Photo Shoot!

I realized a few weeks ago that I really have been really bad with taking pictures, I think I'll need to make that one of my new year's resolutions to take them more often. We even tried the whole 5 days we were in PA for the holidays to take pictures, and we didn't manage to do it until dinner at the Chinese restaurant on Christmas night.

Practicing our sad faces...also making her laugh to actually smile for the pictures!

Sweet Kisses for Mommy

Family Photo!

With Daddy & Sadie

"Good Night Baby"

About a month or so ago after a trip to Home Goods, Em decided she needed what she called "Good Night Baby" for Hannukah. She insisted that someone would buy it for her and when anyone asked her what she wanted for the holidays, without hesitation, it was always "Good Night Baby". It was just a few short weeks ago that she actually decided that Santa was the one who was going to bring it to her. I'm really not sure where exactly she learned all about Santa, but she picked it up somewhere and even knew exactly what his role was.

I wasn't too concerned, I mean, how hard could it be to find a doll that goes to sleep and has a pacifier and bottle??? Well apparently it's harder than I ever imagined!

I took Em back to Home Goods because that's where the "Good Night Baby" requests started, but they had nothing, so off we went to the Target baby aisle and again, she looked and looked and said it was not there. A little panicked, I told her Santa would do the best he could and whatever he brought her, was what he thought was best. I had searched the Internet and found what I thought was the BEST Good Night Baby EVER! I mean you would have thought I won the lottery when I saw this baby that they only sold at Walmart. Off Andy went to the store he hates worse than any place in the world, and said he even had to almost fight another couple for it, but he successfully got the baby and we were all set! I personally felt a great sense of relief.

Fast forward a few weeks to Christmas morning. We left the gift from Santa right at the end of her bed and waited with excitement as she opened it. Well, let's just say, Santa got it wrong :( Not only did she say this wasn't "Good Night Baby" the baby didn't even work, it was supposed to cry, go to sleep, even snore, guess that's the last time I shop at Walmart, damn them!

If you want to check out the reaction live, here you go!

Thankfully Nana and PP had purchased there own Hannukah gifts so that did take some of the pressure off of me. But even after opening all of her gifts, she was STILL looking for "Good Night Baby". We are off to Florida this week and I assured her we would try to find something there. Please Florida don't let us down!!!

Welcome to Our Blog!

Since many have been asking what exactly Em is saying (sorry I forget she isn't that easy to understand unless you are around her everyday), here is your translation:

"Welcome to our new blog, I'm going to be a big sister now!"

Today is the Day!

So we just found out we are pregnant with baby number 2 and a whole slew of emotions are going through my head. Obviously the most prominent is the one that wants to scream from the top of my lungs and tell everyone I know that, I'M PREGNANT. The practical, rationale and more sane side of me is deciding to wait until we at least go to the doctor which is in 4 LONG, LONG weeks. I am thankful that over the next few weeks we have a lot going on so at least I'll be busy.

It's such a crazy feeling to know that I am pregnant again, it's almost as if all those feelings and thoughts the first time come rushing back. Then there are times when I feel like I'm still in college, so how could I possibly be pregnant for not the first, but second time - WHAT?!?!

So I have to laugh at myself because if you remember the first time I got pregnant I took a pregnancy test that had the plus sign lines and those things can really get you and play tricks with your mind. I was pretty sure there were two lines to make a cross, but if you stare at it long enough you start to go crazy and since one is so much darker than the other it can drive you nuts. Well i guess i didn't learn the first time because I bought the exact same tests again, only causing Andy to have to run out to CVS to get the clearer to read (Pregnant/Not Pregnant) kind. He made fun of me saying I must have been cheap and in fact i did, they were on sale and I even made sure I got my discount, not that it mattered of course, but I still did it, hoping I guess this time would be different - oh well! I'm thankful to Andy for running out to ease my craziness and confirm that I am in fact PREGNANT!

So once I found out I was pregnant the second thought in my mind was what do I do about the blog. I loved blogging when I was pregnant with Em and having all of those memories to look back on, but knowing that I now have an active 2 year old I knew maintaining two blogs was a little ambitious, so here is it, the BIRTH of The Sachs Family Blog. Your one stop read for all that's exciting in our little world. We hope you will check it out and visit often. We appreciate your constant love and support and look forward to all the fun and exciting adventures that lie ahead.

With Love,

Jess, Andy & Emmy