My Little Helper

My little Sadie Jane is becoming more and more aware of how everything works. She is progressing with language. She in the last few weeks, she's learned to say cat, dog, wha dis?, dat?, diapa, ball, more, head, shhh, buh (book), and blah (Blake). She can do signs for elephant, alligator, and hat, which are all useful, everyday words...right?

Beyond that she is catching on to processes. If I say it's time to eat, she and Blake head to the stairs and crawl up. Sadie has realized that big people don't crawl up the stairs though, and so she likes to try to stand when I get distracted. I can tell the babies to get their trays, and they totter over together to the sink or dishwasher to get a tray and totter it back over to their seats.

If I say it's time for night night, on her own, Sadie gathers her blankies and a paci and either heads to her room or runs from me depending on if she wants to go to sleep or not.

If I say it's time to go, Sadie collects everyone's shoes. She takes Owen's shoes to him, multiple times (cuts down on me having to nag him to "put them on already!"), takes Blake's and my shoes to me, and has even gotten her own shoe on a handful of times.

She likes to pitch in and help put toys in bins. Although as soon as I turn around, they get them all back out again. She'll bring me diapers for Blake, and hands me wipes like a little scrub nurse.

This afternoon, Owen was playing around pretending to be a baby. He found one of Sadie's pacifiers, crawled up the stairs, and sat in one of the baby's seats. Without missing a beat, Sadie just pretended like she was a big girl. She got him a tray, a baby spoon, took the paci off of his tray and laid it on the table. Then she tried to climb into his normal seat, but couldn't quite make it. Owen thought it was hilarious.

This is such a fun stage!!