Random January Happenings

Here are some pictures of January. I'm trying to catch up! Sophie carrying her baby in her sling. Please note diaper bag as well.
Daddy's gloves go on your feet...didn't you know??!

Picnic in the living room with Caleb.

She walks around and says, "eeerrrrrrrssssssss" in this really screechy voice. Translation: "Where is Sophie?" I think she gets stuck on the "ere" of Where and "is".

Helping Mommy with the trash. She is such a good little helper!

LATE!! But it's something...right??!

Well, Christmas has come and gone, along with New Year's, MLK, President's Day, Valentine's Day...

And I'm just now getting around to posting pictures. I'm such a slacker. So, brace yourself. There are a lot of pictures. And, of course they are in no order - sometimes I get so frustrated with the blogger thing - it won't let me upload more than 5 at a time and it's in backwards order and blah, blah, blah. So, you see my frustration and why I sometimes protest and wait days (or months) to blog??

Here is the how Christmas ended - Sophie wearing a new hoodie, talking on her phone and pushing Baby in his/her stroller.Matt's family came for a couple of days after Christmas. Sophie got a new, noisy phone, among other fun things. Like, chocolate!

In case you forgot, it snowed a bajillion inches in Oklahoma on Christmas Eve. It stayed on our yard for about 2 weeks!

These pictures are from Clinton with my dad's family.

She loves the camera

and holding babies.

These are from Christmas Day at my parent's house. Soph got a "real-life"baby. It cries and eats and sucks a pacifier. Thank Goodness it doesn't poop.

new shoes!

Sophie helped me decorate a Christmas tree to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Our family Christmas picture

"Helping" me decorate gingerbread cookies

We had our friends Lauren and Min-Jung over for a "friend Christmas". They are getting their Masters at OCU. They had a lot of fun opening gifts from some of our friends.

Santa came!!

Baby doll stroller and farm puzzle.

Sophie made dada a mug

She had a fun time and we are so blessed with lots of family to spend the holidays with!

18 months!!

I can't believe it, can you?? She's such a big girl! We went to the Dr. this morning and it was awful!! Sophie screamed as soon as he walked in the door and didn't stop until he left. We didn't even do shots! He said everything looks good; she's 31 1/2" (50 %), 22.8# (25%), and head circumference is in the 95%! I have a prissy, petite girl with a noggin!
Miss Independent likes to do thing her way.

I.E. yogurt all over her dress from feeding herself and screaming when I tried to help.

We had a 1 1/2 year celebration with s'mores. And I quote Sophie, "MMMMM".

Ready for Christmas

Sophie helped me decorate gingerbread cookies the other day. She quit helping after the first bite of sugary goodness.

We also like to spend a lot of time in our pajamas...

Like Da da

Sophie grabbed Da da's hat the other day and jumped on her car. She's turned in to a BIGTIME daddy's girl recently. Actually, it's Ga ga's girl. She's having a hard time with "d"s, but I don't think Ga ga minds one bit!

Busy morning

A few days ago Sophie experienced a busier morning than usual...which is pretty hard to do. She's on the move all the time unless she's sleeping. Anyway, her friend Naomi was over for a visit and Sophie wanted to preach the Word. Naomi loved it! She laid there and smiled and cooed at Sophie while she flipped through the pages of her Bible and jibber-jabbered. It was one of the cutest moments of Sophie's life. Then, she placed her babies on the chair and preached to them.

They were such a good audience. After that, she built a tower. The tallest she's ever built. It was pretty impressive.

Another first for the day was smiling when I would say "smile". She did it several times and thought it was quite funny. This was one of the most authentic smiles she had. Isn't she a doll!!

A "sweet" time in Arkansas

We spent a few days in Arkansas with Matt's family for Thanksgiving. While we were there Sophie was able to indulge in a few new things. Cream cheese frosting from our birthday carrot cake. She only stuck her finger in it 4 times.
We were working on "turkey" cookies for Thanksgiving. I couldn't even get the M&Ms on for eyes without Sophie snatching them. She also loved the feathers...

We made a purchase before we left for the 8 hour drive. Sophie was able to watch her Praise Baby on the drive, and it was such a nice time. No screaming or yelling or trying to get out of her car seat or headache. It was sweet!!! The funny thing about the pictures is that she's wearing her daddy's boxers. She thought she was something else!

Sophie also had her first taste of hot chocolate. It was more like luke-warm, but she loved it!

Halloween

I'm only 1/2 a month late on posting. Why do my days go by so fast??

The cute little answer:
We attended Haunt the Zoo and stood in line a long time. Then we walked through the zoo really fast because Sophie was tired and cranky. So here is a picture of us in line.

Still standing in line. Her favorite part of the night was seeing Chick-fil-a cows and this crazy bird. She kept giving him high-5's and laughing, then putting her hands over her eyes (because that's what you do when you're hiding). It was really cute!

Yum-Yum!!

Sophie is a pretty picky eater, but the other day she wasn't picky at all!! She loved her spaghetti! We've offered it to her multiple times, but just recently she's decided to like it. It's a lot of fun to watch, but not so much to clean up - at least she's eating!