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"Worst parents ever!!"
So I was asleep on the couch and Kevin was trying to sleep too. Sidney Kate had been playing, crawling on top of me and just plain enjoying herself in the living room. Next thing Kevin knows she's asleep on the couch beside us.
I blame this early tiredness to the fact that she woke up mega early this Sunday morning! She was awake bright and early and ready to play. So she ate breakfast well before 8:00 and managed to wear herself by 10:00.

Don't worry folks; she wasn't there long! As soon as Kevin saw she was asleep on the floor he picked her up and let her finish her nap on our bed. Tough life!

Gapes!

Gape, gape!
Momma and Deddy have grapevines and we recently introduced Sidney Kate to them. I'm pretty sure that she knew what to do after our Blueberry picking experience.
We gave her one to eat and from there it was on! She would bite everyone between her front teeth, push it in her mouth and reach for another. She wouldn't have one even half way chewed before she wanted more. That's my girl!
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Offering a "gape" to Grandma.

We're frequently giving Sidney Kate her 'Baba' this way and I tried it with a "gape." She bit my lip in the process but she was laughing the whole time; so it was worth it! You can tell she's giggling here.

Mo!

Abble!

Sidney Kate has made it known that she's 'starving' when she gets home from daycare. Not too sure I believe this, seeing as how she eats at 2:30 and she's picked up shortly after. But I'll feed the child! (It's the only thing that stops the fussing!)
Her routine is to come home, take her shoes off and go over to the bar and yell some new word (abble, me me, etc) until she's fed. It might be worse than that dog whining I hear around 6:00. haha...but it's cute!
Lately we've had apples for her. I don't chop them anymore I just cut her slices (like orange slices) and she holds them and eats them pretty well. I make her a little bowl of them and that usually fills her tummy up enough.
I have found her, on several occasions, eating them like she would an orange slice. Putting the slice in her mouth and sucking the juice out. She also has started putting the peeling back in her bowl instead of eating it. Let the tendencies begin!

Cheese!

Hauser Picnic Continued...again

Cute!

Would have been cuter...but there was an interruption! Somebody thought they needed to save Sidney Kate from falling down the slide head first! (He must have forgotten it was a bazillion degrees outside and she was sweating like a pig (do they sweat?) and she was stuck to the slide-she wasn't going anywhere!)
How funny are the girls' faces?!

Hauser Picnic Continued

Sidney Kate's favorite thing! To Swing!! Papa walked her over to the swings so she could get her fix. Please pay close attention that she's eating her bread as she swings. My girl's a multi-tasker...and a lover of bread-just like her Momma!

Kambreya is cracking me up with those arms up high!

Sidney Kate loves Seth! He was sweet with her!

Goal: Get a picture of Grace, Kambreya and Sidney Kate in their dresses.
Reality: Get a picture of Grace in a different dress.

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!