Sadie update

Sadie is now well into her second year and is developing a very different personality from Jake's. Where Jake needs to connect with his friends, Sadie is just fine working on her own projects. If Jake might be a little timid on a moonbounce, Sadie will jump right on. Jake tends to back down from confrontation in favor of reaching some agreement, and Sadie is......different. Sadie is determined and stubborn and patient and will.....get.....her........way. At two, she is our little CEO. And I love all of it. She is Daddy's Little Girl about 5 minutes a day. I can count on at least one genuine hug a day, but the rest of the time she is focused and has no time for that stuff.
But Sadie has a funny side too. She might have to work at it, but at two, she must already realize she needs a sense of humor to survive in this family. She and Jake share jokes all the time now. She does little dances to make us smile, and she'll stick out her tongue in staccato rhytyms at dinner if we're too serious for her. And she knows how to get what she wants and already plays Ali and I for our weaknesses. Most of the time, that means crying at Ali and being goofy with me.

Sadie is so stubborn we bought her a book called "Little Miss Stubborn", mostly for our own amusement. The other night she ripped it out of my hands and insisted on "reading" it. She wouldn't give it back no matter how many ways I tried to explain that she needed help with the reading business.

I love this picture of Sadie. She loves you, and she wants you to love her, but, get out of her way.