Hauser Family Picnic

One HOT, sunny day (here recently) the Hausers got together for a little family picnic. Aunt Beth, Blake and Benjamin were up and it was decided that we should have a "Dish and Drink" picnic. There was a plan to get pictures of Grace, Kambreya and Sidney Kate in their dresses (see Kambreya's below) but that totally didn't workout. We'll try again though.
Grace, Kambreya and Sidney Kate are about 6 months apart in age. Grace is 28ish months, Kambreya is 22ish and Sidney Kate is 15 months. They are babies of cousins, so we need a little picture of them together! They are also the babies of the Hauser family, everyone else is getting big (and fast!). The next youngest is Seth who is in the 2nd grade (holy cow!) this year! He was Sidney Kate's helper at her birthday part.
So here are their re-introductions to one another. It looks like Kambreya is announcing Sidney Kate to the family.

You know she's thinking she's a little baby and just checking her out from all angles. So cute!

Sidney Kate is attempting to copy Kambreya's squat and look move.

If you have enough mommies telling you to kiss-you'll do it to get them to quit! LOL!

So tired!

I haven't blogged since the day this happened (8-1-09) and I have heard that people have been having some withdrawals...hopefully this will help.
Two Saturdays ago Sidney Kate fell asleep, by 11:30 on her beanbag, after a morning of hanging around the house. One minute she was watching Noggin and the next she was sound asleep.

Our First Baby

indy will always be our first baby! He came along in March of 2004. His first name was Dunlop and he belonged to a family in King. He was their replacement dog when their black lab of 11 years was stolen. They soon discovered it wasn't the same and needed to find him a new home. We had just bought this house and Kevin was so wanting to have a dog again. It was perfect!
Here he is in the 'good ol days', as he calls them, when he had an entire chair to himself! It wasn't intended to be his chair, but one day he laid his chin on it and looked at us. It was over from there. Once he got use to his chair he would come running into the room and jump into it, making it slide into the wall. Pretty funny and slightly damaging to our wall.

indy...all alone, enjoying the space of his chair!

This is indy and mugsy. We rescued mugsy after church one day. He stayed with us a bit and indy was determined to let him know who was boss. This picture makes it look like he was eating his head...he probably wanted to, just to have the place to himself again!

Tough life back then! He had one other chair he was allowed in, the LazBoy in the computer room. We would all get up there and snooze together. He sure loved (and still does) to be cuddled with!

Clean Up and Really?

Clean up, Clean up, Everybody clean up! Kevin was cleaning the fridge and I was vacuuming. Sidney Kate was on cloud 9! She wasn't sure if she should follow me or help Daddy; she did a little of both.
Anytime the fridge door opens she reaches for the sauces/dressings on the bottom shelf. We normally get it closed before she carries them off. Not this time! With the door wide open for cleaning she was in destructive heaven! She immediately grabbed two meat sauces and took off. A little later she returned, with only one, and decided to sit a bit.

She does this to anything that appears drinkable (dangerous we know.) She just turned up that bottle of Country Bob's All Purpose Sauce and pretended to drink. (We can't make this stuff up!)

Speaking of not making stuff up...we were visiting with some of Sidney Kate's new friends last night and I was telling them some vacuum stories. Like how she loves to help me and how I use to vacuum indy. It made me think I need to go back through our old pictures and find some good ones of the boys...
So here she is helping me vacuum and

here I am vacuuming indy (years ago!). When that vacuum came out he would follow me through the whole house, right under my feet, until he had his grooming. Some of his funniest moments ever!

Sidney Kate Loves Rylan!

It was just this week that Emily called to tell me Rylan said he loved Sidney Kate (precious!). Well, I can tell you that she feels the same! Grandma and Grandpa came for a visit and she caught site of his picture. She started saying his name and reaching for the picture. She wouldn't give it back to us because she wanted to sit with him and watch TV.

