Thanksgiving Trip Part 2

Happy Thanksgiving!

Our week in St. Louis continues as Sadie enjoys the various toys at Chez Grandma and Grandpa

Any trip to visit family of course involves copious food. Sometimes ordered in (sushi)...

... and trips to the grocery store where Sadie has been enthusiastically helping carry things to the cart.

Stay tuned for picture day!

Thanksgiving Trip 2014

On Saturday we flew into St. Louis for our annual Thanksgiving Pilgrimage, away from the home of the actual American Pilgrims and to a land of blended cheeses, "toasted" raviolis, and short o's pronounced as AH's.

Upon arrival, Sadie quickly made herself at home, accounting for all toys, beads, Aunts, and Grandpa's Cardinals hats she could find.

In order to fully inculcate ourselves into the suburban experience, we all headed to the mall. Being a Proper Suburban Mall, it also has a toy store that has a pay by the hour playroom where Sadie took to all of the toys quite quickly.

They also had a great dress-up collection:

That afternoon, born-on-the-same-day Elana came over to play; both Grandmas enjoyed it too.

Many more photos to come...

Sadie's requests

Sadie has been really obsessed with these beads we've had lying around the house.  She's particularly gotten very specific about putting them on and then having Mom and Dad put them on too.  Here's a picture of dad obliging...

That is one satisfied customer!

Hearty New England Stock

It's getting really cold around here, but like the Swedes, we believe there is no bad weather just bad clothing for the weather.  Sadie still got to enjoy the play ground this weekend even though temperatures were hovering around freezing the entire time.

Sadie's first blog post

Always interested in Dad's keyboard, Dad decided to open up a copy of MS Word and let Sadie go to town.

So now, Sadie's first post:

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Thanks Sadie! We look forward to you becoming a regular contributor once you become literate.

Dad and Sadie Weekend

Mom was away this weekend so Dad and Sadie were on their own.  On Saturday Sadie put on her new frog shoes (purchased at the Cape a couple of months ago) since she finally outgrew her trusty dino sneakers.  She also picked a different hat out of the drawer...

Then Dad took Sadie to the Children's Museum. Sadie did a pretty good job of figuring out what to do in a car despite her limited exposure.

 

Not pictured, Sadie got to play with some play-dough, pop many bubbles, and serve dinner in a play kitchen. She also fell asleep during the train ride home, leading her to believe she didn't need a post-lunch nap. Thank you to Alice for coming over in the evening to give Dad a short "break" to take out garbage, do dishes, make dinner, and maybe, just maybe, run across the street to pick up a beverage to enjoy after Sadie's bedtime.

Then on Sunday they went out to breakfast to our favorite diner.

Sadie napped just fine Sunday and even got to watch a bit of the Saints/49ers overtime game while waiting for Mom to come home.

Mom missed everyone and was happy to get lots of hugs when she got back Sunday afternoon.

First Winter Weather

Yesterday we had our first snow here in Massachusetts. It didn't stick, but the weather was pretty miserable nonetheless.  We were all kind of going a bit stir crazy inside.  Finally, when it stopped, and it was just wet out, we decided to try out Sadie's new winter gear and go on a family walk.  Here she is modeling most of her winter ensemble - waterproof winter boots, waterproof winter coat, wool socks, and a winter shark hat.  The only piece not called for were the waterproof warm pants...

Here comes winter, ready or not...

Sadie's Adventures has hit the big time

How do we know? We got our first submission of fan-art.

Reader Matti K of Massachusetts, disappointed not to have received a picture of Dr. Sadie before her (Sadie's) bedtime, decided to take matters into her own hands.

Matti writes:

"Since I have no photographs, I have to reconstruct how Sadie must have appeared as a stern medic in search of Brooklineites (sic) in need of rescue."

While she may not have been able to anticipate the pink scrubs, big thumbs up for the backwards Cardinals cap and trusty frog at her side.

Thanks to Matti K and thanks to all of you for reading every day.

Next sign of internet success: content rerun by Huffington Post with no attribution.

Introducing Dr. Sadie!

Fun fact - it's really hard to photograph a hyper toddler in the dark!  So please forgive the poor quality of these photos, because Sadie completely refused to be still the entire time.

Here she is in the morning (pulling a toy thermometer out of her pocket)...

In the evening, we took Sadie trick or treating on a street near our house that is a destination for the neighborhood.  The street gets blocked to traffic and many of the residents go all out with decorations, sitting on their porches with bowls of candy.  It was a really incredible holiday atmosphere and Sadie had a *blast*.  She was running everywhere, holding her little bag.  She even got up the courage to come up to one or two of the bowls of candy and place some in her bag. We were still working on the concept though since she tried to put the candy in her bag into the bowl a couple of times.

Below is also a video of her just running down the street, high on adrenaline and the overall weirdness of the situation.

Her costume also included a stethoscope. She enjoyed playing with it all night but only put it on at the very end (she wouldn't let us put it on her before then).  We did manage to squeeze in one picture of the full Dr. Sadie ensemble.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Coolidge Corner

Just another Brookliner waiting for the bus after going to Trader Joe's.