Pirate Girl

This past weekend, Sadie's friend had a pirate birthday party. Pirate costumes were optional (pirate gear would be provided at the party) and Sadie didn't express much interest in a pirate costume until the day of the party. However, with the party approaching rapidly, she decided she did want to wear pirate clothes.

Luckily, we have lots of dress-up gear and were able to rig together a Pirate Girl/Pirate Princess type outfit.



Outfit components:
black t-shirt and tights
2 tutus (I picked the ones that were ripped for a tattered pirate look)
sleeve puffs from Sleeping Beauty costume
lots of dress-up box necklaces
Mommy's brocade belt
Mommy's scarf as pirate headdress
Rainboots



Sadie was delighted, the costume got lots of attention at the party and the party was super fun!

Homecoming Fun

Bad weather didn't stop us from enjoying Dartmouth's Homecoming this past weekend.
Bonfire night:




The next day, Grandma and Grandpa came up to visit. The men went to the game and Dartmouth actually won! The ladies went to the birthday party of one of Sadie's friends.

Sunday was good weather and we said goodbye to Grandma and Grandpa, ran into friends in Hanover and walked around Occum Pond with other friends. Sadie walked the whole way with very minimal complaints...1 mile!

It was a really nice weekend.

Hello again!

Sorry for the lack of posts! We have been busy here. Since the last post, we had a great visit from Liz and Mike from California. We had such a good time with them. We also all had Flu shots and Sadie went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch with her class. Her insight from the trip, "Next time, I will remember to hold my pumpkin from the bottom because I held it by the stem and the stem fell off, but don't worry, I still love my pumpkin with no stem."

Nellie continues to eagerly copy Sadie's every action. She is very, very interested in all of Sadie's art supplies, drawings and written work from school. So, we decided to let her try drawing with crayons. She had a lot of fun.


Then, she decided to climb onto the table:


So pleased with herself!

Science

Sadie and Helena check out the leafcutter ants at the Montshire.

The new dinosaur exhibit is up. Dan and I thought it was awesome, Sadie was a little freaked out and Nellie was not interested. We'll go back...I think Sadie will like it better the second time.

15 Months

Helena, Mt. Kearsarge
Originally uploaded by Dan and Ann

Helena is growing up. She had her 15 month check-up yesterday and was 50%ile for height, 30%ile for weight. Everything looks good and she is meeting all her milestones. Poor baby got 5 vaccinations and was very grouchy yesterday evening, but slept 12+ hours last night and woke up in a great mood.

Our favorite development lately is her language. It is so fun to watch her learn new words and also show that she understands us. If you ask her to get something and bring it to you, she will usually do it. Sadie especially loves this.

Field Trip

On Friday, Sadie's class took a field trip to Poverty Lane Orchard. We had a great time picking apples and seeing how cider is made.






Lots more pictures of our fun on Flickr.

First Conversation

This morning, in the car, as we're about to drop Helena off at daycare:

Sadie: Bye-bye my little cutie darling!
Helena: Bah, Ay-dee! (and waved)

Sadie was totally and completely thrilled.