She sat for a long time with "Ri Ri" in her lap. She pointed to his face and patted the picture. So sweet!

Happy Birthday Cecile!

Another cake! Happy Birthday to Cecile!! I had so little icing left I had to write it small...but it tasted the same! Kevin flavored the icing strawberry and it was "Mmmmm!" according to Sidney Kate.

"Growing Up" Weekend Part 5

And here's the big shocker!! Sidney Kate played in the pool! She had such a wonderful time in the water we hated to get her out to eat! She tried blowing bubbles with her mouth, she splashed us by throwing the ball, she (and daddy) laughed as I chased them around the water-it was so fun to see her enjoy the water and not need to cling to us for dear life!

Here I am getting her! We walked all over that pool laughing!

Another huge thing...she let someone else hold her and play with her in the water! Papa Bill pulled her around and around and she really enjoyed it!

Family fun picture!

"Growing Up" Weekend Part 4

"Cows!" Sidney Kate had her first up close experience with cows! She's said "Moo!" ever since!

Checking the cows out with her new buddy!

Okay...I've skipped her big Growing Up moment part 2, but here is part 3. She walked on grass-AND DIDN'T CRY! She's had some crazy issue with grass since she learned to walk 4 months ago. She didn't want to touch it with her hands, definitely not her bare feet and not even through holes in her sandals. Well, on Saturday she walked from the cows back to the pool...I was so totally impressed and happy for her! I'm hoping she's okay with it now, but I understand it could have been a fluke. Either way, I'm deeming this her 3rd growing up moment of the weekend! Yeah Sidney Kate!

Here is part 2 of her growing up weekend, playing in the pool (without tears of course). I'll have more proof in pictures soon.

"Growing Up" Weekend III and New Friends!

So after all the baking and making we arrive at GAIL'S RETIREMENT PARTY! It was big, fat fun too! (Everyone should have such a great party in their honor!)
So, Dr. Hartness got things going with a few words. Sidney Kate was all ears! (Notice the hand on hip...as if she's checking to see how important his words are.)

Can you say new best friend?! Sidney Kate quickly found her some new buddies to play with!

This shall be entered in some contest...if you hear of one let me know!

Her posse! I frequently say that I feel like her shadow because I follow her around to make sure she doesn't fall or do anything crazy (like eat dog food-failed on that one FYI!)...one of the girls said they probably looked like her posse. haha...so true! And I hope she always has such a good posse to hang with! They were super awesome at looking after her to make sure she didn't do anything she shouldn't. Kevin said, "They do a better job than we do"-I agree!

Happy Retirement!

Seriously, she loooves this chair! She chilled her all by herself while I decorated Gail's cake. I was totally impressed!

Gail's Retirement cake...HAPPY RETIREMENT GAIL!!

Can you find a diving bear?

View from satellite...(nerd!)

"Growing Up" Weekend II

Sidney Kate has tasted a sucker before, but not a whole one and she surely wasn't allowed to control it on her own. Here she is enjoying a treat...this treat left her with super drool all over her outfit along with orange spots! You can see she's not letting go of the actual sucker; she hasn't quite figured out the stick part.

Her favorite chair in the house! She is so funny to watch; she'll look at us and slowly back up until she can sit down-the she smiles and giggles like she's done something sneaky. She tunes into Noggin' (Yo Gabba Gabba is her fav!) and sits a long time-for a 15 month old!

What I did while they were playing and chillin' on the beanbag. Gail, from work, is retiring so we threw a retirement bash (pool party). Hence the bears (our mascot) in bathing suits! Let's play "Where's the Speedo Bear?" (similar to Where's Waldo)

If your eyesight is poor, there is another speedo bear below.

Square Dancing

We interrupt the weekend blogs to bring you Sidney Kate's Square Dancing Video...she's on YouTube!

I would like to send a big THANK YOU out to all the daycare ladies that get her doing this funny stuff! They play music during the day and all the kids have mega fun dancing!