15 month check

Weight: 20 lb, 8.9 oz (15%)
Height: 31 1/4 inches (85%)

Sadie's a Skinny Minnie.  It's actually amazing how MUCH she can eat, but she's still rather picky with WHAT she eats.  Currently, she eats a mixture of regular food and baby food.  Baby foods are mostly: rice & lentils, sweet potato cinnamon (still her favorite), corn & butternut squash, and turkey & vegetable dinner.  We combine the baby food with white or brown rice, tofu, and natto for dinner and most lunches.   She also eats a variety of fruits (loves papaya, avocado, strawberries), oatmeal, bread, and cereal, but about 90% of the time she refuses to eat meat & chicken.  Sounds so healthy right?....well as it turns out......it is TOO healthy!  Her refusal to eat meat, in conjunction with her cow's milk allergy results in a relatively LOW-FAT diet, which is NO GOOD for a growing toddler!  So.....Dr. Tim Sing instructed us to "up the FAT!"....McDonald's here we come, j/k!  Oddly enough, she even recommended adding butter into her food once a day!  Apparently, fat is essential to building a healthy neurons for your nervous system, so it is now my mission to fatten her up and put her back into the 20th percentile or higher by her next office visit.

1/4 - Forgot to put the butter in her dinner, so I cut a slice to see if she would even TRY it....never would have guessed that the girl could eat it as if it were a slice of cheese.  She LOVED it, even cried when it was gone!  This is too easy!  Bad part though was that it did cause a slight rash around her mouth after :(

1/5 - Banana and butter....gobbled it up

1/7 - Rice, butter, and natto....loved it

1/8 - Daddy does not like giving her butter, convinced mommy that cheese and peanut butter are better alternatives.  :)  Will try it out and make a conscious effort to give her more fatty foods while keeping it healthy as well.

Happy 2012!

Ready to party

The crew

Camping out upstairs 

Minn's Gym 

Grandpas

Grandmas

Hilarious: Ali singing Katy Perry's "Firework" (saying any kine words), Paisley dancing some crazy moves, and Sadie dancing and harassing Paisley & Ali (with hood full of fruits)

Christmas 2011

Christmas came and went in a blur this year.  It's been a hectic few weeks for us, as we have had many holiday celebrations, but we've also suffered a tragic loss in our family.  The weekend began with the annual X-mas party at Aunty Alice's house on friday, followed by Aunty Pat's house on saturday, and lastly Aunty Diane's house on sunday.  As always, Sadie the party animal, had a blast at every one of the parties and stayed up waaaay past her bedtime each night.

This year....we went to watch Paisley and Chase open their presents on X-mas morning, then in the afternoon, everyone came to watch Sadie open her presents.  Good thing cousin Paisley offered to open the majority of Sadie's presents for her (otherwise...it would have taken the whole day!).   We are very grateful to everyone for their generosity and thoughtfulness....with all her new toys and books, we can probably open a day-care & a boutique here at our house!   

I'm still working on more pictures....mommy got a new SONY camcorder from daddy for Christmas, but as it turns out, it's not compatible with my computer (mac), so I cannot download the footage!  Who would have thought?!?!  I think there's a way, but need to research it more.  Hopefully more pics & video to come.   

Sadie w/ Santa @ Kahala Mall (12/15/11)

Caught her red-handed (12/22!)

Guilty elf-face (Thanks for the festive shirt, Aunty Jenn)

"This one's mine...and this one's mine......and this one too"

Mini-Minn with Minnie Mouse.  We have Christmas lights on our house this year!

Everyone looks better when standing in front of a Nieman Marcus tree!

Aunty Diane's house (12/25/11)

BEDHEAD!

Sadie's hair looks like this every morning!  It takes about half an hour for it to settle down :)

Thanksgiving 2011

Just a few pics from Thanksgiving dinner at Grammie's house, including one of a very few family pics of the three of us.  It was a rough week for Sadie, as she got a big bruise on her face after falling in the bathtub and had two episodes of minor hives (Jamba juice and Yoplait yogurt).

My Gym: Week #2

Poor Sadie, had not one.....not two.......not even three......, but FOUR vaccinations this morning at 9am, but she was still ecstatic to go to my gym today at 9:20am!!  She seems to have gotten the hang of the stretches and singing during "circle time," and had fun with lots of new activities today, which included: cones & rings, a relay race, head-stands, and her favorite activity of all: the ZIP-LINE!

Week #3 (11/19/11) pics:

Hanging rings

"Waterbed" group swing

See-saw

Week 4: Sadie went on a weekday w/ daddy...no pics :(

Week 5 (12/3/11): Sadie has vastly improved her skills, and now pays almost full attention to the warm ups and circle time introductions.  

GO Bows!

Sadie attended her first UH sporting event, an exhibition game featuring UH versus HPU.  The game started a little after 7pm, which is normally her bedtime, so we were a little worried if she would "last", but she accomplished the goal, which was to make it through the first half of the game.  She seemed to really enjoy the atmosphere: the crowd, the band, the lights, the music, etc.  We had cousin Paisley there to show her the ropes on how to cheer ("De-Fense....De-Fense" and "Go, Bows, Go!") and dance (row the canoe) when the band played.  Soon, she'll be competing with her big cousin to get the Jack in the Box coupons that drop from the blimp at half time!  (As Paisley would say: "the blimp knows me, Paisley!".....she hit the jackpot this week and got FOUR coupons!)

We left at half time and headed straight home, where Sadie drank her bottle and was out faster than a light at about 9pm.