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This picture didn’t quite capture her reaction, and was so dark I had to lighten it, but it suggests the way Sadie beamed with joy when everyone gathered around and started singing happy birthday after the cake was set in front of her.

Then she was like “okay, I’ll dig in!” Before we got the cake out from in front of her and cut her a slice, she had started painstakingly picking off just the yellow icing that spelled happy birthday.  That is how she eats cake; pick off frosting, color by color, then work on the actual cake.

My mother made the cake, which was really cute, decorated with cookie-based insect decorations.  Sadie made a beeline for it, long before the food was even served (we were early even though that wasn’t our intention), and wanted to start in on it as soon as she caught a glimpse.  It was as if she knew that one was for her.

This was last Sunday, at an end of summer/group birthday party, held in the church cellar because it rained.  There were birthdays for Ryun, Sharon, Martin, Sadie, Marc and Dan.  So Sadie’s was one of three traditional cakes plus an ice cream cake.

Here’s a happy picture of Valerie and Deb…

I’d been feeding Valerie, and here she is trying to squirm off my lap…

Valerie on the loose:

Sadie eating her cake, accompanied by her “rumble truck,” which was a huge hit present.  Pull the string and the truck rumbles and vibrates.  Sadie learned to work it readily, having not really had a string pull toy before.  Funny thing is, Valerie taight herself how to work it just yesterday, which I wouldn’t have expected.  Then again, Valerie figured out this morning that she could tunnel between shower curtain and tub when in the shower with me.  Sadie never did that.  Then again, Sadie didn’t get to hang out in the tub during showers at that age.

Speaking of Sadie, looking back, I see I never posted about her checkup!  That was Tuesday the 3rd.  No shots this time, but it was still torture.  Except the part where they pricked her finger to do glucose and hemaglobin tests; that was fascinating.

The nurse, the same young and reticent one who didn’t get a good neasurement of Valerie, got a height that was way off.  I measured later, got a reasonably certain 34 inches, and that was what the doctor went by.  It’s dead on 50th percentile.  And is of great interest in the context of the “half of adult height at two” rule of thumb.  The nurse called her weight 26 1/2 lbs.  The digital scale said 26.2.  Her head was 50 centimeters.  Besides the 50th percentile on height, I guess weight is between 25th and 50th, and head circumference is off the charts above 100th.

The doctor suggested, to the point of writing it on a prescription form, that we get her high white last shoes, “like the old Buster Browns they don’t make anymore,” to encourage her feet to point straight.  Which is funny, because she’s still on her way to that going away on its own, the way the orthopedic specialist said it would, and we love it when they suggest we spend money we can’t afford that is of questionable necessity.  Oh well.

It was weird leaving there without making another appointment, but if the next one is a year out, then yeah, they wouldn’t line up that far ahead.  But then they forgot to send us to the lab for other blood tests that were due that nobody mentioned, so now one of us has to take her back to see the vampires.

Here’s a fuzzy attempt at getting a picture of both kids with their great grandmother, with great-great granddaughter Emily roaring into the picture:

Good one of Valerie and her great-grandmother:

Nose!

Sadie loves grapes.  She ate the entire bunch except a couple I took.  The only problem in giving her grapes is she wants to share with Valerie, and for Val they have to be peeled and cut so she won’t choke.

Queen Valerie surveys her domain…

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