1 Year Pictures

The weekend after Sadie's 1st birthday I took her in for her pictures. I think we got some cute ones. The photographer was laughing at her cause she was coming up with all sorts of new poses (in the chair and on the floor). He also tried to get her to sit down on the floor for a picture with the letters spelling her name in front of her. Well that didn't work, which I knew it wouldn't. She didn't want to sit at all. She took those letters and ran off with them and she was so proud of herself for it. I think he did a good job of getting some smiley and some serious ones. We even managed to get 2 decent ones of the girls together. I've been telling Sadie lately that she has "Grandpa Don's hair". My Grandpa used to have short hair but longer in the front with the wave. I always loved it. In the first picture, Sadie reminds me of my Grandpa with the wave in the front...I love that.

11 Months

11 Months!

And running around everywhere!

At 11 Months Sadie pretty much mastered her walking. She even learned how to get up on her own without using furniture or something else to help pull her up. She also learned to squat to pick things up and not fall over. I was amazed at how quickly she figured that all out. I guess when you have an older sister to keep up with you don't waste any time ;)

As you can see from the pictures her hair is getting a lot longer (mostly in front). She's not the best at keeping barrettes in so everyonce in awhile I put the little pony in right on top of her head. It looks slightly ridiculous but still cute at the same time, and at least it keeps her bangs out of her eyes>

Sadie talks a lot in her own little lingo but hasn't said a lot of real words yet. She says "hi" and "oh, oh". She didn't get any new teeth yet this month, still 4 on top and 2 on bottom. She pretty much eats everything now. She is such a good eater!

Sadie LOVES to play outside! She is especially into bubbles right now.

Watching Rylee to see how it is done.

Her turn to dip the bubble wand.

And attempting to blow bubbles.

Sadie blowing kisses

Sadie loves to give kisses and blow kisses. When you say "I love you" to her she blows you a kiss back. Her real kisses are my favorite though. She leans in and gives you a big smooch right on the lips. She gives mom, dad and Rylee lots of kisses. Apparently she also goes around at daycare and gives all the "babies" kisses too. Not the best thing as far as spreading germs but she is just so loving!

I found a little Pottery Barn Kids chair at a garage sale for Sadie for $10. I was pretty excited about my deal. Sadie loves it! Its now red with her name on it so Rylee and Sadie have their matching chairs. When you tell Sadie to go sit in her chair she goes right to the little one.

Saturday morning in their pajama's.

They both love their "Papa's team" blankies (that's what Rylee calls it cause it says NMU football on it) Sadie has a little blankie that she sleeps with but she is not as attached to it as Rylee was (is) to her blankie. It mostly just stays in her crib. Notice Rylee has both of her blankets with her.

This picture is from Mother's day but I thought I'd put it in with this 11 month post since it was from around that time. I had a great day with my girls! I am one lucky mama!

(I know I am a few months behind but bare with me as I try to get semi caught up)

Princess Rylee

The last few months Rylee has started to take a liking to princesses and "dress up". My mom got her a princess tent for Christmas and everyonce in awhile we get that out and she plays "princess". She also has a lot of princess accessories to go along with her tent.

Playing in her princess tent.

After playing in her tent for a little while she came out of her room with everything on including 3 necklaces, a princess sash, 3 purses and her cinderella shoes. Too cute!

All dressed up and nowhere to go

Easter 2010

Easter morning we woke up and searched for the girls baskets and lots of eggs from the easter bunny. Rylee really got into the hunt this year! Sadie just kind of followed Rylee around.

Rylee found her big basket!

Sadie posing with her basket full of goodies too.

Sadie grabbed an egg from Rylee's basket and she looks SO proud!

She found all the eggs and couldn't be happier!

Rylee loves the peanut butter cup eggs, just like her mama!

I gave up candy for lent this year. I made sure the Easter bunny brought lots of peanut butter cup eggs for us all! Good thing cause Rylee was certainly claiming all of "hers".

After that we went to church, then came home and took some pictures of the girls in their pretty Easter dresses. Then we enjoyed a nice Easter brunch with our friends the Dippold's.

I tried to get a cute one of the girls together in their dresses but I wasn't very successful. Why is it so hard to get them both to look and smile at the same time?!? Oh well, I tried.

Rylee and Grace looking pretty with their flowers.

The 4 of Us

Happy Easter!

Easter Bunny Comes to Kids Korner

On Good Friday, Kids Korner had an Easter party and the Easter Bunny came to it. Once again, some of the kids liked the bunny and some were scared as can be. Rylee didn't cry this year and actually gave the bunny a high five, but I couldn't get her to sit on his lap for a picture. Maybe next year.

Grace didn't want to sit on the bunny's lap either. So instead Rylee and Grace got their picture on Niki's lap, and close to the Easter bunny.

Sadie on the other hand thought thought the Easter bunny was pretty cool and she hung out for awhile on his lap.

She liked the Easter bunny so much that she even wanted ears like his :)

The bunny playing a game with the group.

Then he made balloon animals for them. Rylee loved that.

Sadie had a great time at the party.

She was all smiles!

Hanging out in the chair with her friend Anelia.

After the bunny left they went outside and found all the eggs that he hid.

Rylee and Hannah teaming up during their egg hunt.

10 Months

10 months...getting to be so big!

At 10 months Sadie started to stand on her own for long periods of time and also take a few steps on her own. Some were pretty wobbly steps but she was definitely walking on her own. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that she started walking early, she is always trying to keep up with Rylee and follow her around. She loves her big sister!

She also got 2 more teeth this month. So now she has 4 on top and 2 on the bottom. She really doesn't like her baby food anymore so she is now on mostly all table foods. And believe it or not she loves her veggies (beans and peas) but doesn't really like fruit. She spits peaches, watermelon, pears, etc. out. I think its still a texture thing. So we still do give her some fruit from the baby containers.

Sadie also LOVES to be outside! She will go to one of our doors and start banging on it cause she wants to go out. Once she is outside, she loves to explore. Her favorite thing is to grab your finger and take you for a walk wherever she wants to go. She is a busy, busy girl!

Looking cute and all clean after her bath.

Sweet and innocent (at least here she is).

I probably shouldn't put this picture up of their bare bums but I thought the picture (and the moment) was so cute. There was a big rainbow outside and we pulled up the blinds so the girls could check it out. Rylee's showing Sadie the rainbow and explaining what it is ("all the colors in the sky" she explained to Sadie). Sadie actually seemed pretty interested in what Rylee had to say.

*On a side note, I know I am SO far behind but I did not give up on my blog. I actually wanted to post this one for awhile but I wanted to include some video's of her walking and from the bathtub but I can't get it to work. So hopefully I'll figure it out and post some video of her soon. I've got a lot more posts to catch up on too! Aghh, if only there was more time in a day :)