Cabinet Love

Sadie loves this cabinet. She can stand in front of it and take stuff out of it all day. It comes in handy when I cook. She's with me and I can keep an eye on her but she's not actually hanging on my leg. That is her other preferred location. However, she loves to saunter over to the dog bowl and play with the food and swish the water and I'm constantly saying no and moving her. So that's fun.

Bookworm

Sadie loves to read her books. She loves to have me read to her but now she has begun pulling all her books that are out off the coffee table shelf and "reading" them.
And if you put them back she pulls them all out the minute she realizes you've put them away. They must ALL be out. She's her mother's daughter.
And she points and talks like she's reading.

Here's a dark, not so great video of her and a book. I'm working on getting one of her talking to her books.

More Coast

So I never posted the video we took of Sadie on the coast. She's exploring sand for the first time.

A hike on the coast

We took a drive to the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area and then took a hike across the dunes to the ocean. It was a beautiful place, like a desert by the sea. We also took some pictures for our (and your) enjoyment.


Sadie with Daddy:

Sadie with mama:
2 pics of the pups:

A little trick Mr. Miyagi taught me one cruel summer:

Hallowe'en

And a Happy Samhain to you!
Here are some pictures from the party we had today. One of the moms was kind enough to let us all descend on her house. There were about 10 babies altogether.
So what does a mom do who just spent all weekend at a wedding in NY and doesn't have a costume and refuses to buy a store-made one? She makes one at the last minute (9pm last night) and makes her daughter a mummy!
It was very cute and everyone liked it, including me.

Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch. Which was actually a mud patch.
Sadie started cooing and got extremely excited when she saw the pumpkins. Then she yelled & laughed at the tractors and got royally pissed off when she wasn't allowed to "walk" holding one of our hands.
The 3rd picture down is Sadie blowing a raspberry. She loves it and if you get her started and do it back to her she will go for 5 minutes straight. It's pretty funny and well worth the complete spit-drenching that occurs. I don't mind a little baby spit.

We're walking, we're walking...

Yes, she's walking!
From me to daddy and back. She just let go today and took a couple of steps toward me. Then we sat across from each other and she went back and forth. She's getting pretty good at it in one day!
I guess soon she'll be taking off on her own around the house. It's amazing to watch her go. She is just the cat's meow, I tell ya.

Pictures of my girl

So now I shall inundate you with photos.
But first you should know that she is clapping! I will post a video soon. And she said "CAT!" while pointing at Mr. Bird (the cat). Hooray!

At the park:






Just hanging on the couch. She cracks me up with this pose. She often sleeps like this too:

Cute:

At her friend's first birthday party:

With her friend Brody at the party:

Hair!

Maybe you've noticed the hair. Maybe you haven't. But she's definitely got some hair now. Enough to do this:

Oh, yes. And here she is in a paper bag. Don't ask, it rains a lot here.

Just being Silly

So here is our Sadie just hanging out and being her silly self. What a monkey!

She crawls!

Well, she finally figured out the old knee-leg crawl the other day. Now she no longer looks like a wounded soldier or a thirsty desert-stranded person. She looks like a baby crawling, which is what she is. And it only took us moving the last vestige of our adult house off to the side. The baby officially owns us.

The day we moved the table she crawled. It's like she'd been waiting. The hardwood floors were too slippery. And now that she figured it out on the rug the wood is easy-peasy too.

So far a chair is gone and now the coffee table. So our rug is now a giant play rug. Which is turning out to be fun for everyone. I think we should all have playmats, they remind us to get down on the floor and hang out- view the world from a different place than from our butt on the couch.

But, anyway, here's her first real crawl!

This is what happens when you won't take a nap!

So as most of you know I have a child who doesn't like to nap, doesn't like to sleep, and wakes up every 45 minutes. Yesterday she was exhausted but would not take her afternonn 40 minute nap- It's not like I ask for a lot!
So at 6:45 while eating dinner this is what happened:

It's been a while!

Sorry about the delay in posting. However, since I have just seen most of you I know I will be forgiven! We had fun in NY. Here are a few pics of Sadie with her cousins:

So I Creep...

Yeah, I Creep!

Sadie has been sort of moving around but seemed unable to control the direction she traveled in. Well, here is video proving that today she figured out how to get where she wants to go!

And all this with an ear infection which has made her cranky for 1-1/2 weeks.

More Pioneers

Here ya go.

Mmmm...Rocks.

We went swimming in a river today. It was cold in the water but it was hot outside, so it was wonderful.

Sadie tried out her new floating crab and had a good time with daddy. She also enjoys eating rocks and has to be watched constantly in order to stop her rock consumption. See pic.

Oh, yes. This morning we went to Baby Music Hour and Sadie was looking around while I helped her stand up. I let go and she stood by herself for about 10 seconds or so. A long time! I know it was a fluke but it was very cute!

Backyard Photo Session

Pioneers

We went to Living History today. This is a weekend festival with Civil War reenactments and fur trading posts and homemade snacks. All in all something I love. I had fresh-churned butter and we had a hayride.

Even dad liked it.

I bought a bonnet- yes, a bonnet, which I wore proudly all day. And even wore home in the car. And I may be wearing it next time you see me, too. Y'all are just lucky I didn't buy the dress that matched it.



A pic from our day:

Murray the Furry

Yesterday we had to put Murray to sleep. His glaucoma was getting really bad, as was his diabetes. There was no way to treat the eye surgically because he was sick. The doc said he was in pain and agreed it was time.

He was the sweetest, gentlest cat I have ever known. There will never be another like him.

We miss you, you furry Mursky-boy. Goodbye to my Striped Cat. Rest In Peace.

Sadie's 1st Birthday

No, we didn't have her birthday party yet, silly! She went to her friend's party.
Where she went in the pool and watched him eat cake. No cake for Sadie. Here are some pictures of her with her buddies.

And a laughing and smiling picture as well:

Splish Splash

Sadie learned how to splash recently. This is why we no longer wash her in the kitchen sink. The floor was wet, the counters were drenched, and there was water dripping from the cabinets.
We tried to get a video and she did splash a little but of course the minute she saw the camera she became obsessed with grabbing the dishes that were near her.

But here it is anyway: