wonder she had it all over her face!! I didn't realize how much I was stuffing into her until I looked at this pic! HA! She did really well in spite of her mother's lack of knowledge spoon feeding a child for the first time. She was very excited and kept reaching for the spoon and the bowl, like she wanted more. I did catch her once sucking on the spoon like it was a bottle...she'll get the hang of it and so will I.

4 Months

In the spirit of July 4th, we took some pics in one of her 4th outfits for her "4 month photo shoot by mommy" (yeah, I still haven't attempted a real photo session) The little red bear is one that my mom got her while she was on her vacation to Washington D.C.
At 4 months Sarah is:

• rolling over from back to tummy (still can't go the other way, and gets VERY frustrated when she gets stuck!)
• giggling often (Andy can get her really going)
• babbling (talks to everything!! lots of different inflections in her voice now)
• reaching and grabbing (loves to pull my hair and get her toys that are in reach)
• can sit up with help (really likes the different view...guess looking at the ceiling or floor would get old!)
• loves when I read books to her- she will talk to the book and then start flinging her arms and legs in excitement
• still sleeping pretty good 9-6ish (although this week...not so much)
• started eating rice cereal from a spoon
• will start daycare next week!!

Sarah is 26 inches long- 95 percentile; Weighs 15.7 pounds - 70-95 percentile; head circumference 17cm - off the chart! :0)

July 4th 2010

Well we managed to cram as much as we could into 6 days and I might say we were pretty successful. We left Wednesday to make our way to Andy's parents house. We stopped in Dallas for a two hour visit with Stacey and Ms. Gracie- this was our first time to meet her! Gracie's is 5 weeks younger than Sarah.

These girls must have the sweetest tasting hands, because they were both going to town on them!

After our Dallas stop, we headed to Edmond to see Andy's family. Sarah got some great family time in....

Next stop...Duncan, OK (about 2 hours southwest of OKC) to see all of the friends. Chrisie and Faron have moved to the country and have a wonderful house with a great pool! I however only got to see the pool from a distance. We pushed Ms. Sarah to the limits and she was letting me know Saturday when everyone was there...crying all day, didn't want to be put down, wouldn't nap- yep, our kid was "that kid"...it was quite a day! I think she was waaaaaay over stimulated!! Sunday was much better...thank goodness!
Sarah did manage to get some pool time in with daddy...her first time!

Usually on a weekend like this I would get tons of pics....but as I alluded to earlier, there was little time for picture taking. But here is what I got.


Andy and Gibby - former college roommates- with their offspring

Sarah and Cade on their first date...Cade is 7 months old.

The boys managed to get a group pic in....the girls aka mommas not so much -we were all tending to the kiddos. All in all there were about 40 people at the house which included twelve kids!

My how our little get togethers have changed! And all for the better! I guess this means we are on our way to being real- life grown ups!!!! Well kind of...