Almost 1!

For those of you not keeping track, Sadie has less than a month to go before her first birthday. This constantly amazes me as she seems much older than her 11 months. She's walking almost full-time, not that she's good at it. Her balance is not good and she falls a lot, but she wants to walk all the time so she does. She walks about 20 steps now before she falls. She can't get herself back up without help from an object, so she crawls over to something, stands up, and tries again. She's so determined (with everything. I guess that's a good quality to have in life, but it can be very frustrating for me especially when she's refusing to take a nap)! She's also off of the bottle and only doing sippy cups which makes me very very happy. She gets table food except for breakfast and, if you haven't noticed by the size of her cheeks, loves to eat. She has yet to refuse any food. Well, she refused hard-boiled egg yolks once, but hasn't refused them since. Otherwise, you would think that every meal was her last meal because she eats a lot and enjoys every bite. She's practicing using the spoon and is so proud of herself when she actually gets the food to her mouth! Last night, we had couscous. She fed herself:

Eli had a class at the zoo. We met Ky there and Eli was just beside himself with excitement. Sadie went crazy over the tiger as the tiger was pacing right next to the glass. Everytime the tiger's face was right next to hers she screeched with delight. As the tiger walked away Sadie would sign more. Luckily, the tiger gave her more.

While at the zoo, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to ride the carousel:


Eli, Sadie and Sofia playing with their babies. Sadie looks less than thrilled:

Racing Eli down the slide. The girl has no fear. She went down all by herself and was signing more before she got to the bottom:

Crawling through the tunnel:


Buckeye Village had its annual picnic and carnival. There were lots of forbidden foods: cotton candy, popcorn and snow cones!! It was more than Sadie could handle. She was going nuts because everyone was eating except her. So, we gave her a snowcone without any syrup and she ate the ice! They had balloons, games, and face painting: