Yaya says...

Now that Sara is doing more talking, she has so many cute words. I know they eventually learn the correct pronunciation, but for now, we'll enjoy the variations she's come up with! First, she calls herself Yaya. It sounds so cute coming out of her mouth! She knows her name starts with the letter s. When she sees an "s" she says, "s for Yaya". Oooooo' love it!! Here are a few other Sara creations

Bismis = Christmas
Bubba = Sean
E = Iain
an-ich = Sandwich
pobby = potty
edited to add:
bibish = finished (I forgot this one!!)

She also, funny enough, won't say the word one. When you ask her how old she is, she holds up one finger and says two. When she counts, she starts with the number two. The other day Iain was trying to get her to say Obi Wan Kenobi. It went like this...
Iain: Say Obi
Sara: Obi
Iain Say Wan
Sara: Two

Then she'd giggle and throw a Kenobi in at the end! I guess he's Obi Two Kenboi around here!

Since the post is about Sara, I feel like I need some pictures of her. The most recent ones I have are from after grocery shopping the other day. She loves to unload the bags from the car, bring them in and help put the food away.

Bringing them in the kitchen...

Unloading the food...

Taking time to smell the yummy vanilla candle

Christmas Pictures - The Outtakes

Can you believe it is already that time of year? I decided to be proactive about them this time. I called a photographer a few weeks ago and booked a date. All I had to do was find matching outfits. Well, that was much easier said than done. The original idea was to have all 5 of us in the shot. Maybe have Sara and I in one color and the guys in another color. Coordinating maybe? The original idea went downhill quickly. I shopped for several hours one afternoon and nothing was jumping out at me. I'd find something for the boys but not Iain or for Sara but not me. I was getting frustrated!! After enough complaints about it and my stress oozing out at Iain, he made an executive decision...if these pictures caused this much chaos, then no professional pictures! It was a very easy decision to make and I felt relieved just hearing the words. The only problem was we still needed a picture for our Christmas cards. The next day when Iain got home from work we threw clothes on the kids (from their closets) and went to the nearest park. We ended up getting some really good pictures! The kids all cooperated (part of the time) and were actually into it! Within 15 minutes we had some great shots! I can't show you the picture we chose, since it will be on the card you'll all receive in the mail. Here are some of the kids being silly.

Super Sean

I love her expression in this one

Iain seems to be rejoicing here! Ho ho ho! More Ho ho ho!

After going down the slide together! Darn cute if I do say so myself! I loved the way they were sitting in these pictures, but apparently it was too hard to be serious!! They were all going crazy!Ants in her pants Sara stood up, threw her hands in the air and yelled "cheese"!!!

See Iain's frustrated look in the last one? It was time to be done! This was the last picture that was taken. We came home with about 50 shots, some silly and a few great ones!

To share or harass, that is the question

These pictures just crack me up. Sorry that a few are blurry!

Sean staring at the tv while sitting in the shoe basket. Not sure why his fingers are in his mouth or why he's in the shoe basket but...

Here she comes...

He realizes she's coming and scouts forward...

He settles in leaning forward and sitting on the edge...

She gives up on the attack and joins him in mindless staring. But is this comfortable enough?

Nope, this is comfortable! Sitting on bumpy shoes, with her brother!!

Silly Sara pics

The girl is definitely silly!

Our three little treats!

Happy Halloween!!!

We had a great Halloween! It was filled with friends, fun and lots of candy. The boys had a great time running from house to house getting tons of loot! Sara was absolutely hilarious! She was a little tentative at the first house. She wouldn't let them put the candy in her bucket, it had to go in her hand. Once she saw it was candy, she started saying "tane tuu" (thank you) over and over and ran to the next house. We were all impressed that she was keeping up with her brothers so well! I guess the candy was motivation!!

Iain has been interested in new "older kid" things lately. He really wanted a scary costume... Sean tries to be tough, but he's a big softy...Sara is definitely a princess but she also has added spunk. Just like the lei and Elmo bucket that she insisted on bringing along...

Yep, that's us! Aren't we a beautiful couple?

Brave little girl!