School days...

We recently signed Sophie up for a music class in Apex. She will attend every Tuesday morning to learn the drums!! First class was this morning and she rocked it!! Singing and dancing, although still pretty shy...she had a blast! Wish I could have taken pictures but teacher [Ms. Erica] is pretty fast pace so it was merely impossible...SHUCKS!

For Aunt Jen and Uncle Chachie...We thought you might like to see the progress Princess Sophie has made for your upcoming nuptials in March...



As you can tell she's pretty proud along with her Mom and Pop!!!

Love to everyone!!

Eleven Months...

Little Sophie girl turned 11 months old Sunday. She's got such a cute personality and a smile that melts your heart. Over the Christmas holiday she cut her top two front teeth and we're awaiting another two in the coming days. She's been quite the explorer crawling around getting into EVERYTHING! She LOVES bread [of all food?!?!] and drinking anything [by herself] with a straw. She's discovered her nose which is cute to us...but others around may be grossed out seeing her with her finger up her nose! She knows the word "No" and shakes her head at you...smarty pants!! She still loves music and dancing to any tune. She makes kissing noises and is quite the copy-cat!!!



She likes to be chased around and is ALWAYS smiling. When she's hurt...barely a tear! She's a tough one and totally independent...with a touch of a shy side. Just the sweetest little being who loves to have fun!! Hard to believe she will be a year old next month...[sigh].





Sophie had her very first E.R. visit last week [New Year's Eve]. She was deadly sick with a cold and stomach virus, on top of teething. She ran fever off and on and couldn't keep anything down so the clinic advised us to take her in case of dehydration. Luckily, she wasn't too bad off and we were able to take her home with just antibiotics...PHEW!! I don't think Mike and I would have been prepared for anything more!!



We want to congratulate Kris and Erin on their marriage celebration last weekend!! We had a blast and wish we could have stayed longer. Sophie wore herself out dancing to all the music!! Can't wait to see you soon...have a FANTASTIC honeymoon in COSTA RICA!!!!!

Lots of love to everyone reading and HAPPY 2010!!!!

HO, HO, HO...

Vacation started December 11th...we drove the many hours to Texas and arrived on the 13th. We were so excited to see our family and friends!! Sophie had SEVERAL Santa visits at multiple locations and received so many gifts she can't decided what to play with first. She had so much fun playing with her Uncles, Aunts and Cousins I'm not sure how she is going to react when we get back home!! It'll be very quiet and lonely after being gone for 25 days!




Christmas morning


Merry Christmas!!

Aunt Jen and I made LOTS of yummy holiday treats and Sophie LOVED being the taste tester of the batter. She knew exactly what was in those bowls by the end of the day and people who know her will understand when I say her "pointer finger" was going CRAZY!!

Lots of SNOW came down in Lubbock and it was very COLD!! Sophie liked watching her uncles slide down the snow mound and tried to catch snow flakes in her hand.





Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!!! Love.

HUGE update...

Sophie is CRAWLING!!! Check her out in action...[of course, I had to bribe her with the remote]. She even does her "Scary Monster" voice for you...

Ten Months...

Gee whiz...10 months old today!! Sophie is still sick and we were just informed by her doctor that she has a left ear infection and a cold...ICKY!! Poor thing is so tired from lack of sleep and can barely breathe with all those boogies. Doc says her top gums are very swollen too, so teething can also be causing some pain. Kid can't get a break this week!!



On a lighter note...She weighs 19 pounds and learned to drink from a STRAW!!! No crawling but she is a rolling champ and can still get to whatever she sets her eyes on, only it takes her a little longer. She's seen her first snow fallings in Dallas yesterday morning and LOVES Christmas lights! We'll definitely drive her around the neighborhood soon to check out all the houses with lights. CHRISTMAS count down has begun and were already preparing for our L-O-N-G drive back to Texas [December 11th] for the remainder of the year. BE ADVISED...The LEARY'S are coming to TEXAS, again!!! Looking forward to seeing all our family and friends!!!

My new cleaning lady...



Take care everyone reading and have a great weekend! Love.

Gobble, Gobble...

We're finally home after a very long week back in TEXAS!! Had a fabulous time visiting with family and eating LARGE portions of some great food. Sophie spent many hours playing with her cousins Reagan and Mason, and totally took to the Thanksgiving tradition of eating until you're sick. She was a bottomless-pit eating from the time we got on the plane until we landed back home.


Little Peanut


Story time with Daddy [or Mikey]


Cute Mason Man


Super cool Reagan replica


Meet up with the Percival Family, in Arlington Tuesday evening, only to eat more delicious food. [Combined total weight of the Leary peeps is probably somewhere around 500lbs.] Sophie and I also got to meet sweet little Gracie who shared her toys so nicely. And who knows...maybe we'll become neighbors someday...LOL!!

Unfortunately, Sophie Monster has come down with a cold or really bad allergies...her FIRST sickness in her whole ten months of living. So sad, she looks terrible with her runny nose and saggy eyes but she's such a trooper...always in good spirits, smiling and laughing. Doc visit tomorrow...to be continued...



Hope everyone reading had a HAPPY THANKSGIVING. Special thanks to our family and friends for letting us bunk up in their homes while we were visiting. Love, love, love.

Tis the Season...

The Raleigh Christmas Parade kicked off the holiday season this morning. Much larger show than expected and was great fun seeing old vintage cars and trucks, huge balloons, marching bands, all kinds of floats and cartoon characters. Sophie was all bundled with her leaf, yes a LEAF, in tow. [she found a fallen leaf and DID NOT want to "leaf it behind"...haha...okay, okay...I never claimed to be a comedian..SHEESH!] Anywho - we stayed for nearly two hours and finally felt cold enough to head back to the truck to thaw. Sophie had a BLAST!













Happy Weekend to everyone reading!! Love.

GO RED RAIDERS!!!