Sage's Firsts in Life

SAGE’S FIRSTS IN LIFE

thumb sucking 9/28/08 6 wks old

hiking trip up Herd Creek at 2 wks old (outside of Fraser, CO)

slept through the night 10/31/08 Halloween 10 1/2 wks old

airplane trip 11/13/08 from denver to detroit

trip to winter park ski resort 11/28/08

rice cereal 12/22/08 which she liked with water, not breast milk

sweet potatoes on 12/30/08-ate up right away but didn’t eat food again for a while. Stuck with rice cereal only for awhile.

grabbed toes 1/5/09

started eating all kinds of baby food at 4 1/2-5 months old

ate first cheerio and teething biscuit 1/22/09 just over 5 months old

first day with daycare for work Nicole Farrell in Kremmling 2/3/09

formed stool 2/11/09

discovered her thumb and stuck it out constantly week of 2/10/09

Starting sitting up by herself age 6 months

hot springs trip to Hot Sulpher Springs on 2/8/09 right before 6 month birthday

fever of 101 degrees night after getting 6 month shots plus a flu shot

wedding reception Doug and Kelly Heibert’s on 2/22/09

chariot ride at devils thumb 2/28/09 6 1/2months

first tooth 7 months

rolled from back to front 3/24/09 7 months 1 week old

Columbus Zoo 3/28/09

Ice cream cone licking 3/28/09

got earrings on 4/1/09 age 7 1/2 months

backward hand wave 9 1/2 months in may 2009

first word-taught by grandma/grandpa brzak 6/09 almost 10 months old- “uh-oh” and possibly “bailey” as runner up

first couple of steps on own with grandparents brzak on same trip as #25

crawled 6/18/09 1 day after her 10month bday

whole mild 6 ozs from a sippy cup 7/26/09 11 months/1 week old

first steps about 10 of them on 7/26/09 too

crawled up whole stairs 7/20/09 11 months

Stood up and starting walking right after her 1 yr birthday

Turned her bed into a toddler bed age 18months 2/21/10 and she slept great, got out of bed and walked to the door by herself without crying. That ended the toddler bed. Back to crib for at least 6 more months. All she wanted to do was play with toys.

Started eating with a spoon, drinking from a cup around 16-17months old

haircut by mommy 22 months old

Family Florida trip

With the advent of facebook, I have to apologize for the lack of posts on Sage's blog. I deemed our recent family trip to Florida worthy of some recognition. So here goes:

It all started on saturday May 8th. We only had a 30 min drive to the airport, due to our recent move back to the Denver area, so Sage was much happier traveler. We had some time in the airport so we all enjoyed drinks at Chili's to go. The waitress was more than happy to hook Sage up with her own OJ margarita!

We arrived in Pensacola with Mom and Dad Brzak ready and waiting to take us to our San Destin location. The house luckily fit all 11 adults and 2 kids, not perfectly comfortable, but manageable. There was a pond out the door for our viewing pleasure. It made for great pictures, some kayaking and okay fishing.

The beaches are amazing down the in the Florida panhandle. I was amazed at how blue the water was. We were very blessed to be able to see this area before the oil spill hits the shore here. Sage was definitely our little beach girl. She loved playing in the sand and running on the beach. But the most fun, was the surfing. She didn't much like the water so we kept to the sand. It was easier anyways.

We enjoyed some great family times, good food and drinks. Some of the boys and girls got to go deep sea fishing. Although, it was Steve-O that pulled in the 2 grouper for us. So we did get our fresh fish dinner that was wished for. We got to celebrate Erin's 30th and Karen's 60th birthdays with them. Hopefully they enjoyed it. I think the mom's of the group were especially blessed to be able to hug each in person on Mother's Day. We even squeezed in some family pictures on the beach! Take a look at the photo album for more. This is only 1 of many taken our last night of vacation.

It was a relaxing week. We loved being with the Brzak's, Connelly's and Reichert's for a whole week. I wish we could do more! Sage had such a great time. She loved being able to hang with her new cousin, Samuel Gregory. He is such a wonderful addition to the family. Even he turned out to be a great beach bum!

