A Wintery Visit from Mamaw and Papaw

Mamaw and Papaw came to see Sadie the first part of February. It's easy to say that Sadie is, in general, a pretty social little girl. She generally likes everyone and enjoys being around other people. However, there is something different about grandparents, and Sadie 100% knows who her grandparents are (all 4 of them)! I honestly don't know how, at such a young age, and not really spending that much time with them (like she would if we were in Texas), that she knows there is something really different about Mamaw, Papaw, Grampi, and Grammi, but, believe me, SHE DOES!

As soon as Mamaw and Papaw arrived on that Friday morning, she wanted absolutely nothing to do with Daniel or I anymore. There were several times throughout the weekend where she pushed Daniel or I away, told us "NO", held up her hand for us to leave her alone, or pointed at us to go away....this was HER time with Mamaw and Papaw, and Mommy and Daddy were not going to ruin it! She drug them all over the house the first day, took a nap with them, ate with them, and let them hold her or carry her wherever.

It was a great weekend and a nice visit, especially for Sadie. She just soaked up all the attention like a little sponge.

They arrived just in time on that Friday, because it started snowing shortly after and kept on all day. So after Daniel got home, he and Papaw took Sadie to play in the snow:

We also took advantage of the snow and went to the Children's Museum on Saturday morning. It worked out well, because not many others decided to get out that day, and we had our pick of things to do!

Mamaw paid the nickle for Sadie to ride this horse (of course Daniel and I have never broken down and "ponied up" and let Sadie ride this ;) ):

And Papaw snuck her on to one of the horses on the carousel that go up and down (reserved only for children 3 and up). Thanks Papaw! Now I have to explain every time we get on the carousel that the animals that DON'T go up and down are so much cooler than the ones that do! :)

We also spent alot of time indoors playing.

Sadie and Papaw like to eat cookies together:

I promise my mom was here, but for some reason, we don't have a single picture of her! Sorry Mamaw!!! :( Sadie loves you too! And she loved reading books, doing puzzles, and playing "Ring around the Rosies" with you! Actually my mom took most of these pictures. So that's probably why she's not in them.

Here's a video of Sadie riding the horse at the Children's Museum though, as we took several of those!

Thanks Mamaw and Papaw for visiting! Please come again soon!!!!

More quirkiness

An outfit picked out (i.e. insisted upon) completely by Sadie!

She wanted ALL the clips in her hair Wednesday evening as we were frantically getting ready to run go eat dinner with Daniel so he could work late before going to Ash Wednesday services. She also insisted upon her tutu (she was obsessing over the tutu all day and I had already thwarted her attempts to wear it to the Children's Museum earlier in the day), boots, and a sweater (I was wearing a sweater which means Sadie should wear a sweater, according to Sadie). As we were getting ready, she kept bringing me one hair clip after another until she brought me the ziplock bag that normally houses the clips and said, "gone, gone". Yep, all the clips we own were in her hair and she was pleased.

Daniel did remove all but one of them before we entered the restaurant. Daddys! They are just NO FUN!

:)

p.s. Daniel says we are going to just outfit her closet with all pink stuff so that when she is feeling like expressing her fashion taste, her outfit will still look semi respectable. ha! It's probably a lost cause. It's good for little girls (and boys) to get to pick out what they wear....builds independence and character.

p.p.s. That sweater she is wearing is from Paris. I bought it at a garage sale in Carmel (in the Village of West Clay....the BEST garage sales ever!) for 25 cents. As I was paying for it and some other clothes, the lady gets all nostalgic and says, "I bought that for my daughter in Paris"! Hmmm....go figure! That explains why I couldn't read the writing on it! I'm sure that will be the only sweater Sadie ever owns from Paris. :)

Sadie quirks

Sadie has had a very busy 2010 so far, developmentally speaking. She is changing so quickly lately, we can't keep up. I need to start doing a better job of documenting all her funny moments so I can remember them, because there are SO many funny moments these days. It's an all out riot in the Foley house most of the time!

Here are just a few moments I've been able to capture recently. There are so many more crazy things that she does, but I just can't catch it all. Generally because I'm frantically undoing something she's done or else dying laughing!

I peaked around the corner of the kitchen one day last week to find this....

Yes, I get that this is obviously not the safest position, but it was just too darn cute not to capture. I don't know what sparked her to do this. We honestly don't watch that much Elmo, though I leave it on most mornings as we play. So I haven't paid alot of attention to know whether there is something on the show that sparked kissing the television. Maybe someone else can enlighten me?! Are there subliminal messages urging children to kiss the tv?

Another morning last week, Sadie and I were on our way to get dressed upstairs. Before we started going up the stairs though, I noticed how pretty it was outside. The trees were absoutely sparkling in the sunlight (I think due to a heavy fog earlier in the morning that left the trees frozen). I don't know if it was actually that pretty, or if we miss the sunshine so much that I feel the need to take pictures when it comes out, but none the less, I grabbed the camera.....

When I turned back around......

Sadie had made it all the way to the top of the stairs, CARRYING HER STROLLER AND BABY! We have very steep stairs (thank you Estridge-Not-So-Custom Homes), that we do not let Sadie play on (because they are so steep), so this was quite the feat! She was quite proud of herself too, grinning from ear to ear.

And yet, another morning this week, she thought she needed to put on her snow boots. This was all while she had grabbed her cell phone, stuck it in her lunch box, had me zip the lunch box, gave me a hug, waved bye, and told me she was going to Dr. Miller's office. I don't know what is going on between her and Dr. Miller, but he IS married with two kids....so she better watch out! :)

Last night she got into the dirty clothes and was "getting dressed"......

Part of the funny thing is that she is perfectly content "wearing" her clothes in this manner. She acts like nothing is wrong and continues playing away after she has gotten herself "dressed".

The one thing I can't show you pictures of is her dialogue. A child's ability to learn at the pace that they learn is fascinating in and of itself, but when you pair that with learning the English dialogue, as well as, American slang, it leaves me in awe. She has really taken to all the slang and quirky terms that Daniel and I use lately. Such as..... she tells me things are "PROLLY stairs" (meaning probably upstairs) when I'm looking for something. And she is really into repeating things, just to be funny, like..... 'dang it', 'yeppers' or calling her daddy "Daniel"! It's all humorous, and Daniel and I are far to guilty of laughing at way too much of it. We are probably raising a monster, but she's OUR CUTE LITTLE MONSTER, right????!!! :)

Snow Angel

More and more snow doesn't seem to phase Sadie!
We made snow angels tonight and she loved it.
Legs first....

and then her arms...

and there is Sadie's snow angel - perfect!

and then she tells Daddy how to do it!

Our Texas A&M flag is flying over the angels!
(and by the way, our angels are doing their job as the Ags are up over Kansas at halftime - Whoop!)

My Girls.....

Mommy and Sadie (Pretty in Pink!) after church on Valentine's Day

Sadie is all ready for her Valentine's Party at Day Care with Ms. Jane and her friends.