Sadie LOVES those green beans...

Sadie ate an entire 2.5 oz container of green beans the other night, and we're supposed to keep her on the same food for 3 to 5 days... I had to pair them with rice cereal last night just to have more for tonight. She didn't like peaches by themselves, but LOVED them with rice cereal. She really is taking to solids GREAT!! I will have to add pics later....I don't have any on this computer.
She is just a rollypolly now. I will lay her on the floor on her back, walk away, and come back and she will be completely rolled over and hanging out on her tummy. She hasn't quite figured out how to turn over from her tummy yet...those arms keep getting in the way.
She's definitely teething now...slobber is EVERYWHERE. She sucks on her fingers, her feet, her clothes, her socks, any toy she's given... I can't feel anything yet, but I can tell by where she puts her fingers they will be on the top leftish...
She's going to bed on her back and has started waking up every night anywhere from 12:30 to 1:45... She won't go back down on her back...so I have to put her in her carseat to finish the night out. Her breathing at night is not that great either, so she's probably just waking herself up b/c she can't breathe through her nose.
She's really so much fun right now. We are loving all the sounds she's making... high pitched little squeaks and squeals. She's just so darn cute it's hard not to kiss her every time we see her or keep our hands off of her.
5 months is next week...I can hardly believe it! It's going by SO FAST!!!

Easter and other amazing things!!

We had a GREAT Easter!!! We absolutely love when we get to go to Craig's Mimi's (Sadie's GREAT Mimi) house in South Texas. We went to a Fish Fry Friday night - YUMMY!!!!! Saw all the family and some friends. Of course, everyone doated over Sadie... She had a blast being the center of attention! She made herself a couple of boyfriends, too. Craig's cousin Kristin's boyfriend, Scott (that was a mouthfull) held her and loved on her, everytime he'd walk up, her attention went straight to him...hilarious.

The next day, we went to see an old friend of the family's, then got ready to go to Craig's aunt's side of her family (so his cousin's cousins house...). We had crawfish and shrimp galore, potatoes, onions, garlic, corn...gracious... a lot!!! We chased each other for an hour with confetti eggs...that was the craziest thing I've ever been a part of (I must not get out much...). It really was hilarious...everyone went crazy chasing everyone else with eggs in hand and silly string. Just nutty.

Sunday morning, we all got ready for church (we missed their 100th celebration by 1 more weekend...wish we could go). Again, everyone at church just went ga ga over Sadie...she just looked absolutely adorable. After church, I had her down in the living room floor - I had a feeling she may turn over - AND SHE DID!!! For the first time...it was awesome!!! I was way more excited than anyone else... oh well... she's been trying for a month now...it's about time!!
We left mid-afternoon to come home and got home around 7 ish. I fed her squash for the first time - SHE LOVES IT!!!! She's really getting good at opening her mouth and swallowing it. She used to just spit it out, but now she's really trying to get every last bit of it off of the spoon. She's such a big girl!

Yesterday, Sadie ran fever due to her teething. She couldn't stay at daycare, so she spent the day at Meme and Papah's... They're convinced she just wanted to see them, since her fever went away after I got her there. :)

Her teeth are not quite cutting through yet, but she tries to eat EVERYTHING! Especially her thumb, upside down...kind of funny to watch.

She also has started to mock me or "ape" me, as my mom calls it. I will slap my hands down on my lap, and then she will...it's a fun game we play! And so so so cute!

I think that's just about it... I'm sure I'll remember something later...

Here are some pics of this weekend!

holding her own bottle!!!

New Adventures...

Last week on Sunday, Sadie started eating rice cereal at her last meal of the day. It's taken until LAST NIGHT for her to get used to it, but I think she's finally getting used to the spoon, and knowing when to open her mouth when it's time for a new mouthful. However, she's truly earned her nickname of "monk" or "munk"... We've always called her Monkey, but now, Chipmunk is in order... she has been storing up cereal in her cheeks, so much later she spits it out... It's hilarious! Of course, we have pictures of our GIANT baby eating like a big girl.

We've also started letting her play in a new toy (passed down to her by her cousin Ethan). The Jumperoo is her new favorite toy - and she's so much fun to watch!!!

Unfortunately, she's been sick again this last week with snotty nose, and now it has gotten into her chest again, so we've started her breathing treatments again. This time, though, she's getting diarhea - and it's all of her phlegm that she's swallowed! YUCK!!!!! Hope you didn't just picture that... believe it or not, it stinks way more than you think it would... So THAT'S all been REALLY fun!!!!

It seems now that every time mommy puts on a new outfit, she must christen it with spit up! So anytime we want a new outfit on her...we have another outfit READY TO GO! :)

She is now starting to LOVE her own voice, and just talks and laughs and makes the most fun sounds... especially when mommy and daddy are watching tv! :)

We're having SO MUCH FUN with her right now, but are so sad that she's growing SO FAST!!!!!

4 Month Check Up

Well, Miss Sadie went to the doctor on Friday for her 4 month check up... She weighed in at a whopping 16.12 lbs and was 25 1/2 inches long. I believe he said she's in the 95th percentile for weight and 97th for height, but it could very well be mixed up...as I was just blown away at what he had just said...

The shot part wasn't as bad as last time. I don't know if she was trying to be strong for us, but she only cried for about 20 seconds... that was it. She was fine...until the Tylenol wore off that evening... YIKES!!!! No bueno..... she was screaming like I haven't heard her scream before... you know they get LOUDER as they get BIGGER??!!!! So, we fed her as she cried, gave her more Tylenol, and just tried to massage her little legs and blow on them, for some reason she would have some sense of comfort, but there is so much air you can blow AS you're rocking, massaging, and feeding...

