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8 months!

Sadie is 8 months now!! She is standing up against anything she can grab onto including cushions and things that aren't so stable. You can't take an eye off her for a minute or she is toppling right over! She is an expert at the army crawl, especially right into the dog beds, ug. She did start saying 'Mama' & 'Dada' for a while there, but has recently replaced her new words with a monkey growl and juicy raspberry blowing.

 

 She is a super star at trade shows. Here she is wearing her skull and cross bone shoes that I bought in Canada when I was 6 months pregnant with her. She finally fits into them!

 

I love this Gymboree romper on her, makes her little body look like a peanut. I do love the baby legs, but her little thighs are a bit chubby (like her mama) and the tops of the baby legs get pretty tight. They end up getting scrunched down like Flash Dance legwarmers.

  

Hubby is almost finished remodeling our kitchen! We went just over 3 months without a dishwasher and a stove! We were washing our dishes in the bathtub (not fun) and using the toaster oven & microwave as our main cookers. Father's day was the big reveal, it's amazing. Some of the Eco Friendly materials used: recycled denim insulation, mat black paperstone countertops & cork tile flooring. Hopefully we will have some before & after pics soon. Hubs looks very fetching in his new BBQ apron :)

 

Sadie loves the new cork floor!

 

For Father's Day, I finally had an excuse to make these bug cupcakes found in an old Martha Stewart magazine. The antenna where supposed to be out of licorice ropes, but I ran out of time. So, my bugs sort of look like slug turtles, but oh well! They were a huge hit with all the kids at the BBQ!

 The organic baby line is coming along! I will hopefully have picture to show soon. I'm working on the website this week and meeting with a factory tomorrow to go over production. Very exciting! I'm putting a sneak peak of my logo here. The labels and hangtags are beyond cute! More soon!

Hello, Tacoma...

So, yesterday Sadie and I made the trek down to Tacoma from Seattle. One of the trade shows that I attend to buy for the shop moved last year and now instead of taking 10 minutes to get there it takes 45, ug. Sadie was amazing though, fell asleep before we got to the freeway and didn't wake up until I parked at the convention center in Tacoma. I take her to a lot of trade shows and she is great. Riding on my front in the Baby Bjorn, smiling at everyone and touching all the clothes. I picked up a new line for the shop called Pico 1988, it's shipping immediately for Summer.

*Most has arrived and is instore! Some are online...

 

 

Downtown Tacoma is looking so nice with the new Museums and shopping areas all being renovated. But, the one thing I always notice when I go to Tacoma is there are hardly any people or cars around. It is so quiet! While there I took the opportunity to visit with my lovely friend Merilee and her two little children. Sadie and I stopped at the yummy cupcake shop called Hello, Cupcake to bring some goodies to our play date. I did enjoy eating this lovely heap of chocolate goodness:

 

Sadie had a great time playing with Georgie 4, and Mia 2, she is amazed by other kids and wants to keep touching them like she doesn't believe they are real. She was also so excited about the amount of toys they had to chew on. The play date was a big success and Mer and I had a great time catching up and Sadie slept the whole ride home like a little angel.

 

 

"Moo Ba Ba"

My little Sadie turned 7 months yesterday. 7! Along with "Dada" she has added "Baba" and "boo", some terrific raspberry blowing, ear piercing dolphin squeals and in the last couple of days she has started crinkling up her nose and puffing air in and out. Very cute. She has been holding her arm out like an opera singer when she sees someone new and pats her chest and tummy when she likes something.

 

I am in love with that baby arm chub!

 She is so wiggly and would just love to run around if she could. She is starting to get up on her hands and knees, but has only managed to go backwards so far.  Forwards is any day now! She's been eatting some solids for a couple months now and loves them! The last couple days though was struggling with some painful constipation (poor honey), so we switched from rice cereal & banana to oatmeal and fruit puree and started giving her more water to drink, which worked a charm.

For mother's day I got this terrific coverstitch machine to make samples of the organic baby clothes line I'm working on. I love it! Its the Janome Cover Pro 1000CP with different hemming and binding attachments, perfect for hemming and binding jersey. I've never worked with jersey before, so it's a learning experience. If you are thinking of getting a coverstitch only machine, I would highly recommend this one. Especially if you already have a serger and don't want to have to convert the machine back and forth like on a dual serger/coverstitch.

 The samples are coming along nicely and soon I will be posting pictures of the designs and the website for the line. I'm planning on having this line available for this Fall! so exciting!!

Dada Dada...

It's official, hubby has won. Sadie has spent most of this morning saying "Dada" pretty much constantly, not just to him (which made him almost cry), but to me, the dogs, her toys. It's so sweet as you can really hear what her little voice is going to sound like.

Yesterday, she and I went down to a trade show in Fremont to buy Fall for the shop and she was great. I had her facing outwards in the Bjorn, which she really loves now. Just a month ago walking into a strange place with lots of people in her face would not have been possible, she would have just been too upset. But now, smiling and laughing, touching all the clothes, we had a great time.

It was such a gorgeous day we decided to do a little shopping around Fremont. She managed around three shops, spit up a bit down the front inside the Bjorn and started to get fussy before we headed home. I bought these great stationary items by Sukie, an UK based designer I adore, at Burnt Sugar:

    

6 months already...

