Stephanie's Shower

Sadie and I had a fun weekend away... We went to Jennifer's on Saturday for Stephanie's shower. We had a great time, but missed all you girls (and your kids!) who could not be there :( Hopefully a bigger group of us can get together in October when Lins is in the midwest for a few weeks! Sadie & I spent the night with the Humistons and went to church with them on Sunday. Grace and Sadie had fun playing (and reading lots of books!) On Sunday afternoon we went on to my parent's house and spent a night there. Of course this involved a trip to the Dairy Barn for ice cream cones and we had to take a dip in their new pool. We had a great time, but were very happy to be home. Several times during the weekend, I would tell Sadie we were going to call Daddy. Her face would light up and she would look around saying "daddy? daddy?" expecting to see him.

Grace & Sadie playing sidewalk chalk.
Blowing bubbles...
Sadie, Faith, & Grace after church.
Swimming with Aunt Kassie.

Mommy's Helper

Helping with laundry... Sadie likes to find the dryer sheets and take them to the trashcan. She also likes to find all the socks. When she goes to the basement with me, she likes to throw clothes into the washing machine and shut the lid.
We take Wrigley for a walk every morning before breakfast. Sadie loves to hold his leash! (She also has her granola bar aka--pre-breakfast snack, in her hand!)
Sadie loves to help water the flowers! She often goes into the garage and points to her watering can so I will get it down for her. She carries it right over to the hose to get it filled up... Yes, she usually ends up pretty wet!

Happy Father's Day

Meal-Time Messes

Sadie is really getting the hang of using her fork and spoon to feed herself--she's so much fun to watch! This week, Sadie discovered cereal with milk on it--she LOVES it! Anytime I give her a choice for her breakfast, she always picks cereal and carries the box to the fridge so we can get her milk!

Here are a few of my favorite eating pics:

First taste of cereal: 6 months
Enjoying some "mixed veggies": 9 months

Her favorite food of all--Banana!
This is one of my favorite messes! She was having some fruit salad for dessert. Her dad was sitting with her while I cleaned up. He yelled for me to come see what she was doing--she thought she was hilarious!
Enjoying some yogurt...
Praying before her meal.
Her new favorite breakfast--cereal with milk!

Ice?

Sadie LOVES to eat ice! Anytime we eat at a restaurant, her meal is always followed by munching some ice. Today as we were eating lunch, she pointed at my glass and started signing eat. I gave her a piece of ice. She quickly munched it and signed more. I said "More ice?" and tried to get her to say the word ice. As I kept repeating the word ice she just looked at me. Finally she signed more and pointed at her eyes. As I handed her a piece of ice, she smiled and proceeded to ask for "More eyes" three more times!

Summer Fun

Really, I've only had 1 day of "summer break"--Monday I was off and Tuesday and Wednesday I had training for school. However, it feel like summer is in full swing! We've been enjoying lots of summer activities including: many walks (Sadie LOVES the wagon!), swimming, Marc's 1st softball game, playing at the park, and of course... ICE CREAM! Monday I took Sadie on her first walk to the library. We didn't spend a long time inside (only about 5 minutes) but I figure that's good enough for now! Sadie checked out 2 books that we've been enjoying. I plan to try and take her once a week or so! (I'm actually enjoying my first book of the summer!) We've been starting each day with an early walk before it gets to hot and we usually walk again in the afternoon or evening with Marc or with some friends.

Sadie is so much fun right now! She regularly signs the words: eat, drink, more, milk, please, thank-you, and all done. She says the words: dada (her favorite word!), mama, more, puppy, dog, banana, night-night, hi, bye, and please. She also loves to wave at people, blow kisses, and shake her head adamantly when she does not want to do something! Right now we're working on some animal signs and holding up a finger to show how old she is.

Sadie is becoming a big helper. She LOVES to put things into the trashcan for us. She puts her hat up when get inside from a walk. She loves to get her shoes (and tries to put them on). She likes to give Wrigley his treats (although she occasionally tries to eat them). She's also typically very good about picking up her toys. She's really starting to enjoy reading more. She loves to get books off of her bookshelf and bring them over. She'll plop in our lap and listen to about 2-3 pages before she's off to get a different book!

I've been enjoying my break as well! I'm much less stressed than I was the last couple weeks of school. I've been taking some time to read and scrapbook. I've even cleaned my house and accomplished my first big cleaning project--the fridge!

Sadie LOVES ice cream. She typically eats all of her ice cream and manages to get some from mom or dad (or whoever we happened to walk to the ice cream place with!) I have to admit--she's pretty convincing when she's signing please and thank-you!)

This is Sadie and her friend Mikenna. We were at Mikenna's house to check out her new pool. The water was still a bit cold, but the girls enjoyed sitting on the side and splashing! Sadie is frequently sporting hair-dos like this because she likes to pull her ponytails out.

Sadie and her friend Carson are jumping in one of those blow-up jumpers. (This was a small one that we borrowed from a friend.) Sadie was going crazy!


Friday night, Marc and I babysat for Emma and Megan & Carson so their parents could go to HS graduation. The kids had fun. This was the only "calm" moment of the night. It lasted about 5 minutes until Sadie finished her grapes first and started trying to steal some of Carson's. (Yes, that's a typical Sadie moment!) One of Sadie's favorite activities--emptying kitchen cupboards. Recently she's gotten very good at picking out her own snack (at least she thinks she can!) She gets very upset when we have to put it back for later!