Just like that, our Sadie girl turned eight!
It feels like just yesterday we brought her home as clueless new parents. I feel like I’ve grown right along with Sadie. She has been very patient with her mom learning how to be a mom. 😉
The past eight years with Sadie have been such a blessing. She is an absolute joy to have as my daughter and I thank God constantly for making her part of our family. She is kind, loving, and makes friends with everyone. She’s a wonderful big sister, so creative, and loves ice cream! She plays video games better than I could ever dream of and is always ready for an adventure!
We were very excited to celebrate Sader Tot on Friday. Mordecai couldn’t wait to give her a surprise ball and tru fru snack he picked out for her. He even drew a picture of them holding hands in her birthday card. 🥹
We had a pretty normal day—Dakota had speech therapy, Jimmy worked, and then our neighbor offered to hang out at our house while Dakota napped in the afternoon. I was able to take Sadie and Mordecai to the park and then we grabbed frozen yogurt!
In the evening, we sang happy birthday and had brownies!
We also had a campfire before bedtime. It was a really nice day celebrating Sadie girl as a family.
She didn’t want to have a birthday party this year and instead asked if she could have a day with her cousins Remi and Caroline. We brought the girls home between church services on Sunday for a day of celebrating!
Sadie asked to do three things for her special cousin day: order pizza for lunch, make squishies, and go shopping! Easy peasy. 😊
We stayed busy all afternoon and had such a great day. There was dancing, crafts, a $10 Walmart shopping budget, and so much laughter! 😊
We sang happy birthday to our ice cream lover with an “8” candle in a Klondike Bar!
That’s a wrap on Sadie’s eighth birthday! This age is so sweet. She is growing into such a wonderful girl, but she’s still our creative, fun-loving Sadie. I feel incredibly blessed that I get to be her mom, and I can’t wait to see what the next year brings for Sadie Mae. 🩵
A look back:
Sadie’s First Birthday Party
Sadie’s Second Birthday Party
Sadie’s Third Birthday Party
Sadie’s Fourth Birthday Party
Sadie’s Fifth Birthday Party
Sadie’s Sixth Birthday Party
Sadie’s Seventh Birthday Party
Happy birthday Sadie! 8 years wow!!
Thank you, Pree!
I can’t wait to read the next installment in your travel posts series!
Happy birthday Sadie! 8 is such a great age, I have lots of memories of being 8 – I started horse-riding lessons at that age and was certain that I wanted to be a vet when I grew up.
I remember reading your blog post announcing Sadie’s birth when I was on the way home from a trip with my mum. Definitely doesn’t feel like 8 years ago. How time flies!
Thank you! Age 8 is just so sweet and fun. I love it!
I also love that you’ve been such an animal lover your whole life. I feel like your mom was so diligent to pass that on to you because horse-riding at age 8 is a big deal! She seems like the coolest 🙂
I feel so special that you remember where you were when I announced Sadie was born! I still have the Gerda Muller books you gifted her and all three of my kids enjoy looking at the beautiful illustrations!
Aww thank you, I’ll pass on the compliment to my mum 🙂 She definitely did a lot to encourage me to follow my interests when she was home-schooling me. I’m very lucky!
Recently I’ve been day-dreaming about changing careers to work with animals. Maybe a dog-walking and training business?!
I tend to day-dream about different careers often though, it’s hard just to pick one!! One day I think I’d love to run my own business but I’m not sure what yet.
I’m glad Sadie, Mordecai and Dakota have all enjoyed the books . They were my favourites, along with Elsa Beskow, when I was little (all encouraged by my mum, once again 🙂).
She did a wonderful job!!
I can totally see you doing something with animals, especially dogs! When I had a pet sitting and dog walking business, it was very busy! There’s always a need for it and you get to set your own schedule. My favorite part? The dogs didn’t talk back 😂
Now I need to go down a rabbit hole of Elsa Beskow books!!