So, according to the calendar, my baby isn't so much of a baby anymore. Next week! Next week she takes the final step into full toddler-hood and becomes a two year-old. I haven't written much about Sadie lately, and I've been feeling sort of bad about it - how on earth am I ever going to make her a scrapbook of her first two years sometime in the next decade if I don't record her milestones here?
Sadie has been wearing the Miss Cranky crown for the last couple of weeks; one of her lower two-year molars is through and both of the upper ones have a corner peeking above the gumline. What I thought was an ample stash of infant pain meds when I was shopping in Canada this past summer has been depleted at an alarming rate.
She's talking more, but she's still a one-word-at-a-time kind of girl, and a lot of her speech is still indecipherable. I've been kind of wondering if this still considered normal for a two year-old; I was sort of expecting that she'd be using more two word sentences. But she's still cute to listen to - she calls her sister "Naddy!" and tells us to "sit" if she wants to cuddle, and she was really excited to learn that her favourite little clownfish and her sister's classmate are both called "Mum-o".
Sadie's favourite thing to do appears to be climbing stuff, which has opened my eyes to a plethora of safety hazards in our new home. So many places that she could climb up to and fall from ... She's been able to climb out of her crib for quite a few months now, and she's quite quick about it, so re-introducing her to sleeping in her crib for naps and at nighttime since unpacking here hasn't gone well. She'd been sleeping in a bed for six weeks this summer, remember. This past weekend I dismantled the cute little crib and set up her cute little farmhouse bed. Her mattress could be arriving shortly, and then we're all set for a whole new of variety of bedtime stalling and toddler defiance.
Before we knew that we were moving this past summer, we were going to enroll Sadie at the same preschool that Madeline attended in Thailand, just for a couple of mornings a week. I put preschool for Sadie aside when we learned that we were leaving, but I think that I'll do a little research into what our options are for the next school year, when she'll be almost three. We go to a drop-in program at one of the international schools here on Mondays, and it's really fun to watch as things like circle time and music time click in her brain, and it's good for her be around kids her own age, even if some of them still haven't figured out the scoop on sharing (this time: a tub containing about a zillion little translucent chips for the light table).
I am in love with Sadie's hair. I think that the waves are enchanting, and will be very sad if we move back to Alberta and waves vanish with the lack of humidity. If I look deep into her eyes, they are still blue, but I think that there are some brown undertones (just like Madeline's). Shoe are one of Sadie's great loves ("Soos!!!"), and the feet that she wiggles into them seem enormous. She's currently wearing the same pair of shoes that her sister did, except that Madeline was an entire year older. But her big feet are also hugely delicious to tickle :)
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