One more Go-Around

Well, it looks like we fell off of the face of 'blog-planet!' However, the Reaves' family has just been super busy!

Caeleigh is 9 1/2 and in 4th grade at St. Malachy.

Kasey Joann is now 19 months old and loving Miss Laina's daycare.

Updates on Caeleigh: She finally learned how to ride a bike this summer!!! Yay for Nana and Poppa teaching her how! Caeleigh also went to a 6-night sleep away camp at Camp Tecumseh! She is getting to be such a big girl. She is very helpful around the house and with her little sister. This past weekend I was very sick with a nasty tummy-bug and she was so helpful with entertaining Kasey while I was "dying" on the bed ;) Caeleigh has paused with guitar lessons as we were just getting too busy! She continues to take tap/ballet classes and sings in the St. Malachy Children's Choir.

Updates on Kasey Jo: Kasey started walking at 13 months and has been RUNNING ever since. She also has about 25 words now...though she still prefers to stay quiet (so much for an SLP for a mom!!). Kasey loves to do puzzles and look at books. She is also loving to write and draw on paper. Health-wise, Kasey is right on track. She did have tubes put in her ears last April. That helped get rid of all the frequent ear infections. She does have a lot of air-borne allergies with pollen, etc...so she takes Zyrtec daily and wow! does it ever help!!!

Updates on Sean: Sean ran the mini-marathon in May during the Indy 500 festivities. He also did 2 Sprint Triathlons this summer. We are super proud of him and his efforts to get and stay in shape!! He looks quite studly if I may say so myself! ;) In August he convinced me to do Twilight Town Trek with him. It was like the Amazing Race in Downtown Indy. We had a bunch of clues and then had to go all over downtown to get our pictures in front of the locations in the clues. We placed 22nd out of about 55 teams (I think?)...it was a blast!! In September Sean decided to leave Main Gate for an opportunity to work in the non-profit world. He is now the Business Services and Membership Director for the brand-new Witham YMCA that is opening next week in Lebanon, IN. This is a great opportunity for him and even though he is SUPER busy...we hope to have it settle down after the opening next week!

Updates on Sarah: Yup...still the Autism Consultant in the Brownsburg Schools and loving it. Not much else to say about me. I did join HIP Fitness in Brownsburg and have lost some pounds. I really enjoy all the ladies and the new classes, especially Zumba!

I hope to do better and try to go back to updating once a month! We'll see! I don't know how those people that blog everyday do it!!

XOXOXO,
Sarah

December Snow

We had our first snow in December. Caeleigh was so excited. She couldn't wait to build a snowman....but by the looks of our backyard, you can tell it was going to be a HUGE snowman...*snicker*...

Enjoy! Boy, oh boy, this snow was nothing compared to what we got in February!! 2 SNOW DAYS!!

XOXO,
Sarah

A Very Merry Christmas!

We had a fabulous Christmas this year! Caeleigh sang in the Christmas Eve mass at St. Malachy with the Children's Choir. Then we went to Brooke and Brad's house for Christmas Eve dinner with the Majors side of Sean's family. Wes and Kasey seemed to enjoy everything and Caeleigh was great at watching the lil' ones!

Christmas morning was hectic! Santa arrived with a guitar and an Easy Bake Oven for Caeleigh and a ball popper and monkey crawling ball for Kasey. Shortly after opening gifts from Santa, Grandma Shirley and Great-Grandma Bonnie came for more presents and breakfast.

After a morning full of presents, Nana, Papa, and Maggie Sugar came over for MORE present opening and a lovely prime rib dinner.

At least one more post to come!

XOXO,
Sarah

December Activities...Caeleigh keeps us busy!

Yeah...I know...so far behind.

We had a busy December. Caeleigh had her last Christmas program at St. Malachy. The third graders were the actors and narrators. Grades K-2 also sing in the program. Caeleigh was "the 14th narrator." Here she is at the podium.

A little snippet of the third grade singing!

Caeleigh as the 14th Narrator!

