Tuesday, August 10, 2010

100th post!!!

Wow, 100 posts! An even bigger wow, it's been almost a month since the 99th post!! What can I say?... we've been busy around here.
Well, let's get you guys up to date...
First of all, I guess my background was deleted off the website I got it from. Oh well, I got a cute new one. You like?
Anyway, Chloe is a little machine that never stops. She learned to run a couple weeks ago so she's even more non stop all the time. She's still working on coordination though, so she keeps me on my toes.
Her language skills are exploding!! She tries to repeat everything, EVERYTHING you say, so kindly watch yourselves if you're ever around my kid. Thanks. She's putting two word sentences together sometimes. Popular and most recent ones are "bye-bye, Elmo", "Elmo book", "Go bye-bye", and 1 or 2 others that I can't remember. She can speak fluently in complete sentences in her own little language, but she's the only one that can.
She knows all the basic animal sounds, and some not so basic ones like, dolphin, and llama and lizard (sort of). She love, Loves, LOVES to read. Reading, running, and Elmo are her most favorite things on the planet.
She also knows all of her facial features and some other body parts, like hands, toes, and arms. She's discovered her hair. Occasionally she'll reach behind her head and start playing with it. It's really more like pulling though...
In other news, since our vacation has come and gone (post coming soon... hopefully) and our savings account has been replenished, we have truly begun saving for a house! I've made it my personal goal to have us in a house, or at least in the process of buying, by May of next year at the latest.
We took a day trip on Saturday down to Mansfield, MO for the 2010 Swofford Family Reunion. It was fun to see everyone and show off my baby and my husband to everyone. It's been such a long time since I've been to one.

This is a picture of my grandma, my mom, Chloe, and I at the reunion. 4 generations of women.

That's all for now. Hopefully it won't be another month before I post again.....

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Chloe Fun Facts

I thought I would take some time (what little time there is around here) to update on some fun, quirky things about Chloe.

Chloe Marie Savage...
won't eat real fruit, except bananas, but she'll eat all kinds of vegetables

she has to back up to and sit on EVERYTHING

as of tonight, she's become a head-banger while dancing

has a small freckle on her ankle, just like me

she's 14 months old and still in mostly size 6-9 month clothing

just got her first pair of size 3 shoes yesterday, and they're still a little big

is a major mama's girl,

and...
she has an extreme love for Elmo to the point where we can't say his name out loud... or else

Sunday, July 4, 2010

A Few Loose Ends...

We're preparing to go on vacation soon and I wanted to tie up "a few loose ends".
Here are some pictures from several posts I've been wanting and meaning to do, but just haven't found the time.


Chloe's reading corner. I have a video of this I'll have to post later. It's sooooo cute.


A pic from our little "mommy and Chloe photo shoot" we had.


Finally moved up to the front facing car seat. We moved her up like a pound before we were supposed to, but oh well.


Getting comfy with her basket of stuffed animals.


First spaghetti dinner (that she fed herself).