HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANA!

Happy Birthday Nana! We had such a fun time celebrating with you at Hollyhock Hill on Sunday. We enjoyed our fried chicken and mashed potatoes & green beans plus cake AND ice cream for dessert. Hollyhock is one of Sarah's favorite! We love you very much Nana.

Sarah has really enjoyed going to the Children's Museum (only a mile from our house!). Today, her favorite spot was the sand table in Playscape. She shares and plays very nicely with the other kids. We played at the sandtable for at least 30 minutes today. At first, she wasn't sure about getting her hands dirty in the sand but then saw that it was ok and enjoyed playing with all the little toys. She loves walking (we leave the stroller in the car) all around the museum. So far, she does a great job taking my hand. We missed going to the museum this past Saturday with Andy's friend from high school and his family. Sarah took a 4 hour nap. She didn't miss dinner at her favorite Mexican place in Broad Ripple. She gobbled up her refried beans & rice and her quesadillas and used her fork. She loved dipping (no double dipping for her) her chip in the salsa and loved the salsa. She takes after her daddy on that. For lunch, she has loved bean & rice burritos with cheese and avocado. She stays very busy. Her favorites still include her dollhouses and Leap Frog DVD. At Nana & Bon Papa's, all she wants to do is go upstairs and do puzzles. She loves puzzles and can get some pretty challenging ones.

Her two top front teeth are getting better. The one is sliding back down into place but the other is still a little loose. We'll do back to the dentist next week to get them checked again.

22 & 23 Month Photos

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100th Post on the Tresize Trio!

This marks my 100th post on the Tresize Trio blog! Thanks for following along!

Anyone in Indianapolis knows that it has been cold with lots of ice. Which means, lots of playing inside for the past three days. We are so fortunate that Andy has had the past three days off of work so it hasn't been that bad having Daddy home all day to play. I would say the activity that we've done the most is read her Bear books. Aunt Carol passed along Adrian & Neil's favorite stories about Eddie and his teddy Freddie. There are three books in the series. Her favorite is the one where Eddie, his teddie Freddie, and Mom picnic in the woods. She loves the part at the end when the bear eats the blueberry pie and goes yum, yum. Sarah will always say yum yum at the end of the book. She also likes it when Eddie calls for help. Help is one of Sarah's favorite words. When she is trying to do something and she can't quite get it, we've been trying to teach her to ask Mommy or Daddy to help her. So now, we hear her say (usually very loudly) "Help, Mama" or "Help, Dada." Over the past couple weeks, she is putting words together to make short sentences (such as "all done," "night night bugs," "hi mama (dada, nana, bon papa),"

She continues to love learning her letters. She knows all her letters know and loves to look for letters. We had to wait in line at the post office for over 20 minutes and the whole time she looked about for letters. Thanks to Leap Frog Letter Factory, she loves letters and phonics.

A new thing she loves to do is dance with Daddy to Elvis or Ray Charles. Sarah will go and get her pillow and have Andy hold her in his arms. She gets so relaxed dancing with daddy.

Sarah's teeth are doing better after her spill on Friday. She has been such a healthy girl with no sick visits to the doctors nor accidents. However, on Friday evening after dinner, we were all playing in the living room and she tripped and fell on the rug and knocked one of her front teeth up into her gum. Thankfully, we found a wonderful pediadric dentist. She did excellent at her trip to the dentist (thank you for all the prayers for us and thank you glamma). We have to go back a few times over the next couple weeks to keep an eye on the tooth and the dentist will take x-rays each time to check to be sure the roots are still alive. The tooth should fall back into place over the next couple weeks along as an infection doesn't occur. Maybe this incident will lead Sarah to be a dentist. Glamma thinks she would be a perfect dentist, especially with her fine motor skills.

My doctor's appointment for baby t went well. The doctor did the routine test for gestational diabetes and that came back negative. Everything is right on track!