One Year Ago.....

It's been exactly one year since our little Sara had surgery to fix her pinched aorta. She has grown so much since then! And as I said last month after her checkup with the Cardiologist, we are continually grateful that Sara was born in a time when she was able to have surgery and recover from what otherwise would have been a fatal birth defect. Now, one year later, she is a strong, healthy, happy little girl, and we love her more and more every day! Hooray for baby Sara!!

Walk this way

Sara has finally decided that walking is preferable to crawling. She's been using her feet as her primary mode of transportation for a little over a week now. Here's some video to prove it!

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The best form of flattery

I like to think that I'm creative, but mostly I'm just good at copying people who really are creative. Take this recently completed art/photo wall in Sara's bedroom for example.


First I saw this really cool alphabet name poster here, and after spending way too much time playing with their "customize your own" feature, I thought to myself, "I could make that!"

So I did.


Then I saw this awesome elephant collage here, and a similar screen print of more elephants on the same website here (and I have always loved elephants!) so I thought to myself, "I could make that!"

So I did.


They both differ slightly from their respective originals (obviously I used different paper for my elephants than Petite Collage did, and my alphabet poster is in ABC order instead of randomized), but for the most part, they are just blatant copies. It sure would be nice if I could think of creative stuff to make all on my own. But for now I'm good with just making slightly different versions of the cool things I see online.

So, the take-home message from this story is: go be creative so I can copy you!

Photo Fun

I'd love to get an actual painting of us done. This is just a photo we were playing around with. Kind of fun!