Sadie 18 month update -- Random Summer activities/pictures

Sadie just turned 18 months, so she had her first day in nursery!  We loved it.  She'll learn to love it ;)  She did pretty well.  The nursery leader told us that toward the end of church, she kept doing the sign for "all done", like she was all done with nursery and wanted to go home.  I thought it was hilarious.  This picture below is a few weeks before she turned 18 months.  She is the busiest little girl I've ever known. She wants to run.  All, Day. Long.  Those last few weeks before her half birthday, I would literally be sweating at church from chasing her all over.  We wouldn't have her any other way though.  She's a nut, but at least she's our little nut ;)

She's also started dancing.  She loves it so much.  She'll grab my phone and start dancing to let me know that she wants me to turn some music on for her.  If she's in the middle of a dance and realizes that Brady and I aren't dancing with her, she'll stop and point at us and basically say, "You guys! C'mon and dance with me!"

She's learning how to be soft since she's had some issues with hitting and biting.  She likes to show us that she's soft by petting us.  She recently started petting Brady's head.  It makes us laugh.  When I ask her where the baby is, she'll point to her own belly first, but then she'll point to mine and give my belly a kiss. She really has no idea that there's a little bro brewing in there!  Her world might be a little rocked when he comes in a few months :)

Sometimes, she acts like a drunk sailor.  She runs into walls constantly.  Tonight, she hit the door frame hard enough that she cut her lip.  Hopefully she figures out how to pay attention sooner than later.

She loves to pray.  She constantly reminds me to say prayers before our meals.  She folds her hands and can say "amen" at the end.

She loves to bring me things.  For example, I take my wedding ring and my other ring off every night and leave them at my bedside or in the living room.  No matter where I put them, she'll find them the next morning and bring them straight to me.

Sadie loves to read!  She will bring us book after book after book.  She could literally read books all day long.  (And sometimes, we really do!) Her favorite is "Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?"  She can say "brown bear".  She can do lots of animal noises.  She recently learned how to growl like a tiger and "ssss" like a snake.  And most impressively, she can point out Jesus in our church picture book.  In fact, we were showing her a book with different pictures of past prohphets and people from the scriptures, and she was interested in all of them but as soon as she saw a picture of Jesus, she kissed the picture of Him. I thought that was really sweet.  She also thinks that any old guy with white hair is "papa".  At church a couple weeks ago, she kept saying, "papa, papa" as she was pointing to this sweet old man in our ward who was sitting a few pews back.

Giving kisses is also a favorite pastime.  If Brady or I ask her for a kiss, she'll want to kiss the person who didn't ask her for a kiss first and then she'll kiss the first person.  She's very particular about it!

She still loves going to the park.  When she's feeling brave, she'll go on the big twisty slide all by herself.  This age is so busy, but so fun.  We love watching her learn and grow daily!

I have to document that she loves the tub. She wants to climb in it every day... 

That little pony tail!

Teaching her the importance of hard work ;)

he he he.  This little seat in the public bathroom at our grocery store is the best invention ever.

Sadie loves her daddy-o

Brady recently completed an olympic triathlon, and the week before his race we went to Jordanelle Resevoir where the swim portion of the race took place so he could get a feel for swimming in open water.  Sadie loved playing in the lake and finding rocks.

We went to the Pioneer day parade on July 24th.  We loved seeing all the cool floats and remembering the major sacrifices the pioneers made.

I told you she was a nut!

She's still a little short for her strider, but she'll get there :)

This doesn't happen very often, so I have to document when it does :)

A little white trash moment ;)

Sadie and her cousin Claire// matchy matchy!

Josh left on his mission to Jamaica and we were able to attend his farewell

Sometimes when Sadie is sad in the car, she just wants me to hold her little hand to make her feel better.  So tender :)

Sadie and I spent a lot of time in our kiddie pool this summer!

We went to see Death Cab for Cutie at the Twilight Concert series in July.  It was really fun to hear them live, but we didn't get to stay long because Sadie had a sudden fever.

Mt. Olympus/Mt. Timpanogos

When I was 18 weeks pregnant, we decided to climb Mt. Olympus.  We heard that it was a difficult hike and we were kind of nervous about it because we hyped it up a ton.  I'm really glad we did, because it was as hard as people told us it was.  There weren't any surprises.  We started at 8 am, so most of the way up was in the shade which we were grateful for.  The first little bit was pretty steep but it leveled out for about a mile and I remember telling Brady that the hike wasn't that bad and that people were just being dramatic... but then we hit the steep part.  The steep part that lasted oh, about 2 miles.  We gained 4,200 feet in 3.5 miles.  Straight uphill for 2 miles.  I wanted to die.  There were moments that I had to stop and breathe every 5 feet or so.  I felt bad for myself because I was 18 weeks pregnant, but Brady had to carry Sadie the whole way!  Almost everyone we saw on the trail commented on how awesome Brady was for carrying Sadie.  I wanted to be like, "Hey! I'm carrying a little baby too ya know!" :)  As we approached the summit, we realized we'd have to rock scramble a little bit and there were parts where I felt like a rock climber.  I actually had a moment of anxiety and major fear of heights as I was climbing up a particular rock face.  I looked below me and realized how steep of a drop there was and I got really scared for myself but mainly for Sadie. I was really worried about Brady climbing with her and she was really nervous too.  She kept crying when Brady would jump.  We think she's a little afraid of heights. But, we conquered that beast of a mountain and it felt good to be at the top!  The way down was pretty difficult too.  Our knees were aching.  Brady's legs were shaking with every step he took.  Needless to say, we were both really sore that day and the next!  We were so excited to be back to our car when we finished. :)

It's as steep as it looks. Maybe steeper! Scary sauce...

Two weeks later, we hiked Mt. Timpanogos.  Brady grew up with this mountain in his backyard basically so it's kind of his favorite :)

I've been wanting to hike it for a long time and I wanted to make it happen this summer before I got too huge pregnant-wise.  Helen and Stu were kind enough to watch Sadie for us as we hiked since it's a 14 mile hike and took us a good part of the day.  We started at 5:30 am and saw the sunrise as we hiked up.  I was amazed at how many hikers we saw!  It's a very popular hike.  Brady's sister, Heather, came with us.  At one point, we were talking about labor for some reason and a male hiker in front of us asked if we were talking about labor to help us realize that hiking pain was nothing in comparison to the pain of labor.  We agreed with him! Haha :)

There were so many beautiful views.  I loved seeing all the mountains on one side and then seeing Utah Valley on the other.  We even saw a herd of mountain goats! I think that was my favorite part.  They were right next to the trail with little babies.  So cute!  I'm glad they were nice because I've heard they can be vicious.  There was one part near the summit that was pretty steep and rocky, so on the way down we were slipping and sliding from the small rocks.  Brady got down really fast because he's fearless and not pregnant and decided to come back to help me as I was still descending.  The moment that he reached his hand out to take mine, I fell hard on my butt.  I got a pretty good bruise from the fall.  Thanks a lot for the help, Brady! ;) jkjk, he was just trying to be nice :)

Brady and Heather, at one point, saw where our car was parked and said that we just had about an hour left of hiking... I told them they were crazy and said it'd be at least another 2.5 hours.  Of course, I was right.  They had no sense of time and mileage I guess ;)

My feet really started to ache the last couple miles, so I would jog for awhile to get back sooner.  I really love hiking and it's one of my favorite things, but sometimes it hurts and sometimes I want it to be over with!  This was definitely one of those times :)

I think, though, that this hike is my favorite so far in Utah.  I loved the green and the views and the mountain goats :)

This is supposed to be a pregnancy photo// 19 weeks!