Time flies

Can you believe Sadie is six months old already? We certainly can't. And yet we are so excited for the next stages--she'll be crawling, walking, and talking soon!

Here she is, just a few days old:

One month:

Two months:

Three months:

Four months:

Five months:

And here she is now, six months old, sitting up, and as happy as can be!

First word?

So, I happened to be taking a video of Sadie when she said...

What do you think? First word, or fluke? Being her crazy, enamored parents, we'd like to think it's her first word.

Sadie's first Twelfth Night

I'm proud to say that Sadie participated in her very first Twelfth Night this past weekend. She had the esteemed role of "baby crying", and her pre-recorded cry was heard at every show. She also made it on stage for not one, but three different Boar's Head curtain calls.

No, I did not pinch her to get her to cry for the recording. I simply laid her on her tummy (which she usually dislikes), and voila! She cried. A perfect recording on her first attempt.

Here are some pictures of Sadie enjoying Twelfth Night weekend, where we basically lived at the Performance Hall.

Napping under a desk in the office (the only quiet place in the building):

Relaxing with Daddy after a hard day's work:

Backstage with Nana, just before going on stage for the Boar's Head:

And here she is on stage, a natural star:

Treaty the Hairdresser

When I was a little girl, I was willing to sit still long enough for my mother to do my hair. She would weave intricate braids into my hair, and I would sit and let her tug and pull so that I could have the prettiest hairstyle at preschool. One day, I named her Treaty the Hairdresser. Don't ask me why; this bizarre naming talent was passed on to me from my father.

Anyway, it seems as though I've now become Treaty the Hairdresser. Today, all of the wispy would-be bangs on Sadie's head were sticking straight up. So, I just couldn't resist. She was sitting on the floor playing, and I just came over and twirled them into a tuft. The poor girl didn't know what I had done, and continued to play happily with her hair looking completely ridiculous. Needless to say, I had to take pictures.

(She's such a ham--she now makes silly faces for the camera!)

And look how well she's sitting up now! She gets better at it every day.

Sittin' pretty

Okay, so I finally remembered to take pictures of her sitting up. Here she is!

She's doing such a good job, and you can tell she's so proud of herself!

Her biggest problem right now is that she loses her balance every time she looks up. So when I was standing up trying to take her picture, she kept looking up at me and then falling over backwards. Oh well, it's a work in progress!

I must admit, I got all teary-eyed in the car today. She was napping, and I was marvelling at her new talent of sitting up, and then I started to realize that soon she'll be crawling, then walking and running. It's already happening too fast, but I am so excited to be witnessing it all, every day.

Rolling over, sitting up, what next?

Yesterday, Sadie FINALLY rolled over for the first time. She was practicing sitting up, and had fallen over on to her stomach. She hates being on her stomach, so she was immediately frustrated. She pushed hard enough to roll herself from front to back! I was so proud of her. She had quite the night of trying to sit up by herself, rolling over, and just practicing gross motor skills all around. Here she is that same night, doing push-ups : )




So imagine my surprise when tonight, she decided she could sit up all by herself. Mommy, Daddy, and Sadie were sharing some rare family time on the floor mat in Sadie's room. Sadie was in a good mood, so we decided to practice sitting up again. Here she is, trying to sit up yesterday:

I placed her on the floor in a sitting position, and it all just clicked. She stayed sitting up, alternating between using her arms for support and waving them out to the sides for balance. Just when I thought she was about to tip over, she would straighten herself up. She did it!

Better watch out, she'll be walking before we know it!

Let's start at the very beginning

A very good place to start, says Maria from the Sound of Music. This post begins my possible blogging career. I don't know if I'll be able to keep up with a blog. I don't know if anyone will read this blog. But here I am, starting one anyway.
I'm doing this mostly so I can post about Sadie. My Facebook page is getting a little crazy with all my albums full of Sadie pictures, and I always want to narrate the pictures, so I might as well go all out and create a blog. This also seems to be a great way for family and friends to keep up with Sadie's (and Andrew's and my) life. So here I go.

Today we had lunch with Sadie's grandparents Pete and Michelle, who are visiting from Hawaii. They're heading back home tomorrow, so it was nice to see them one last time today. The next time they see Sadie in person, she'll likely be walking and talking--that's crazy to think about!
Sadie was in a great mood all day today, probably due in part to the TWO-hour nap she took with me this afternoon. After our nap, Sadie happily played in her walker, one of her favorite toys right now. Here's a glimpse of the fun she has, moving around the kitchen: