Birthday

Happy 5th Birthday Sadie Rose!

We rented out the kid area of our local water park for her birthday party.  She had a blast!

Sadie's Surprise Trip

For one year we have been secretly planning a trip to Disney World for Sadie. We kept telling her that she had to be 7 or 8 years old before she could go. She was in for the surprise of a lifetime. Her reaction was...interesting.  We sent the Disney Princesses a letter about 3 months earlier, and luckily they wrote back about a week before we left. I save the letter until the day we left for vacation and put at the end of the letter that there was a surprise from them in the basement.

This is what Sadie walked down to in the basement.

Video of Sadie's Surprise

We left a few hours later, and my whole family surprised her and joined us. We had the absolute best time. We stayed in a Princess themed room and Sadie actually thought that it was Princess Tiana's room and she was loaning it to use. She kept saying "it is so nice of Princess Tiana to let us use her room. It is so clean."  What a magical age to take a child to Disney :)

Sadie got her hair and makeup done at the Bippity boppity boutique.  (She chose the fake hairstyle, not me!)

All dolled up!

Our first ride was Ariel'S Grotto

This sums up her expression for the entire trip. My absolute favorite picture.

While we were there, we made a point of seeing all 13 princesses. It was quite the adventure and mom and dad were exhausted by the time we were done. We ended up in Epcot having a couple cocktails to celebrate :)

Sadie & Anna

Sadie & Ariel

Sadie & Aurora

Sadie & Belle

Sadie & Cinderella

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Sadie & Elsa

Sadie & Jasmie

Sadie & Merida

Sadie & Mulan

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Sadie & Pocahontas

Sadie & Rapunzel

Sadie & Snow White

Sadie & Tiana

Family Selfie

Dinner at California Grille before watching the Fireworks at Disney

BEST.VACATION.EVER.

Reading Sadie

On February 25th, one day just shy of Sadie being 4 1/2, she read her first book all by herself.  We have been working on site words for a while, but Sadie isn't that interested in them.  I got her a set of the "Bob" books while shopping at Costco one day thinking they would be a good starting point.  We read the first one together,and she displayed minimal interest.  I finally dropped the subject of reading for a few weeks, thinking she just wasn't ready or interested.  On the evening of the 25th, I decided to pull out a Bob book, "Hop," that she had not seen yet (I know her tricks of memorizing books).  And to my amazement, she sounded out all the words and read that entire book.  38 words!  I was so excited.  Naturally, I called my mom who then insisted that Sadie read it to her over the phone. Then she had to do the same for my dad.  I got her on video reading part of it.

This is her after she read the book :)

Flash forward 5 weeks and she is on Bob book number 15 and reading faster every day.  So proud of my girl!