Hooked on Phonics?

Recently, Sadie has been very interested in the letters of the alphabet. She knows S is for Sadie and D is for Daddy and dog and Dan, M for Mommy and quite a few others.

Last night at dinner, she was looking at her cereal box and remarked, "I see the one for queenandquail! Two of them!" Can you see them? (We're pretty sure Sadie thinks "queenandquail" is one word because when Dan asked her what a quail was, he was rewarded with a blank look.) She also noted that she saw the W.

Helpful

Sadie saw me mopping the kitchen floor and wanted to help. She likes to do everything that she sees us doing.

Milestones

Sadie has been sleeping in a toddler bed for over a week now and it's going well so far. She is so proud of her little bed and is very excited to get in it at night.

Just like Mommy and Daddy, Sadie loves to read in bed. This basket keeps books handy for her, although we have a feeling that she quietly slips to her bookshelf to read different books.

Lately, she's loving Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent. We read it to her and then she reads it to herself once we leave the room.

Look how happy she is in bed! Too cute.


In an unrelated milestone, Sadie jumped for the first time today. She actually managed to get both feet off the ground! Phew. Her pediatrician said this was a 24 month milestone, so we've been working on it for a while.

Art and Talk

Sadie did this drawing on Saturday morning. It is "a snake and Sadie and a cat!"

Two interesting examples of developing language and word understanding:

1. While building with legos with Daddy and Aunt Lolly: "My put this byock ovah-neath the other one!" (Well, since there is underneath, there certainly should be an overneath, right?)

2. This morning:
Sadie: Mommy, my have coffee?
Me: No, it's not for children. When you are a teenager, you can have coffee.
Sadie: (pauses and thinks for minute) When my a tee-ager, my have tea!

Small Artist

One of Sadie's favorite holiday gifts was this easel from Auntie Lolly and Auntie Kara. We keep it in the guest room and in the morning, Sadie often asks, "I check on ma easel?" If we say yes, she runs in and yells, "Good-mornin', easel!"

She loves to use the easel to draw with crayons or to do "stickah work" as seen here. I'm hoping she continues to enjoy art. Drawing and painting were some of my favorite things as a child and through high school and then I guess I ran out of time for it. It's nice to have art supplies around again, even if it's just crayons, and to do some drawing with Sadie.

A lot of you have noticed that Sadie suddenly has a lot more hair! Last week, she came home from daycare with this funny hairdo created by her teacher Sonya. Dan and I thought it was pretty funny so we had to snap a picture.


(Also, it is National De-Lurk week again! Please take a minute to leave a comment. Getting comments makes us so happy and is really motivating to keep the posts coming!)

2 Year Check Up

Sadie had her 2 year old well-child check up yesterday. She is now almost 34 inches tall and nearly 28 pounds. This puts her in approximately the 60th percentile for both height and weight for girls her age.


She is doing well on meeting all her developmental milestones, with the exception of jumping. Sadie is definitely more interested in learning words and practicing fine motor skills than in learning to jump, but one day, she'll do it.

Dr. Jessica, our beloved pediatrician, will be leaving the practice in June to move to upstate New York and be closer to family. She has recommended Dr. Meredith to us and we will probably switch over to her.



Sadie has been doing a lot of imaginative play with her baby dolls lately. Here, she pushes her new baby from Grandma and Grandpa in the stroller (she has named this doll "Peddy"), has Bitty in her arms and she is wearing her old beloved Baby-Doll on her back in a wrap. You can see the wrap, but not Baby-Doll, because of the angle of the photo.