Princess Sadie

I am so behind on posting so I am attempting to catch up this week! Several weeks ago Sadie and I watched the Royal Wedding together. I had DVRed it so we could watch it Saturday morning while Matt took the boys to Wyatt's baseball pictures. So we made some tea and scones, used my good china and sat in our pajamas and watched away.
Sadie was amazed that we were watching a 'real princess' wedding and loved every moment of it. Afterwards, she asked if I would tie her blankie around her so she could have a 'dress that touches the floor' (i.e, a train).

Later on that day, Sadie began asking me more questions about weddings and dresses and asked if I had a 'dress that touches the floor' and a veil. I told her that I had my wedding dress upstairs in my closet and her eyes just lit up. It was as if she looked at me and said, "There has been a wedding dress in my house all these years and you never told me?" She was beyond excited as we went upstairs and I got the box out of my closet and opened it up.

I didn't let her try the dress on (although she wanted to), but I did let her wear the veil and she was grinning from ear to ear. Just beaming! She walked around with her blankie tied on her waist and wearing the veil, pretending to be a princess. She even got in our master bathroom tub and pretended it was her carriage. I am telling you, she watched every single detail of that Royal Wedding and was replicating it in our house!

She wanted Wyatt to pretend to be the prince but he wasn't having it.....not one bit!

After Sadie had walked around in my veil for awhile, I realized that the kids had never seen our wedding DVD. (Now I have to say that this was one of those moments where I was so thankful to have listened to the advice of other people when I was planning my wedding. I really didn't care about a DVD of our wedding at all and it seemed like a waist of money at the time, but we had a videographer do it and in this moment, I couldn't have been more thankful. I realized that this moment was why I had a DVD of our wedding.....the look on my 4 year old daughters face as she anticipated seeing her Daddy and Mommy getting married was so precious and I loved being able to show it to her.)

So Matt, Wyatt, Sadie and I (Blake was sleeping) watched our wedding DVD and it was actually really fun. The kids got to see our wedding day and all the people who were there. They made several comments about who looked different, who looked the same and how they thought Matt and I had changed.....sweet kids said I looked the same and Daddy looked the same but he used to have a lot more hair! It was entertaining, fun and a really special time we got to spend with our kids. And if I hadn't listened to my mother and gotten the DVD, we never would have had that time together. So thanks Mom!!