5 reasons to love Sadie

V-day has been a little wild here. Heart shaped pancakes for breakfast, Valentines for the kids form us, school for Ellie, the gym for Sadie, Nate and me. Then I ran home and got Nate ready for a party and me ready to do Ellie's class thing. Got home and found that Sadie had systematically destroyed the house while I was gone. That cute little green and yellow pot is usually full of 3o or 4o pink daisies. Not today.

So in honor of all the things crazy things she's done this week, here are 5 more reasons to love Sadie.

1. Sadie loves the piano. She loves to play it, but mostly she prefers to climb on it.

2. Sadie also loves shoes, especially pulling all of them out of the closets and shoes cupboards. While most babies Sadie age are just learning to walk, Sadie has mastered walking in my high heels. Her best trick is opening the cupboard under the sink by the garage door and then putting all of the shoes in front it so that it is impossible to get in from the garage.

3. She is also really great at climbing on the furniture and trying to jump off of it. The other day she thought maybe she should try to get off the couch by going over the arm of it. Once she was hanging there, she decided that it was a little bit too far of a drop and spent the next 5 minutes trying to swing herself back onto the couch. She was successful!

4. Another talent of Sadie's is climbing onto the bathroom counter. The bathroom door must be shut at all times because Sadie will go get a stool, put it up to the toilet, climb on the seat of the toilet, then climb onto the back of the toilet and cross over onto the counter. She has also figured out how to turn on the water in the sink. Usually we can keep her out of harms way, but sometimes Nate will go to the bathroom and I won't even know and sure enough -- the door is left open.

5. And last but not least. . . Because Sadie knows just where to go when Mom is cleaning. For the last week I kept finding little brownish red streaks on the floor. I would mop and later in the day they would appear again. Basically I was mopping twice a day to get rid of these weird streaks. I checked everyone's shoes, the bottoms of Nate's cars and trains. . . could not figure out what was making these darn streaks appear. So finally one day I'm mopping and I turn around to find fresh streaks where I had just mopped. The only thing following along beside me -- Sadie. So I pick her up to look at the bottom of her feet. Her big toes each had little cracks on them and were bleeding, poor baby! Everywhere she went, she was leaving little streaks of blood. A little intensive lotion therapy and some socks and I no longer have to mop the floor multiple times a day.

And in case you're wondering Sadie just wears PJs all day, the answer is no. I get her dressed about 1 in the afternoon. And then we strip her down at night because she insists on feeding herself.