Sunshine Sadie

Oh Sade. I find her irresistible so I always end up with a multitude of pics of her. She is pure sunshine in our lives. So a bit of Sadie Sunshine catch-up.

1. I love a baby, um I mean 5 year old profile pic:



2. Me and Sade:



3. Sadie selfies:



4. Big haired Sade:



5. Curly haired Sade:



Although the curls are lessening, they are still there. After I took this picture I was reminiscing about a post I did about her curls when she had just turned 2, and can't help but post the pictures again:


I would love to be able to go back in time and spend one more day with 2 year old Sade.

6. Freaky ghost Sadie pic:

 

7. Meg gave Sade her old iPod shuffle recently, and for about 24 hours it didn't leave her side.

 

Teenager Sadie:

 

8. And lastly, I wrote on Instagram. "Sometimes when you are 5 you have an extra special big personality that compels you to wear accessories to church that don't necessarily match anything you are wearing."

Fashion forward Sade:




I love this girl:



5 year old perfection.

Street Drama

Friday morning at 6 am a CRIMINAL driving a stolen car crashed into my next door neighbors car, propelling it into their garage:

Then proceeded to back up, speed down my street, lose control, and crash into TWO of my neighbors homes.

First home:



Second home:



The kid driving the stolen car, was miraculously uninjured, hopped out and ran away.

If I had been there I am sure I would have tackled him.

In other news, I was just outside telling a group of 10-15 kids to stay away from the vacant house that has been vandalized (I saw 3 of them exiting from the backyard) or I was calling the police, and told them to make sure they quieted down by no later than 10 tonight because I didn't want them waking my kids.

I then made small talk with them about school starting next week and if they were excited about it. It's like good cop/bad cop. But I get to be both. :)

Specs

This summer I noticed that Jackson was doing a fair amount of squinting. So I put my super sleuthing abilities to the test and determined that he might need glasses. I'm very perceptive, you know.

So all three, Megan, Jackson, and Sadie headed to the eye doctor.

Sade being surprised and delighted by the puff of air they blow into your eye:




It was determined that both Megan and Sadie would remain glasses free, but not little Jackson. It turns out he is a bit nearsighted.



 The Dr. informed him that he doesn't have to wear them all the time. Just when he needs to see the board at school, or when he is watching t.v. or playing video games at home.

Before:



After:



I find him so cute I want him to wear them all the time.

Island Tornado

The other day Sade spent many an hour preparing for a puppet show she delighted us with, titled, "Island Tornado."

 From the title you may be led to believe that the main crux of the story centered on an island that is hit by a tornado, but you would be wrong.

Instead it detailed picture after picture of blue sky, followed by character introduction, lots of death by hopscotch jumping, pinnacling with a tornado that ended up killing the rest of the island dwellers that had not yet perished by the dreaded hopscotch.
 

But not to worry, at the very end, everyone ended up coming back to life, except this poor fellow who was torn into little tiny bits:



5 year olds are uber cool.

At The Rink

With summer winding down we have been trying to get to all of the places that we have been wanting to visit before going back to school. Including the roller rink!

Sade was quite excited to go and was in good spirits before we got on the rink.



I think she thought she was instantaneously going to remember how to skate, and was quite unreasonable ornery as soon as she entered the rink and realized it was hard.




We couldn't cajole her into a good mood, so we have lots of pics of this type of face:



Jackson gives it all he has and enjoys himself:





He even participated in the limbo contest:



Megan is a good little skater and enjoys herself too:




At one point there were a series of races for different age groups. Megan, Jackson and Sadie were not participating, and Eric and I had not planned to, but when they called out the adult race and no one went out on the floor, I convinced Eric we should give it a try.

Apparently our example inspired 3 other people to go out too, so there were a total of 5 of us racing.

 And guess who came in dead last?

Like majorly dead last.

Me!

 With a hundred people watching me I was feeling kind of embarrassed (not really a feeling I am used to), and was sure my kids were dying of embarrassment on the side lines, BUT they proved me wrong and each came up and gave me a high five and told me good job. My heart melted a little bit.

For our racing efforts Eric and I each earned a ticket which we were able to redeem for free drinks. Score!



Sade livened up towards the end of the night when she discovered she could do splits type tricks when she was holding our hands:



She also did a few back walk-overs on the carpet before leaving:




The girl could use some gymnastics lessons stat.