She's On the Move!

Despite our best efforts, our baby girl is growing up! I put her down for "tummy time" today and before I knew it she just rolled over. Thinking back to when Brody rolled over we had to coax him with toys and it seemed as if it took him forever to get his head to move in the right direction, so when Ella just flipped over I thought it had to be a fluke. So I rolled her over again and immediately she was back on her back. We were hoping to keep her immobile for as long as possible, but I guess she is starting to exert some independence. There is no stopping her now!

This Ones for Daddy

I had to post this picture of Brody from dinner tonight for Brandon to see (he has been working out of town these days) - how pathetic huh?! Brody woke up in the middle of the night on Sunday with a fever and what I thought was an ear infection. I took him to an urgent care center (because these things always happen on the weekends, right?) and they confirmed it was an ear infection and a sore throat. His fever has been going up and down over the past two days and currently it is up again to 103.1 -- but down from 103.8. Not fun, for anyone! Brody has only had one other ear infection, so I am not used to all it entails. We have had two sleepless nights so far, and I am geared up for round three. Poor little guy. He keeps coming up to me after he swallows and says, "kiss it better" with his mouth wide open (so I can kiss his throat). So sad...its times like these I wish a mommy's kiss could make it all better.

Day Out With Thomas

For Christmas Stephanie gave our family tickets to go to a Day Out with Thomas at a nearby train station. He has been talking about it for the last week, and we went yesterday and had so much fun! We rode on Thomas and played with all sorts of Trains and met Sir Topemhat. Brody was so excited! His eyes were wide open looking around at everything and all the kids who were so happy. It was so cute to see him so into everything.

House Pictures

I have had some requests to show pictures of our house & our new car, so here are a few...

Easter Weekend

Grandma and Grandpa Burton flew out for a very fun weekend to see us and the house and to spend Easter. We took Brody to see Horton Hears a Who in a theatre called Studio Movie Grill. It is one of the funnest places we have found here so far - you go into the theatre and while you are watching your movie there are waiters serving you food. Pretty cool! I was just excited that Brody made it through the movie and was interested the entire time - we now have a new thing to do as a family. We spent some quality time at Lowes with the Burtons too. They'll let you know that we showed them four different local Lowes. Brandon and his dad spent time putting knobs and handles on all our cabinets (it took several trips to different Lowes to get the supplies we needed.) I love the knobs! Who knew something so minor makes such a big difference in the looks and function of a cabinet. We spent Saturday seeing different things in the area and doing some other shopping.

Sunday morning Brody found his Easter basket and Ella's too. He got a new Cars swimsuit and stickers and treats, and Ella got new hair bows. The Easter Bunny also brought Brody his very own potty. I had no idea what a big hit this would be. I thought we'd have it around for awhile before it saw much action, but Brody informed me today (while sitting on the potty) that he wasn't going to wear diapers any more. Works for me! I haven't thrown out the diapers yet - he hasn't yet put anything in the potty, but we thought as long as he is so interested we will give it a shot.

After church we had my mom and dad over for Easter dinner and our first Easter egg hunt in our back yard. Brody caught on pretty quick and ran around the yard collecting his eggs.

Monday we took the Burtons to the stockyards in Fort Worth. Theresa said that I shouldn't just call it the stockyards, because there isn't much "stock" - she said to say it is like a really old historical town with shops and a few cattle. It was fun, and we ate at Brandon's favorite steakhouse - Cattlemens. It was really fun for us to see family and be able to show them our house and the area.

Big Brother

Okay...I was prompted to write this after reading Lindsey's last entry about the funny things Avery is saying. Brody is really very sweet to Ella, but the other night we were eating dinner and Ella was fussy and starting to cry. He looks over at her and said, "Ella, I big brother...you knock it off!" We couldn't help but just crack up! It makes me feel a little bad, because he obviously has learned that from me saying it to him. We've had a bit of a problem lately with him not wanting to talk when he wants something - instead he just cries. I think it is a side effect of becoming a big brother (Ella cries and gets what she wants, so he does it too). Not fun for me - especially if I am running low on patience. So now we are trying to teach him that we don't say words like that to our sister. However, it is very hard to keep a straight face when he does it because it is so funny!

We Are In!

We are finally in our new house! We closed last Friday and moved in on Saturday. It has been so fun to unpack everything and put it all away and think about what we want to do to the house. Brody LOVES it. He runs all over saying "new house" and he is discovering all his toys that have been packed away. He played in the backyard for the first time and just ran around yelling "running crazy!" We got our TVs hooked up yesterday (in time for American Idol!) and then the internet got hooked up today. Yeah! I love feeling connected to the outside world!

Our new address is:

1601 Mary Lane
Providence Village, TX 76227

We should have a new phone number in a couple of days - if you'd like to have it email me and I will email you back. sarahburton81@gmail.com