She's Our Wild and Crazy Girl!

Busy is probably one of the best words to describe our baby girl. She gets into everything and rarely sits still. She is constantly getting herself into precarious situations and I'm amazed she hasn't been hurt more.
Take this morning for instance. I was in my room for a couple of minutes and was just heading out into the hall when hear Megan say, "Oh my goodness! What is Chloe doing outside!" Keep in mind we live in Utah, it's winter, there's still snow on the ground, and it's COLD! So I look at the door and sure enough there's Chloe outside the glass door. Looking through the glass into the house. She had shut the door and was just looking like, "Someone PLEASE let me in!" I owe a HUGE thank you to her guardian angels when I get to heaven!
So after this mornings incident I thought I'd take a minute to dedicate a post to our girl. Here just a little snippet for you of what I mean by precarious situations!
This happened just a few weeks ago. I had just gotten Chloe out of the bath and dressed her in her PJs. Now after I got Chloe out of the bath I had put Janie in, but I TOOK CHLOE down the stairs with me so I could wipe down her highchair. A few minutes later I hear Janie laughing and in that instant I knew where Chloe had gone. Panicking, I raced up the stairs as fast as I could thinking she's drowning and this is what I found!









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We've since learned our lesson and she is no longer alone when someone is bathing!

Now despite all of her craziness, she still is just too adorable for words and I am actually loving this age. She's starting to talk and figure out more things. Just the other day she discovered "Daaaaaaaaad" (aka Daddy) in a picture. All day she carried her little album around pointing at Jared and saying "Daaaaaaad!" It was so fun to see her recognize him and I was so excited to show Jared when he got home. When he did get home I asked her, "Chloe- who's in the picture?" She got all excited, points and started to say "Daa. . . " But then she looked really confused and kept looking back and forth at the REAL Daddy and the PICTURE Daddy and wasn't quite sure how he was in both places at the same time!

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And this last picture is just to show you that WE DO NOT spoil our baby at all. Come on, everybody needs at least 3 suckers on the ride home from grandma's, right! Okay she might be a tad bit spoiled, but what can we say-She's our girl!

Change

I have to say that although I'm not the biggest Obama fan, today was definitely a historic and somewhat exciting day. Change always seems to have a little element of excitement in it though-don't you think!

As I was driving the kids to school today I asked them if they knew what today was all about. I was surprised at how much they knew and was a little taken back by some of their responses. But I just told them that although mommy doesn't agree with a lot that Obama does (of course I hope that he will do great things) that the President of the United States should always be given proper respect (something some people should have kept in mind the past 4 years!)

As I was watching the inauguration I found myself enjoying most of President Obama's speech and hope that those things can really be accomplished. Today I feel very proud to live in a country that is all about freedom! Although I secretly still wish that Mitt Romney were up there- I am optimistically looking forward into the future of America. And I do have to say I thought the new first lady looked really quite smashing!

I've always loved quotes and here are just a few that I found today that I liked!
"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." ~Author Unknown
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."~Mary Engelbreit
"Change always comes bearing gifts." ~Price Pritchett

A few more things before I go:
Katherine: make sure you show this post to your dad!
Emma: make sure your dad knows that I still am a talk radio junkie!
and Jen: I was thinking about you today and wanted to give you a great big high 5!

My Super Stars!

I know that every mom thinks that her kids are the cutest and the smartest, but I know mine are and here's the proof! The other day after school Megan got into the car holding a green ribbon and told me she was one of the winner's in the Reflections contest. What you entered a contest? She said the teachers made all the second graders enter the writing portion of the contest. She wrote the cutest story about our family reunion at Bear Lake. The school had to keep it so I don't have it here to post, but take my word for it-it was a fabulous story!

Maddie was Student of the Month for December. She was so excited to come home and show me her certificate. She got to eat lunch with the principal and they ordered Subway-apparently that is just too awesome for a third grader! It never surprises me when Maddie is picked-every teacher she has ever had just adores her. I have to agree that she every teacher's dream student!

And I had to add these last two pictures because Maddie and Megan have starting matching themselves. All those days of me putting them in matching clothes have rubbed off on them! They have been coordinating their outfits lately all on their own.

Can you believe it's 2009!

Wow! I cannot believe 2008 is over! What a year we've had! It seemed like an uphill battle for most of the year, but all those trials helped me realize how blessed I really am! So I am looking forward to 2009 with a positive attitude and a grateful heart. We had a fun New Year's Eve. Once again we were at my moms. My brother Adam and his family decided to come for a surprise/quick visit and his good friend from Vegas who used to live with our family stopped by for a few hours, so we had a house full. I think every adult would agree with me that it was just REALLY LOUD!

Chloe was ready to ring in the new year! She finally crashed in the car on the way home, at 12:30. All my kids were wide awake and ready to celebrate when the clock struck midnight!The guys had a good game of "Hand and Foot" going. It's a Sullivan tradition on my dad's side.
The women (and some of the guys-although they're not in the picture) played Scattagories. I was so tired, but I wanted to play. I had to think of an exotic place to visit that started with an M. I couldn't think of anything, but something kept popping into my head so I wrote it down. I couldn't remember where the place was, but it sounded good in the moment. I wrote down Mancato and when I said it my sister-in-law Angie busted up laughing. She was laughing so hard, but I did make out the words, "Little House" Then it dawned on me where I heard that name, it's a town on Little House on the Prairie. But hey I was pretty darn tired! And Mancato probably was an exotic place to visit for the prairie folk!
All my kids were scattered about playing with cousins.

Happy NEW YEAR!