Sadie

 It's hard to believe that Sadie is eight months old already! She still is the easiest baby of the three, by far! She's not crawling yet but I bet she will be within the next month. She is still nursing and now eats three meals a day of solids. Her favorite foods are sweet potatoes, butternut squash, yogurt (in moderation-makes her spit up!), pears, and anything sweet. Just this week she's started feeding herself with little chunks of food--although she can't always pick it up because everything slips out of her fingers!

Her hair is coming in blonde, but nowhere near as light as Willa's. I think her eyes are hazel or possibly turning brown--we are constantly looking at her eyes to figure out what color they are. Sometimes they have flecks of brown or green, other times they look gray. So for now I'm going with hazel! She weighs almost 16 pounds, but feels much heavier than that when you've carried her around on your hip all day!

The older girls love love love her and just can't get enough. They squeal when she wears a new outfit, "entertain" her with toys, hugs, and songs, and miss her when they're away from her. The other day my mom watched Sadie while I took the girls to swimming lessons, and they just kept saying, "Mom-the car is so quiet. Sadie is not in her carseat! This is so weird that we're driving without her!"
 
Her schedule is:
7am: wake up, nurse, play
10:00: nap
11:00ish-wake up, nurse, eat solids, play
2 or 3:00-nap for two hours or so
4:00ish-wake up, nurse, eat solids, play again!
7:00-bedtime (she has separation anxiety now and fights bedtime pretty hard!)
midnight-wake up to nurse, fall right back asleep
3:00-nurse again, fall right back to sleep
7:00-wake up

Yes, she's probably nursing too many times in the night, but she's kind of on the skinny side (10th percentile for her weight) so I don't mind. Willa was the same weight and nursed the same at night, and what's a few more months of sleep deprivation anyway when I've made it this far?!

Sadie stays on the picnic blanket--at least for now!

hey mom, the big girls are doing puzzles--where is mine?!

ready for the pool!

One day we were playing music and dancing, then the girls went and grabbed their baby dolls because they noticed that I was dancing with Sadie on my hip. Then they said, "Look! We all three have babies! Take a picture!"

Willa loves to dress up Sadie!

If you look closely you can see Joel fishing with the girls down below!

Larkin and Willa love to eat the puffed cereal that Sadie drops??!

better eat 'em quick!!

Her hair is long enough now to where you have to brush it after bathtime or else it looks like this!

Girls building "spider web" and Sadie's making sure their silk stays nice and wet!

She learned how to scoot backwards on this day--trying to get the heck out of the web!