I can't believe it!

Just an ordinary day here....

What's on TV Dad?

Until I put little Sakura chan in the laundry basket beside Daddy who had just finished exercising and she STOOD UP!

Getting ready.........

Such a big brave girl

I couldn't believe it, but it was all captured on "digital media"...LOL, this is the first time she's ever stood up.

A little road trip

Some pictures from the weekend. Still on the laptop so I'll be short and sweet.

We were at my Mom's for a few days and here are the pictures from our time there, the order is all mixed up, but since I'm using the laptop, I don't have the energy to move them into chronological order....bear with the 'back and forth'.

It's always nice to catch up with the Galakatos family when we head to Phoenix. They were the first family we met once we signed up with ATWA, when Sinclair was only 7 months old - which Sakura is now :) It's amazing how much Sinclair has grown and changed since we first met - she is now 18 months old, and Amy says that she says about 50 words, it is truly amazing to listen to her talk. She can repeat anything - and boy can she eat! Sinclair is a beautiful little girl, we just love her! Thanks so much Galakatos family for always catching up with us, and thank you for the Big Bird visits Japan DVD, we can't wait to watch it!

Sakura LOVES Grandma's pool - she kicks her feet when we tell her "kick, kick, kick", and moves across the pool, Dean commented that she could probably go the entire length! The water was COLD - I was shocked that she liked it in there, but she didn't let cold water slow her down - I don't take her in the heat of the day, it probably would have felt better much earlier in the day! While we were at Grandma and Papa's - Sakura tried her first baked (smashed) potato, there is a picture with her expression - she did not like it one bit! I'm hoping that she changes that though, as I would eat a potato for every single meal if I could!

Daddy's and their girls!

Amy, Cory, Sinclair and us after dinner at Oregano's - Yumm!

Sweet Sinclair showing her pretty bracelet to Sakura

Sakura ended up catching Daddy's cold...and just rubbed her nose all over Dad's nice black shirt

Poor sick baby - her eyes look so droopy

Grandma and Sakura at lunch at Kabuki's

Mica (Papa's dog) and Sakura trying to get Mica's foot

Sakura ready to go to dinner with the Galakatos family, Grandma bought these cute hair bows!

Trying out regular potato....as you can see by the look on her face, not a fan!

Swimming with Grandma

LOVING the pool, she kicks her feet so hard she bounces over to you, it's SO cute!

Swinging in Zakk's swing while Daddy inflates the ladybug float

Playing with her new laptop toy

Talking to Grandma about the laptop toy - I want to close it Grandma!

Binkie baby

Hanging out with Grandma after a bottle and dinner with the Galakatos family

My binkie

Mobile...crawling, but no video (yet)

Getting ready for her bath, playing with her baby on Mommy and Daddy's bed

Rolled up in the blankets

Clean baby

Droolin' in her Bouce-A-Bout

It's TOO Funny watching Sakura get where she wants to go...and a lot of work keeping track of where she is headed and what she is getting in to! No video yet, both camera's are out of memory sticks and I have to get one (very soon!). In the meantime here are a couple of happy girl face pictures. She finds making a clicking noise quite entertaining and wrinkles up her nose at it every time (this week - LOL!).

Unfortunately our desktop computer decided that it's tired and won't power up, so my posts are going to be 'short and sweet' - since I'm having to resort to the laptop and you all know how much I LOVE posting from the laptop :P (haha!), it's off to the Geek Squad tomorrow! Dean can't take not having access to his iTunes - LOL!

Already a fan???

I've always been a Kristi Yamaguchi fan....I love watching figure skating, but only when Kristi is skating, or one of my other favorites. Do I have another fan in the midst?

Watching Kristi

Teething???? Who knows?!

This morning when I got Sakura up, she had the worst case of bed head, almost like cotton (definitely just like Daddy in that respect!) - too funny, so when I wet her hair down, I figured I'd give her a "new do" for a couple of minutes, hilariously her hair dried in those few minutes and was still standing up. I managed to comb it down/over and put her clip in though....all is well :)

All is well, back to normal hairclip attached, now lets see if we can break our gums with this hard toy?

HOLDING onto Yancha Bozu

Sleeping soundly on Mommy's shoulder, maybe tonight I'll try just holding her all night, she might sleep? Should have bought a rocking chair!

The last couple of nights sweet little Sakura chan has been waking up SCREAMING around 12:30 - last night Dean thought he heard "Ma-Ma" and said that she sounded like she was in pain, so I gave her some teething tablets and a little bit later she was back asleep, unfortunately it only lasted for 1 hour and then back awake crying....I decided to take her to the loveseat and try to let Daddy sleep. Sakura was sort of asleep, just thrashing around and waving her arm trying to fly (all in her sleep) needless to say, I didn't get any sleep. When Dean left for work, I put her back in her crib and she slept a couple more hours, then when I went to get her up, she was chewing (hard) on her binkie, holding it to the right side, where she always chews on things....Teething? Who knows?!

Da-Da

Exciting week for Da-Da...Sakura said Da-Da on Monday (Aug 17) for the first time, but Da-Da was at work and couldn't be found (interviewing for new hires), so he didn't actually get to hear it until maybe Wednesday when we heard Sakura say "Daddy" while she was jumping in her jumperoo.

Sakura has been a babbling baby as of late, it's quite funny watching and listening to her babble, I think she is going to be quite the little chatterbox once this babbling forms real words, she will definitely take after Mommy if that's the case, Daddy is man of very few words (UNTIL you get to know him!).

Sakura is really gearing up for crawling, she loves to get up on her knees and moves around using her arms....I'm bad - I pick her up when I see her do the 'rocking' motion, she has also been "crawling" up my arm when I get her out of her crib. Pretty cute!

The pics are from this week in review. The little denim outfit is one that I bought back when I was pregnant and I held onto it all these years (like 16).

Jumping, Jumping, Jumping

Getting ready for a smackeral of bug legs in her new jammies from Uncle Matty

Just droolin'

Baby Guess outfit Mommy bought a very long time ago!

Favorite new sound.....

Raspberries!

Sakura has figured out how to make raspberry noises and does it ALL the time now!

It's pretty funny - she is jumping in her jumper in the video (it's not the easiest to focus when she's moving around a bunch, so bear with the shaking camera).

Toward the end she makes her sounds.