Easter Bunny Comes to Kids Korner

On Good Friday, Kids Korner had an Easter party and the Easter Bunny came to it. Once again, some of the kids liked the bunny and some were scared as can be. Rylee didn't cry this year and actually gave the bunny a high five, but I couldn't get her to sit on his lap for a picture. Maybe next year.

Grace didn't want to sit on the bunny's lap either. So instead Rylee and Grace got their picture on Niki's lap, and close to the Easter bunny.

Sadie on the other hand thought thought the Easter bunny was pretty cool and she hung out for awhile on his lap.

She liked the Easter bunny so much that she even wanted ears like his :)

The bunny playing a game with the group.

Then he made balloon animals for them. Rylee loved that.

Sadie had a great time at the party.

She was all smiles!

Hanging out in the chair with her friend Anelia.

After the bunny left they went outside and found all the eggs that he hid.

Rylee and Hannah teaming up during their egg hunt.

10 Months

10 months...getting to be so big!

At 10 months Sadie started to stand on her own for long periods of time and also take a few steps on her own. Some were pretty wobbly steps but she was definitely walking on her own. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that she started walking early, she is always trying to keep up with Rylee and follow her around. She loves her big sister!

She also got 2 more teeth this month. So now she has 4 on top and 2 on the bottom. She really doesn't like her baby food anymore so she is now on mostly all table foods. And believe it or not she loves her veggies (beans and peas) but doesn't really like fruit. She spits peaches, watermelon, pears, etc. out. I think its still a texture thing. So we still do give her some fruit from the baby containers.

Sadie also LOVES to be outside! She will go to one of our doors and start banging on it cause she wants to go out. Once she is outside, she loves to explore. Her favorite thing is to grab your finger and take you for a walk wherever she wants to go. She is a busy, busy girl!

Looking cute and all clean after her bath.

Sweet and innocent (at least here she is).

I probably shouldn't put this picture up of their bare bums but I thought the picture (and the moment) was so cute. There was a big rainbow outside and we pulled up the blinds so the girls could check it out. Rylee's showing Sadie the rainbow and explaining what it is ("all the colors in the sky" she explained to Sadie). Sadie actually seemed pretty interested in what Rylee had to say.

*On a side note, I know I am SO far behind but I did not give up on my blog. I actually wanted to post this one for awhile but I wanted to include some video's of her walking and from the bathtub but I can't get it to work. So hopefully I'll figure it out and post some video of her soon. I've got a lot more posts to catch up on too! Aghh, if only there was more time in a day :)

Our Little Gymnast

This winter we signed Rylee up for Gymnastic classes or "Nastics" as she calls them. Her first session she took was a Mommy and Me class and we went together on Saturday mornings. She quickly fell in love with going to nastics and its definitely something she looks forward to doing. She did the Mommy and Me class for 10 weeks this winter and now she is in a 2.5-3 year old class all by herself. I was a little worried about the transition to going into class by herself but she proved me wrong and did great. I stand outside of the room and watch and every once in a while she'll look over and make sure I am watching (which I think is cute) but she always goes right on in by herself. She is a very shy girl so this surprised me. I am so happy that she enjoys it so much. A while ago, Brad came with to one of the classes and took tons of pictures of our little gymnast. I couldn't decide which ones to put up so I just decided to put up a lot!

She loves her gymnastics leotards and is always so proud when she puts them on.

Paying close attention to the teacher

She LOVES the trampoline!

Doing the "W" hang

and a flip around the bar

The little animal fell down so of course she stopped and picked it up.

She used to always want to hold my hand on the balance beam and now she even does the other "big girl" ones by herself. She has gotten a lot braver on her own.

Headstand

and handstand

Counting to 10 before she runs down the trampoline.

Look at that form!

This long trampoline is her favorite!

Then she jumps in the foam blocks at the end.

Being silly.

waiting for her turn oh so patiently

Rylee and a new friend she met at class

After the last "mommy and me" class she got a ribbon. I told her to show it to me and this is what I got.

So Proud!

9 Months

Over a month ago, I took Sadie to JCPenny's to get her 9 month pictures taken. They were so far behind and pictures took about 10 minutes but yet we were there for almost 2 hours. I wasn't very happy about the long wait. Sadie wasn't exactly happy either. We did still manage to get a few good pictures even though Sadie was getting impatient.

Sadie was a very busy 9 month old. She crawls around and tries to get into everything. She figured out she loves to climb up the stairs. She can cruise up them pretty darn good now. She also for some reason loves to go into the bathroom. She'll follow anyone in there, especially Rylee. We have learned to always keep the bathroom doors closed now but if she sees it open, she will dart for it. She continues to walk along furniture and every once in awhile she'll stand on her own for a few seconds. Once she realizes it though, she'll grab for the furniture.

She loves table food and definitely prefers that over baby food. Her top 2 teeth came in this month too (Feb. 24th and 27th). On Feb. 25th, Sadie had tubes put in. She had 4 ear infections and a few of them took a few rounds of antiobiotics to get rid of them. Rylee had her tube surgery at 9 months and we knew how much it helped her so it was a little bit easier decision this time around. So she had a few rough days with her top teeth coming in and her surgery but after that she was as good as new. After her surgery she had a long nap and then woke up happy as can be. I was very relieved.

Her new trick for the month was she learned how to clap. Her little wave just cracks me up. She used to just kind of flap her hand for "bye, bye". But then she changed it and actually started waving but she turns her hand around and waves to herself. Very cute.

Here's her 9 months stats from her wellness visit. She continues to be tall and skinny. I looked at Rylee's 9 month stats and I was surprised but they were actually very similar.

Weight: 17 lbs 15 ozs (35th%) Rylee (17 lbs, 9 ozs)

Height: 28.75 inches (90th%) Rylee (28.5 in)

Head: 44.5 cm (70th%) Rylee (45 cm)

...I hope to catch up and have her 10 month post up soon too!