In nine days my baby is going to be 6 months old! She is hilarious and amazes us everyday. It's like she wakes up in the morning with all new tricks to show us. I swear this morning she said "curtain" while excitedly grabbing at them. Hubby and I are in a race to see if she will say Mama or Dada first. It's sort of sounding like he might win, but she does say mamama when she cries, so it's anyones game.

Here we are visiting grandma in the shop on one of our walks. She usually takes her afternoon nap while we stroll around the lake for hours trying to work of mama's chubby baby weight.

    

 

I mean she is like a little cherub!

I made her an Easter bonnet in seersucker cotton from a Mennonite bonnet pattern given to me by a sweet customer of mine. It was super easy to make, but I had to work on it in stages due to Sadie time. During naps and play time, but it turned out super cute. It gave me some ideas and we have been working on an Organic baby line that I will be launching this summer, so excited!

Almost 5 months!

Anyone who has had a baby knows how unbelievably quickly they turn into little miniature people. Hubby laughs at me when I mention, "when Sadie was a baby", because of course she is still a baby, but she is so aware and has such a little personality now. Everyday there is a new movement or sound, mainly a wiggle dance, squealing and blowing raspberries. She has just learned the roll over onto her tummy and back onto her back and grabs at everything. It's going to be baby proofing time soon!

   

Last weekend Sadie went to her first big kids birthday party at the bowling alley. Fussy at first, she has a bit of stranger anxiety with men, but relaxed quickly and had a great time looking around at all the lights and action, then fell asleep in her daddy's arms. Also exciting as she got to wear her glitter converse tennis shoes, her first shoes out in public!

 

What amazes me is how you get used to something and then one day it changes. Riding in the car with Sadie used to be torture, she would cry so hard until she fell asleep, then one day she just stopped crying and now calmly looks out the windows, such a relief! She is still quite sensitive to her surroundings. When hubby shaved off his beard it scared a horrific cry and scream out of her and she was none to pleased to see me pumping instead of feeding the milk straight to her. I can only pump when she is asleep or I'm at work to avoid upset.  She has started to eat baby rice cereal, which is a big (and messy) hit, lots of grabbing at the spoon and bowl. I honestly couldn't have imagined having such a sweet and happy baby, such a joy :)

Pumped to be here...

Today is my first full day back at work. 8 hours away from baby Sadie, who's at home with her daddy. Did I just dream it? Did I spend last year pregnant and have a baby cut out of my tum? That's the weirdest part of coming back to work (aside from pumping breast milk in the little bathroom), is it's all here, it's all the same, only I'm a lot chubbier and my boobs are huge! First thing I did with all the ants in my pants is re-arrange the whole store. I have been away from it for 4 months, just popping in for visits, but away from being in the shop all day looking at everything. I'm excited that spring is arriving and everything will be cotton and flowers! I intend to wear some of the floral maxi dresses that I wore pregnant last summer, since I'm sure it will be a while before this tummy goes back to normal.

 

Sadie turned 3 months yesterday, I can't believe it, and is amazing! She is so sweet and adorable, her cheeks are so chubby and I can't stop kissing them. It feels really good being at this stage with Sadie. The first six weeks were hard, but also had some amazing times. Lack of sleep, soothing her crying and constant feeding. Just trying to figure out what we were doing. Thank goodness for my hubby, he was amazing helping with my recovery and with taking care of Sadie. We are lucky as by the 7th week she started to sleep through the night, smiling and chatting and generally became quite content with life.

I don't know what nursing women did before laptops. I spend most of my time breastfeeding with the laptop on the couch next to me typing with one hand. I've become quite good at the one handed type. We are still working on naps. She falls asleep so well on my lap after nursing and I find it hard to move her. Her daddy is good at scooping her up and putting her down, so we are working on having a nap schedule. She sleeps so well at night, 7-8 hour stretch, feed, 2-3 hour stretch, so I know that she can sleep well in her crib. She has recently started getting a bit feisty when feeding. Stopping to look and smile at me or starts kicking and struggling. That's when we take a break and come back to it later. We have taken to calling me "the boob" because she opens her mouth up so wide and leans way over if I even get close to her.

At this age she is really aware of her hands and feet and is picking up toys (and everything) to put into her mouth. Her Grandma got her the Bumbo chair which is for 3 months + and is pretty hilarious as she is still a bit wobbly. She also gets very excited when someone new comes over to the house, burbling and squealing loudly at them! 

My great friend Naomi had her little baby girl, Scarlet, almost 2 weeks after I had Sadie. It is terrific to have someone to email with daily about what we and baby are up to. It makes a huge difference to have such a lovely close friend who can relate exactly with all the new daily baby events.

I'm so happy to be back working in the shop, but also so happy that I will only be doing a couple of days a week, then mostly working from home.  I'm also happy that we only live down the street from the shop, so that hubby can bring Sadie to visit me and pick up her next meal :)

Check out that crazy hair!

Lots more pics on Flickr...

Merry Elf...

Our baby girl...

Sadie Joy Gover

Born 10/28/08, 12:20pm, 8lbs, 1oz

   

Here she is at 4 days old, she is so gorgeous. She was born on the two year anniversary of our shop opening. Lots more pictures of little Sadie on www.flickr.com/photos/suzyfairchild

Happy Halloween!

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