Thursday, September 29, 2005
Happy Birthday
To Sadie! Our amazing daughter has been with us now for a year that has passed like nothing. She surprises and delights us daily.
Here’s her introduction from a year ago, or simply look at last September, of which that’s the top post, preceded by others from the hospital leading up to the eviction.
I haven’t been keeping up on milestones lately. On Monday she was babysat for the first time. While we had the ultrasound, she stayed with her grandmother and great-grandmother, where she had a blast and was not bothered at all by our leaving. We finally got around to having her brush her teeth. She seemed to wonder what took us so long, and knew exactly what the brush was for, holding still and opening wide for her mother to brush, and doing a surprisingly good job once she took over. I don’t know if I mentioned she learned how to climb stairs. She’s also managed to get down some successfully, thought it’s still rough. She climbs onto and off of the couch herself, and is good enough that we don’t even get that alarmed seeing her do it. I forget what else is new.
Well, besides that she took to sleeping in her own room as if we were long overdue. She’s not so sure about the big tub, though initially she thought it was cool. She’s funny when she has little temper tantrums and issues forth a string of syllables nothing like anything she would normally say. She loves Burger King chicken fries, which are surprisingly spicy. She loves sweet & sour sauce even more, but where it got on her face, her skin turned red temporarily. Deb says she’s my daughter, with the sauce and ketchup thing. She even loves yellow mustard.
Here’s a series of pictures as she has grown:
I’ll try to get and post some newer pictures soon, maybe some birthday ones. What a year!