So I am a little bit behind on blogging......Sadie was 9 months a couple of weeks ago, but I am finally getting
around to documenting it! I can not believe she is this old, I always tell Devin that I want her to stay little forever, but she just keeps growing - I am loving this age. She doesn't seem to feel the same way because she is in a hurry to do everything. We went to our doctors appointment and Sadie kept showing off by standing up not holding on to things, walking around holding on to the furniture at the office and Dr. Witt kept saying, "Sadie what's the hurry." Needless to say she is our little active mover! She is standing up on her own, walking around holding on to anything that will support her (including other kids which I think scares some of the other kids because as she uses them to stand up sometimes she pulls their pants off! I am trying to stop that - We are working on it), and she is crawling all the way upstairs by herself. She was 18 lbs 7 oz (45%) and 28 1/2 in (83%), as for now she is tall, we will see how that pans out because when your mom is 5'1" I feel like she doesn't have a great chance at being tall.
Here she is with her
Mohawk that daddy gave her in the bathtub. We seriously don't know what to do with her hair, but we love it. Her hair is crazy in the back, always sticking up like a rooster! I love when she wakes up from her nap and I go in because I never know what her hair is going to look like. As you can tell from the picture she loves taking baths and playing with her toys in the tub. After we get her undressed she crawls as fast as she can to the tub and stands by the side just bouncing with excitement waiting to get in. The bathroom is probably her favorite room in the house because she has discovered the toilet paper and thinks it is the best toy ever invented.
Everything goes into her mouth, somehow she seems to find the smallest piece of paper or leaf or whatever and puts it directly into her mouth. I can always tell when she has something because she sits and stares at me knowing she has something she should not have. I love that she has a guilty face, I hope that comes in handy in the years to come! She still just has the 2 bottom teeth, but that still does not stop her from biting everything! Her favorite word to say is still "DA DA", I love hearing her say it, it is so cute! Occasionally we get "
na na" and "ma ma", but not that often, not often enough for me. Her little voice is too cute, I could listen to it all day.
She is still a good little eater. We finally got her a highchair and she loves it. Her favorite foods are; sweet potatoes,
bananas,
banana bread, yogurt melts, graham crackers, teething biscuits, and
nutri grain bars. She eats anything we give her, we are so thankful! We gave her a salt and vinegar chip the other day because she really wanted it thinking that she would hate it. She licked it, made a
hilarious sour face and then
squealed with delight, she loved it! I can't believe the things she will eat. I gave her a bite of ice cream for the first time the other day and after her first bite she went "
mmm", it was so funny! The picture above is her in her highchair with her teddy. She has started having days where she wants to take this teddy bear with her where ever she goes. That day she really wanted it to sit with her while she ate lunch!
This last picture is of her at her new favorite spot, the bottom of the stairs holding on to the gate. She would climb the stairs all day if we let her, so sometimes we have to put up the gate. She just waits at the bottom holding on until we take it down again, what a funny girl. I love being a mom and I am
especially grateful everyday to be Sadie's mom. I can't wait for the next 9 months to see what adventures we have in store, we love you Sadie!
We have been taking a lot walks and Sadie is loving them. Here is a picture of her after a walk out in the heat (sorry for the topless shot, she was really hot!) doing her favorite thing, drinking water from a big cup. You can tell how much she loves it just by her face!
Swimming is one of our favorite things lately. My parents got us passes to a Cherry Hill, a fun water park by our house, for my birthday and we are having so much fun there. Sadie loves the water, she is a little fish. We probably go to the pool at least 3 times a week, it is too much fun watching her. She loves crawling through the baby section (I could not get a picture of her face, she was so 
Sadie and I on the boat, Sadie loved her first boat ride. The faster Grandpa drove the boat the louder Sadie talked, she was loving it!
Devin, Darren, Sadie and Ryder, aren't they all so cute! 
My wonderful friend Jena came to stay and visit us for a few days from Cinncinatti. It was SO fun to have her here and to be able to catch up. It was great to shop, go out to eat and just stay up late talking. Jena, thanks for coming to visit us we had so much, we can't wait for you to come again soon! And I am working on Sadie saying "Jena", hopefully by the next time you come! 
We also celebrated Devin's first Father's Day! Sadie and I framed her handprint and made a little gift for Daddy. We had a fun day with family. I am truly grateful for a wonderful husband who is an amazing dad, I am glad we had a day to show him how much we appreciate him. We are also grateful for our wonderful fathers and grandfathers, we love you. 
And of course Sadie has gotten even bigger and more active over the past few weeks. As you can tell from the picture above she is loving it at our new home. She is 8 months old now and is into everything. She loves talking (pretty much "Da Da" is the word of choice) and inching along on her little belly to get where she wants to go. Her inch worm crawl is the topic of conversation every where we go, we love it and think it is the cutest thing ever. She is starting to get on her knees and rock and move a few steps with her knees, but if she really wants to get somewhere quickly that is where the inch worm comes in handy. She is also pulling her self up to standing using furniture. She LOVES the coffee table and many days she spends hours standing up and then falling down on her bum around it. She likes to stand up and yell to us proudly. We got a gate for the stairs at our new home, but she really has taken no interest in them yet, she does have an interest though in everything else she is not suppose to have like paper, pens, my keys, cords, etc. And our new favorite thing is chewing on her crib with her two little teeth. We seriously can not believe all of the damage she has done with just two teeth! She is still a good little eater and is loving trying new food. When she is excited about something we know it because she moves her arms up and down really fast and talks, it is so fun. She is now also bathing in the big girl tub and loves it. She flips from her back to her belly and then to her back again, we are getting a little wetter than before, but it is completely worth it to see the joy on her face. We are loving watching her personality come alive. We LOVE you Sadie!
Here is a picture of the old mill, that night that we got there we went on a little hike around the grounds, it was gorgeous. We saw a lot of wildflowers and were able to watch three deer playing only about 15 feet from where we were standing. It was a wonderful weekend and I am so grateful to be married to my best friend. Thank you for picking me Devin, I love you!!!
Not the best picture of us, but the only one I took of us together! After we left the Johnson Mill that next morning we were able to go to the Provo Temple for a few hours. I had never been inside before and what a beautiful temple it is, I was grateful for the blessing to go there and do temple work. We did 
She kept trying to knock the laundry basket over to get into it, so I helped her out and put her in. She loved it and was happy in there for half an hour!
