The naming of grandparents

Jack has his own way of identifying his grandparents. It has to be confusing for a little one to have two sets of grandparents so Jack has his own nicknames for them. He has "Pop Grandma and Beard Papa" (Matt's parents) and "Mamaw Grandma and Fix-it Papa" (my parents). He is such a character :)

Jack Ryan is 3

The birthday boy...
Today is Jack's 3rd birthday. In my family we believe that birthdays should be celebrated for a week and so in good Sabin style Jack started his celebrating on Friday. We took yellow (his favorite color) cupcakes to share with his friends at school. Yesterday we had a party for him at a local kids pizza place. If you have ever tried to get a picture of 6 kids under the age of 4 you will understand why I was unsuccessful in getting a picture of the birthday boy with all his friends. We had a good time and were so happy that his cousins Aidan, Keenan, Max, and Lauren and friends Oscar and Kai could celebrate with him. Pop Grandma and Beard Papa and Molly and Ado also came to party. Today, he opened his presents from us and was excited to get a kite, bug flashlight, and a Thomas airplane set for his train. Of course, no birthday is complete without cake so he got both a cupcake and a piece of his birthday cake for snack today. Talk about having a sugar high in church tonight!!

4 months old

It's amazing how quickly time passes. Elizabeth is now four months old. She has had a complete personality change in the last month and has gone from our baby who cried and fussed all the time to a happy, giggling sweetheart. We love to hear her talking in her crib in the morning and it's amazing how she can be so happy at 4am! We often comment about if we are ever going to be able to say no to her in the future as she looks at us with a big smile and giant blue eyes. Babies sure grow up too quickly.

She will be going on her second airplane adventure later this week as we attend the wedding of Matt's high school friend in Philadelphia. We have a direct flight from Minneapolis so we can skip O'Hare (yay!).

First airplane ride

We recently tagged along with Matt to his conference in Hollywood, Florida (just North of Miami). Both kids were fabulous on the airplane (even braver than their mommy) and traveled so well. Jack entertained the gentleman in front of us by saying "Daddy we are going to run out of gas". We even survived O'hare and for once were happy that our flight was delayed out of O'hare because our flight from Miami was delayed getting in.

It's official...

I have been waiting for this sign for 8 days now (and I'm NOT a naturally patient person who likes to wait for things) and surprisingly it appeared sometime today while I was at work. What a great feeling to pull into the driveway after a long day at work and see the SOLD sign. Yipeee! It's official. We have the movers coming on May 27th to pack and they will load the truck on the 28th. We give possession to the new owners on the 29th and we will have our things delivered to the new house on the 30th of May. Matt will be living in a hotel for 3 weeks until he finishes at the end of June.

We have explained to Jack about moving to our new house and we think he understands fairly well. Although he did ask if the "men would break the house into pieces to move it" and "will his toys get dirty in the truck?".

King of the house

I'm making progress and just figured out how to upload pictures so here is a practice one...

Jack came home from daycare wearing his crown announcing that he was "King of the house". He certainly is the "king" of our house. I couldn't get him to stand still long enough to get a good picture. Photo 2/20/2008

SOLD?

I told my neighbor that when our house sold I would start a blog since I would have more free time. We are still waiting for the SOLD sign to go up but we signed the counter offer on Wednesday. I think we are just waiting for the house to appraise at the selling price and then that fabulous SOLD sign will appear.

Since we are moving farther away from our family and friends in a few weeks, I thought a blog would be a good way to stay in contact with everyone. I still have to figure out how to do this and have no idea how to add pictures so I'm sure for awhile this will be a work-in-progress.

Did I say free time? Elizabeth just woke up from her 10 minute nap!