Happy St. Patty's Day!

Walk for the Animals

Once again this year, we will be participating in the Animal Humane Society Walk for the Animals.

If you are interested in sponsoring us, you can see our personal site and donate online HERE.

I designed a shirt for Sophia to wear at the walk. See it HERE!

Here is a pic of the three of us (four! I was four months pregnant with Sophia!) at the 2006 walk.

And the Oscar goes to...

Our "baby" is officially a toddler!

As of Monday morning, Sophia will officially be in the toddler room at her center. It was only 12 short months ago that she was a 4-month-old baby and I had to drive to the center every 2.5 hours to feed her. I honestly cannot believe how quickly the past year as gone.

She's running all over the place now. And is turning into quite the monkey -- always trying to climb up on everything. I had to take her Anywhere Chair away yesterday, because she kept standing on it and I was afraid she would fall. I carried it into the dining room and she said. "Che. Ah-gone." Yes, Sophia, the chair is all gone :-)

Which leads me to her other big advancement: her vocabulary. The kid is talking up a storm! Just to get it documented, I'm going to try to list all of her words here. Warning: This could be long and boring!

hi
bye/buh-bye
no
all done
milk
all gone
uh-oh
baby
Nelly
ball
chair
up
tree
cheese
blanket (she says bank)
more
juice
shoe
Dora
Mickey
Elmo (she calls him Mo)
sleep
mom
dad

That's all I can think of right now. I'll add more later.


And here are some new pics!

stylin' at mommy's work:


looking good in her Dora outfit:


Reading, her favorite thing to do!

Happy New Year!

December was an insane month around our house. Sophia is walking all over the place and has recently started "running" to get away from me. She only takes one nap a day, and I use that time to do stuff around the house (or take a nap myself!) and haven't been able to get on the computer much. We're going to get a laptop this year, so I can be online and supervising playtime at the same time. But, until then, these posts are going to be few and far between. And, since I know you all just come to this blog to see pictures, here are some new ones!

Sophia's first snowfall! (This is the only picture where she is happy. It went quickly downhill from here.)



See...


More pics to come!

Busy, busy!

Sorry it's been a while since I posted last. Sophia figured out how to walk (yay!), but it is keeping us VERY busy. I don't get much time on the computer these days. Here are some recent pics of the peanut.

Mmm...jelly


Cutest outfit. Ever.


She's too fast for my camera!

1 year professional pictures

Here's a LINK to a photo album I created with pictures from Sophia's 1-year photo shoot.

Here are a couple of my favorites:










These were all taken by Ben Saefke Photo