Conversation with Sadie

Sadie: Mama, what's the gradypresson?
Mama: What? I don't know. Can you say it again?
Sadie: Gradypresson. Barack Obama said it on TV. On a commercial.
Mama (lightbulb finally going on): Oh, the Great Depression? It was a time a long time ago in America when a lot of people didn't have jobs so they didn't have money.
Sadie: When you was a little girl in New York?
Mama: No, a long time ago, before Grandma and Grandpa and Nana and Bob-Bob were born.
Sadie: Barack Obama said he was going to make some jobs.
Mama: Yes, people want to have jobs so they can have money to buy things for their families.
Sadie: It's like "Millions Mister"*.
Mama: Yes, that's exactly right.
Sadie: Mama, let's play that song right now.

*Song from the 1930s that's on the Dan Zanes album "Catch That Train"

[Dan Edit: I put a link to the song lyrics]

Sadie and Many Princesses

Two Nellies?

Helena with life-size portrait by Sadie
Originally uploaded by Dan and Ann

Sadie painted this life-size portrait of Nellie at AVA Open Art Studio last weekend. She was very accurate in the size of her painting...it is almost exactly the same size as baby sister.

Meeting Tinkerbell

Sadie and Tink
Originally uploaded by Dan and Ann

One of Sadie's favorite parts of our trip to Disneyworld was meeting Tinkerbell. We had to wait for nearly an hour, but it was worth it to meet Tink (and Iridessa and Silvermist). She wore her new Tinkerbell dress and the fairies all complimented her on how lovely she looked.

Sadie was totally thrilled and amazed. It's so fun with her at this age because she really believes in all of it.

Helping

Sisters together
Originally uploaded by Dan and Ann

Sadie and Nellie have been really having fun together these days. Sadie loves that Nellie is starting to stand up. She's been showing her how to play with the activity table and some other toys we brought up from the basement.

Doesn't Sadie look so tall in this picture? She is about double Helena's height. Yesterday, Dan took Sadie skiing for the first time. They had a great time...unfortunately, he did not bring a camera along. Next time!

Food?

Food
Originally uploaded by Dan and Ann

Helena was all excited when Sadie handed her this dish. It took her quite a while to realize there was no food in it.

She is very interested in all the fake food Sadie has in her play kitchen, especially a plastic bagel, a wooden banana and a plastic chocolate chip cookie that came from a counting game.

She loves to eat. In addition to gobbling down jars of baby food, yogurt, oatmeal and homemade puree, she is eating lots of table foods. At Disney, she plunged her hands into my bowl of spaghetti and helped herself!

We're back!

Family and Rafiki
Originally uploaded by Dan and Ann

We're back from Disneyworld. We had a great time. Thank you so much Grandpa and Grandma for the fun vacation.

Here, we are posing with Rafiki (from The Lion King) at Animal Kingdom. We also visited Epcot, The Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. Sadie had the best time. Nellie was a good sport throughout, although she had no idea what was going on. We put a bunch of pictures of the trip on Flickr and will also share some more on the blog over the next few days.

We're off...

...for a few days in Disneyworld and warm weather!
Happy Birthday, Auntie Kara!

Two pictures to enjoy while we are away...
Sadie at her friend's "Fairy Dance" birthday party:


Nellie just being cute:

Syrup and Snow

This weekend, Sadie was helping Dan shovel some snow. While she was outside, I asked her to fill a container with snow. Then, we poured maple syrup over it.

Sadie loved eating the "old fashioned ice cream".

Helena is 7 Months

Nellie is 7 months old today. Her new big development is standing up. She is starting to pull herself to standing and is very pleased with her abilities.


View from the other side:

We did not prop her up like this...she really did it herself.

You can see her teeth here:

(no sign of any other teeth coming in yet)

Blowing a "raspberry":

Haircut

Sadie was looking a bit shaggy, so I took her for a haircut at Vivo, where I get my hair cut.
She was very excited to try the mommy salon and said it was "fancy". She was especially impressed by the bathroom and all the samples of soap and lotion they offer in there.


"Why you spraying my head?"


"I like this haircut...I look like Violet from the Incredibles!"


"I love it!"

It came out cute. In retrospect, we could have gone even shorter, but for $6, we can easily go back!