Rock Star

Lets just speak truths here. Suri is a total ROCK STAR!

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Trash talkin'

I find it a necessity if you live in Indiana and are a basketball fan that you must learn the "art" of heckling early. I wanted to break Sophia in as early as possible.

On Saturday night we watched the Michigan State v. Butler basketball game down in Madison. I was decked out in my Butler t-shirt and Josh of course was wearing his Michigan State t-shirt. All together now "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!". Anyhow, the game was just awesome and I had been up and down off of the couch frequently pointing in Josh's face and well, basically just "heckling". After Michigan State LOST, and with just a bit of coaching, Sophia walked up to Josh and said "Daddy, you need to take your t-shirt back". HEHEHE! Gotta start 'em young, I tell you. By the time she is in high school she will certainly be prepared to be a proper fan.

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Easter

After our crazy Disney vacation we slept in our own beds for one night, then got in the the car and drove to Madison. We definitely qualify as crazy! However, we had a great time. The girls got to celebrate Easter with family. The Easter bunny found them in Madison and they got to have an Easter egg hunt. Sophia found mama Pam's Fun Dip (or as Sophia calls it "blue mouth") stash, stole from her money jar, and used all of her Aveda shampoo. She was kind to her aunt Kami this trip and did not trash her house. Suri did great, lots of chubby baby smiles. Oh, and we gave her a biter biscuit to try and guess what.............she LOVED it!

And just to drive Dale nuts, I turned on every light in every room I entered and exited without turning them off. Hehehehe...

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Sophia

I love Sophia so much. I love that she is so outgoing. I love that she is spunky and sassy. I love that she has a great imagination. I love that she never walks. I love all of her facial expressions when she is telling a story.

During our trip Sophia met lots of new buddies. I wish I could be as outgoing and confident as her. This is how she would make friends:

Sophia: "What is your name?"

Friend: "Kaden"

Sophia: "Want to know my name?"

Friend: "yes"

Sophia: "My name is Sophie."

Sophia: "How many are you?"

Friend: "6"

Sophia: "I'm four"


It is so cute to see kiddos having real conversations. Sophia has no trouble talking to anyone. I love that about her.

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Disney World 2010- highlights

We had a fantastic time in Disney World. We hit up all of the parks: Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and Epcot. Needless to say, I am completely whipped. Here are some of the highlights:

-Suri's first airplane ride
-Sophia riding Tower of Terror, Test Track, Splash Mountain, Thunder mountain, Soarin'
-Playing in the pool with Sophs and Surs
-Eating Dinner at Germany in Epcot
-The Luau at the Polynesian
-Seeing Sophia's face when we found Mulan
-Grey Goose Slushies in Epcot
-Mastering the "fast-pass" and "baby swap" perks at the the parks. Never standing in line more than 25 minutes.
-We had the most beautiful weather all week.

We made it back in town today. Just in time to turn around tomorrow and drive to Madison.

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Totally ready!

Is it bad that I love dressing these girls alike? They are both totally ready for a Magical trip.

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WARNING

This is an official WARNING to Mulan. Please know that the stalking begins very soon. Don't try and hide. We will find you.

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Jumperoo

Suri Jean definitely gets her exercise everyday. She just bounces and bounces in her jumperoo. She absolutely loves this thing. I knew the time would come when the sound of those springs would drive me a little crazy. Silly girl.

Mommy friends

Today I took my sweet Sophia to a friend's birthday party. It was a fun day. Sophia got to feel like all of my attention was on her and she got to play with her buddies. Sophs really is a sweet girl, though she does have those "sassy" moments.

It was also nice to get to chit chat with other moms. I think it is so easy to get wrapped up in your own busy, crazy, hectic work and home life that you forget how nice it is to get to relate to and talk to other moms/friends.


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Sitting

Miss Suri Jean surprised us this morning by reaching a milestone. She is sitting on her own. Yeah for Surs! You can tell she is working hard to keep her balance but she did it none the less. You go girl!

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Boys will be boys

Thursday evening Josh's brothers drove down for a visit. It was so nice to see Zack and Kyle however there were a few things I noticed. Here goes:

1. I regularly trip over Josh's huge shoes right at our front door. During their visit I tripled the times I tripped with all of the super huge man shoes just strewn about on our family room floor.

2. With three Sabol boys in our small house the downstairs bathroom always stunk! Yeah, that is right boys, I'm totally calling you out.

3. Just because zack and Kyle are grown men doesn't mean that you can leave your children alone with them. Well, Zack you are good, but Kyle......well I will not bring up the unfortunate incident at the park, but lets just say 1 more strike and you lose uncle privileges all together.

4. If Josh says "that's what she said" one more time I'm sending him back to Michigan. It was not helpful having Josh's brothers down to set him up for the statement.

5. Boys talk about sports, and watch sports, and read about sports. What else you got? I'm bored.



So, there you have it. Boys will be boys.

Sophia loved having her uncles down and Suri must have as well because all she did was smile.

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Fresh Air

Today was a beautiful day. The sun was shining and the birds were chirping. We headed out to the park to take advantage of the gorgeous weather. Sophs had a ball and Suri enjoyed snuggling up with me.

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Baby rolls

All I have to say is I LOVE BABY ROLLS!

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Cousins

This weekend the girls and I headed down to Madison, IN to visit with my family. The girls got to spend some time with all of their cousins and even got to go to Kennedy's birthday party, and I will say that my cousin Whitney made THE CUTEST cake ever.

Sophia, once again, managed to tear Kami and Mark's toy room apart. The first thing she did when she got there was ran to the toy room and put a superwoman costume. Suri and Izzy Boo rolled around on the floor together and did a little baby wrestling. Surs usually wrestles in a higher weight class than Izzy but we didn't follow rules.

