The whole family on the cape

Mom and Dad joined Sadie (and Babulya, Deda, and Nina) on the cape this weekend.  It was lovely weather and everyone spent lots of time outside!

Sadie on Cape Cod

Sadie is spending a couple of days with Babulya and Deda on Cape Cod (Mom and Dad will join them on Saturday).

 

 

 

Truck Show!

Yesterday Sadie's day care took a field trip to the Cambridge Truck Show - an event held especially for kids to see all the big machines used by the Department of Public Works.

Sadie LOVED it!  This is evidenced not just by the very smily pictures below sent to us by the day care, but also by the fact that this morning she immediately picked out a fire truck t-shirt to wear and ran around saying "vroom! truck!"

Swinging Sadie

We were at the playground today and Sadie's figured out how to sit and hold on to the big-kid swing!  She had a really good time.

Train entertainment

Because Dad has been out of commission lately as far as day care drop off/pick up is concerned, several friends and family members have stepped in to fill in the gap (we are so grateful!).  Matti has been doing pick up about 2 days a week.  Sadie has expressed extreme interest in opening and closing various compartments on Matti's backpack, which as you can imagine is not always a convenient activity.  As a result, Matti got Sadie a toy turtle with all kinds of buckles and zippers to keep Sadie occupied.

Here is a transcript of texts Matti sent us the first time she pulled out the turtle for Sadie...

Matti: We can now close all six buckles and open one of them
We do not mess around
We are VERY DISPLEASED that Matti connected the red one to the yellow one
Oh, but she's allowed to connect them
Just not me

Thank you Matti, for your delightful narration and also for your dedication in fetching our munchkin.

Happy Mother's Day

Today was a beautiful day  - sunny and warm.  Mom went to yoga in the morning and then met up with Dad and Sadie on the playground.  Sadie had a great time running around, climbing and going down various slides.

Later in the day, we went out of sushi and Sadie gave Mom the best mother's day present of all - Sadie tried a new food! A food that is a vegetable! And then ate a lot of it!  Here she is eating edamame...

She also ate three (!!!) whole pieces of Ikuru (salmon roe) sushi and a bunch of tobiko.  Here is dad feeding her some tobiko off his chopsticks...

 It was a wonderful day :-)

Hanging out with Mom and Dad

This morning we were all sitting on Mom and Dad's bed and Dad decided to capture the moment from his vantage point in the mirror.

Mom, however, told him to go get a real picture if he was so inclined.  Sadie was being particularly cute...

Then once everyone was dressed and ready to go, we took a family outing to Zaftigs.  Sadie has suddenly gotten really into using her crayons for drawing instead of just taking them in and out of containers.  This makes it much easier to wait for our food..

Weekend - Friends and Sun!

We finally have some weather we can call spring here.  There are actually visible green things all around and the temperature has gotten above 60!  As a result we spent a LOT of time outside this weekend.

Here is Sadie at our neighborhood playground.

We also had some friends - Andy and Nikki - visit for the weekend.  Sadie had a lot of fun charming them (and trying on Nikki's sunglasses)

We also took a longer walk to a different play ground and visitors meant more people to play with Sadie on the swings...

 

Meanwhile, in Cambridge, our friend Matti had quite the surprise for us.  She was participating in a charity event where companies sponsored chalk drawings and immortalized the AxB clan as dragon chalk art!

Here is the artist herself, posing with her creation..

And here is a close up of the art itself (that's Mom dragon in a lab coat, with Sadie dragon holding her frog and wearing her telltale hat, being introduced to baby dragon by Dad dragon, in matching hat)