New Babies and Busy Weeks!

What busy few weeks it's been for our family!

First things first...mark your calendars for November 12th...why, you ask? Because that is the estimated arrival date of Sadie Beth's little sister or brother!!! We are thrilled to be expecting our second child. I'm almost 11 weeks along and feeling pretty good. I went through a few weeks where I was just SOOOO tired all the time, but that seems to pass and I don't have any excuses any more for a daily nap. Now I just have heartburn. Regularly. Maybe Baby Balzer #2 will have just as much hair as Sadie Beth when he or she comes along. Sadie Beth seems to get that something is going on...it's strange because we don't talk about it much around her, but she does...on a regular basis she approaches me, lifts up my shirt and kisses my belly. This is a little embarrassing in public places and I've tried to explain that not everyone wants to see Mama's bare belly, as attractive as it may be. ha!

In other news, we are officially homeowners and have moved out of my dad's condo....which is such a blessing in reference to the matter above because it means that Baby will not be sleeping in our closet. We were so blessed by our time living in my dad's condo - it was a time where God's provision, though certainly ALWAYS present in our lives, was so completely obvious it couldn't be mistaken for anything else. David and I will always look back at our time in the condo with so much fondness...it is where we brought home our first little baby and watched her grow by leaps and bounds right before our eyes. We will remember our LOST marathons and our "home dates"...many many evenings spent at home eating dinner on the living room floor and spending time together with special treats like ice cream. I think for both of us, one of our most special memories will be the 10:30pm feeding I did for Sadie Beth during her first six months or so. We had such a sweet routine. David would go and get her out of bed while I waited for him to bring her to me in the dark living room. She would always snuggle up so close with him as she remained asleep. Then I would nurse, and without her ever hardly stirring I would put her back in bed. Many nights I held her after she finished, just snuggling my sweet girl, my precious gift from God. Okay, I'm tearing up a little now, so I think I'll stop. Darn pregnancy hormones...

David has spent a LOT of time lately reading the "Moooon" book (aka Goodnight Moon) with Sadie Beth. She eats up every minute of it. On each page there is a teeny tiny mouse and she has learned to find the mouse on each page; she points to it and says, "Cheepcheep." (squeak)

Rain boots are still so much fun. In fact, this morning after she went potty, she ran into her room naked as can be, put them on and started stomping around her room with them on. She has a hard time walking in them still because they are big on her so she lifts her feet up about a foot and a half each step she takes. It was one of those times I wish I had my video camera out.

Poor sick girl. When Sadie Beth gets sick, even if it is just a cold, she seems to get these ridiculous, long lasting fevers - usually around 103 degrees - and they stick around for days!
Sadie Beth found a BUNNY during pack and play time! She was carrying on with so much excitement I had to go in and find out what she was talking about. She saw a bunny out the window of our bedroom and was ecstatic. She looked for the bunny every day after that.

Very excitedly telling me about the bunny. She is getting to where she will tell stories about things that happen to her. It's funny to hear what sticks with her.

Goldfish on the table?!?! What a special treat! Normally mommy makes her sit in her chair for snacks at home. Mean mommy.

Grapes and goldfish...does it get any better than this?

Two tails...that is what Sadie Beth says repeatedly when she has pigtails. I love pigtails...

Sadie Beth has so much enjoyed her two Easter books about "Jeee...." (Jesus). We have read them endlessly....obviously, we are okay with this! :)

One day when we were outside getting ready for the move, David's car door was open. I turned around for just a moment only to find Sadie Beth had climbed in the car, over the passenger seat and into the driver's seat to "DRIIIIII!" She thought she was pretty big stuff.

Easter pictures!

It's getting so hard to get good pictures of her looking at the camera because she is ALWAYS on the go.

Soon I hope to post some before and after pictures of the house!

Our busy girl....

So after this post I will be officially "caught up" through the end of March! 2009 has started with lots of fun with our busy busy girl. Sadie Beth is your typical toddler-into everything and gogogo. We had a great time with Grandpa and Grandma Balzer and Aunt Darla during their visit over New Years. Sadie Beth enjoyed every minute of their attention. She also had a blast with her new kitty-cat galoshes sent from her Great Grandma and Grandpa Shelton. We keep them in a particular spot in her room, and each time she is done playing with them she makes sure she puts them right back in their spot...without any prompting from me! We are starting to see a "neat and tidy" side come out of our girl...she must get that from her Daddy! We have a little princess in our house, and she has her Dada wrapped around her little finger.
And she knows it too!

