Still Alive

I just really haven't felt like blogging lately....maybe it's the pressure for a good blog post that comes with a wedding anniversary (5 years for us on August 12th)....but I just have not felt like blogging lately. So I haven't. People are getting antsy for some more Sadie updates so I'll oblige.

Here's what Sadie's been up to lately:

1. Still walking like a madwoman. In some of the pictures you can see the cut and huge bruises on her forehead (happened on separate occasions). You may also notice she is wearing her dress backwards. Daniel gets her dressed in the morning while I am at work.

2. Playing in the pantry.

3. Closing the pantry. She thinks she is such a big girl when she opens and closes doors.

4. Playing the music on her teapot. Here she is pressing the button to make it play. Just to give you an idea of how often we hear this song, Sadie received this teapot as a present on August 7th and the batteries ran out August 18th. The song goes like this {sung with a British accent} "One pretty teapot ready for some tea. Two little cups- one for you and me. Three tasty treats- just enough to share! Shaped like a circle, triangle, and square."

5. Dragging her blanket around. She stayed with the Dunns last week while we were in Park City for our anniversary and she picked up some great ideas from Ella. One of them being that she should carry a blanket around everywhere. She doesn't seem to be too attached. I can usually take it away without her putting up a huge fight.

6. Talking/signing. Sadie has started to say and sign words. She says baby, dog/doggie, sippy ("bippy"), Dora ("doa/doda"). She signs baby, more, and all done. She signs "more" pretty much whenever she wants something, regardless of if she has had any yet. I haven't actually taught her any signs. She has learned all of these from watching her Baby Signing Times DVD. I doubted that Sadie would be able to learn any signs without a lot of effort from me, but now I am a believer!

What I've been up to:

1. Crafting. Had my most serious crafting injury last night while hot gluing lima beans onto a styrafoam wreath.

That's a big huge bubble where my skin was burned. It really hurt but now it just feels crazy.

2. Cooking. I am really trying to cook at least 3 good dinners a week. So far it is going alright.

Wow, crafting and cooking, I am so domestic!

What Daniel's been up to:

1. P90X. For those of you living under a rock, that's an intense workout program. I have joined Daniel for a few of the workouts and they are terrible! Especially the yoga- I am not used to yoga at all. I really liked some of the poses but I was really bored and antsy during a lot of it.

2. Reading every article possible on BYU's possible move to independence and updating me even though I am not that interested.

Sadie's Day (s)

On her actual birthday Sadie got some special treats. First, she got a Costa Vida pork quesadilla for lunch. She loved it. Ate the whole thing. That's my girl!

But she still tried to share most of her bites with me.

We went home, watched some Baby Signing Time, took a good nap, and got Coldstone. Being the amazing mother that I am, I ordered what I always get, which includes a lot of peanut butter mixed into my ice cream. I gave Sadie some and then realized it. At least we now know she is not allergic to peanuts!


At Sadie's 12 month doctor's appointment we found out she is tallish (73rd percentile) and average weightish (37th percentile). Sadie endured 5 horrible shots and slept most of the day. It was funny, with the first shot she looked confused. Once the second shot went in she was in full screaming-like-she's-dying mode, but she quit crying pretty quickly after the 5th shot.

Oh, and in case you didn't know, Sadie is walking. She still face plants quite often, but she walks about half the time, Mowgli crawls 20% of the time, and crawls the rest.


Finally, we had a real birthday party for Sadie on Saturday. Really, it was just a BBQ where we sang her Happy Birthday and gave her a cake. Probably more a party for us than for Sadie. Besides the propane going out just as the party was starting, and a few mishaps with the chocolate fountain, everything was great. Yes, I just said chocolate fountain. The Waddells (our old next-door neighbors) brought their delicious chocolate fountain. We were so happy that so many of our friends and family showed up! It was our first get together in our new place and it was so nice to be able to have more than 2 people over (unlike our old apartment).

Sadie blowing out her candle:



I made an individual cake for Sadie. I think she liked it.

Again, with the sharing. She offers her food to anyone standing nearby.
Everything was going well with the cake eating until I showed Sadie the present Alicia and Bryce had gotten her- another little plastic Dora doll. Sadie had a meltdown when I wouldn't let her play with Dora while she was eating cake so we gave her a quick bath and let her open presents.

At first, she just wanted to hold onto Dora.

But then she started getting excited about all the new gifts.

Here she is with most of her gifts. Thank you everyone! Not pictured: the Dora doll, bubbles, and a phone that plays music Sadie dances to.

Sadie happened to receive a birthday package from her BCF Will on Saturday also. It contained a sweet Washington DC shirt so they can be matching BCF's and a photo of Will holding a birthday sign. Sadie loves the picture so much that it is a little destroyed now from Sadie dragging it around with her.

Arizona

At the end of July Daniel was supposed to be gone for a week and I wanted to do something fun with Sadie- what's better than Arizona in late July, right? Well I argue not much is better when you are going to visit the Proffitt family. They generously hosted us with only 2 weeks notice (and only a few days after they got back from vacation).

The flight to AZ was rough. So many nightmares occurred- Sadie came down with a horrible cold right before we left, no AC on the plane, giant back-arching-arm-flailing tantrums, drink dumped on my neighbor, etc. But this is why I chose a short flight- after an hour and a half the nightmares were all over.

To say Sadie loved Booker & Ike might be the understatement of the year. She loved playing with Booker, but she insisted on kissing Ike every time she saw him. Margaret caught it on camera (above). Sadie gives open-mouthed kisses exclusively.

I have never seen Sadie act like this. She would wrestle with the boys whenever she could. She took Ike's feet out pretty hard one time.


We had so much fun together. I think our main activities were swimming and eating delicious food, but we tried to make it out for a little while each day, even with the sweltering heat. Sadie loved the Tucson Children's Museum. I thought she would be a little young to enjoy it, but she had a great time (as you can see from the overabundance of pictures).

One of Sadie's favorite rooms was the hospital room with baby dolls.

Sadie did this all by herself. I looked over and she was on her tiptoes, trying to pull down the doll.

Then she dragged the baby around for a while. I mean literally dragged. The doll was about as big as her.

Sadie & Booker rode the police motorcycle together.

The firefighting display had real uniforms to try on. Sadie wasn't very happy when she tried them on.

I'm not sure exactly how many germs Sadie picked up at the museum, but I am guessing somewhere in the millions. After the first few rooms I gave up on trying to keep stuff out of her mouth.

We also headed over to Traildust Town one evening. We went on a train ride, panned for gold, and saw a stunt show with lots of shooting.

This reminds me of a picture I have of me with my sister Meredith and cousin Janessa in the stroller.

Before the stunt show started Sadie sat on Booker's lap for a photo op. Booker is in an awesome-smile stage of life. I was nervous about Sadie being scared of the loud gunshots, but she was completely unaffected and found the show boring. Ike was scared. Booker loved it. In fact, halfway through the show he loudly proclaimed "I love this show!"

As you can see, the trip was wonderful. It was great to see Margaret & Clark's beautiful house and cute kids. I have committed myself to traveling to see my loved ones more!
(Especially before Sadie turns 2 and we have to pay for her plane ticket)