our sadie the little painter

sadie has been growing and changing so much lately. it seems that's an obvious statement given her age.

changes every single day and seems to know new words and sometimes even phrases. we seem also to be reading the same books over and over again. i wondered when this stage would start. the other day as we were reading polar bear polar bear sadie flipped through the pages and started naming off animals like flamingo, leopard, hippotamus, etc. obviously the words didn't sound exactly like that but it was close enough for me to be able to understand it. i was very impressed. it really did show me that she pays attention to everything that we do and say. we were reading another book called gossie and sometimes when i read the book i make sound effects. yesterday as i was reading it to her sadie made the same sound effects that i sometimes make. it was so cute.

one area that we are trying to improve on is when sadie gets ahold of markers. the last two days have been disasterous. i came home yesterday from work to discover sadie's dora car and her pajama's decorated with red sharpie marker. it turns out daddy hadn't been paying too close attention to her and she had also had red marker all over herself as well. at least that got cleaned up. today little miss who decided to color herself, the window, and the couch with a blue marker. i think we need to be more vigilant about our little picasso.

summer time with grandma is the best!

she somehow got in and couldn't get out

yelling for more milk

dancing at irish fest

with her favorite mah-moo

with mommy at irish fest

great grandma flaherty

blowing bubbles with stuart

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earning to drive a little early

can't quite reach the peddles

"are my lights on?"

she LOVES corn on the cob
she loved the bouncy house but couldn't stand up

so she just sat there and watched the other kids

her favorite mah-moo

grandma and sadie at the benefit

begging for ice cream at uncle sam's birthday