Baby Pictures
Now relegated to Blogblivion...Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Party Dress Sadie
Here’s some photographic Sadie overkill, but she, and the dress she wore to the birthday party, is so cute. I’m actually leaving some out.
And yeah, one of these days I’ll post some Valerie pictures too. Maybe not a full catch-up set, as that would be about 30 pictures, but some.
These two are before we left Sunday:
This picture is courtesy of Sharon, of Sadie sitting in the nursery/playroom after she’d (as you can tell) eaten:
Sadie and Julia in the nursery:
Sadie in the nursery with Julia, Alicia and Hunter:
Sadie after we got home, with the birthday balloon she captured and has not let go of except for baths and sleeping (which involves removing it from her after she falls asleep, so she won’t get tangled in the string):
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Happy 90th Birthday!
To my amazing grandmother, Hazel Irving, who come to think of it is almost exactly twice my age now. We’re having the big party tomorrow, apparently at the parish house of the church (which she has belonged to longer than anyone; they celebrated her 75 years last year or the year before).
Here are some assorted pictures, the first few not previously posted, the others linking ones already online from old posts. Pardon the fuzziness of the first one. I thought a recent closeup would be nice and it was the best I had offhand.
Friday, June 23, 2006
What Color Are These Eyes?
Before and After: 99 Restaurant Edition
This is Sadie in her Florida shirt before we went to the 99 Restaurant near work, then afterward, showing what those modern stain removers are up against.
We all highly recommend the mango iced tea. It’s almost more of a mango juice pretending that maybe it was spiked with a little tea, in a huge glass. Sadie went crazy for it. We’d forgotten her sippy cup, so when we got ours, I gave her a taste dropper-style out of the bottom of my straw. That became my job, a steady stream of sips, until we asked for and got not only a little glass for her, but also one full of complementary mango tea.
Trouble is, she forgot how to drink out of a straw, and had the notion the straw had to be used dropper style, but without knowing to put her finger over the end. Before the meal was over, she figured out she could lift the glass and just drink out of the straw hole, which was perfect for both getting plenty and not spilling it to speak of.
That’s part of what’s on the shirt, along with bleu cheese dressing, sour cream, marinara for dipping these yummy baked cheese sticks that came with her meal, sweet and sour sauce for dipping her chicken fingers, and ketchup for her fries.
I got the new pulled pork sandwich, which was quite tasty, if a little drier than I expected. Deb got the new roast beef cheddar dip, which was absolutely amazing. We also order a sampler appetizer, which was part of our toddler management. She was fantastic, which is amazing considering her moods lately, but it also helps to make it easier for them to succeed. So we went when her mood was good, at a good time for the restaurant, to a kid friendly place, got good seating, and kept her occupied and not bored. It helps that even at her worst there are circumstances in which she seems to have an inherent sense of propriety. So being messy was the worst of it. Valerie was an angel too, and people were smitten with them.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
And On Today’s Menu…
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Sadie on Tuesday
Valerie on Tuesday
And another milestone: She learned to blow raspberries the same day she rolled from belly to back, which she promptly started doing almost as readily as rolling from back to tummy. She has also gotten down the concept of using her hand to put something in her mouth that’s not her hand. She uses the teething aspects of the ExerSaucer more than Sadie ever did. Speaking of which, she has already learned to play with some of the toys on the saucer, like spinning the clear cylinder of colorful plastic beads. Go Val!
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Sadie and Valerie
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Valerie Gallery
Monday, May 29, 2006
“Prison Stripe” Jammies
Friday, May 26, 2006
Sadie, Bear and Tea Girl
This seems to be Sadie’s current favorite bear, and the other toy she’s holding, which we call Tea Girl because she is pouring tea from a pot, is her favoritest toy ever. Part of the Strawberry Shortcake collection from a McDonald’s Happy Meal, of all things. She plays with the others, which I believe all remain at the office (which is when we end up having McDonald’s, usually on days that involve doctor appointments), but she always loved Tea Girl the best and pointedly brought her home.
