My Favorite Hiding Spot

Recently Sophie started hiding behind our recliner/rocker in our living room.  It is the perfect little nook for her to crawl into and take a book, monkey, lambie, or other toys.  She sits in there and just giggles and has a blast.  

 There have even been a few times that I've tried to change her clothes and she's ran to hide behind the chair in just a diaper.  Priceless.

17 Months Going on 17

At 17 months Sophie can build with blocks, put together the peg puzzles, and is doing more interactive play with her baby, farm animals, and her house. She is also more interactive with family and at the sitter's house with the other kids.  She has started singing La la la...which I believe she got from the Muppet Christmas Movie.  Recently she has figure out how to slide down the stairs on her belly- the safe way of course. 

She is starting to try to form sentences when she talks, some sound like sentences others are her own little language.  The first sentence I've heard her say is "I did that!"  She is also starting to assert her independence by saying no.. so far we are able to curb that by counting to 3.  Funny thing is she has learned how to count to three herself..I say "one", and then she says "two"..hard not to laugh...but when I get to three if she has not calmed down or came to me, she gets to sit on my lap and be restrained until she cooperates..normally only takes about two minutes.

As far a food goes the newest development there is dipping her hot dog and meatballs in ketchup. She has also started eating cereal with milk, and is able to get the spoon to her mouth pretty much by herself without making too big of a mess.  She still loves mac n cheese, veggies, and fruit.

The few warm days we've had and been able to be outside she's had an absolute blast...she loves swinging..riding in the jogging stroller and wagon, and playing in our yard and at the park.  Hard to get her back in the house afterwards.

Sophie also had her first official play date last Sunday with our friends from work's daughter Teagan.  Teagan is about six months younger than Sophie, so in another few months they will be more at the same level activity wise and be able to interact more... Sophie loved her though and just called her "baby."

What a zoo...

So the last few months have been a bit of a zoo at our house hence me not posting as often....We have all had sinus infections, Bob had strep throat, Sophie has had a few ear infections.   To say the least we have all been under the weather for nearly a month and with three rounds of antibiotics I think we finally have nipped all of it in the rear.   My job will be changing in August due to some outsourcing, however I will still be working part time in accounting but with every change comes a bit of stress of the unknown.  I am trying to remain positive and look at it as a new opportunity.   We have also decided to put our house back on the market, so lots of upkeep and cleaning weekly, we are wanting to move closer to work, church, and our sitter so we have more time to spend with Sophie.

Last Saturday since the weather was sunny and in the lower 60's we decided to venture out of our own zoo and head out to the real zoo to check out the animals and let Sophie do some playing outside.  She loved the little playground bug area....The slide was her favorite part.  We also got to see the polar bears dive into the water and play with barrels up close.  What an awesome day!!

Eddie The Monster

Recently we DVR'd Imagination Movers in Concert for Sophie to watch.  She loves them in general but during this concert this monster came on stage. His name is Eddie and she was so engrossed in him it was not even funny.  She can even say "Eddie."  The song they sang about Eddie is called "Friendly Guy."  She seems to think he's a friendly guy.  Daddy seems to like the song too...and Sophie gets so excited she spills her milk twice

Pretty Pretty Princess

Last weekend some family friends of Daddy's, along with Grammy and Poppy came to visit the three of us and see our house since they live out of town and we've lived here five years and they never been down our way.   We had a nice lunch and visited and then we took them to see where we plan on building our new house and we went out to dinner.   They brought Sophie a sweet little pink teddy bear and this cute little pretty princess dress.

When I tried it on her to make sure it fit, she twirled and got all excited to have it on.  So daddy grabbed the camera and we got a few snap shots of her.  We think she's going to love to play dress up as she gets a little older.