One more month...

Until Sophie turns two...unbelievable.  I look at my little girl and where has time gone.  Last week I found myself a little sad when I looked at her and realized that she is not a baby anymore, she's a toddler.

She's a little lady that can walk, talk, run, jump, and is a little drama queen sometimes.  What happened to that little baby girl we brought home from the hospital that weighed a little less than seven pounds.  She is now about 25 pounds and is tall enough to reach the edge of the counter, strong enough to kick a soccer ball, and can talk up a storm.


This too is a really fun/funny age...

She is talking so much more fluently in sentences and I am able to make out a lot more of what she is saying and asking. Her newest words and phrases include...Sorry, Yeah, Not =No, Honey=Funny, ome on =Come On, Sit here.  She's been saying Grammy and Poppy and Mamaw and Papaw and Aaron for months now.   Recently she has added  Michael and Lisa, Becky and Eric and Austin to the mix.

She now is folding her hands and bowing her head when we pray at the dinner table and before bed.  In addition to repeating some of the words.  It is so cute we have a hard time not laughing at her.


Eating habits..
Her eating habits remain about the same, she is trying a few new things.  Some have been successful and some have not.

Potty Training...
For about a month we were doing really well with potty training.  She was going pretty consistently without a doubt.  Now things have slowed up a bit, we are still getting her to sit there but she is not going quite as often, so we've reverted a bit, but with time and patience I'm sure she will be back at it again in no time.



The good thing is she still is a huge snuggly kid...

She climbs into her toy box and cuddles with her stuffed animals, loves to snuggle in bed in between Mommy and Daddy on weekends and in the mornings before we get ready for work.

She loves covering us both us with blankets which usually covers our heads and then she kisses us through the blankets.


With the good comes a little ornariness...
Yes she is not as perfect as we might make her sound like she is.  She has had her fair share of temper tantrums and testing Mommy and Daddy's patience the last month.  We are learning what timeout is and what it means that Mommy and Daddy are the boss.  All very much a learning process for everyone, but life is still good :)

Delaware County Fair

Last night we decided to take Sophie to the fair.  We have lived here over five years and never been and she has never been to a fair period.  So off we went it was a good time had by all.  We walked through all the animal barns..we saw cows, goats, and horses.  The horses were right at the level Sophie could see them and pet them...we really hope she doesn't want one.  

I rode the Carousel with Sophie which she enjoyed once it finally started moving, prior to that we were a little antsy to say the least.

Then off to get some fair food...the fair would not be the fair with out a elephant ear.  Here Sophie and Daddy are munching on the elephants toes...a kid friendly version of the elephant ear.

We walked through a few more buildings and headed home.   We will try it again next year when she is bigger and can withstand walking a bit further.

Fish and Shrimp Festival

This past weekend we spent the day with Grandma and Grandpa at their house celebrating Mommy's birthday.  We opened some gifts and we also headed out to the local fish farm to check out the fish and shrimp festival.

Sophie enjoyed walking along picking up rocks in the driveway 

She also enjoyed the clown and her purple balloon doggie

We saw a mini alligator

A shrimp

A Lobster

And a shark?  Oh wait we won that by tossing balls into a tank.

They had a Jamaican Band and many other types of bands throughout the weekend

Besides the festival we spent a ton of time in the backyard at Mamaw's and Papaw's house.  The swing set is a huge hit.  She loves the little playhouse underneath.  She even talked Papaw into crawling in there with her.  The newest thing was putting some old mail they had through the mail slot near the door.

We kicked the soccer ball around, played with the new tea set Mamaw bought her on the back porch and just hung out the rest of the weekend.  What a perfect fall like weekend weather wise.

A Day in the Sun...

Last weekend we headed down to visit Aunt Becky, Uncle Eric, Austin, and Aaron.  It was such a beautiful day outside so the kids were able to get out and enjoy it.  The adults visited and played too.  We had some lunch from Panera, and took all three kids out for dinner at Max and Erma's and they all behaved and ate like champs.

Here is the construction of Fort Cheney

Okay we need these boxes...some blankets...some chairs...what else do we need Uncle Bob?

Here is the finished product....that's one cool fort boys!

Sophie and Aunt Becky hanging out on the phone

Go Bucks!!

 Over Labor Day weekend, Bob and I went to the Buckeye game while Grandma watched Sophie at our house.   We had a great time.  We left the house around 10 am and headed towards Columbus.  We parked and rode the bus in since the stadium was packed.

Once we got to the stadium we walked around a bit, got some stadium food (aka hotdogs and nachos) and headed to find our seats.  To my surprise when we arrived we had seat backs in the A deck near the tunnel...yes Bob has friends that are alumni so they hooked him up with awesome seats.

Shortly after we sat down the TBDBTL took the field.  For those of you that aren't familiar with this terminology The Best Damn Band in The Land :)  That they are no question about that.

Next came the cheerleaders and the players making their grand entrance.  For those of you who have never been to the game everything and I mean everything is tradition.  Makes me proud to be a Buckeye and be a part of the tradition.  Don't forget the O-H-I-O, Hang on Sloopy, and Script Ohio.

The only glitch in the day was hot it was...in the sun it was close to 100 degrees we drank a ton of water, wore sunscreen and tried to shade ourselves the best we could.

We ended up leaving the beginning of the 4th quarter just because it was so hot and the Buckeyes were kicking Akron's tails.


It was a wonderful day spent with my hubby.

New Hair Do

About two weeks ago we took Sophie to get a haircut.  It was getting to the point it was hard to manage so I told her cut it all one length and give her bangs and this is what we came out of the salon with.  Now she looks more like a toddler and her hair takes me less than five minutes to do in the morning and dry at night before bed.  Now she touches her hair when I'm done and says "cute mommy."  I tell her yes you are cute.  I think she loves her new do.. I know I do.