Caeleigh also had another Christmas Ballet recital. Kasey spent most of that chillin' in her stroller! She enjoyed the music and the dark! I was so tired from a long week at work, I would've like to have relaxed just like lil' Miss Kasey Jo!

Some pictures of Caeleigh dancing...

Here is a snip of her performance!






More posts to come on Christmas with family and other winter happenings...can you tell I'm on day two of snow days?

XOXO,
Sarah

How Time Flies...Yet Again

My girls today! So sweet!

I just can't believe it's been about 2 months since I've last posted. It's been a roller coaster that's for sure.

On September 19, 2009 my wonderful grandmother (Grammie to the grandkids), Elsa Cline passed away unexpectedly. She was 79 years old and had been married to my Grandpa Gene for 61 years. She will be missed dearly. It has been rough on all of us losing both of my grandmas in 6 weeks. Here is my grandma and grandpa with the girls in May.

For the good news....lil Miss Kasey Jo is now able to sit up all by herself without any support! She is now 7 1/2 months old. I need to get some toys for her to sit and play with. I still had Caeleigh's Fisher Price musical ring stacker and she is really enjoying that!

Yes, we are still rockin' leg warmers 80s style! Kasey has just been doing so much. She is babbling a lot and eating most anything. I think the lil thing would much rather eat table food over her baby food! She will follow the fork from plate to my mouth with such intensity. She has sampled baked potato, biscuit, mashed potatos, cracker, cheese spread, applesauce, choc. pudding (just a taste). I just can't believe how big she is getting!

Caeleigh just got her first quarter report card...all A's and B's! I'm so thrilled. Her teacher says she is reading on grade level, needs to work on math fact memorization, and is such a good girl to have in class. Here she is helping me butter, salt and roast the pumpkin seeds this week.

Halloween was a lot of fun. Caeleigh wanted to be a vampire princess. Sean was a "workman" from the Dharma Initiative (a LOST character). Kasey wore a "Marie" from Aristocats sleeper that my good friend and co-worker, Cindy, bought for her.

Here is the crew after pumpkin carving!

Well, need to pay more attention to the Colts game and get more laundry done. Have a wonderful November everyone and a blessed Thanksgiving!

XOXO,
Sarah

Back to School

After being on maternity leave for 5 whole months, I am back to work. I really love my job and I missed my kids so much, so I am glad to be back.

Caeleigh has two weeks of 3rd grade at St. Malachy School under her belt. She is doing great. Her teacher is Mrs. Dunn...and she calls the kids "Scholars" and sometimes talks in a British accent, which Caeleigh thinks is hysterical. Poor kid has two yellow lights this week because of her horrible organization, but we're working on it! She has also started cursive writing and is THRILLED about that!

Kasey Jo has adjusted to her babysitter quite well. She loves Miss Laina, her sitter, and Aunt Na-Na (Nadia is Laina's 19 year old daughter). Kasey is the ONLY girl out of the 5 kiddos Laina watches, but she loves watching those boys!

Kasey is also able to sit up with just a little bit of support from her Boppy pillow. She is 5 1/2 months old. Loves to eat rice cereal mixed with fruit, sweet potatos, carrots, and squash. The fruits we have tried include bananas, pears, applesauce, and out of necessity....PRUNES! I always lay her on a blanket when on the carpet, but she doesn't stay on it very long. She's rolling--slowly--all over the place!

I just love this pic....had to share it with you!

Have a great weekend!

XOXO,
Sarah

My grandmother, Patricia "Patty" Jane Kasemeyer, passed away this morning after battling cancer. All my love to you grandma.


With Kasey in March


At Christmas

Christmas a couple of years ago

XOXO,

Sarah

July Happenings

What a month! I can’t believe it has been over a month since I’ve updated you all on our family, but then I did realize we have been CRAZY busy this month!

We started out the month by driving to Northern Indiana (La Porte to be exact) to visit with Sean’s dad. Paul, a.k.a “Pops” to Caeleigh, has retired from Indiana teaching to teach near Daytona Beach. He flew up for 10 days to stay at Uncle Larry’s so we decided to take a short trip to see him while he was in the state. He had not met Miss Kasey Jo yet, so we took the opportunity for him to do so!

