Yes, it's true, little sisters want to do everything their big sisters do. Everything, even if the big sister is 11 years older and even if it's HOMEWORK.
Sadie gets in from school and right away she has a little shadow that has been waiting for her all day. She loves her big sis. She wants to be right by her side whether she is washing her hands getting rid of all the nasty school germs, ha-ha!, getting her snack, watching Hannah Montana or whatever. She copies her when she is dancing or doing her dance excersizes going up and down on their toes. They could not have been any closer if we had them closer together in age.
Alexandra looks up to Sadie for everything she does. She wants Sadie's claps and laughter of approval. She will eat things for Sadie that she will refuse to eat for Mommy and Daddy. We have to ask her to do it for Sadie, and in her mouth it goes as Sadie is clapping for her and saying "good girl Lulee". Yes we have stuck with Lulee as her nickname. Long story short, one day I called her Lulee Lutendoodle and Ryan called her Noonie Nutendoodle. Ryan calls her Noonie and the rest of us call her Lulee. Although the other day he admitted to me that Noonie was really more of an infant nickname and he is gradually calling her Lulee as well. Sadie has always been nicknamed bug. I guess because of my fascination with lady bugs, we have our very own Sadie bug. :)
I was cleaning dishes last night and Sadie and Alexandra were at the table doing Sadie's homework. By the way, yes that is an "X" on Alexandra's head, "X" marks the spot. She busted her head Saturday and had a boo boo, which she has been showing everyone. The band-aids have been removed today and there is just a little cut that I'm sure will go away soon.
2 comments:
How cute...The "X" cracks me up, too! Poor kid is like my Chicken, very accident prone! And I think age difference is WHY they're so close. I think if you have them really close together like mine or really far apart like yours they wind up being close. Either because they grow up together or the other one is past the point of getting jealous of everything. Very cute! Love the blog!
I'll never forget how Lulee put us in our place that night, we conferred about taking our first date away from little Lulee and decided what harm could come of it? So we took her to Nanna's house and went to Buffalo's Wild Wings formerly our first "date" location, the Ruby Tuesday in the Madison Square Mall, and we were there long enough to sit down and order our food, when the "Phone Call" came in and we heard that she had fallen on the Coffee Table and that she "may" even need stitches for the "gash" across her beautiful little forehead. We had our not yet delivered food boxed up and we hurried back to Nanna's to find the new "X" on her head. I think Lulee even looked at me as if to say, "yes Daddy that's right, STRIKE ONE". P.S. I love you.
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