Hello Asher!

I had a friend recently do a facebook status that she added “just keeping it real.” I liked that, so I’ve decided whenever I want to share something that may paint me in less than a glowing light, I’m gonna just call it Keeping it Real.
Tonight I just feel like a Mom….usually the most wonderful thing in the world. But tonight I feel like it is my identity like there is no Sarah just Mom. Tomorrow as I am greeted with morning hugs and cutie grins I’ll feel differently; however, right now I feel like just a mom.

Each day we took pictures of our towel animals and sent them to Asher.  He loved getting the email pictures from us.  Nana and Papa would print them out for him, and he had them up with magnets all over their front door.  Here is your challenge:  Can you identify the towel animal?  Some are easy…some Lance and I are still in debate over.  Help us out!

#1

#2

#3 front

and

back view

#4

#5

#6 front

and

side view

Wow, it is going by so fast I haven’t been able to post for all her months like I hoped.  I can’t believe she is already nine months old.  I don’t have any recent stats because I am avoiding the doctor’s office like the plague right now.   So here are just a few catch up pictures.  This girl is all over the place!!!  She is little Miss Mischief, and you can’t turn your back on her for a second.

Last time she ever sat still.

Pulled up before I’d ever lowered the mattress

Crawling and Climbing

she was already climbing up when Asher decided he needed to take care of her….it was so cute how protective he got

Pulling up and cruising

As much as I am not really ready for it, I have a feeling she is going to be walking in the next month.  TOOOOO FAST!!!  Slow down baby girl.

So at 3:30 A.M. the day of Asher’s birth my contractions came on suddenly and strong. Long story but I had a weird labor with him. Anyway…that was when I woke out of dead sleep and came to the conclusion my body was ready to go.

Well this past Monday morning…exactly 3 years later at 3:30 A.M., I awoke again quite suddenly.  Asher was staring me right in the face with his stuffed animals and blanket in his arms.  I’m still not sure if he was walking in his sleep, or even fully awake.  He threw down his stuff and told me “I not want these.”  Then proceeded to climb into my bed.

So what do you think…do kids have these internal clocks that their bodies tell them…”Now go wake up your Mommy and scare her.”  In past years I have woken up at his birth time which I always thought was interesting for my internal clock, but this was the first year he gave me a reminder of how it was those 3 years ago.

Heading up the gangway

Saying goodbye to my babies

Ready to Relax (trying not to cry)

See the Florida coast behind me…I love the ocean!!!  Being on it for five days was wonderful…we had two port stops, but honestly I would have been just as happy just sailing.  I like to tease I am part mermaid. 

It’s not what you might be thinking.  Faith loves to be sung too.  It relaxes her to where I can just lay her down.  My set list can range from any  nursery rhyme to some popular Broadway Hit.  Tonight was one of those nights I just found myself in awe of my Savior as I stared at my sweet girl.  From favorite hymns to old camp songs, I just sang praises to His name.  Faith’s little fingers reached out and were grabbing at my lips.  The tips of her fingers so soft against my face.  Her eyes just looking long into mine.  So tonight my worship came from the rocking chair.  It’s not really the first time but it was a tender moment that I don’t want to forget.

Ok so I did a HUGE post about how I loved google reader and I still do. I don’t miss posts from any of the blogs I read. However a con to all the pros is that now I don’t comment as often. Without being on the live blog I find I don’t take the time to go and comment on cutie kids and inspiring words. I need to do better about that.

That is what I feel like…blogging is something I desire to do.  I come up with funny little things my kiddos do, topics I’d love to write about, and just fun things, BUT never find I can give the time to sitting down and doing it.

Did you know my little girl is almost 8.5 months old…I’ve wanted to blog each month. Last one is 6 months. My little man will be 3 the end of this month….I hope to put something here for him.

This blog, journal, diary I don’t know what to call it…for me I want it to be a little scrapbook keeping track of the little things so I don’t forget. But it is elusive, it escapes me, and time well that I just can’t find.

So I’ve come to this conclusion…I will write. It may not always be for the masses but I will write and when I have time I will put up pictures, but I have tried to make this into too much. I will sit down and I will write what comes to me…what they say even if it is only a line…and I will remember.

My little girl is 6 months old.  Technically she was a week ago but I figured I’d wait for official doctor numbers before I posted.  Today she weighed in at 14lbs 11oz and 25.75 inches long(I question this one only because the mat they were measuring on was all messed up).

I can’t get over all she is doing.  Sitting up, rolling over, getting up on her knees and rocking her buns…she wants to crawl so bad but is for now mobile with a scooting, army crawl combo.  I love when she gets in crawl position then falls forward on her belly and repeatedly does this to get across the room.  She has one tooth all the way through and and another making its debut.

I am saddened by her constant progress only because I do not remember it going by so fast with Asher.  I question if it is a second child or it has been spring/summer where we are constantly doing things.  She is on solids (if you truly can call it that) and today just because the doctor said she could start “table food”, my mom and I gave her a small sliver of bread and later let her slobber all over a waffle cone Asher did not want.  No, there was no ice cream inside. 

Slow down, my love!!  Mommy is not ready for you to get so big so fast.