Even Happy Babies Get The Blues
Thursday, May 25, 2006
My Mini Me
Me at 18 months and Sadie at 18 months. No resemblance at all.
Friday, May 19, 2006
Sadie Meets Pork Lo Mein
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Valerie Gallery
From the past few week, more or less oldest to newest…
“And it was only ridden by a little old baby on Sundays…”
Sadie shows Valerie the exersaucer’s cool features.
Scene From the Church of Heliumtology
Sadie attempts to show Valerie how to salute properly should the Balloon God happen to appear.
Friday, May 12, 2006
Little Pumpkin
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Sadie Lately
These are pictures of Sadie downloaded off the camera on the 6th and (twice) on the 7th.
The first four are at my brother’s new place - a house he’s renting on a farm for the same as his apartment had cost - for my niece’s birthday party Sunday. I gave her a little ride around on the bike after she showed so much interest, but she had enough quickly. She loves Sadie-sized furniture. We need to get her a little table and chair set like the ones we saw in Wal-Mart the other day, to give her something abusable she can color at.
The next one is Sadie hugging one of her frogs, which the other day she declared “baby!” It’s actually a frog backpack I bought from a door to door salesperson (allegedly fundraising for charity) at the office years ago. It had been living perched on the patch panel high on the wall in a recessed corner until recently.
The next one is her hugging her grandfather when we were at his house in Plympton to visit and pick up their excellent old dining room table, which looks like it was made to go in our kitchen and couldn’t be more perfect. No more folding camp table.
The one after that is in my father’s yard, near the driveway, where Sadie discovered that a drain grate is Best Thing Ever. She set out to drop as many pebbles and twigs as possible down there, one at a time.
Finally, Sadie in a hat she likes to put on, looking sad for some forgotten reason. Perhaps it was one of her several falls per day. Perhaps she had walked off the end of the coffee table into midair like some obsessive coyote. No idea.
Friday, May 05, 2006
When Toddlers Pick Their Own Clothes
Thursday, May 04, 2006
She’s A Cutie
I don’t have time for a whole Valerie Gallery just now, but I have to share what is probably my favorite Val picture so far. I can’t bear to wait.
There are a bunch of other good ones, including at least one of her legs curled into the air as she attempts to roll over, so more soon.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Easter Egg Hunt Sampler
These are just the start of the pictures from Sunday’s Easter Egg hunt/cookout at my grandmother’s house. The upper right corner of the first picture shows part of the shed that was Sadie’s prime target when she could be dissuaded from exploring the street. After all, there are tools, cool old parts, old nails, and other dangerous things in and around the shed! What red blooded future engineer wouldn’t be fascinated? Ah, I just noticed it’s also in the background, more like the upper left, of the third picture too.
The sandbox was a great relief, as she thought it was Best Thing Ever and played intently for an extended time. To the exclusion of things like wanting to have any food, as well as testing her ability to withstand direct hits by moving vehicles. I was a little concerned when she eventually decided it would be fun to pour sand all over herself, but hey. I think my sister said she has an old sandbox we can have if we want it, which is just a matter of making sure nobody else here objects to it in the yard.
The other kid in the sandbox is her cousin Alicia.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Valerie: “The things I have to put up with. Sheesh!”
In this bath picture Val has what I call “ocean eyes.” They make it seem she’s going toward green.
Poor kid. She turned two months on the 21st. Sadie started teething at two months. They are related…
Mmmm… Pear
Yesterday Sadie just couldn’t stop eating, as if she’s on a growth spurt or something. At one point she raided the refrigerator for this good pear, ran off and just started eating it, skin and all. Normally we cut fruit up and remove all or most of the skin. Apparently she decided it’s time to start eating it like big people. Good thing to start with, in that case. You can see in the pictures how big it is. She ate almost the whole thing herself. After she was about halfway through I sliced the rest, ate a couple of those, and gnawed around the core, showing her that we throw that part away. But otherwise it was all her.
Friday, April 21, 2006
Valerie Gallery
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Happy Valerie
Friday, April 14, 2006
Toddler Girl
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Expressive Valerie
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Valerie Gallery
More Sadie
