Sadie & Max's blog

80' in March!

It has been crazy warm here this week. Sadie was out in her bathing suit playing in the water table today (although its hard to get Sadie to wear clothes when it is freezing outside), so that's not saying much.

Zoo (this Feb and last)

I thought this was a fun comparison between this year and last.

Winter hikes

We have had a wonderfully warm winter with very little snow (72 inches last year, compared to 7 this year). Which means we have been able to get out hiking most weekends.

My baby turns 3!

Max had fun! It was a bit of a circus, with many siblings but Max didn't seem to care. We danced the day away in the disco down in the basement. And chased dragons all over the house with Max's new sword.

Cake!

Max is a chocoholic and loves helping me bake. He is still talking about his dump truck cake.

Flushing fish

Here is Sadie the kitty up in a tree looking for birds.

After our cat-tasrophy we decided on fish for Sadie's birthday. So when we got home from Florida we went out and got 4 little fish. Unfortunately within a week they all had Ich (a paracite) and we lost 3 of them in about 4 days.

When the first one died I showed it to Sadie and we went together to the toilet to say goodbye and flush it down. Of course I throw it in and flush and instead of going down the water comes up (apparently Max had been dumping paper in...AGAIN).

So there I am plunging the toilet with the dead fish bobbing up and down with each plunge and Sadie screaming "He's alive mom...looks he's moving". I had to explain no he's dead its just the plunger until finally he went down.

Then she told me "maybe he will come alive again when he gets to the poopy lake". No sweety, dead is dead. "Okay".

Christmas

Florida Dec 11

This was our 3rd annual trip to Ft. Myers Beach to meet up with the old London crew (Lara, Jim, Genevieve and Jasaon and kids). We had an amazing time. The last 2 years the weather has not co-operated but this year it was perfect every day.

The kids had a blast swimming and digging in the sand all day. They were asleep in minutes every night. The adults had fun eating, drinking and singing karaoke while they slept.

Sadie's 5th Birthday

Sadie had her 5th birthday party a couple weeks early at a local yoga studio. My favorite part was having them all in savasana at the end of it.

Sadie's favorite part was eating cake on the floor.

Sadie insisted on a unicorn/fairy cake this year and did all the decorating herself (I did the icing and she did the rest).

Thanksgiving 2011