Tee! Sadie Beth ends every bathtime by shouting out from the tub, "TEE!" She doesn't want Mama and Dada to forget to brush her teeth...or in this case, Grandma!

Shortly after family left from their holiday visit, we had a sicky-poo girl for quite awhile. We all passed around an AWFUL stomach bug. Poor Sadie Beth...we thought we were going to end up in the hospital because she couldn't even keep small sips of liquid down for about 5 days. It was pretty awful for her. So she and Mama spent a lot of time snuggled on the couch during those 5 days watching, "Blah!" (Baby Einstein) and Praise Baby. You know she's sick when she's too tired to dance during these videos.

She was did NOT want to be separated from me while she was sick. But I think during this picture I decided I had to have a shower....just how many times can you be thrown up on without getting a shower? A lot.

While she was sick one night I carried her into the kitchen and had to put her down for a minutes to do something, so I sat her on the floor. I turned back around to find this pitiful girl.

Sadie Beth has been into her "babies" for awhile now, but here she was just starting to put the "night night"

We've been working on using a spoon for a LONG time now....it's slow progress.

First "sort-of" pigtails!

It's fun to wear your sock laundry bag on your head...don't you do it all the time? She felt pretty clever for coming up with this fun game on her own.

This was the first snow Sadie Beth got to really play in. It took us about 20 minutes to get ready to go outside and we were there for about 5 minutes. Oh well. She looks chubby in the picture because of all the clothes she has on.

We've started going throug a Bible Story book, though Mama is often forgetful about it. This one has 100 Bible stories and a CD with 100 songs - one for each story. Sadie Beth mainly just wants to flip to the story of Adam and Eve so she can point to the serpent in the Garden of Eden and say, "Nonono!" because she knows the serpent is bad.

Just a sweet girl.

I'm not sure exactly why, but after the stomach bug, Sadie Beth's throwing up lasted off and on for about a month. So the carseat had to be cleaned a few times. This was actually I think during Louisville's HUGE snow storm....we had to go stay at my mom's since we lost power and Sadie Beth threw up in the carseat on the way there and then again on the way home the next day. UGH! I thought it was never going to end...it did.

Sadie Beth loves wearing her "ti-s" (tights). She would wear them every day if I let her.

Ridiculous. I think she thinks that if she makes this face she can get away with anything in the world. She can't, but I can't tell you how many times David and I have had to either turn our faces or walk out of the room when trying to avoid cracking up at her while trying to discipline her about one thing or another.

I think we were teaching "Schwa" (frog) patty cake. Sadie Beth mixes up her "f" and "s" sounds. She is a huge talker though. I wish I knew how many words she has - a TON.

One of my favorite pics of Sadie Beth.

We got new pillows, and one came in this briefcase shaped box...which was superfun to carry around for a LONG time.

And this was a favorite game for awhile....David will push Sadie Beth all over the condo while in the diaper box. Sadie Beth picks up her favorite passengers to ride along. Uhoh...PrudieSue fell out!

Okay that's better.

A cute Valentines Day dress and Elmo book...on Mama and Dada's bed...does it get any better?

Snuggling in our new bed! David and I are sleeping so much better these days, now that our warped, sunken mattresses have been sent to a better place (the trash heap). Seriously. The mattress warranty inspector guy asked, "How in the world have you all been sleeping on these?" The funny part was after we got our new bed rails but before our new mattress came - we both had to be lying on the bed or the mattress would rock and tilt in one direction.

Our snug bug! Isn't David nice to let me get pink sheets? I LOVE THEM!

For a long time, this hat and Sadie Beth were not friends....but times they are a'changin...

Sadie Beth was putting PrudieSue (CabbagePatchDoll) nightnight and decided she wanted to join in the fun. What a look from Sadie Beth though!

Dressing up in Daddy's clothes...

I guess Sadie Beth decided she was going to take matters into her own hands when it came to clipping her toenails.

My baby sure is getting awful big.

Just call her Farmer Sadie Beth....

One Saturday I told Sadie Beth that Grammy was coming over. Later I found her right here!

We had a fun time with Sadie Beth's (2nd) cousin Aaron when our Indy family came down for a visit. Sadie Beth isn't sure why Aaron is getting to eat a chocolate chip cookie and she doesn't have one.

Sadie Beth is looking at another one of her Bible picture books. This page has a picture of a family. Sadie Beth loves looking at it and pointing out the, "Dada, Mama, Gurl, Deedee (baby), and dog!"

Coming up soon.....new pictures, new houses, and new additions!!!