November 13, 2011

November

By Sarah Garot

It has been two months since we posted on the blog, so I don’t blame anyone if you don’t check anymore.  October passed in a blink of an eye and now we’re creeping up on the holidays.  Audrey continues to be the center of our world.  She is at such a fun age where she is learning all of the time.  She says new words all of the time and you can see her practicing with sounds when she says worlds like “c-c-c-cold” and “giraffe” with an emphasis on the “affe”.  Unfortunately a few of her words sound like words we don’t say at this point so we’re working on that.

She loves books, puzzles, watching sesame street, playing outside, drawing, stacking and playing with her toy kitchen.  I don’t know how she has so much energy.  I am mostly working four day weeks now which has been much much better for feeling as though I have balance in life.  October has been very busy as far as my photography business in concern which has been both exciting and exhausting.

Here are a few recent pictures!

Nurse Audrey on Halloween

Bubbles

On the Wall

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September 3, 2011

By Sarah Garot

Last weekend we had family in town for a visit.  Josh and Erin came with their four children to have one last summer hurrah and to meet their new niece/cousin, baby Elise.  Grandma came along with them.  We had a great time enjoying Chattanooga activities but I’m not sure that I would be able to keep up for much more than a weekend…. Audrey seemed to love having the other kids around and she was able to try lots of new activities.  She still is learning things at such an incredible rate.  She says more and more and surprises me when I ask her a question and she responds with an appropriate answer.  At her 15 month check up she was 30 1/2 inches tall and 20 lbs, so she is still a little petite, but she definitely has spunk and can hold her own.

Here are some of the pictures from the weekend.  The biggest hit was cardboard sledding…perfect for Chattanooga with the big hills, and you don’t even get cold and wet.

 

Caleb

Naomi and Anita

Garots

Kids ready to race

 

Isaac

There was water fun both at the park and a pool…

 

Audrey, Caleb, Naomi and Anita

Anita

Anne and Elise

Caleb off the diving board

Chris and Audrey

Grandma with Audrey and Isaac

Cousins

Metzler family

 

And just hanging out…

 

Holding Elise

Anita and Elise

Playing poker

 

 

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August 7, 2011

Staying cool

By Sarah Garot

It has been a hot hot summer.  We are doing what we can to stay cool but it’s been hard with so many 100 degree days.  Audrey is more independent and opinionated by the day.  She has taken to throwing tantrums when she doesn’t get what she wants and she centipedes backwards across the floor.  This week at daycare she got into an ant hill and her little legs were covered in bites.  She somehow did not seem to notice them which I was very thankful for.

During the month of July we had a lot of visitors.  One of my best friends, Sarah, her husband and 5 1/2 month old came for a visit.  It was wonderful to see them for more than an hour.  And then my sister, Anne, had a baby on July 22nd so we have had/will have some visitors because of that.

Here are a few recent pictures from our life.  They mostly involve water :)   Oh, and some have my watermark on it….sorry….I sent them out of my program the wrong way.

 

Water bottle fun

Playing at Drew's house

A drink from the hose

With Grandma and fishlipped Grandpa

Sprinkler

Baby Elise

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July 5, 2011

Great weekend

By Sarah Garot

This was the first weekend since our vacation in May that we had nothing to do.  Chris wasn’t working and we hadn’t committed to doing anything with anyone (a little unusual).  We had a great time just hanging out and trying to stay cool.  Sat. night we went downtown and let Audrey play in the water by the aquarium and ate some ice cream.  Audrey loves ice cream…I have no idea where she would have gotten that from.  Sunday we went to the farmers market and played in the sprinkler at home.  We had a great time.  Here’s a few pictures from the weekend.

 

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June 28, 2011

Summer fun

By Sarah Garot

The month of June has been flying by.  We have had some family visits which is always wonderful.  Audrey has gotten to see two sets of her grandparents and she has shown off her new walking skills.  When she moved up to her new daycare class the week after we got back from vacation she started walking the very first.  She had to keep up with the big kids…  She also loves to be outside whether it is weeding (playing in the dirt), playing in water, or just exploring.   Here are some recent pictures from life.

With Wafu and Manu

Walking

Dinner

A new way to drink from a sippy...

With Grandpa

With Grandma

So happy

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May 23, 2011

Myrtle Beach

By Sarah Garot

We spent last week in Myrtle Beach for a family get together.  We rented a four bedroom place that had access to pools, a small water park and the ocean.  It wasn’t the busy season which was nice in that we had a lot of the beach area to ourselves.  Chris was able to do some metal detecting with the older girls and found lots of treasures including a bunch of paper clips and a few coins.  There were a lot of good shells to find the last few days that we were there and we had a great time searching for them.  Audrey seemed to like the beach more than the pool.  Particularly the sand.  She ate the sand by the handful and tried to drink the ocean water.  We might not give her enough salt in her diet :)   The weather was a little cool for swimming but perfect for being outside and we enjoyed every minute of it.