Mama Pam made the mistake of buying a large box of Fun Dip for the kiddos, not thinking of course that she would be the one cleaning all of the sugary mess off of the floors. Lesson learned Pamela?

Guess what Sophia and I watched on Pamela and Dale's movie screen? MULAN!

I have tonight off as Josh will be getting up with Surs and tending to all of Sophia's 4 year old needs. I plan on camping out on my bed with the heating pad on my back (thank you 18 pound child and punkin' seat) watching a bunch of terrible DVR'd reality TV (and Mercy of course).

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Check up

I thought it would be a great idea to schedule both girls' check ups at the same time on Friday. Come to find out this is not such a great idea. Yes, it saves you a trip to the pediatrician, but the chaos of keeping Sophia out of the doctor's equipment and making sure Suri didn't roll off of of the exam table wore me out. On a good note, both girls had great exams.

Sophia: 75th percentile in height (41.5 inches without shoes), weight 75th percentile (I've forgotten exact weight)

Suri: 97th percentile in height (28 inches), 70th percentile in weight (18 lbs)

Madison, Indiana

This weekend the girls and I are heading to my hometown of Madison, IN. We plan on visiting grandmas, grandpa, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. It is so nice to visit Madison.

As Sophia would say "it is so stinkin' cute". It really is. Downtown Madison has the cutest little shops and restaurants. More than anything is is just so pleasant to just walk downtown and enjoy the scenery. My favorite downtown stops are The Attic (for their yummy pie), the Downtowner (for their fabu food), and Rock a Bye Lady (for their cutesy kids stuff).

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Favorite Things

Suri Jean has developed some favorites. Here they are:

Parent: Me, of course (just kidding Josh)

Food: Sweet Potatoes and applesauce

Toy: Baby Einstein ball (see picture); She absolutely loves this toy and will bop herself in the head with it over and over and it doesn't seem to bother her.

Blanket: White handmade blankie from Grandma Geegee

Baby Gear: Jumperoo, big fan

Exercise: Sit-ups. Seriously, I will hold her little chub legs and she can sit herself straight up.

Games: Peek-a-boo

Nicknames: She prefers and responds more to Boo-boo or Surs

She continues to be a happy baby. Night time is not going great. She still wakes up twice hungry. She still just takes about 5 ounces at a time and then falls asleep, so I don't think she is getting completely full. She loves her bath time and I would let her bathe longer if it didn't break my back leaning over the tub. She still loves her baby massages although Sophia has started moving in on her time asking for her baby massage as well. Suri has become more mobile s of this past weekend. She is not crawling but she is darn close. I try to get her down on the floor at least once an evening for about a half an hour. She is tolerating tummy time much better. She is rolling all over the place and has now officially become unsafe to lay on the bed unattended. So, there you have it. My Surs is growing up.

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Left Unattended..well, sort of...

I have made it a goal everyday to get a few things together for Disney. This usually takes about 15 minutes. Today, I left the girls unattended....well sort of. They might as well have been unattended because Josh was watching the Michigan v. Michigan State game

Tangent-(stick with me here). So speaking of Michigan, Josh actually tried to get Sophia to say that Michigan was "her" team. Now, that is all sorts of wrong, and almost sinful. I nipped that in the bud quickly. (Yep, I said nip again...pervs!)

Okay, back to the 15 minutes of packing with the girls left unattended. So, I come back downstairs and I find Sophia with dark eye shadow on her eyebrows and Suri, poor thing, with a Happy 1st Birthday hat on her head. Only wondering how many times Sophia probably snapped her with the elastic band before finally getting it to stay on.

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Alice in Wonderland

Yesterday evening Sophia and I had a date. We went to see Alice in Wonderland. I was a bit hesitant to take Sophs to this because it just looked.........for lack of a better word, WEIRD! As a child I watched Alice in Wonderland (the made for TV version) over and over on my grandma's VCR. Not scary at all. Sophia insisted that she wanted to go and Josh thought she would do just fine as well. To my surprise, the movie was VERY good. I enjoyed it as much as any kid I think. Sophia was only scared when the dragon, or jaberwacki (not sure how to spell it) showed up. Even then all she did was snuggle in a bit.

The only "scene" we made on this night out was when the red queen showed up and said "Off with her head". Sophia then yelled out "Mommy, Off with her head". There were a few laughs in the theatre after that.

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Praying Mantis

Suri Jean has, I hope, gotten over her brief illness. Her fever was elevated for just a day and a half. She seems as though she is back to her smiling self. I wanted to capture her in one of her favorite "poses". For some reason Surs always clasps her little hands together making it look like she is praying. At times she holds her little hands so tight that they start turning blue. That can't be good.

We are also starting to pack for Disney World. Woo Hoo! I don't want to say the exact dates we are going for fear of someone breaking into our house and cleaning it. Heck, I should just leave the door unlocked so people could just come in and take stuff. Decluttering at its finest. Back to the Disney trip. I am a little concerned with how much stuff we are having to tote through the airport. One baby in a front carrier, a 4 year old in a stroller, 3 suit cases, 2 car seats, and 3 carry-ons. Not real sure how we are going to get from the long term parking area to the terminal. I guess I should just worry about that later and focus on making sure me and the girls have everything we need for the trip. Josh is on his own. I only have enough brains for 3.

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A Sick Suri

Poor Suri ended the evening last night feeling pretty lousy. I spent a good portion of the morning at the pediatricians office and came home with antibiotics. Poor thing. She seems to have bouts of energy, quickly followed by hours of fussiness. Lets hope this is a short illness. As you can tell by the picture, this was an energetic moment.

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