Sadie

Oh, Sadie.  This little girl can be quite the charmer, and also quite the stinker.  I wanted to record just a couple things she's said that I want to remember:

-One day she was in the kitchen and Shane and Marissa were playing in the playroom and she was trying to get their attention, so she yelled, "Guys, come here!  3, 2, 1... 6, 7, 11... come here now!!! Or I will spank yours bottoms and put you in time out!"

-During one sacrament where Josh was gone and I was big and pregnant and she wanted to sit on my lap, I told her no and she did not like that.  I told her we should think about Jesus during the sacrament and she very loudly said, "No!  I don't love Jesus!"  A few weeks later during the sacrament she said, "Mom, let me whisper something in yours ear.  Do you know that Jesus loves mommy??"

-One day at dinner she was talking about how she wanted to see baby Jesus.  I told her that Jesus is not a baby anymore and he is not on Earth.  She burst into tears and said, "I want to see baby Jesus.  I am NOT okay!"

And so I remember, this picture was taken at Meijer while Marissa was at preschool.  I had gone to the Y and had just enough  time to stop at Meijer before I had to go pick Marissa up (or so I thought).  I told Sadie that if she walked she could ride Sandy after, and she did and I found a shortish line that I thought would give us just enough time.  Well the man in front in the motorized wheelchair was debating with the cashier about whether or not the orange Ajax dishwashing soap qualified for the sale so she had to call about that and when she said no he asked if she could find if they had any of the yellow soap anywhere in the store... it was at that point that I figured I better leave the cart (with sleeping Aaron) there for a second while I let Sadie ride Sandy (which was close and in eyeshot) since there was still a couple in front of me.  As Sadie was riding, the older couple kept looking at me, and I smiled at them and thought they were probably thinking what a cute little girl.  Well as I walked back I realized that Aaron had chosen that moment to wake up and cry... we paid for our things and ran out of there, although somehow missing a gallon of milk I'd  paid for but there wasn't time to run back for it, so I booked it back to preschool and got there just as the last car in the carpool line was pulling up the curb.  And that's a good summary of my life these days:)