So thank you to all of our wonderful families. I am so happy we all made time to travel to a destination place to celebrate life, family and love. Sage has been a new girl since that trip. She looks forward to seeing you again at different times later this year.

Sage's 2nd Halloween

We headed down to Broomfield for Sage's second Halloween so we could actually enjoy it this year. We were excited to have sidewalk's to walk on, a lot of houses right by each other and some good sunny weather! Plus we wanted to enjoy the festivities with other couples with kids. Sage had a great time playing with the Fitzsimmons and Andersons all afternoon! Playing outside in the snow melt run off puddles was her favorite activity. She was soaking wet even before dinner. Even Lilly took to the fun.

After awesome home cooked pizzas by Lance, getting dressed time started. We let daddy have that chore since mommy did it the night before. I think Halloween is more fun for the parents these first couple of years. Sage wasn't too happy about the monkey outfit, although she was so darn cute in it. Daddy went mainly as himself, the grown up soccer player.

We took so many pictures of our beautiful,cute monkey baby that it was hard to pick which one to put on line. I couldn't help resist this one! Especially since the hat only was on her head for a short time.

Here's the crew ready to go. Sage was so tired by this time, that she just hung out in her new cozy coupe car, sucked her thumb and let mommy and daddy push her around. Suffice to say, Sage didn't get much candy collected for us. We had so much fun though and can't wait until next year!

Family Hunting Trip

The Brzak men finally came out for their first Colorado elk hunt October 2009. Sage was so excited to see them all. She wasn't even scared of their camoflage! She greeted them every morning before they left and wished them good luck.

It was cold and snowy out for a lot of the trip, so the hunters returned to our Tabernash home every night to get some home cooked food and hang with Sage and the dogs. Sage really appreciated that. She loves having company.
Sage got to show granddaddy how much she loves to eat-I think she got the Flak gene in her! She even came home from Kindercare with crazy hair just to just impress the family. She learned so many new things this week, like eating on the floor instead of the table. She loves the camera too as she always stares right at it during picture time.

Didn't think a blog entry about a hunting trip would be complete without a picture of the hunters out in the elements! Then to end this post, a great picture of our toddler strutting herself. This is the last picture we have of her with a bottle. They got retired to storage after this trip! Love to all.

Sage strutting herself

Fun summer times with Sage

Summer has been fun but very different for the Connelly's now that we have a kid in the picture. No more meeting at 5 am at the Morrison park-n-ride to go climb a fourteener or heading off into the pristine wildnerness areas for a 3 night backpack trip. Now it's city hanging, tourist attraction doing and car camping! None the less, our little Sage is definitely an outdoors Colorado chick!

We headed to Glenwood springs for some easy biking with the Brzak grandparents. Sage loved chilling in her Burley while mommy pulled her along the Colorado river. Here's proud Grandpa over the river. We only got rained on once, and Sage never even noticed the difference.

We took Sage camping over July 4th with the Anderson's. Lake Granby was the destination(close to home in case anything happened). Suffice to say, camping in the rain with a child learning to crawl and sleeping in a 3 person tent with 2 adults, 1 child, and 2 wet dogs wasn't the most pleasant experience, but we made the most of it. (Thank heavens for people who camp with trailors!)

By making the most of it, I mean we still did our outdoor adventure it was just in a blow up Kayak that I bought at a garage sale for $25.00 Of course we oared in circles since the oars that came with it weren't the best. We lasted for about 30min and without any fighting!

Even hiking was manageable with Sage. She likes to backpack with us but we are limited to 2 hr hikes. So Drew, Emmy and Kei joined up for a hike up Sol Vista. We half cheated by taking the chairlift up. We didn't hike as much as I would like to, but that was Sage's parents' fault, not hers. The summer seemed to fly by and with me starting work again in broomfield, we just didn't seem to have time.

Of course, daddy still golfed a little, and Sage was invited for his first time out. She loved hanging out with mom and G Ma B in the golf cart. We had beautiful weather so Sage got to do what she loves best-walk and talk in the gorgeous outdoors.
All in All, summer was fun, interesting and new presented a new challenge/chapter in the Connelly's lives.