8 Months Part 1

It's been a busy month for little Sadie Buggles. She can now clap, crawl, wave, and high-five. She's also grown 1 1/2 teeth, and enjoys yelling in grocery stores if people don't look at her when she wants to say hi. She now has a lot of friends at our regular stops. Naked crawling with kitty time
Her hair dwarfs the rest of her body..

She looks like such a big girl here: !

Crawling into and out of Daddy's closet

Beary-booty

This is her intense face. She is a very determined little thing.

Briones Regional Park Hike

Sadie on the way to the Park. It was about 30 minutes away in Lafayette. It's amazing how rural and wild the surrounding areas are. Parks like this are aplenty around here. Lots of rolling hills and clay-filled lagoons, cows and lizards, snakes and (from what the signs say) cougars and mountain lions.

In other Random News...

...Sadie loves to unload toys from baskets to the floor......At times, very intensely--after all, this is serious business.
...Sadie likes to sit here and wave and give high-fives. Waving consists of one, and on occasion, two, slowly flailing arms,-- coupled with a semi-bewildered but focused look--as seen here.


...I have a sweet husband. (He admitted that the balloon was really more for Sadie's fascination)

...Our goldfish died, and was replaced with a blue whale. It's less painful this way.

Our Afternoon in Chinatown

The weekend before last, the weather was wonderful, and we drove to San Fransisco and spent the afternoon exploring Chinatown. The Chinatown in SF is the largest in the country, and it's a very buzzing place--full of food and clothes markets and little "Dim Sum" restaurants. According to Wikipedia, "Dim Sum is a type of Chinese dish that involves individual portions of food, usually served in a small steamer basket or plate". (We had to look this up, because all the restaurants said, "DimSum", and we had no idea what that meant!)Here's the Dim Sum buffet where we ate lunch. The sign doesn't look it, but this was a VERY authentic little place. In other words, we didn't recognize most of the food that we ate. And after walking through the markets afterwards, and seeing all the grubs and dead, dehydrated water creatures, we felt that it was better that we just didn't know...!Sadie thinks that she is up for trying chopsticks.

Danny looks a little skeptical...I think he prefers Panda Express.

I think it's fun to try weird food as long as I am not sick for hours afterwards!

Here's Sadie and I in the food market. We stick out just a little. Everyone loved her light curls and blue eyes!

Trying on hats..

This is the park where Joe DiMaggio played. The sign in the distace on the fence says something to that effect. Danny was looking for this as we walked, because he's reading a biography about him, and reading about this very spot!

I was singing to her, and she was snuggling into my face. :)

Great day...Adventures with my Danny and SadieBug are the best..!

Recent Adventures 1 -- Las Trapas and Devil's Hole..

Sadie was super excited for our adventure in the wilderness!Sunhat. Check. Sunscreen. Check. Cutie pie. CHeck.
Having a deep, animated conversation with Froggy on the way up the hill.. He came to keep her company in her pack.

Part way up and already some great views of the surrounding San Ramon Valley/Bollinger Canyon.

Still chattin with Froggy

This is from the top--you may not be able to see from this picture, but we could see all the way to San Fran and the Golden Gate Bridge!

Little Legs...

Getting tired and sweaty, but still cute.

Drinking some water with Mommy. This was right before we took an unfortunate detour down into Devil's Hole. Added another extremely steep 2 miles onto our already 5 mile hike!

Danny and I :)

Great hike-- so good, we felt it the next day!