Milestones

We’ve hit a couple big milestones for us and all unexpectedly in the last week.  The first.

Sadie taught herself how to ride a bike with no training wheels!  This girl is always surprising me and this was quite the surprise.  I went off to the General Relief Society broadcast Saturday night and was surprised Sunday after church with Sadie demonstrating how she can ride her bike!  Apparently Ryan was busy working in the garage meanwhile Sadie was busy testing out her bike.  We have learned this year that Sadie learns best when she figures it out on her own.  We can try all we want to teach her something, but until she decides she can do it she will fight learning how to do it.  However, once she does realize it is something she can do she’ll teach her self surprisingly quickly. 

The next milestone was Kindergarten!!  We had applied for Landmark a charter school that is peanut free that we REALLY, REALLY wanted her to get into, but she was way back on the waiting list so we didn’t think she’d get in this year and were content to try again next year.  Which is when we really wanted her to go anyway.  She’s an Aug. birthday so she’d be young for her age and we wanted one more year with our little one before sending her off to the big world of school, school, school.  Last week we got a call from the school that she got it!  Sadie was more than thrilled about the prospects of going to Kindergarten and I was so relieved that she was in and I didn’t have to worry about sending her off to a peanut infested school!  No offense to you peanut eaters, but this was such a relief!  No more worrying about peanut laced hands on the playground…..drinking fountain…..tables…..and everywhere else!!

Aw!  Such a cutie.  I can’t believe this sweet girl is big enough to go to Kindergarten all by herself!

A while back Sadie was asking me when she would go to Kindergarten and I never knew what to tell her……maybe this year (if she got into Landmark….) maybe next year.  Who knows.  We’ll have to just wait and see.  She then said, Mom, is it because I can’t drive??  That gave me a good laugh. 

Piper’s monster

One of Piper’s funny little quirks is that she likes to imitate sounds, facial expression, and actions of people, animals and random things .  It’s usually pretty comical.  For example, she told me she heard a [insert coyote howl repeatedly] in her bed and it scared her.  We have a bunch of coyotes that live in the field behind our house and we frequently hear them howling in the wee hours of the night.  Yesterday she started telling me a story of what she heard in her bed last night with all of her funny sound effects. Here’s her story in her own words.

Piper:  “In my bed my hear maam maan maan [a chewing noise].  At night time I a bonk bonk bonk [stomping her feet]  in my bed.”

Me:  Oh my what was it?

Piper:  “ He has blue eyes and no shirt on him.  He has a hat on him.  He so scary.  He says maan maan maan and bonk bonk in my bed.  The monster scares me [insert the cutest shivery scared look].

Me:  That sure sounds like a scary monster Piper! 

Piper:  “He scares me!”

This conversation lasted several minutes with lots of acting out of this super scary monster and lots of repeating of what he looked like in her halting speech.  This is one of my favorite conversations Piper and I have had.  If only I caught it on video!  Piper has the cutest way of talking.  Talking has not come easy to this girl.  She has struggled to get her point across ever since she learned her very first words.  Words that only she understood.  She thinks about each word before she says it and pauses after each one making one cute choppy sentence.  Thankfully just recently she has gotten a lot easier to understand which equals a LOT less frustration on her part and a LOT happier momma on my part.