Sadie Jean I love you so

So, I usually write this kind of stuff in Sadie's journal, but she just turned one so here ya go... I can't believe my little baby is 1! I feel so blessed to be her mom. She makes me so incredibly happy; I just can't even explain. Some times when she is asleep I just think of her and I get teary-eyed because she makes me so happy and I think how blessed I am to be her mom. Lately she has been acting so grown up. It's funny how early her motherly instincts have kicked in. She has a couple baby dolls that she just LOVES. I mean, she gets so excited when she sees them in the morning. She picks them up and kisses them and pats them on the back. It's crazy and so cute. For her birthday we got her a stroller for her babies and I swear she is going to wear that thing out. We took it to the mall with us today and she pushed it around everywhere. Sadie is now saying 3 words, momma, dada and duck. She talks a lot in this crazy talk where she uses her tongue a lot. She pushes her tongue out when she talks. It's strange, funny and very cute. For Christmas she got a baby signing time DVD and she now knows several of the signs- baby, banana, more, all done, fish, dog, and eat/food. When ever I say anything that has to do with food like breakfast, lunch, dinner she smacks her lips. Sadie has also been very loving lately. She will just come up to me and give me a hug, pat me on the back or lay her head on me. I just love it. It's amazing how much trust and love she has for me. It makes me really want to be a better mom and example to her. Now that Sadie walks she explores everything. At the mall today we were in a store and she saw a mom pushing a stroller and she ran over the the stroller and was trying so hard to see inside. She is so curious of everything. Sadie also loves to dance when music comes on. She has started really loving putting things inside of other things and then taking them out again. She also loves to read books. She sits by her self sometimes and turns the pages and jabbers on about the story. She really thinks she is reading them. Some of her favorite books are: Goodnight Moon (we read it over and over and over) Babies My go-to-bed book Bright baby books (she loves to look at the pictures and do the signs for them) Smile-A-saurous: A book about feelings- it has googly eyes that she loves any book with dogs in it-she has an obsession with dogs. When ever she sees dogs she starts like panting and making these weird noises and tries to attack them. The mall that we went to today is a dog-friendly mall and she just wanted to stop every dog going by and become their best friend. Sadie also gets so excited when she sees other kids; she loves to play with kids. Luckily we live by A LOT of kids. I can't wait for warmer weather to come so she can play outside. She is having a hard time being cooped up all day. Sadie now has 8 cute little teeth that we try to brush but it is quite the ordeal. We have to pin her on the ground and try our hardest to open her mouth. She now weighs about 18 big ones. Her hair still very sparse. Well I could go on and on and on but I will just end and say I LOVE you Sadie. Please don't grow too quickly. Thanks. Love, Mommy I tried to take some pictures of her in her birthday outfit. But man, one-year-olds are hard. I think I will have to just try a couple one day and then a couple the next. We shall see.