Not Quite a Crawl

It has been another fabulous week up here in Spokane. The rain has started to come and some snow up in the mountains. School is getting close to finals so the days in the library are getting longer. Sasha is starting to figure out how to wave. She's not quite there yet though. She is also in the beginning stages of crawling, however, she hasn't quite got the knack of going forward. She can scoot backwards and can now sit up on her own, but crawling forward requires the cooperation of her legs and they just don't want to do what she wants them to do yet. So, she gets a little frustrated when she can't reach something. The good part is that her attention span is so short that she soon forgets exactly what she wants and directs herself to a new target.

We got together with some friends to have pie the other night. (I think I had a small taste of almost every different kind) Hilary gave Sasha the coolest hair-do. Apparantly, Sasha loved getting her hair done. It was kind of in a mohawk form as you can see in the picture. She is so CUTE!

P.S. to this post: we were a little delayed in getting this post out because we lost internet access for a few days. But now we're back, so enjoy!

Your Average Week

Well, this week has been a normal week. Nothing too exciting has happened, other than half of Washington almost washed away making us the coastal city. The flooding storm went right around Spokane, fortunately for us.
Sasha has been working on her scowl lately, (We think she gets it from Grandpa, I mean honestly...it couldn't be from either of her parents, right?) whenever she is super excited. We're not quite sure what that means except that she is still happy and that's all we care about, really.

Sasha had peas this week (first time) - HATED IT, but she loves her oatmeal. The only sad thing that went on this week was Sasha got a bug and threw up a lot tuesday night. Saddest thing I've ever seen is a six-month old dry-heaving.
SOOOOO SAAAAAAAD!!!!!!
Fortunately, she is her happy little self again.


This is one of the days she had oatmeal - I don't know if any actually went down because of how much ended up everywhere else!

The Day of Doom!

October 27th was a "Day of Doom" for little Sasha. This picture, notice she is smiling, was right before she fell to the side and hit her head on the TV stand. Fortunately, no damage was done and she was smiling once again in no time. However, I did say this was a DAY of doom.
Incident #2: Sasha was once again standing, this time holding on to Mom's toes while facing the mirror. (She likes to entertain herself in the mirror, or she likes to talk to the baby that's looking back at her - we're not sure which) Somehow (Brit doesn't know because he was at school, and apparently Hilary has blocked this traumatic experience from her memory) Sasha lost her grip or balance, fell away from Mom, and smashed her nose into the carpet (much better than the mirror, but still not fun). Fortunately, again, no permanent damage (we think) was caused - ...well...she has been kind of wobbly lately (j/k she's always been wobbly on her feet, but she is getting more stable every day!).
Incident #3: To cap it all off... Mom and baby were getting ready to leave. Mom bent down to set Sasha on the floor and Sasha thought she was suddenly an escape artist and did this funky roll right out of Mom's arms. Unfortunately, Sasha wasn't prepared for the landing and she landed smack on her face - AGAIN!
To this day, Mom is still more traumatized and mortified than the baby is and is trying to block it all out of her memory but Dad keeps reminding her.


As you can see in the pictures, Sasha does not have a boxer's nose, nor a crooked witch's nose so we think we're ok. Sasha is still a very happy baby which we are ever grateful for - that is until the teeth start to come in, we hear that's not very fun.

Honestly, Sasha couldn't have a better mom in the world - (*Note: Brit wrote this. Hilary would never brag about herself like that nor would she EVER tell anyone about anything that happened on the dreaded "Day of Doom!")

Friends

We have been getting questions about who is keeping us sane and entertained while we are here. We have been very lucky to have made as wonderful friends, and so quickly. Within min of being here we had a half dozen or so men from the ward here to help us move in. Mason and Kimberly (sorry no picture, we'll work on that) brought us dinner our first night so that we didn't have to try to find all that would be required to make dinner that night. We have shared family home evening with many of the families in our ward as well. We have loved getting to know so many wonderful people. Our next door neighbors are great, though we are really sad that they will be leaving us soon, they close on their new house this week.

To the left:

From the left, "The Law widows": Ava H(Marshall and Amy's daughter), Leslie J., Vanessa T., Ashley H., Sasha, Hilary, Amy H.

Below:

From the left, "The 1L's": Marshall H., Justin H., Ryan J., Dan T., Brit

These are the great friends that we became really close to almost instantly. These pictures were taken at "Pig-Out-In-The-Park" on Sept 1, it has been wonderful to have such good friend that are in the same situation as we are. The "wives" are together at least several days a week, it is so nice to know that there is always someone that we can turn to anytime. It has been surprising how much we rely on each other. Marshall, Ryan and Dan are in the same section, so they have most of their classes together, Justin and Brit are all alone in the other two sections. It has been nice for them to have each other to study with, and help each other when allowed.

Halloween Greetings

Well this has been quite the exciting week... Sasha's 1st Halloween... and she had her 6 month un-birthday :) ... She had a checkup at the Dr's and she is at an astounding 27 inches, 17 lbs. 13 oz. ...unfortunately that came with another round of immunizations, and like before she didn't do so well with these shots. To say the least we didn't get much sleep. We had a good night and then the poor thing got a cold. Luckily this time we had the humidifier on hand, things went smoother after we got it going last night.

Sasha loved her chicken costume, she spent all day in it. We went visiting some friends, and went to "Cherubs" a children's singing/activity group that we have going in our ward every Tuesday, there was a party after, but Sasha was already checked out so we took her home to sleep.

Brit went to school dressed up as a high school jock, though there were a few that thought that he was just wearing his letterman jacket for fun. Apparently most of the law students didn't dress up. He is already planning for next years costume... you'll have to wait to find out what it will be.

The Hendrickson's had a Halloween Party at their apartment, which was a great thing with how cold it was, and the "Trunk-or-Treating" didn't work out like it was supposed to. Oh well there is always next year, and Sasha might know what is going on then. If the temperature trends follow this year, I think that we might all be well served to go as Eskimos (it was 13 degrees that evening). Hope that everyone is doing well, and had a fabulous Halloween. We'll be posting again soon.

Love~ The Glad Family