Breakfast with Daddy

Fairytales

Bebe is enjoying shopping for dress-up clothes for Sadie. This one was a winner with the wings, even though we had lingering glitter in her room for days. As soon as she put it on she said, "I'm in a fairytale!" Then, "I need a wand and a crown." Her teachers at school keep marveling at how verbal she is (and polite, always saying "thank you".) It surprises me what comes out of her mouth almost everyday. Smarty pants.

Happy Birthday, Daddy

We had a great Labor Day weekend at the lake house and celebrated Daddy's birthday with chocolate cupcakes. "Happy Birthday" is Sadie's favorite song to sing and she doesn't reserve it just for birthdays, though it does come in handy when we are actually celebrating one. She often "bakes" cupcakes in her kitchen and asks us to blow out the candle after she sings to us.

Matt and I went to the first UT football game on Saturday, but Sadie donned her cheerleader outfit to get into the spirit, too. We saw several families with kids her age and younger at the game and couldn't help commenting that it did not seem fun to keep a toddler entertained at a game that she would tire of after 10 minutes, where she couldn't move around at all. I felt the most pregnant I have felt up to this point when we left at halftime. There is very little room in those seats. I may not be attending many games this season.

Good night, Sleep tight

Sadie says the most adorable thing at night when her Daddy and I are putting her to bed:
"The sun is going down and the moon is coming out and the stars.."

Rain, rain don't go away

We actually got a little rain shower last week and Sadie has been dying to use her umbrella and galoshes. Don't you just love her little big-girl undies? She doesn't even fill them out, but I just want to pinch her all the time (in a nice way.)

Dress-up

I have been wondering when Sadie will really start to get interested in playing dress-up and it seems now may be the time. Today she pulled out all of her pajamas and starting putting them on. She needed some help, but hey, why not work on dressing skills while we're playing? (My occupational therapist friends are giggling right now.)

Does anyone else think she looks like Joey from "Friends" when he puts on everything the Chandler owns? At least she's not going commando.

First day of Preschool

I just dropped Sadie off for her first day of preschool! She did pretty well considering she is not used to being dropped off anywhere other than Bebe's house on a regular basis. She only cried for a minute and then was off to explore the Magnadoodles. We got off to a little bit of a late start this morning, but we made it basically on time (9am). She was a champ and ate all of her breakfast quickly, which has never happened before. I got to use school as a good excuse to buy her this adorable tote bag with her name on it and these super cute bento boxes for her lunch. Packing her lunch has been the one thing I had been stressing about, but it was actually pretty fun when I put it together last night. We'll see how long that lasts. She went to school in her big girl underwear, not training pants, so that will be another adventure. So, hurray for Sadie starting school and hurray for me to get a little time to myself before baby #2 arrives (for those of you who don't know, we are expecting a new arrival around February 10, 2010!)