Today is Sadie Elizabeth's first Birthday! I can't believe my baby grew up so fast. She is such a joy to have in our family and she adds so much to the love and chaos that is our home. Last night she even took her first steps! She is getting so big. She truly is our little Sadie Sunshine and lights up the room wherever she is. Here are a few of the things I love about her:
*Sadie has the cutest faces. She loves to scrunch her nose all up and smile with her twinkly eyes just to be silly.
*Sadie loves to lay on anything remotely soft. She is a pro at emptying my dish cloth drawers and then she'll rest her head on them on the kitchen floor.
*She loves to also empty anything that is full: drawers, laundry baskets, purses, cups of liquid. She is quite efficient and full of joy as she tosses things out one at a time.
*Any time Sadie finds an item of clothing on the floor (which is often at my house), she tries to put it on over her head. We find her crawling around with the other kids clothes around her neck.
*Sadie is fearless! She loves to play with Dad and thinks it's great to be tossed in the air. She also likes to stand up in the seat of shopping carts with no hands and do a little boogie dance, crawl down hard stairs face first and climb anything she can get her little knees up on.
*Sadie is such an explorer. She crawls faster than any of our other kids have and zips all around our house checking things out. We think it's funny that when she crawls, she smacks the floor with her hands pretty hard. We like to say she crawl with a vengeance!
*Sadie adores her siblings. She thinks they are the greatest people in the whole world. Especially Abby. She is thrilled when Abby plays with her, reads to her, or carries her around.
*Sadie loves Dad, but is Mama's girl all around. She loves me and if I could hold her all day and then sleep with her in my arms at night, she would be content! I absolutely love it 97% of the time!
*Sadie can say all the names in our family, "kinky" (binky), more (in sign language), and she loves to clap, wave, blow kisses, and kiss Dad.
Happy Birthday little Sadie Boo, Sadie Sunshine, Sadie Lady, Baby Girl, Saders! You are the sweetest little #4 I could ever imagine for our family. I love you!
