While Mom's Away

Taking a little vacation but thought I'd share a picture.

I left Sadie with Josh for the afternoon and so Josh decided to fix Sadie's hair like his own. With product.

My little rocker.

Random

There are several pictures on my phone I'd like on my blog so here's a random post full of cuteness.

Sadie got a spanking for this (kidding...but she should have). She threw out a "hook'em" horns during nap time one day. I'm choosing to believe she was saying "I love you" in sign language but the picture doesn't lie.



Sadie likes to hold her bottles. She can only do that of it isn't full. She thinks she's a big girl.



She also thinks big girls ride in umbrella strollers.



She likes watching TV with Big D at his house. We call this her recliner.



She has taken a liking to a certain pink blanket. It just so happens her momma has a blanket like it too (she might still sleep with it). Proud momma moment.



Sadie loves her Auntie Court. Auntie Court got her this outfit in case Sadie forgot. Impossible to forget. She can't wait to see her again.

WPS

Today is bittersweet.

The bitter part is Josh and I gave up our season tickets this year. I've been a little sad about it. This will be the first time in 11 years I will be without tickets. *tears* *ugly cry*

The SWEET part is SO much sweeter though. We get to watch the games this year with our little Hog fan! It's important we start early at teaching her to develop a love, passion, devotion, respect, etc for Razorback football and the SEC. We are responsible, as her parents, to raise her right. We do not take this lightly and will do our best to shape her.

GO HOGS!!

Let's Ride

Sadie had a very exciting day at school. She got to ride in the Bye Bye Buggy with the "big" girls. She thought she was pretty cool.

I wasn't sure it would buckle tight enough but it did. Yea.
At one point on the journey the buggy stopped to watch the school kids in P.E. Sadie was very interested in watching them.

Here's some of the gang! We had a class full of sweet girls today. Since I didn't ask their mommies if I could put their pictures on the WWW I decided I better cover up their cute faces.
Anyway, Sadie can't wait to get back on the buggy again.

Attention

Sadie received LOTS of attention this past weekend.

After my Nanny passed away in June my Papa told us he would come for a visit soon. He made the trip to Little Rock on Thursday to see us.

My Aunt Vicki and Uncle Danny came too (I didn't get any pictures of them and I'm so sad) and we had the best time. I'm pretty sure Sadie had a better time than anyone. She was held and loved on every second. She even got to stay some by herself with my dad, uncle, and Papa. I think she enjoyed herself.

She loves my Papa.


I'm pretty sure the feeling is mutual.



As if attention from my family wasn't enough she also received lots of attention from my former co-workers. On Friday we stopped by so she could see my dad, Katie, and other people I used to work with. She had the best time.

Sadie Lady and Katie Lady

This is Sharon. She worked right next to me at my former job. She's hilarious and she LOVES babies. She made Sadie laugh so hard. I've never heard some of the noises that came out of her. It was so funny. She kept her going and going until she finally wore her out. Sadie was asleep in her car seat before we even got out of the parking lot.

Sadie is so blessed to have so many people, family and friends, who love her and like to shower her with attention. I'm very thankful.

And just for fun here is Sadie modeling the new dress she got on Saturday.

She's pretty excited the Hogs get their season started this Saturday!

WOO PIG SOOIE!

Pick Out A Book

I've been working on organizing and decorating Sadie's room and I realized she doesn't have many books. This saddens me. I know she's only 4 months old but she LOVES books. She likes to look at the different pages to see all the neat pictures. I think for Christmas she is going to get some new books (and she's going to "get" this too. I want her to grow up knowing how blessed she is and I want her to have a giving heart). She will only be 8 months so it seems silly to buy her things she doesn't need. At that age she'll be entertained by the leftover wrapping paper and boxes.

Ok, so, since I'm going to be buying some books I need your help. I know MANY of you have children or are around children so you probably know some of their favorite books to read. I'd love to hear your suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

And just for fun, here's Sadie Lady from earlier today. Gosh I love this girl.

And So It Began

I promise I won't do every "a year ago today" post that I can come up with for the next 7 and 1/2 months. It is fun to think back to how far we've come in a year's time though. I hope you don't mind but I am going to reflect back on August 23, 2010 for a minute. It was the day it all began for me.

Let me back up for a bit. After we got our positive pregnancy test on August 4th I was elated. Shocked but elated. It was definitely surreal. After a few more positive tests I called my OB like a good girl and scheduled my first Ultrasound for October 4. The next week I started having some pain in my left side. It wasn't severe but it was different. I wasn't too worried about it but since I was new at this whole pregnancy thing I thought I'd let my doctor know. Well now I know if you call your doctor with side pain early in pregnancy they take immediate action. I first called them the morning of August 13 and they scheduled me an US that afternoon. I was a little surprised because by my calculations I wasn't even 5 weeks yet.

Just as suspected it was too early to see anything. You could see there was something in my uterus but you couldn't tell what it was. You also couldn't confirm that there wasn't another problem.

They scheduled me another US 10 days later.

I was a little uneasy during those 10 days but my pain actually got better so I felt sure things were ok. Going into the US I prayed everything would be ok and that I could see a heartbeat. I'd heard sometimes you can see one that early and sometimes you can't. I was prepared for either.

When the tech started looking around the first words out of her mouth were

"There's a baby with a heartbeat."

I nearly passed out. Sure enough there it was. My baby.

She went on to say the heart had just started beating because it was only at a rate of 107. I knew God had done that just for me.

The instant I saw the heartbeat I was changed forever. My heart began to swell with love for this baby. I appreciate that at 6 weeks and 4 days pregnant the tech doing the US referred to it as a baby. Unfortunately not everyone in this world thinks that way but I won't get into that right now. The moment I saw this baby was also the moment the miracle of life began to hit me. Inside of my body was a baby with a heartbeat. I was barely even pregnant but could already see it's form. It began stirring many different emotions within me.

This baby would make me a momma.

And so it began.