Memorial Day Weekend Video

Video taken Memorial Weekend 2010

Spring Morning Rockin' and Rollin'

This morning the weather was gorgeous, clear and sunny and we had a fun rolling/sitting up session on the back deck. Here are a a few videos showing how mobile and goofy Sabrina is these days. I didn't get a video of her sitting up, but she can sit up on her own for 5-10 minutes at a time now. There's still the occasional totter over but with a little supervision and intermittent corrections from one of us, she's a sitterupper.

Great Grandma Halsey Memorial Weekend

Sabrina's Great Grandma Halsey (Dora Jane Halsey) passed away on Tuesday, May 18, 2010...ten days before we were flying out to WI to introduce her to Sabrina. It was such a shame that she did not get to meet our little girl, but she lived a fabulous life and had a huge family to show for it. We spent a sad, but nice, weekend with the entire Halsey crew. We got to see family members who I had never even met (Molly) and Brent hadn't seen in over 10 years. Sabrina was the superstar of the weekend with tons of great smiles and giggles to keep us all laughing despite the circumstances. We had a visitation on Friday night and then a service on Saturday morning, both in Lake Geneva, WI. It was a beautiful day on Saturday with the sun shining and blue sky so the service at the cemetery could not have been more beautiful. We laid Grandma Halsey to rest, went back to the church for some grub, then went to a park where 4 of her great grandsons ran around, played games and climbed trees, Sabrina wiggled and rolled on a blanket in the shade...and we all thought about how much Grandma Halsey would have loved the scene. She touched and created so many lives. It was a wonderful weekend celebrating her life.
We went back to Germantown for the rest of the weekend with Grandma Gail, Grandpa Rich, Aunt Nay and Uncle Rob and Sabrina's cousins Jacob and Josh. This was the first time the boys met Sabrina and it was so adorable to see the two of them try to teach Sabrina things like how to roll over. They were exceptionally sweet to her and gave her tons of pats, hugs and kisses all weekend. We went to the zoo on Sunday and it was the first day that it topped 90 degrees in WI this year and we felt it. Plus the humidity!! Sabrina was a trooper with no complaints about the heat, despite her little body sweating like crazy.
Oh, we also went to the Harley Davidson Museum on Friday afternoon, so there are photos of that as well. Poppy and Uncle Tim will be proud to see Sabrina on a motorcycle!
Here are the photos from the weekend.

May 2010 Update

Check out Sabrina's new toy-playing skills!



(sorry for the poor video quality - it was too bright behind her!)
She is moving so much these days that we really have to watch out with her in the chair on top of the kitchen island. This video was taken on 5/5/2010, but I'm just now posting it. As you may have noticed, it's pretty hard to keep up with postings now that we are both working, but we will continue to do our best. We love recording her milestones and sharing pictures with everybody, so here comes an onslaught of photos to catch up on the past month. I've been working for 4 weeks now and we are really getting into the groove. Sabrina continues to do wonderfully at daycare. They love her and she seems to love them too. She smiles when we drop her off and she's always happy and content when we pick her up. It's such a nice feeling. She's a bottle pro and I am almost perfectly in sync with her with pumping at work. It's still a pain to handle the bottle washing and all, but I got a nice "pumping room" at the office with a beautiful view of the mountains and I can leave my pump and accessories in there all day which makes it much easier to do frequent pumping sessions while working. I even have a picture of Sabrina there which helps a lot.

This week at daycare, her teacher, Hannah, made collages for all the kids that have pictures of their family. So now she can look at all of her aunts, uncles, grandparents...and Pongo each day when she's at daycare. I thought it was a great idea!

Here are some of the highlights of the past few weeks.



Sabrina has definitely entered a phase where EVERYTHING goes into her mouth. Especially things that aren't toys (of course). She loves plastic bags, wrapping paper and ribbons (shown here) and anything with a crinkle or any interesting sound.


Sabrina still loves "senor frog" and we try not to leave home without him. I bought another one a few weeks ago just so we'd never be without him...but usually that means we either have 2 frogs or none. hmm...we'll get better about this toy thing.


Just looking sweet




I had a wonderful first Mother's Day! Brent went all out and made the entire weekend fantastic. We went to a show in Denver on Saturday (thanks Nana & Poppy for babysitting). On Sunday I ran a 9K race in the morning with almost 3000 other moms. It was a gorgeous day and I ran with friends Diedre, Tara and Shannon. The dads hung with the kids at the end and cheered us on as we finished. Then we had Nana, Poppy, Natalie, Kurt and Cecilia over at our house for lunch cooked by the guys. We Moms stayed outside all afternoon and worked (and finished!) the Sunday New York Times Crossword puzzle. Here I am with Tara and Diedre at the finish line and another picture of us enjoying our great lunch.


Sabrina's favorite new toy is this ExcerSaucer - she can spin around in it to play with all the toys around the edge. And, yet again, every toy goes right in her mouth. She has one of these at daycare and they say that she loves it so when a friend at work was getting rid of hers, I snatched it up and Sabrina seems pretty happy about it.


We had lunch with Lea and Erik to celebrate Lea's birthday. We picked up Sabrina from daycare and then dropped her back off after lunch. It was great to see her in the middle of the day. Erik thought she was pretty cute except "she dribbles a lot" - which is true. Could she be teething?








Lisa and Gary just bought a gorgeous new property in North Boulder where they had a BBQ for all of us (before they tear down the house!). Poppy and Sabrina enjoyed the empty living room floor which proved great for rollover practice (we had a good weekend with lots of rollovers) and also we discovered that Sabrina loves the Pillow Game. Which means that Poppy holds her by cradling her in a pillow and swings her towards people and she laughs and laughs and laughs. She has the cutest laugh ever these days and I'll try to catch a good one on film soon.
Ashley is here for a week, ostensibly for her sister-in-law's high school graduation, but we're pretty sure she's just making excuses to come hold Sabrina some more! Sabrina sure loves her and spent a good part of today laughing and smiling at her, both in the car and on a walk downtown to Pearl St.

The only unfortunate news right now is that Sabrina had a cold a few weeks ago and now she has a nasty lingering cough that just won't quit. She's having a hard time sleeping through the night due to the cough, so we've been having a few more middle-of-the-night family bonding sessions than we'd like. Last night was a doozy with a cough-induced spit-up which required a 2am sheet change, dryer session for her swaddle blanket, and call to the on-call nurse at Children's Hospital. Yuck. The nurse said there isn't much more to do than what we're already doing, so we're just hoping that she keeps fighting and can manage to sleep through the night tonight. They won't give a baby her age any type of medicine (which we agree with) but it's hard not to be able to help our little girl. She's sleeping soundly right now so hopefully she'll have a good night.
Sorry for the long post, but I hope you all feel fully up-to-date now! Love to everybody...we're off to another week of work, daycare, volleyball, piano, etc.

Our little girl is growing up

Here is proof that our baby can eat from a bottle! Nana picked her up
from daycare today and is spending the evening with her while I play
volleyball and Brent goes to a software geek meeting. What a big
girl! Also, we had her 4-month appt today and she's still right about
50th percentile for weight, length, and head circumference. She
dropped a bit on the scales because she was between 50 and 75 last
time and now she's between 25 and 50, but basically they just said
that she's average and doing really well. She weighed in at 13 lbs 15
oz and 24 1/4 in long. Developmentally she is right on track as well.
In fact, the doctor described her as "awesome". We couldn't agree more!
She got her next round of shots today too so we will see how she does
tonight. Sorry for the added challenge nana!