More Pics

Here is some more pics of Sophie having fun!


Grandma has taught her how to do "huge bites"....I guess she took that literally. (By the way that it is a big piece of garlic bread)

Sophie is totally obessesed with changing diapers. She even gets her stuffed animals involved..see how she laying JUMBO out to get his diaper changed....with the diaper and wipes nearby.

She has discovered this game on Grandma's couch...doing circles..it is a leather couch and makes her hair stand straight up!

Bubbles are a favorite in our house. We have the bubbles from Gymboree....the last a while and always stick in her hair.

Christmas Time

Here are a few pictures from Christmas Time this year.

I think Sophie wanted to be the present. All morning she was sitting in and on boxes, even unopened Christmas Presents.

Sophie did not know what to do with herself and all the new toys. She got a new table and chairs (above) but spent most of the morning pushing her new dolly in her shopping cart back and forth from the kitchen to the living room while the rest of us opened more presents.

The aftermath!

Sorry these are in backwards order. This is from Christmas eve when Grandma tried to explain the nativity story to Austin and Sophie. Sophie just reorganized the nativity figures on the couch.

This is after we opened the snappers! This is the first bow ever placed in Sophie's hair. It didn't last very long.

The only attempt at sitting on Santa's lap this year came with help from Grandpa. Even with Grandpa it was "unpleasant" for Sophie. (She only ever would wave from a distance when she anything resembling a Santa Claus, otherwise if IT got to close we would start whimpering)

Grandpa helped Sophie discover what a sled was during a snow storm.

A good old face plant in the snow after Grandpa tried to take the sled up an embankment (OK not really, just a few inches higher from where he had shoveled the snow off the sidewalks)

Playing in the snow with cousin Austin.

We are Still Alive!

.....Sorry it has been so long since I last blogged....I looked today it was exactly Nov 2nd. Ooops!! I don't really have any excuses except that I hated going to use our computer in the study because it was so messy.....I had not unpacked a lot of things.....but I fixed that today! I've decided to try to do a few pictures of the family over the next few days. I want to show you what we have been up to lately.

Sophie is now 20 months, talking like there is no tomorrow...even singing phrases in songs. She keeps me on my toes. Generally, Sophie is a healthy child but in January, the sickies finally caught up to us. She had Roseola (fever, rash) followed by a major cold. But we are all doing better...I have found time to blog so I hope you will enjoy the pictures I'm going to share. I'll be sure to keep posting the next few days.

Sophie still loves to stack things. She really is into mostly making piles of books. She will say the title of the book, flip through it stopping at certain pages where she knows certain objects and then put the book into a pile. She can sit and do this for a long time....sometimes she insists on "mommie sit" with her to watch.....in my mind I wish I could be getting something done around the house.

Thanksgiving picture of the family.

I inserted this picture to share with you my own "I know I am doing a good thing"....."but then something doesn't quite go right" story. This is Sophie's lion. It USED to have a big beautiful mane, then I washed it in the washing machine...which was OK....the mistake was putting it in the dryer...OOPS....now it is Lion with a FRO!

Sophie's first day of starting Nursury. Bryce and I were excited....(except that I am called to the nursury, but not to Sophie's class.....we have 4 nursury classes in our ward). We started off a little rough, but things are getting better. Last week in fact, she didn't cry at all....the last hour she was telling her teachers "poopie diaper".....she didn't have one until the very end of church (I guess she knew it was coming:)

Sophie was introduced to the riding shopping cart car by Grandma at home Depot. Home Depot was OK because the isles are big enough.. (I hate them at regular grocery stores and luckily Sophie hasn't noticed them yet!)