Chris did have an injury where one of the hotels beach umbrellas was blown away by the wind and hit him in the head, knocking him out of his chair.  It was a little close to Audrey’s head for comfort and he has had a knot ever since.  He made up for it by being the undefeated champion in Quiddler.

Here’s some pictures from the beach.

Audrey

Audrey and Brody (2 weeks apart in age)

Chloe, Angie and Brody

Eating sand

Please take my sunglasses off...

Brody

Reese

Chloe, Bailey and Kylie

Loves the ocean

And the sand

Cousins

With Dad on the lazy river

Sweet glitter tattoo

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May 12, 2011

Audrey’s 1st Birthday

By Sarah Garot

I can’t believe it has been so long since I last wrote.  I have had a draft sitting here ready to go for over a month that I’m not going to put out now because it is too late.  But today Audrey turned one, and that is something I need to write about.

We celebrated over the weekend with a party at the Riverpark.  My brother and sister traveled from out of town to be here for the weekend and it made it extra special to have them here to celebrate.  Four of my good friends have daughters within 6 months of Audrey so they all came to the park to help celebrate.  Audrey was not very interested in her birthday cake but did at least taste it.

She is taking a few steps here and there.  And she is so interested in everything.  I find so much joy in watching her take in the world around her and learn.

Audrey with Dad

Audrey with Mom

Aunt Rebecca

Aunt Anne

Audrey and Drew

Molly and Drew

Mary Katherine and Sydney

April and Piper

Uncle Jon and Aunt Rebecca

Audrey and Mom

Getting ready for cake

Trying it out

Done

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March 27, 2011

Sarah’s new website

By Chris Garot

Thought I would let you all know that I have been working on Sarah’s new website for her new Photography habit and wanted to get your input on any changes you might suggest.  Any input would be greatly appreciated.  You can check it here.  Anyway as you all know Audrey has been sick and we have seen more diarrhea than we would care to have, but she seems to be getting better.  The last two nights have not been good with her sleep, but hopefully tonight things will be better.   Well I am off to bed soon.  Hope you all have a great night and we miss you all.

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March 1, 2011

Life

By Sarah Garot

Life has seemed very busy lately.  Chris had to work a day last weekend and is working one this coming weekend so that just makes the weeks kind of run together.  Audrey was sick about a week and a half ago with a fever and then rash, but she was over it after a few days.  It did disrupt her sleep schedule again so we are back to getting up at least twice a night.  Every day she seems more interested in the world.  She is still cruising around furniture but not taking any solo steps.  She climbed all the way up the stairs for the first time today but then had no interest in trying to get down.  She eats more and more food off of our plates and seems to love feeding herself.  Audrey loves being read to, but only Brown Bear, The Wheels On the Bus and Lullabye Little One.  If I try to read her something else she will start growling at me and slap the book out of my hands.  She is opinionated :)

I am taking a photography class on Monday nights and it has been a lot of fun.  However I am so happy I’m not in school regularly because it is tiring to go from work to class…even a class that I’m enjoying.  My work is slower than ever and I have started to look at other options.  I’m trying to weigh out what would be best right now.

Pigtails!

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February 17, 2011

Nine Months

By Sarah Garot

It is hard to believe that Audrey is nine months.  She has now been in this world as long as she was in my belly :)   We went to the doctor yesterday and she is doing well.  She was 26 and 3/4 inches and weighed 16 lbs 11 ounces.  That put her in the 50th percentile for everything.  I asked the doctor about how much we should let Audrey eat because sometimes it seems that she would eat Cheerios from morning to night (like her Uncle Josh).  The doctor said to let her eat until she stops so we will see how that works.  Audrey’s ears looked fine.

Chris got Audrey an activity table from a co-worker.  Audrey has really enjoyed it and is getting more practice walking as she cruises around it.  I put it in the kitchen yesterday and she pushed it back and forth across the tile like it was a walker.  She likes to move.

We finished our second wood working project.  We made some $10 shelves off of www.ana-white.com to put over our tv so we would have a place for pictures and videos.  They cost us a little bit more than $10 since we used better wood but I am very happy with how they turned out and I feel like we are ready for bigger projects.  Particularly since I got a hand sander for Christmas.  That makes a huge difference.  I need to get some other frames to put on the shelves since those are the ones from our guest bedroom, but it gives a general idea.

Spring is around the corner and flowers are starting to poke through the ground.  They are predicting another 60 degree weekend so we are looking forward to that.

The only pictures of Audrey I have from this last week are from a day when she got into the Kleenex and Chris documented her fun.  She had a fantastic time…as expected.

Getting into the Kleenex

So much fun!

Shelves - they look better in person

Here is a video of Audrey playing with her new toy.  Please ignore my singing in the background…

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