One Year Check-up...

Perfectly healthy...well, almost. Sophie has another ear infection and ROSEOLA!! Icky!! She's feeling much better now and is back to her old self...playing with her mounds of toys, stealing Sampson's toys and poking at Owen's teeth. She weighs only 20lbs and is 27 1/2 inches long. A petite little thing but her Doc thinks she might hit a growth spurt soon. First round of shots were given [the other two will be given at 15 months] and a CBC to check her blood count. Of course, this part of any doctors visit is least fun but she was all smiles when I pulled out a Nilla Wafer. POOF...No more tears! [for me too!]





No new major milestones to report since last post. We are working on sign language and have been for about a week. So far Sophie has learned the signs for "more, food, please and finished". She's got another tooth coming in so the total count is up to EIGHT already!! But don't go sticking your finger in her mouth to feel around for more...you may not get your finger back!! OUCH!




Hope everyone has a great weekend! Love.

Happy Birthday!!!...

Princess Sophie turns ONE YEAR OLD!!!




Mickey CD

She opened lots of presents from all her family and friends. Then, of course, DEMOLISHED a cupcake with lots of icing!! Our fellow LUBBOCK-ite friends helped sing and blow out her candle. Thanks to everyone for calling to wish her a Happy Birthday and bringing/sending all the wonderful gifts. We can't thank everyone enough for all you do to help make the day of our little girl.


Karch and Cree helping blow the candle out







Lots of love to everyone reading and thanks again to The Crawford Family for celebrating with us!! Lastly...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOPHIE LEIGH!!!

12 Months...

Sheesh...One year old!!! Mike and I can hardly believe this day is actually here. Sophie is just a true blessing in our lives and she makes us smile everyday. It's so hard not to love this child more and more everyday.



So let's see...Sophie just cut her 7th tooth today [or yesterday but I noticed this afternoon]. She LOVES bread, cheese, yogurt and bananas. Not sure how much she weighs these days but we'll find out next Wednesday at her year check-up so I'll get back on that one. Still a dancing queen who loves to head-bang and wave her arms in the air. She's a crawling monster and has recently discovered how to make it up the stairs!! [Note to self...if you hear an evil laugh...run for the stairs because she's probably half way to the top!!]







She loves to make you laugh in any way possible and loves watching Owen chase his mice around the house. She can pull up on anything and everything. She's even been pretty brave hanging on with only one hand!!! When reading books she must be the "page-turner" and her stuffed animals get the sweetest "lovies" I've ever seen!! She loves to give me and Mike hugs and will snuggle up to watch her favorite show, The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.





Wow...one year down with the sweetest and most beautiful little person!! Many more years to come and we can't wait!!

Love, love, love!!!

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...