Sadie is 18 Months Old!

I know that it has been forever since I have posted anything (remodeling, moving and loving our new house, holidays, flowers for 3 weddings - kind of took over my life), but today is an important day and I wanted to make sure that I remembered it! My baby is 18 months old, I can't believe she is 1 and half, where has all of the time gone!

Sadie,

You are so much fun! You make each day fun at our house and we are so glad that you are ours! You are talking so much- mostly about dogs, Cinderella, belle, food and going outside. You love Cinderella at the moment and want to watch her, color a picture of her, take a bath with your toys of her, pretty much if it involves Cinderella you love it! You love going to cousin Brynnley's house and playing all of her Cinderella stuff. You frequently say, "Rella, see Brynnley", I think you two will be best buds once you figure out how to share with each other! You also love your Cinderella shirt, even though it doesn't fit over your belly anymore you still drape it on your back or around your neck and still wear it. Speaking of your belly, you are 24 lbs (55%) and are in the 99 percentile for height- still wondering how you are my child.

You love to eat all of the time. Since Easter you have developed a great love for candy and are frequently coming up to me and saying, "nandy." You are also loving fruit snacks, I think you developed your deep love for them at grandpa and grandma ford's house where they let you eat 3 packs at a time! No wonder you love going to their house, just kidding! But you also still love the healthy food too, you love grapes, strawberries, peas, apples (or appies as you call them), carrots, and beans. Below is a picture of you with a your first pudding pack. I gave it to you with a spoon and then went to wash some dishes, I came back and this is how I found you! You had eaten most of it with the spoon, but were trying to lick out the bottom. Needless to say, we took a bath after a few pictures!

You are loving our new house, you love the space and are constantly running circles around the kitchen and the family room. You love the backyard and always say, "side" , for outside. You always want to be outside and are not liking this spring weather where it is warm and then cold. You love the playground, especially the slide, if we even pass a playground or house with a slide you want to get out immediately. You do not walk anywhere, but are always running. Your run is the cutest because your little legs fly out to the side as you run - we love it! You love the new wagon that we bought with your gift card to TOYS R US from great grandpa and grandma Ford (thank you so much) and want to go on walks all of the time. We go outside and you say "ride" and climb in your wagon, we are probably taking 2 to 3 walks a day- I am starting to walk enough with you that some days I don't even have to go running! Dogs are still your favorite and you are constantly standing at our front screen door trying to figure out a way to get out to see the dog across the street.

You love books right now, weather they are Elmo (or Ernie as you call him), Cinderella (rella), ABC, animals, touch and feel, Jesus books, you love them! We love that you are always finding the church books in the house and looking for the pictures of Jesus. As we turn the pages you say "Jesus" and get so excited for each picture of Him. You love the picture of Jesus and the lamb, but of course you think it is a dog which we think is pretty cute! You love stickers and sticker books - it is the best way to keep you occupied at church. You are starting to also love coloring with crayons and want to get in your highchair and color all of the time.

You are Miss Independent and love to do things on your own. You want to get up and down by yourself, put things together by yourself, turn things on by yourself, brush your teeth by yourself. Most of the time we love that you are independent, but sometimes if scares us a little bit because you are a climber and are kind of fearless. At the park you don't want help getting up or down, but love the high slides of course. We try to help you discretely, so that you don't get mad, but are there so that you don't fall and break something! You are friendly to strangers, like in the grocery store we are rolling along and you are waving and saying hi and bye to everyone. But when we introduce you to some one you become shy. We love your little personality!

(I love this picture of you, you can just see how independent and determined you are!)

Sadie, you are at such a fun age and I wish that we could just keep you small forever. You are going up way to fast for us! We love to watch you learn and go and keep us laughing each day. We love you more than we can express, we love you sweet girl!

Love,
Mommy and Daddy