The Porch

I've been saying for months that I would post before and after pictures of the porch. Although we still have to put some lattice underneath, work on landscaping, and figure out how or if we will do screening, it is ready for enjoyment. Thank you to my parents and Greg for their hours of work that went into this project!

The porch before--a small entry space that was rotting.


The porch after--a pleasant place to enjoy a nice day.

I Love Books

In the last week Sarah has become very interested in books. She likes to take them all off of her bookshelf and look at them. She picks out her favorite, crawls over to you, and holds up the book until you start to read it. She sits and turns the pages. It is very cute, but tiring after many hours (I am sure the mothers reading this can sympathize).

She continues to climb on anything and now is completely fascinated with the stairs. I tried to tire her our today for her nap and let her go up them four times. It didn't seem to slow her down or make her lose interest. She even climbed the 8 foot step ladder we had out on the porch while we were painting (not to worry, daddy was behind her). We are amazed at how fearless she is and recall how we were the same as children. I guess common sense won't kick in for another 20 years or so (or later if she's anything like us).

Climbing

Sarah has decided that she really enjoys climbing. This weekend she was climbing over us, on the drawer of the stove, on the door of the dishwasher (I didn't get a picture of that one), up the stairs in the kitchen (she thought that was funny), and on the box of her new baby gate. Yes, it was after she climbed on the box of the gate that we decided we should really put it up. She wants to get into everything in the kitchen and just loves climbing up the stairs (She eventually decided when she couldn't figure out how to go down that she should just keep going up and proceeded to climb all the way upstairs.)

We installed the baby gate on the kitchen door, which Sarah thought was really fun (first photo below). She stood up and played on the bars laughing at me on the other side. Then she soon realized that she could not go through the gate, which led to the photo on the bottom of her crying. I found this rather amusing, which I know isn't very nice, but it was hard to resist. I hope she gets used to it or happy Sarah may become irratable Sarah.