8 months

Today our sweet Sadie is 8 months old.

I cannot believe it! She's had a busy month. The most exciting thing was her first word... She said "dada" after Blake fed her a bottle and was putting her to bed. I think it was a pretty sweet moment and although I am sad I missed it, I am overjoyed that Blake got to hear this first and that it was a special moment for them.

She has started cruising around furniture and toys. She's wanting to take some steps, but she's more cautious than her brothers and has not.


She pulls up in her crib now. Is this not the cutest face? Sister cannot hold her paci in by sucking on it, so she often finds something to push up against to keep it in place for her! It cracks me up!

We've not been putting Sadie in her bouncy seat because she kept falling out. It scared me quite a bit because I couldn't figure out how it was happening. I would put her in her chair and buckle her down and walk into the kitchen to work on dinner. She fell out twice before I started wondering if her brothers weren't "helping" her out. I decided to not put her in her bouncy while I wasn't in the room, because I just wasn't sure. This week, the boys were sleeping and she and I were playing in her room. I put her in the seat (thinking surely it was safe) and went to the kitchen to grab something. When I came back, this is what I found.

notice how she doesn't think there's anything wrong about what she's done?

Looks like we have a Houdini on our hands. I am not sure how she does it, but she seems to shimmy up and out from under that buckle by using that bar. Then she stands and rocks in the chair! Holy cow! Guess we're not going to be using the chair any more!

She still has no teeth, but it sure seems like two are going to poke through any day now.

She had her first sick visit to the doctor (I guess outside of that hospital stay). So she had several days of just layin' around this week. The good thing about sick days is that we get lots of cuddling in!