When Sadie Grows Up

Just to clarify... Sadie informed me today that when she grows up, she wants to be a firefighter. So no more triangle, I guess.

Caleb's Word Recognition

We've always been impressed with Caleb's memory. It took him no time at all to learn to say and recognize his letters and numbers. And I've posted both stories and video of him "reading" from memory his story books. With preschool, his teachers have been working on name recognition. He was pretty good at this before he started preschool but has gotten even better with it. He can recognize his name, Sadie, and as Andy discovered last night, he recognizes mommy and daddy. Caleb asked Andy to "right my word" - meaning his name and since we always like to test these guys, Andy wrote Daddy. Caleb say "no, not you Daddy. Write Caleb." Again, Andy wrote Mommy this time. Again Caleb called him on it and said "no, not Mommy"

It's so exciting watching how they learn.

Sadie Says III

This evening with Daddy:

Daddy: "And what do you want to be when you grow up, Sadie?"
Sadie: "I want to be a triangle."

after some giggling

Daddy: "Do you want to be an Isosceles or an equilateral triangle?"
Sadie: "An eek-a-la triangle"

so there you have it. Sadie wants to be an equilateral triangle when she grows up and just for the record, Caleb wants to be a big boy when he grows up. :-)

Caleb Says

in the car this morning, coming home from pre-school.

a CD was playing quietly and we had just finished talking about his morning at pre-school when he said. "mommy, we can't see it. can you please turn up the music so we can see it better?"

Sadie Say II

This was out at G'ma Jody and PaPa Pat's in NJ.

Caleb tripped in the dining room over a basket of pine cones and of course, Sadie was there playing little mama to see if he was okay. She came running into the living room, still pointing to the basket, declaring that "Cay-dub fell on da porkypines" After a little thought we were able to figure out that Sadie got pine cones and porcupines a little mixed up. Now Caleb is calling pine cones porcupines even though he knows what really they are. You never know what these guys will come up with. :-)

A couple of pictures from Christmas

Sadie Says

Sadie's catch phrase this weekend- "it's kinda easy" we have no idea where she picked it up but we hear it a lot at dinner time.

And the children have discovered Disney's Peter Pan. Sadie asked Daddy when he came home from work the other day "Daddy, can I fly to Neverland with Peter Pan and Wendy and Michael?" Caleb enjoys the crocodile that chases after Captain Hook.