My Little Model

Sadie is such a little model!  She poses for the camera so well, I can't stand how CUTE she is!!

 And what a great job posing by these two! :)

William's Bay

This weekend was Sadie's first, and most likely only, trip to the Fucik family summer home in Williams Bay, WI.  The house was built in 1903 by my great-great-grandparents.  It has been passed down twice, first to my great-grandfather and his brother, then to my grandpa, his three brothers, and one of their cousins.  With all of them getting older and nobody else wanting to or being able to afford to take care of it, the house and property are going to be sold soon.  I wanted to make sure to get Sadie there at least once before we can't go there anymore.  Even if she doesn't remember it, I will.  Here she is reading her book on the bed in the front bedroom.

Playing on the floor in the living room.

Having a snack at the dining room table.

Watching the boats on the bay from the front porch.

Swinging down at the community park.

Having supper at a nearby restaurant.

As we were pulling out of the driveway, I told her to say "Bye Lake Geneva" and she waved.  It was so cute, but it almost made me cry.  I love that place and have so many great memories there (Dinner, 5 minutes!), and I'm so sad that she won't be able to grow up there like we did.

Sadie 0, Cupcake 1

Here is Sadie's first attempt at feeding herself something bigger than bite size... a carrot cake mini cupcake.  Lesson for Mom- leave the frosting off the ones you're going to feed to the baby!

What a mess, but she loved it!

Standing!

Sadie turned 9 months old last week!

She's growing up so fast!  She was 20.5 pounds on our scale, so she's getting heavier, but she doesn't seem to be getting much taller.  We'll see how long she is next week when we go to the doctor for her check up. 

We celebrated father's day last weekend.  Sadie loves her daddy!

 This one looks like she's giving him a kiss, but she's really just trying to get the nuk out of his mouth. :)  She hasn't learned kisses yet, but she likes to try to suck on your face, so she's getting closer!

Then on Tuesday she stood!  She had been starting to for just a few seconds and then plopping down right away, but Kevin was on vacation this week, so they practiced a lot.  When I got home from work she showed me what she learned!

She can even get herself up to a standing position from sitting on the floor now.  I tried to catch her doing it, but she was more interested in the camera!

Sadie Tattoos

This past Sunday Kevin and I went to get our tattoos for Sadie.  We went to the guy that has done all the rest of Kevin's work, so we had to drive down to Oshkosh.  We weren't really planning on getting them done right away, so we had brought Sadie with us.  We had to take turns anyway, so we just took turns watching her, and she was such a good girl!  Kevin got his on his foot-

The bird doesn't really mean anything special, it just goes along with the theme of the rest of his body.  She has blue eyes like Sadie, and is wearing a crown because Sadie means Princess.

The crown has a sapphire in it, which is her birthstone, and has her date of birth in the three tips.  Mine is on my lower back-

The one in the middle means Sister, which I've had for a while.  Stefanie and I went together and got matching sister tattoos.  I added the symbol for Daughter on the left and Mother on the right, and then entwined them with the letter S, because my mom is Sandy, my sister is Stefanie, and my daughter is Sadie. 

Splishing and Splashing

Today Sadie did two new things, both in the water!  It was over 80 degrees today, and I had the day off, so we decided to try out our new pool!  Sadie and I both got our swimsuits on and slathered on the sunscreen.  We both had brim hats on too- no sunburns here!  Sadie sat on the grass while I blew up the pool, and she didn't mind it at all.  No invisible fence for her!  I used the hose to fill up the pool, and the water was FREEZING!  I actually got a bucket of hot water from inside the house to mix in just to warm it up.  It took Sadie a little bit to get used to the water.  She'd let her toe drop down, and then as soon as she felt the water she'd pull her leg back up.  We had her little bucket with us which helped distract her a little, and once she got used to it, she sat OK in the water.  She really only got her legs and butt wet though.

It was hard to get good pictures of her since I was in the pool with her, and she kept trying to get the camera!  Then when we came in, she was all sunscreened and sweated up, so she took her first bath in the big tub without the infant tub.  I don't have any idea if it's early or late for her to start using the big tub, but it was much easier to really scrub her good.  She seemed to enjoy it!

Of course, she's such a mover, that she just wanted to stand the whole time!  At least it was easy to clean her butt. :)

Eight Months Old

My baby girl turned 8 months old this past Saturday!  We weighed/measured her at home and got 19 pounds and 27 inches.  Not sure on the height... at her appointment 6 weeks ago they measured her at 28 inches, and I really don't think she's shrinking.  It must be because the lay her down and we're standing her up?  Unfortunately we both worked Saturday, so we didn't get a chance to take pictures until right before bed, and somebody was not very happy about it.

She has been learning so many new things, and it's finally decent weather so we can do more with her!  She has got her crawling down pat, she's like greased lightning if you let her roam free.  She still has not learned, however, that sometimes the shortest route is not always the fastest...

Or for some reason, she just really likes playing with the kitchen chairs.

She can play pretty well by herself now.  She will just go right to her toys and start taking things out of the basket. 

She likes to play with Miller, too.  She doesn't know the difference yet between her toys and his.  Or their food... she managed to get a piece of his food in her mouth today before I could get to her.  Yuck! 

Of course, clean up is eay when it works the other way around, and Miller eats her food.

Another new favorite thing to do is to make movie piles.  She'll take them out, and then when she gets bored with them, I'll put them back, but as soon as she sees me doing that, then she'll just start over again.

This is how we found her the other morning when she woke up...

And this is how we usually find her sleeping...

She is growing up so much!  She is such a happy baby, and she's finally getting a decent head of hair, although it's so light you can't really see it in pictures.  She is such a cutie!