Pictures from Christmas

This is how we have been finding Sadie in the morning lately.

Growing and Growing

Yesterday I bought this basket for Sadie's toys. As soon as it was full of her toys she had it dumped out, her mouth open ready to chew on anything that got close enough. She is getting close to being able to crawl. She can sit up without falling over, even in the bath tub. She likes to sit up in her crib and look out at what we are doing while she plays with her stuffed animals.

Happenings Since Thanksgiving

So for Christmas my parents got Sadie this jumper seat (it was a little early because we were down there for thanksgiving and she needed a seat.) I think she wears herself out jumping, she tends to jump very fast for about 15 minutes then gets tired.

She is learning to crawl too. Only it is more of a wiggle and roll.

Yet another funny way she has fallen asleep. In other news Sadie has cut a tooth on bottom. I am so excited, I can't wait to see her with teeth. And speaking of teeth, I had two of my wisdom teeth out on the 1st. Half of my face was huge for about a week, it is finally starting to get better. I haven't been up to too much lately, just making all my own ornaments out of paper and new headbands and felt flowers for Sadie. Scott isn't doing too much but we might be going back to California for a job. He is still working for his uncle, they just picked up a job out there for a few months. I hope everything works out with it, it would be nice to have a winter without snow. I only have one complaint in my life right now and that would be with unemployment. Over the last month they have only sent us $10. It is so frustrating that you can't get help from where you are supposed to when you need it. Oh well. Sorry I don't have any thanksgiving pictures, my mom took them all and I am still waiting to get them myself.

What we will be doing next week

So we actually have some news. It is nothing big but I am excited. For thanksgiving this year I get to go home to California. I haven't been home and had my mom's cooking for thanksgiving in three years. Yesterday Scott called me and told me he was on his way home from the Dr.'s office. He had cut his finger open and had to get 4 stitches. I guess our vacation is coming at the perfect time since he can't really work. My mom said that my dad is thinking about taking us to the beach for a day or two while we are down as well. I am so excited.

Our day

This morning I had Sadie on the couch. I noticed that she would laugh when I sang to her or made a noise. So I got my phone ready and took this picture, she is so cute.
We went to the store this morning, but instead of going home right after we went to the park. She liked to look at the leaves on the ground. She even sat on them and played with them. I took her around to the different trees and she felt the needles on the pine tree and the bark on the other trees. I just wish it wasn't so cold outside. We would have stayed longer if she had been dressed warmer.

Sadie is 5 months old.

Sadie turned 5 months yesterday. It is hard to believe that it has been that long since I was in the hospital having her. She is such a good girl. She sleeps through the night in her own room, I think that she couldn't care less if we were in the room with her or not. She can roll around wherever she wants. I thing that she has a tooth coming in on the bottom but it doesn't seem to bug her too much.

This is a painting that I'm working on, I don't know what I'm going to do with it next, it is more an experiment with a new style. We had some great news last weekend. I did some calling around and found that one of the bills from the doctors was filled wrong and we may not owe anything. Hurray!!! So to all those women out there, if there is a questionable bill that you receive don't be afraid to call people and fight it. Other than that the only other news we have is that it was Scott's birthday on Monday. I made a huge cake. We are still trying to get rid of it.

This is for Great Grandma

Yesterday I walked into Sadie's room because I heard her wake up. I found her in her crib with this blanket over her head.

She had her fingers through the holes. She really likes this blanket, her great grandma made it for her.

This was her after church on Sunday. Her hair was all messed up from her head band.

Sadie has started to squeal and that is what I was trying to catch but I thought this was cute too.

Just another Sadie post

This is Sadie's new way of riding in her swing. I left the room for only a minute and this is what I found when I came back.
Maybe she just wanted her blanket. She is at that stage when everything in reaching distance goes in her mouth. She doesn't have any teeth yet, I say that she is like a great white shark, she wants to know what it is so it has to go in the mouth so she can taste it.



We went shopping with grandma (Scott's mom) the other day and we found this really cute hat, now I want one just like it.

Sadie had a special play date with our friend Aj. They are only one day apart in age.

Sadie at the Pumpkin patch and as a pea pod for a halloween party

So after reading the Buies blog about the pumpkin patch in Idaho Falls we decided to check it out too. Even though the fields were a little less than perfect we had a really fun time, and Sadie got her first pumpkin for only $3.


She wouldn't stop looking at the ground, I think she liked the dead vines.








She got really tired at the party so we let her sleep for a while in her carseat after we got home.

Sadie Eating

She was really excited to get started, and I think she was a little scared. She didn't know what was going on.
Most of it came out of her mouth as soon as it went in. It took a few bites before she started to get it.

I think she really liked it. She was so excited the whole time and the energy only continued after she was done.

She is smiling at Daddy.

Our Little Bug (nothing ever happens to us)

There is still not much going on with Scott or Me but Sadie seems to never run out of news. Lately she has started to ride in the cart at the grocery store. She needs a little support but she does pretty well on her own. She has also developed a new habit of sucking her bottom lip. She is so funny. One thing did happen to Scott this weekend. He accidentally trimmed off too much of his beard and now it is really short. That is our news.

Pictures of Sadie and News

This is Sadie watching TV

I think this is funny, Sadie always crosses her legs like this.

So Sadie can grab her feet very well now and roll over. She is doing well. She just keeps growing and learning. As for us, we are doing well. Scott wants to get this camper trailer. It is a '77 and I think that it needs more work than we can afford, but he is really excited to have a place to stay when he goes hunting and camping. The season opens this weekend and so I will be a hunters widow for a few months again. I hope that it doesn't take him very long to get something so that he can be home more this winter. I can't believe how cold it has already gotten. It is weird to watch the temperature drop after getting up rather than going up.
I am really excited for the holidays. I keep thinking about thanksgiving. Hopefully I will get to go home this year, it has been 3 years since I went home for thanks giving. I miss my moms cooking, she is seriously the best. We (my whole family) keep trying to convince her that she needs to open a resturant. Well anyway, I have to go and feed my little bug.

More Sadie News

Sadie is learning to grab her feet. She can almost do it herself. I just think this picture is cute. She is growing up to fast. I keep telling her to slow down but she doesn't seem to want to listen to me. She has such a funny personality, I told my mom that I forget that she is a baby sometimes, she seems more like a really smart big person stuck in a little persons body that can't talk yet.

What's Going On

She is such a cutie
Mommy put her in funny clothes
She had a really full belly

This is Sadie giving me the "what are you doing mom" look. Things seem to be getting crazy lately. It is so hard to see a way out of our financial problems. Things keep building and building. I just wish I had one easy answer to just one of our problems. There doesn't seem to be much that we can do though. Sadie is doing great. She is starting to laugh and roll on her side. I think that she may walk before she crawls. I should be giving her more tummy time. I guess I just can't help myself, she is just too cute to put down for too long.