Miss Sophie's Latest Tricks

Well, I wanted to include a picture of Sophie's room first for those who haven't seen it. Just this week, I took the bumper pads off though. Another little girl recently broke her arm by falling out of her crib and she's about Sophie's age. So, although it was a sad moment for me, I finally took Sophie's bumper pads off. In the last couple of weeks Paula's Uncle Walter came through Charleston and stayed with us for a couple of nights on his way to Georgia for a kayaking trip. He came back through here on his way home. We had fun spending time with him and showing him around Charleston some. This past Thursday Matt & Paula got to go see Mamma Mia which was really fun. We had front row seats!! The not so fun part was coming home to a crying toddler who had woken up a few hours after going to bed for the babysitter. It turned out that Sophie had an ear infection.

As you can see in the bottom picture, Sophie is trying to carry 2 balls up the stairs. She has gotten to where she really likes carrying lots of things such as a purse, one or two baby dolls, a book or two, etc. I guess she's probably seen her parents try to carry lots of things at one time.

One of the cutest things that Sophie did recently was sing "where is daddy?" complete with hand motions to the tune of "Where is thumbkin?" She loves to sing and make up her own songs.

Sophie is also very proud that her mama has recently set up little potties and stools in our bathrooms. We haven't really begun formal potty training yet but she is very fascinated with her new things.

Also, for the past week or two, Sophie has been saying, "Mama, Daddy, ai-pane (translation-airplane)" We are planning to fly to Cincinnati on Friday and then drive down to Northeastern Kentucky to visit Matt's grandparents and several of his aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Mirror, Mirror, on the wall!

Sophie enjoys performing for her reflection in the mirror. She loves to sing and make motions with her arms. One of her favorite songs to sing with us is still Old MacDonald, except now she will supply the names of the animals that she wants to sing about (Pig, duck, chick, dog and "moo" are her favorites). She often makes up songs with a lot of nonsense jibber jabber too, but they are very melodic :)

Talkative Toddler

We haven't really taken many pictures this week or done anything too exciting but I thought I'd give an update on some of Sophie's latest feats. Each day, Sophie is coming out with more and more new words and it's really exciting. This past week she said "special" and repeated Paula and said "bless you" which was just too adorable. Sophie also got her hair trimmed a few days ago. For the first time, she sat up in the special seat independently. Paula could not believe how well Sophie did because every other time, she's had to sit in her Mommy's lap. What a big girl! Of course, Paula didn't have the camera this time.

We are also trying to get rid of Sophie's pacifier and it is not fun! So far, we are all surviving (after 1 day without the pacifier). (Actually, we cut the tip off of a couple of her pacifiers because we had heard that the child will not want it anymore and that's definitely true! ) We hid all of the "normal" pacifiers.

We'll try to take some pictures soon and post them on here.