She awoke at 4:15 the next morning... ate, and went back to sleep in her swing, mommy slept on the couch.

She slept until about 9, and was a happy little thing...

I had to leave by 2 for the theatre for the concert I was singing in last night...she was doing great when I left. During the concert, she slept mostly... So when she got home she was raring to go... ready to play. She ate, didn't finish her whole bottle though, and went down at about 11:20ish... She slept until 12:15...Ugh... she cried for a little...then put herself back to sleep... Woke up AGAIN at 1:20... we fed her again, and rocked her in her carseat until about 2:00. We put her in her crib IN her carseat and she slept until this morning at 9ish... Not sure what all the crying was about, EXCEPT that I think she just was so stopped up, that she couldn't breathe through her nose and couldn't sleep... So while she was so sad, mommy sprayed Saline drops in her nose...that made things pretty bad...but she started breathing better after that...thus sleeping until this morning. YEA.

Mommy TOTALLY forgot to set her alarm clock for Praise Team this morning, and woke up at 8:11, I was supposed to be at church at 8. Thanks to DeDe who let me skip today b/c there was another soprano...THANKFULLY!!!

She's a pretty happy baby today, but still really SNOTTY (in her nose...ha!).

Here are pics from LAST WEEKEND when we went to my brother's house in Little Elm...she got to ride on her first swing outside.

Love getting to see Sadie's firsts....

So, this week has been a blast for me!!! I've gotten to witness a couple of firsts for Sadie, and that is so exciting! At the beginning of the week, I had her sitting in her Bumbo, she reached down, grabbed her feet, wiggled her toes, and pulled her socks off... I thought, okay, that's just coincidence, since her feet were so close to her eyes...and hands. THEN later on that day, she was laying on her play mat, and I saw her lift her feet up to her head, and hold onto her feet, and pull her socks off! It was adorable... all the while, I was thinking, "She's gonna turn over...", but she didn't.


THEN, yesterday, again, she was laying on her play mat, playing with all her hanging toys. I walked over, b/c she was grabbing her feet again... I pulled her little feet up to her cheeks and squeezed her cheeks with her feet and made some funny noises, she just laughed and giggled and chuckled... I'd never heard her do that...so I tried again... she thought it was so funny... Then when I started laughing, she laughed some more, and I would laugh, then she would laugh... I was having a hay day... called my mom, let her listen in on it... it was just so darn cute!!!!
This is one where she's laughing... not that you can hear it, but you can definitely tell... too cute!


Today, I kept thinking she would roll over, I kept videoing, and videoing, and videoing... nope, still not ready...but she's REAAAAALLLLY close!!!!

More firsts to come...I am so glad I got to witness it over my Spring Break!!! It made my week!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day Everybody!!

My St. Patrick's Day outfit I received as a gift from an Irish friend when I was just a wee 'n - as the Irish would say.

She was such a happy baby today!!! I haven't heard her cough ALL day... just sneeze... what's new there? I think we'll try letting her sleep in her crib tonight... pray she sleeps!!! Mommy is tired of the couch and recliner... I miss my bed.

A little scare last week...

So, last week can be chalked up to be one of those scary mommy moments... Sadie has had a cough for a couple of weeks now, and by last Monday, she had been coughing about 3 days... Not a good and clear cough, but an icky, wet, loose, get stuck in her throat cough. So Monday morning was Staff Development for us, but I decided it would be a good day to take her to the doctor... So, I called and assumed they'd just tell me to ride it out... she had been running a low fever off and on for a couple of days, but nothing major. When I called them the nurse said to go ahead and bring her in... We got there, the doctor saw her, listened to her, said it sounded like she had some sort of fluid in her lungs. He said they were going to give her 2 breathing treatments and to pay attention, b/c I would be giving her breathing treatments when I took her home. I helped give her the breathing treatments, and she seemed to enjoy them...thought it was a new toy! THEN he said I needed to take her to the Radiology Associates office to take a chest Xray... THAT scared me. I wasn't for sure what they were going to be looking for...

I took her home after that, let her have lunch, then took her back up to get her Xray... she was so tuckered out from the doctor, she slept through the whole thing... which was great!! I got a phone call about 2 hours later saying that it was NOT pneumonia (WHICH HAD NOT EVEN CROSSED MY MIND!!!!). I thought they may say something about asthma... nothing. I asked her if it could be, she said they will not know until she's old enough to talk and tell us what she's feeling. But, if she has several flair ups in a 3 month period, that they may go ahead and diagnose it as asthma...but for now, they were calling it seasonal allergies...

TODAY - she's not coughing half as much, but we're still giving her breathing treatments every 4 hours. Her cough is getting to be a lot more dry sounding...and she seems to be getting back on schedule. I've been sleeping on the couch for a week, b/c she's been sleeping in her swing... she doesn't lay on her back well when she's got this crud...

She's been SUCH a trooper!!! We're super proud of her and how she's handling the breathing treatments...now I think she thinks it's a microphone and likes to talk into it and lick on it!!!

My happy little girl, being a trooper about her breathing treatment!!!

She's getting MUCH better...and once she stops coughing and it doesn't have ANY junk in it, we can stop the treatments. The machine is OUR'S...so if we feel as though she's getting it again, we can just pop out the machine... and away we go.