Richly Blessed: July 2018

Well, I meant to do a 12 month update for Sadie, but her birthday party post came first and I'm just now getting around to doing her monthly update!

Time has absolutely flown by {as usual} and I can't believe that Sadie is almost 14 months old! So much has changed in just a few weeks!!

- Sadie is wearing almost all 12-18 month and 18 month clothes. Only a few of her things that are size 12 month still fit. She's wearing a size 4 diaper.

- I thought it might never happen, but Sadie finally has a tooth! We first noticed it on June 8th. I thought for sure once she got a tooth, she'd get a whole bunch at one time, but that has not been the case. We just noticed today that another one is just starting to come through on the top, so now she just has one lonely tooth on the bottom and one on the top! 😂 And she hardly ever lets us get a peek at them!

- She is using a straw cup like a champ! Once again, I thought this would never happen. She hated every sippy cup I gave her and would play with the straw if I gave her a straw cup. But finally, one day it clicked and she's been doing great ever since.

- We took our time transitioning her completely off of her bottles. I had some formula left, so we mixed formula {with room temperature water} and whole milk for a few weeks to get her used to the taste of the milk and drinking it cold. We started skipping her 3pm bottle a couple of weeks after her birthday. Then we started skipping her 11am bottle and just giving her milk with lunch. Once she started drinking a decent amount of milk with dinner, we started skipping her bedtime bottle and she still slept just fine! Then a little over a week ago, she started to seem like she didn't care about her morning bottle at all, so we eliminated that one as well. It was an easy transition and a very stress-free way to cut out her bottles!

- Sadie is a great eater most of the time! Around 11.5 months or so, she ate almost anything we put in front of her, but she's become a little pickier the last few weeks. She does get HANGRY! She will be totally fine one minute, then completely ticked off the next if she's hungry. This can make dinner prep a little stressful. 😆Emery is quick to offer her puffs or yogurt melts {and help herself to some, too!}. 😂 Speaking of puffs and yogurt melts, Sadie absolutely loves them--especially yogurt melts. Our kitchen table has a little storage area underneath it where we keep them, and she will go get them and bring them to me. 💕Some of her other favorites are cheese, ANY fruit {especially watermelon, strawberries, and grapes}, crackers, pasta, rice, and yogurt. As of about a week ago, we are able to put a plate on her high chair tray and she'll eat off of that instead of tossing it! 😂

- She also loves sweets! The funniest thing happened yesterday and I want to make sure I never forget it! Sadie was sitting on my lap on the couch and Emery was sitting next to us. Emery had just gotten a brownie and was so sweet to let Sadie have the first bite. Then she put the brownie back on the napkin. Sadie sat straight up, reached out with lightning speed, grabbed the brownie and took a big bite! It was so funny and we all just died laughing!

- Sleep has gotten a little more unpredictable for her, but it's definitely nothing to complain about! I feel like we're in that in between stage where some days she needs two naps and some days she just needs one. She's started taking a little longer to go to sleep for her morning nap, or if she takes a good morning nap, she takes a long time to go to sleep for her afternoon nap. I'm sure we'll probably be in this in between phase for a while. She sleeps great at night most of the time, typically going right to sleep and sleeping until 6:30-6:45. Even though she's started waking up earlier, she's happy to stay in her crib for a little while. She's also started to like sleeping with two of her pacis. She puts one in her mouth and snuggles the other one. 💕Sometimes if she won't go to sleep at night, we'll go up to check on her and it will be because she dropped one of them.

- Sadie jabbers all the time, but we don't have many new words except "cracker" which happened about a week ago. My sister and niece were over one afternoon and we had crackers out for the girls. We randomly asked Sadie if she could say it and she did! It was so cute and she was so proud of herself! We've tried to get her to say lots of other words, but she's stubborn. It's still mostly just "mama, dada, uh-oh, hi, and cracker". Her favorite is still "uh-oh". I always know when she drops her paci in the car because I hear a little "uh-oh". 💕

- She makes the cutest little fishy face!

- The biggest milestone from the last several weeks is that Sadie is walking!! She took a couple of steps on her actual birthday, then a few more several days later, and has just been doing a little more walking every day! I'd say she probably walks about half the time now. She gets so excited! We will ask her to walk to one of us and as she gets closer, she smiles and squeals! She also kind of lunges at us when she's close enough instead of taking another couple of steps. 😂She really loves walking to Emery and Emery loves it most of the time, too...just not when Sadie grabs a handful of her arm to hold on to.

- We nicknamed her "Hurricane Sadie" a few months ago and she continues to live up to it. We got her an Anywhere Chair for her birthday and she has used it only as a way to climb up onto the couch. 😂 When she was first learning to walk, she'd also sit on the chair and then take a step or two before diving the rest of the way to me. We really can't ever take our eyes off of her because she will be up on couch in no time and she hasn't figured out how to get down yet. We had to get the pack and play back out for her to play in if I need to have her be contained for a little bit while I cook dinner or something! We never had to do anything like that for Emery! Sadie gets into so much more than Emery!!

- She loves glasses {smiles so big when I have my sunglasses on, then she tries to yank them off my face}, the DustBuster, riding in the Cozy Coupe and honking the horn, putting the fish in her toy fish bowl, reading flap books, playing with her shape sorter, opening packages of wipes and pulling them out, and bouncing on her elephant bouncer.

- She has such pretty strawberry blonde, curly hair. 😍 And it's quite an accomplishment if I can get her to leave a bow in it.

- Sadie is a mama's girl! She's usually fine with other people holding her if she knows them and can still see me, but if she's tired, she really only wants me to hold her. She doesn't like it at all if she sees me leave the room!

- Emery is still just the sweetest big sister and loves Sadie so much. She does get frustrated when Sadie messes up something she's making or playing with {which happens often!} and sometimes she complains that Sadie's crying is hurting her ears. 😂 She also does not usually enjoy it when Sadie grabs her to pull up or climbs on her, but overall she's really sweet to her. When she's not complaining that Sadie's crying is hurting her ears, she's quick to sing a song to her so she'll calm down. She also plays peek-a-boo with her to keep her occupied when we're at the grocery store waiting in line to checkout. She gives her lots of hugs and kisses, pushes her around in the Cozy Coupe, and shares her loveys which is the ultimate sign of love from Emery. That girl loves her loveys! 💕

Here are a few more of my favorite pictures from the last couple of months!

Sadie loves playing peek-a-boo in the teepee! She will crawl in, wait for me to say "Where's Sadie?" then she'll crawl out with the biggest smile! Then she'll crawl right back in!