Catching up with Sadie

Sadie has had a very busy year up here in Cold Spring (sorry for the nearly 12 month lapse in posts). Here's some details to catch you up; she goes to school 2 days a week, takes ballet and music classes and has been growing up faster than we can believe. She still dresses up in princess gear a few times a week. If she's not in princess gear she at least is wearing a tiara and she always wears a dress. Sadie is incredibly coordinated and is a super fast runner - even in glitter shoes or flip flops. She has long running narratives with her toys done mostly in song.

Sadie is adapting to country life, she isn't really afraid of bugs anymore, at least not the little ones. She loves to throw rocks into the Hudson and is fine on hikes. She isn't phased by deer hanging out in the back yard or the hawks flying above.

Sadie stays up until about 9:30-10 most nights. We start the bedtime routine about 8 but she manages to stretch it out for another 2 hours. But despite her refusal to go to bed at a decent hour she is a very happy, even keeled kid who has few melt downs. She loves candy canes.

Sadie talks about how her life will be at a variety of ages as in; "When I'm 30 I'm going to marry a prince." At least she's going to wait until 30 and she could do a lot worse than a prince. Lately she's been telling me, "Daddy I love you no matter what you look like". This weekend she told us Elmo had an adopted baby in his belly. That is something I would truly like to see.