Sean had to go to Minnesota for work so the girls and I decided to get out of town. We travelled to Marshall to spend some time at Nana and Poppa’s house. Caeleigh went swimming with Nana and picked sweet corn with Poppa. We had a really nice visit.

Kasey Joann is pushing up when lying on her belly and started rolling from her back to her belly. She’ll then push up and push herself back onto her back. She is grabbing for toys and loves to put anything in her mouth (my finger, her fingers and thumbs, burp cloth, toys, blanky, etc.). She had her 4 month check-up in mid-July. Kasey weighed 12 lbs; 12 oz and was almost 24 inches long. She started eating rice ceral…well, actually she spits more out than she swallows. She did love sweet potatoes and bananas. This week we are going to try carrots and applesauce. She is sleeping about 12 hours through the night and eats 6 ounce bottles every 3-4 hours. She is really growing up!

Caeleigh did 10 days of swim lessons and really progressed! She can now swim in the deep end without fear, jump off of the diving board, and tread water. When she is in the pool she is getting stronger and diving down to get toys in the deep end as well! She did refuse to go down the slide at her instructor’s house. Maybe next year! I am so proud of her! Now we need to get back to learning how to ride her bike!

We have also spent many afternoons swimming at my good friend's pool. Kasey is quite the waterbug. She enjoys swimming with her sis and relaxing in her bug swimming ring.

Sean finished a big landscape project and we now have a rock garden and fire pit. We hosted a fun cook-out and later had the neighbor kids over to roast marshmallows and make s’mores.
I go back to work on August 13 and Caeleigh returns to school on August 17. We have a few more days to enjoy out of this fabulous summer. Kasey Jo will also start to her babysitter’s house, hopefully that will be an easy transition!

Have a great week folks!
XOXO,
Sarah

Can't believe June is almost over!

Wow! I knew it had been awhile since blogging, but it's been a lot longer than I thought!

June has been surprisingly very busy! Caeleigh's finishing up softball. The tourney has begun and we have to play at least one more game tonight. If they lose, we're done, it they win...another game. Here she is after a tourney game. She was the catcher and got over-heated in the catching gear. We had to dump cold water down her neck and on her head.




Caeleigh also decided she wanted to get her ears pierced. We went through this last year and she "chickened out." So I ended up with a very darling pair of little pink rhinestone flower earrings. This year she didn't chicken out!! She is also sporting a new hair cut!

Kasey had her 3 month check-up on the 17th of June. She weighed 12 pounds even. She measured 23 1/8 inches long. All on track. No shots this month. Kasey has also started sleeping in her crib in her room every night this week! The first night I slept like a rock...didn't wake once. The other nights, I'm always waking thinking I heard her....crazy. Kasey has really discovered her thumb and fingers....oh, great...another thumb-sucker! Her other new trick is rolling from her back to her belly. She will also push up now during tummy time and end up on her back! I'm so used to Caeleigh's laziness (low tone) as an infant....she's at least a month ahead of Caeleigh on these physical feats! Kasey also really likes sitting in her Bumbo seat! Here she is at 3 months old!

Last week the girls and I went to Marshall to visit Nana and Poppa. Poppa surprised us by suggesting going to Terre Haute to Bogey's Family Fun Center (something he would NEVER do when Maggie and I were kids!) But we had a fabulous time. Miniature golf, bungee-trampoline, arcade, then off to Real Hacienda for dinner. It was a nice night!! Hot, but nice!

Here Caeleigh tries Bungee-Trampoline!

Kasey preferred to chill in her stroller!

Caeleigh thought the water looked like mouthwash....I thought it was just very unnatural looking!

Next week starts Caeleigh's swim lessons. We are also planning a mini-vacation to LaPorte, IN to visit with the Reaves' family. Sean's dad is flying in from Daytona to visit as well. So I'm sure we'll be boating on Pine Lake!

Have a Happy 4th of July!!

XOXO,
Sarah