dress up girl

just had to post these. this evening sadie wanted to be all dressed up so as you can see, she has her scarf, her party hat and her purse and she's ready for a night on the town :-)

her nose is scratched up from a fall yesterday on the sidewalk. plus, she's getting some molars in, so she's not been the happiest sadie-girl but hopefully it'll all pass soon.

Sadie Singing (kind of)

Caleb took a longer nap this afternoon so that allowed for Sadie and I to have a little more time. We've been doing lots of singing in this house lately. They both love music and we've discovered that a silly song goes along way in getting a 2 yr old to do things he doesn't really want to do (like put on shoes or a coat). We make up lots of songs but we've also been working on the classics, like "If You're Happy and You Know It" Sadie has started picking up on it and loves to play along.

Hope you like the video!

Sadie's Talking

Thought I should put up an update on Sadie's talking. She's been babbling almost non-stop and sounding very much like an Ewok but she has mastered a few more words.

Kitty is one of her favorites. She loves Polli and squeals "kitty" when she sees her. She also has started trying to call Polli. She clicks her tongue and pats her leg just like we do. It's so cute to see. Polli seems to tolerate her a bit more than she did with Caleb. Sadie also likes getting right in Polli's face to just say "hi" to her. Also pretty cute to watch.

She's also started saying "read"- guess where she learned that from :-) yes, we have another reader on our hands. More and more she's able to sit for stories and loves bringing books to you to read.

Caleb Video

It's been awhile since I put up video clips... mostly because I haven't been using that camera very much. Here's a clip from February of Caleb "reading" Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel. I've mentioned that we've noticed that he's memorized some books. Well, here's what got it all started. I don't have the whole thing recorded because I didn't have that much space and Sadie was also competing to be in the video.

It's been wild seeing how amazing his memory is. With borrowing books from the library, I've noticed he has most of the story memorized by the third or fourth time reading through (depending on how long the book is). It's been really nice because he can kind of sit and "read" to himself- not that we get out of reading the boy stories. He could definitely be the poster-child for the "read to your child" movement.