Halloween and some pics of big little ashlynn

For Halloween, Ashlynn was a cat.

Sadie had two costumes. She started off as a ballerina...

...but after she fell and ripped a hole in her tights, we went with the back-up plan. A giraffe.
After Sadie filled up her little pumpkin with goodies,
she had a good time passing out candy with daddy.
And here are some non-Halloween pictures:

Little Ashlynn's not so little anymore.

Jill's looking pretty good for someone who just had a baby.

I can't get over how sweet Sadie is to Ashlynn. I thought the change would be tough on Sadie. But she has embraced her little sister from day one and is loves being a big sister.

Sadie loves Ashlynn

Sadie the Scholar

I'll put some more pics and videos of Ashlynn up soon. But I've had these videos of Sadie that I have been meaning to put up for a while, and I finally uploaded them. For her birthday, Sadie got this cute toddler princess couch from my mom. We put it in a corner of the living room along with a container full of lots of her books. Recently, Sadie will go and sit on the couch and "read" her books to herself. She has memorized quite a few of them pretty well. It is very cute.







And here are a couple of other videos of our little scholar in action.

Welcome Ashlynn Diane

On September 22 at 1:54 p.m., we welcomed Ashlynn Diane Proctor to our family. Ashlynn and mommy are doing great.

Picture post update

We have been having a fun and busy summer. In the past couple of weeks, we celebrated Sadie's second birthday, went to the water carnival at the rec department, visited the zoo, and hung out at the beach. Here are some pictures of our summer. Warning--this is easily the longest post I've ever done.

The Birthday Girl

Mom, she loved your presents...

...especially the princess couch/bed. As soon as she got it,

she gathered a bunch of her toys and took a little cat nap.

Sadie's grammie has been taking her to swimming lessons this summer,

and it's paying off

just give her a little push,

and off she goes

the new elephant odyssey at the san diego zoo

she liked the panda bears

This is Sadie's frown face...your guess is as good as mine.

Her favorite thing at the zoo may have been the carousel.

I know I've said it before, but she just loves the beach.

Look how big she's getting!

Have I mentioned she's taking piano lessons?

Ok, no she's not. But she does make some very pretty "music."

Silly girls!

ABC's

Today was Sadie's birthday. It is hard to believe that two years ago today Jill and I were hanging out in the hospital just learning to change little newborn diapers. We were watching the video earlier today that we took right after Sadie was born. It is truly awe-inspiring about a newborn. She was so tiny, fragile and completely dependent on us. Jill and I feel very lucky that we have this little doll in our life. She just makes everything brighter. We love you Sadie!

I took some pictures and video of her birthday, but haven't downloaded them yet. (Hopefully) I will do that soon. In the meantime, here are some cute videos of Sadie saying her ABC's. She's been working on this for a while, and a couple of weeks ago she said them all the way through. It seems like everytime we would try to get her on camera saying them, however, she got distracted by something else. After several attempts, we finally got it. Turn on your volume.

(The second video is my favorite. Sadie is somewhat obsessed with band-aids right now. She looks for any excuse to say she has a boo-boo and needs a band-aid.)

It's been two months?

I can't believe that it's been two months since my last post. We've been busy as usual. Probably the funnest thing that we've done was our vacation to Maui with Jill's family. I'd say the best thing about Hawaii is that the warm ocean water. Sadie loves to go in the ocean. Here in San Diego, I feel like I'm going to get frost bite chasing her around in the freezing ocean. By comparison, the water in Hawaii feels like a hot tub. Here are a few pics from Maui and a few others.

Did I mention how she loves the ocean? I mean, she really loves it. Just look at that grin. She's practically delerious with love.

Don't they look cute in the morning? This was our first morning in Maui. Sadie was still on California time and woke up around 4:30.

Sadie's still not very cooperative when we try to do family pics. This was the best we could do. At least she's not crying!

A friend from church gave us a pretty big wading pool last fall. I hate it. It turns my backyard into a swamp for three days every time I empy it. But little Miss Thing here loves it - almost as much as she loves the ocean. She especially when I spray her with the hose, which is what I'm doing in these pictures.

Sadie is very helpful around the house. It's like we've got our own little Cinderella.

A couple pictures of Sadie's Easter outfit.