8 months old

Savannah is 8 months old!! Wow!! Last year at this time we had just found out that we were expecting a baby girl. Pretty crazy. This month Savannah "graduated" from her ECFE Baby Class. She has also had her first boo-boos. She loves to try to climb and walk but just isn't there yet; which results in her head crashing into many surfaces. So we have got the looks at the store like "oh my gosh what did you do to your kid." If they only knew you can't keep this kid still:-)

Savannah is still teething--NOT FUN for anyone. You can see the bumps for 4 teeth on the bottom & 4 on the top. We are just praying that these come in quickly because they have been causing trouble for over a month. It is bad when your kid knows the orajel & Motrin bottle. This hasn't slowed down her appetite. She LOVES eating bananas, Ritz wheat crackers, watermelon, crescent rolls, & wheat toast. However, she likes sharing with Izzy.

Matt and I started renovating our guest bathroom last weekend. Right now it is completely gutted to the studs in some places and is done to the concrete floor. We are looking forward to hopefully getting some tiled laid within the next week or so but we will see. Everything is just a bit harder with a little one. We have got all of our flowers & veggies planted. Savannah loves to try to eat the blooms & she loves to smell the mint & basil:-)

Next month Savannah starts some new classes. Saturdays she is going to swim lessons with daddy and on Thursdays she has baby story time. The story time is a great class that our library provides for free in the summer for babies to elementary age kids--it will be great to meet some more parents in our community.

That is about it for now from MN. We will be in IN on a very brief visit for Katie & Drew's wedding so we will post some pics from that when we return. Enjoy the pictures & see some of you in about a weeek!

Matt, Jeri, Savannah, & Izzy

http://picasaweb.google.com/jeri.purdy/8MonthsOld?authkey=Gv1sRgCMW3r9G-hIqFbg&feat=directlink

My 1st Mother's Day

This past weekend was my first official Mother's Day:-)!! It also has been exactly 1 year since we moved to MN. Wow--time has flown by. We had a great weekend just enjoying being at home. I am lucky to have a great husband that made the day very special. We had a great day of grilling, cleaning up the basement & windows, organizing for the neighborhood garage sale next weekend, and a long walk around one of the lakes by our house. I know most moms wouldn't get excited about cleaning on Mother's Day but I am an odd duck:-) It is nice to just relax at home and take it all in:-). Oh I almost forgot--Matt's present was getting our 1st family pics taken:-) So at the end of June we will have some professional pictures of the 4 of us!

Savannah is changing daily. She is talking away. She can say dada, baba, bob(we don't know where that came from), mama(just on Sat. good timing), and Izz(yes the dog came before mama-haha). It is very cute:-) She also loves giving kisses so sweet especially when she trys to give them to Izzy. Savannah is also pulling herself up and standing---yes we know what comes next. She loves to walk while holding onto your fingers and she can really move--we are in for a fun summer:-). She has reached a lot of milestones within the last 2 weeks--everyday we wake up we wonder what she will show us today. It is so exciting to see her grow and change but a little sad because it is all happening so fast.

Below is a link for some of the newest pics. We have had our first trip to the park and she loved the swings:-) Enjoy the pics and have a great week!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/jeri.purdy/May09?authkey=Gv1sRgCMXqv4HTie-52QE&feat=directlink

Matt, Jeri, Savannah, and Izzy