Sipping

Sadie drinks water from a straw at the Pub at the Norwich Inn on Saturday.

Now that the outdoor tables are open for the season, we can eat here again! The small indoor dining area at the pub is not entirely baby-friendly so the outdoor tables are ideal. We love this place.

Summer Fun

The Family Place in Norwich, VT offers a toddler playgroup on Friday mornings. In the warm weather, it's outdoors. We tried it for the first time today and we will be back! Lots of our friends were there as well as some older kids. Sadie loves watching bigger kids, so that was a lot of fun for her. In the picture above, Sadie is playing with her friend Hanna, who is 15 months and much more advanced in the hair department.

The facility is amazing and perfect for toddlers...lots of grass and playground equipment such as baby swings, small slides and a wooden climbing structure.

And not only that...

Drawing activities! This is a clear plastic board that the children can draw on with "chalk markers". This was a very popular activity and Sadie took a few turns with it.


There were imaginative play items including 3 or 4 cars, little bikes and scooters, shopping carts, and best of all, a playhouse. Sadie especially liked that it had a phone inside.


On top of all this fun, they serve a snack...goldfish crackers, apples and water. Everything's free.

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Happy birthday Grandma! I love you and I can't wait to see you in a few weeks!
You are one of my best reading buddies.
Love,
Sadie

Happy Anniversary

This weekend, we celebrated Dan's paternal grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary with a family party. What an amazing milestone! Not only have they been married 60 years, they started dating when Regina was sixteen and Chester was seventeen and he invited her to the prom. They are role models of a good marriage, of good parenting and of good grand-parenting. Sadie is their first great-grandchild.


(Great-Grampy, Sadie, cousin Anabel, in the background are Chester and Regina on their wedding day)

We hope Sadie will grow up to have a happy marriage. Luckily, this seems to run in her family. Her maternal great-grandparents were married more than 60 years as well, and both sets of her grandparents have been married more than 30 years. Mommy and Daddy have only been married three years (it will be four in August) so we have a way to go.

Sweet Sadie

Sadie enjoyed her vanilla "ah kree" cone from the Dairy Twirl. Liz K., we were thinking of you because we know how much you like the Dairy Twirl.

Singing in the Rain

I'm singin' in the rain
Just singin' in the rain,
What a glorious feeling,
And I'm happy again.



Actually, we're getting pretty darn sick of all this rain.

Happy Mother's Day!

Mommy, Daddy said he would type this for me. I love you very much and think you are the best mommy around. You are always taking me to do fun things like gymnastics and sing-alongs and play group. You also make me such delicious food! And I am especially thankful for how nice you were to me when I was sick; I know that all of those snuggles made me better! Happy mother's day!

Love, Sadie

Fashionistas

It's not quite as bad as showing up to the Oscars with the same dress as another starlet, but at playgroup yesterday Sadie was wearing the top to a set and her twin friends were wearing the bottoms. This fashion faux pas can be seen on Sarah and Lauren's blog.

Helping the grad students

Sadie helped put cans of PBR into a cooler at a party with Daddy's classmates earlier this week. Very helpful.

Note the barrette...she doesn't yet need to wear one, but it's funny, right?

Healthier

Saturday morning, Sadie woke up feeling much healthier. Finally! She had been sick for 6 days, which is the longest she's ever been sick. We decided we had to get outside for some fresh air.

Sadie lost 2 pounds from the rotavirus. We think you can especially see it in her face. She's starving today, so she'll probably gain the weight right back.

Sick

Sadie had rotavirus this past week. She did her best to remain cheerful, but she wasn't feeling so good, as you can see.

She's feeling a lot better now. She went back to taking two long naps a day, so we can tell that she's still recovering, but she's our peppy little girl again.