Sadie Loved the Beach!

As promised, Mommy put up a new Sadie photo album. Sadie is doing so many new things these days - feeding herself finger foods, legit crawling, trying to pull wires out of the outlets, eating the remote control. It is fascinating to watch her learn new things. She's like a living development textbook.

Sand!

Sadie thinks that sand is very tasty and thoroughly enjoyed her visit to Wallis Sands Beach with her Mommy, Daddy, Nana, Grampy and Auntie Kara.
Stay tuned for more beach photos and a new Ofoto album within the next day or so.

Cooling off

Doesn't looking at this picture make you feel cooler?

Sadie is a little water baby these days. She's loving her baby pool and taking nice long baths after a sweaty day. She's also taking swimming lessons twice a week with her friend Clayton and some other nice babies. Sadie loves most of the activities; kickboards, pool noodles, jumping into Mommy's arms, kicking her legs, front floating. She's not a big fan of back floating, which I think reminds her of lying on her back, which she also doesn't like much. Sadie has mixed feelings about raft play, where the babies are supposed to lay on their bellies on rafts. For Sadie, being on her belly means crawling, so that's what she tries to do and often ends up crawling right off the raft. No big deal though, she loves to be wet!

Swimming lessons make Sadie tired. After her lesson, she often falls asleep in the locker room and comes home and takes a 2 hour nap. That means Mommy gets to do her own thing for 2 hours! Hooray for swimming lessons.

Getting into mischief already...

Sadie can barely crawl, and she's already climbing under the coffee table. We could be in for trouble once she can walk!

Look what I can do!

I can get my own toys.



I can crawl into the underneath of the exersaucer.



I can tip over the toy basket and end up with the basket over my head. This one is not so fun!



I can drive a car!



Just kidding, I am only pretending to drive.

New Photo Album!

Here's the latest Sadie photo album. Enjoy!

Boxy Lady

I'm in a box!

New York

We're back in New Hampshire after a fun long weekend in NYC and Connecticut. Sadie had a great time with Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Jenny, Friend Kevin, Auntie Lolly and Friend James. Some highlights were the swings in the Ridgefield Playground, a bath in the sink with Aunt Jenny, seeing Auntie Lolly's apartment, breakfast at EJs with Mommy and Daddy, walking through Central Park and looking at everything with big eyes.

Most of all, Sadie enjoyed her first concert...Stephen Malkmus and Yo La Tengo in Battery Park.

Getting excited...

Summer is fun. Yesterday, Sadie's Nana visited her and they had a great time visiting King Arthur Flour and walking around Hanover. Today, Mommy and Sadie signed up for summer swim classes. We're excited about that. Tomorrow, we're all headed to Connecticut and then to NYC for the 4th of July long weekend.

Hot times at Wolf Road

It's hot here and the weekend is forecast to be even hotter...90s on Saturday and Sunday and then warm and humid into next week. Thank goodness for the baby pool!

She came back!

My Aunt Jenny came back from London! Hooray!

Babbling Baby

It's movie time again! I realized that a lot of you probably hadn't heard Sadie's funny little voice. So I made a movie of Sadie lying on the lawn enjoying the nice weather and babbling away. Enjoy!

Happy Father's Day

Dear Daddy,
Happy Father's Day to you! I am a very happy baby to have you as my Daddy. When I see you smile at me, I know you really love me as much as I love you.
Being with you is always a fun time. You are the best at getting me to laugh with funny noises and tickles and great games. I like when you give me a ride on your shoulders or carry me in my Bjorn. You always make sure I see and do interesting things, like yesterday when you showed me the baby cows. We're special friends, you and me.
I don't think all babies have such a good daddy as you, so I know I am lucky that we are so happy together, Daddy!
I love you so much,
Love,
Sadie

PS Happy Father's Day to my terrific grandfathers, Grandpa in New York and Grampy in New Hampshire! I have the best family!

Sadie loves to swim!

It was so hot this weekend that we had to buy Sadie a swimming pool. She loves it!

I also put up a short movie of Sadie in the pool splashing around. If it won't play on your computer, try downloading the latest version of Quicktime.

Birthday Party!

On Friday, the Stern Center held a birthday party for all the babies born to Stern Center staff in the past year: Maddie, Olivia, Lily, Jayme, Nathan, Sam and Sadie herself. At six months, Sadie is the youngest.

There was cake.

There were presents.

There was lots of fun!

Babies, top row, left to right: Maddie, Lily, Sadie
Bottom row, left to right: Jamie, Olivia, Sam, Nathan and Nathan's Sister

Today

This morning, a lady at Bagel Basement said I was a cute little girl and then asked me where my hair was. That was a little mean, don't you think? Then, she tried to make me smile at her. But I didn't smile. Because she insulted me.
I can't help it if I'm still mostly bald. Mommy and Daddy think that I'm beautiful just the way I am.
-Sadie

Boppy?

I don't need no stinking Boppy! I can sit on my own!

Six Months Old!

See how much she's changed!

New Sadie Pics!

Ann put up a new Sadie album with her patented photo captions. And check out this open letter to manufacturers of infant sleepwear - I feel his pain.

Science

As of today, we're now members of the Montshire Museum, so we can go back as much as we want this summer. Sadie had a great time looking at all the exhibits and especially enjoyed the fog table and the outdoor exhibits. We'll have even more fun with them when it's warmer out and we bring a change of clothes so Sadie can enjoy the water activities.