Happy Birthday Sadie!

Sadie turned one year old yesterday!  In the last month before her birthday she has become a pro at walking.  She likes to carry things around with her, especially things that resemble purses...

She is starting to keep hats on for more than a second at a time, she used to immediately pull them off and get cranky about it, but I was able to get a few shots...

We had Sadie's birthday party on Sunday the 5th so that her whole family could come.  She was so adorable in her birthday outfit!

This month she got a "real" tiara to wear for her picture, but like hats, she wasn't really digging it...

Dad ordered her cake for her, and it turned out really cute. 

With a quarter sheet purchase you get a free baby cake, which is intended that the baby can have that cake for themselves, but it was actually quite large, so Sadie just had a slice of the sheetcake.

She got lots of nice presents from everybody!  Lots of toys and clothes, and a few other things.  Here's some of the gifts she got...

She got her very first baby doll, Stella, from her Mama.

Her present from Dad and Grandpa Kox is a big hit too.

On her actual birthday yesterday, we took her to get her pictures taken at a studio.  She did really well, and we got some adorable shots.  She looks like a baby model in some of them!  Then we weren't able to do much else because it rained most of the day, but it was nice to be off work and be able to spend the whole day with her.  I can't believe how much she's grown up in the past year!

Catching Up

I haven't been taking too many pictures lately, but since my last post Sadie turned 10 months old and then 11 months old.  We had our family reunion in early August, but I didn't take any pictures myself.  I just have to bum them off my family!  Sadie also attended her very first Heritage picnic, but we didn't take any pictures there either.  Usually not much exciting happens there!

Sometimes Dad takes her on bike rides, but I don't think she's quite into it yet...

She really enjoys "reading"...

And her puppy.

Now that she's a little older we let her sleep with her bunny.  She loves her babies!

Sadie is now a pro at walking too.  She started about 3 weeks ago and she just motors around the house now.  She is also figuring out how to get down the stairs on her own. 

Timberrrrrrr!!!!

So I open the patio door last night to let Miller out to go potty, and I hear a crackling noise like firecrackers going off.  I'm wondering to myself "what the hell is that?" when all of a sudden there's a big crack, and a tree limb goes down in our backyard in front of my eyes!  Not really sure what caused it- I'm thinking it just cracked under it's own weight- but what's really ironic is that there were 2 dead trees in our backyard that we wanted to take down and it was the living one that falls.  Thankfully it just missed the fence between our yard and our neighbor behind us!

Conveniently Kevin already had a chain saw here that he borrowed from his dad, because still ironically, he was planning on trimming this tree tomorrow because of how low the branches were hanging.  I guess the tree just decided to help him out!  So he went at it this evening instead of waiting.  Our neighbor guy behind us is pretty cool, and he was helping Kevin out.  He hauled all the branches away to the dump for us... possibly because Kevin gave him 2 bottles of liquor earlier. :)  And he got a few good fire logs out of it too.

While he was at it, Kevin just whacked the smaller of the 2 dead trees too.  Now we just need the big one taken down professionally.  At least the one that fell didn't cause any damage!

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!