Lots of PICTURES and a VIDEO!

We are adjusting....it is going great but nonetheless, a huge adjustment.

We have this precious little girl who runs around our house and brings us such joy and delight with her dazzling smile and precocious spirit.  Sadie is a feisty little strong willed doll baby!  We love her and her personality is the best.  She loves to laugh and loves to make people laugh even more.

We are all quite smitten with her!  The kids just love her to pieces..seriously it's crazy.  I think we should have brought 4 little ones home so each child had their own....lol!  They fight over her!  Yes, fight over who changes her diaper to who sits next to her at the table to who gets to carry her out of the car to who gets to carry her into wherever it is we are going!!! wheeeeew, I love the help but it can be too much sometimes.  The other day we were at the park and I was putting Sadie in the swing and 3 separate times 2 different children stopped the swing to put a blanket on her or to kiss her or to swing her harder....I said, "enough...step away from the baby" in my stern voice.  I would rather it be this way then they not care..

Our parenting of Sadie looks so different this time around and so it is an adjustment in that sense.  With my 4 other kiddos I parented different in some ways then how I am with Sadie.  I loved getting them on schedules.  Teaching them to go down to bed or nap without sleep aids(ie. bottles, blankies, rocking to sleep first. etc.) Sometimes that involved a little crying before hand but then they would get in their routines and love it.

With Sadie girl it's completely different:)  For attachment reasons we do things a bit differently.  Bob or I rock her to sleep and then slip her into her crib.  She usually stays there for about 1.5 hours and then wakes up...to which we usually put her in bed with us and she is fast asleep.  We sometimes move her back to her crib or most of the time she sleeps the night with us.  She is afraid of being by herself.  We also give her a bottle at night before bed.  She has a blankie that she loves and when she gets tired all you have to do is show it to her and she plops that cute little thumb in her mouth.  PRECIOUS!!!

It's hard to believe that she has only been with us less then a month!!!  I can't imagine our life without her!!! She just perfectly fits with our family!

Now I know you are just waiting for the pictures so here they are...can't wait until one day I can show her face!!  Bob took this video with his phone and it is poor quality...but hilarious...a glimpse of her personality!!! Love it!

sportin my new shades

she loves to look out the window...where she lived before they didn't have windows on her level

swinging with my big sissy

A girls gotta look real cute while strolling her baby doll

My motto is: start em young!!!

mommy is feeding me yogurt and I LOVE it but she has her mouth open and I am wondering if she thinks I am gonna feed her..hmm

Here I am on Daddy asleep but you can't see my full face yet:( but I am really cute..at least that's what they keep saying

I am such a funny little girl when I get a hang nail I just can't let it go until I get it

I'm still workin on it

yes that's me....I am an accomplished pianist

mommy gave me special markers that are washable for kids my age...see how well I draw? that was just my practice tree;)

I'm glad they are washable cause I really don't like my hands like this

I can't wait for the beach cause I just love the water!!

my family thinks I am so cute!