11 Months

My sweet baby girl will be ONE next month! I'm in disbelief about how fast this time has gone. Here's what the Little Miss has been up to this past month:

*You weigh about 18 pounds

*You wear a size 3 diaper, 9 month onsies & dresses, 3-6 or 6-9 month shorts/skirts/etc, and a size 2 shoe. You are super petite.

*You still take 4 six ounce bottles a day. You eat baby food between bottles & love to snack. You are beginning to eat more table food. You love: blueberry pancakes, green beans, graham crackers, quesadillas, cheese, and some other stuff.

*You still have only 2 teeth. You have been working on 2 or 3 on top, but they are coming in very slowly. You have been a champ with teething, sweet girl!

*You had a double ear infection, but Aunt Sarah got you into the dr. on his day off & got you fixed right up! You love taking medicine, so that was no biggie ; )

*You aren't doing your grass-leg-thing much anymore. It was way cute while it lasted, though!

*You are cruising around all over the place. You get around by cruising from one piece of furniture to another. You will walk if you are holding on to someone's fingers, your walker toy, or anything object you can push around the room (toy totes, large toys, etc.) You are beginning to stand up for long periods of time if someone lets go of your hands. I think walking is right around the corner!

*You say: momma, dadda, kitty, amen, tank-to (thank you), baby, bye (with a drastic southern drawl ; ) and you talk non-stop in your own Sophia language. You often point at whatever you are talking about and we just pretend we know what you are saying = )

*Bedtime is still around 7:00 and you wake up around 6:00. You aren't going back to sleep after your morning bottle lately....I'm going to try to change that when school is out. I don't want to get up for the day at 6, okay?! Summer is for sleeping in!!

*The only entertainment you really need are books and music. You LOVE looking through your books & "reading" them to yourself. You point at the pictures, jabber nonstop, and give the animals on the pages kisses. You will also stop and dance anytime you hear music...on a commercial, a cell phone ringing, dance recital, anything!


<~~ Checking out what the Easter Bunny brought

<~~Not so sure about hard boiled eggs

<~~You have discovered your bows & don't like keeping them in your hair!

<~~ Too tired to finish eating!

<~~My first Mother's Day. I love my family!

<~~Being a big girl at Kacie/Karsyn's baby shower.

<~~Walking with Kayley

<~~Such a big girl in your new chair! (It's a birthday present, but I couldn't wait to let you use it!)

<~~You are the best thing that has ever happened to us! Your daddy and I love you SO MUCH!!!

10 months

Sophia, you are now to the double digits! 12 months is coming way too fast! Here's what you are up to at 10 months:

*You weigh a little over 17 pounds.

*You wear a size 3 diaper and mostly 6-9 month clothes. The main three pairs of shorts you wear are a size 3 month! You are a petite girl!

*You still have 2 teeth. I don't see any more on their way just yet.

*You do this odd thing whenever you are playing in the grass: you sit with one of your legs in the air. I thought it was just a fluke, but you do it every single time! It's usually your left leg, but you've done the right leg, too. It's so cute!

*You are a super fast crawler. You have been pulling up on all the furniture and cruising down it. You are beginning to hold onto someone's hand/fingers and walk around. I found you standing in your crib, not holding onto anything, a few days after you turned 10 months.

*You LOVE to jabber. I think you just like to hear yourself "talk" and you can get pretty loud doing it!

*You are beginning to give "fives" in addition to all the other things you like to do: clap, wave, kiss, head-butt, blow kisses, dance, etc.

*You drink six 4 ounce bottles a day and eat baby food 3x a day. You also like to eat solids: blueberry pancakes, beans, rice, fruit, and whatever else we share from our plates.

*You still go to bed around 7:00/7:30, wake up at 6:00 to eat, and go back down until I wake you up at 7:00 to get dressed & leave for Ms. Cain's.

*You absolutely light up our lives! I cherish every moment I have with you and your daddy definitely adores you!

**Your friend Isabel was born April 21. She's a cutie! Congratulations Ashley & JT! I can't wait to snuggle her!

Now some pictures of my baby:
<~This is your "stinky face"

<~ I love going in your room and seeing you all snuggled up sleeping & watching you wake up

<~Those eyelashes and cheeks just about do me in!

<~The leg thing you do....

...again

<~Checking our your Easter gift from Memaw & Poppy. You loved the Peeps! (mean mommy only let you have half of one ;) This time your right leg is up...

...and now your left!


<~Finally using your highchair...we used the Bum.bo forever since you are so tiny. You love your highchair, though!

You got to dye Easter eggs

and you thought it was pretty neat!


<~ We had such a busy & fun day (the day before Easter seeing family, running errands, dying eggs, etc) that we forgot to take your monthly picture until bedtime! Oops!

Spring Break

Well, Spring Break was a few weeks ago, but I'm finally getting around to posting about it. We had a great week! Sophia and I spent the first few days just hanging around the house and spending some quality time together. Jeff took Friday off and we headed up to Tulsa after he got off work Thursday afternoon. (First we did some fast-and-furious work in the den....more on that later.) We spent Thursday evening chilling in the hotel room and swimming in the indoor pool. Sophia LOVED swimming. We stayed up way past her bed time because we just couldn't make her get out of the pool to go to bed!

Staying in a hotel room with an infant was an adventure for us. We set the pack & play up next to my side of the bed and Sophia wasn't very happy about having to be in it while mommy & daddy were all still awake. We wound up having to turn the TV off & go to bed at 9:00 ourselves just so she would go to sleep. I didn't want to let her cry herself to sleep because I didn't want to bother the neighbors. We also had to decide if the toilet really needed to be flushed in the middle of the night. It was either wake the baby up or, well, ya know. Moving on...

We got up Friday morning, ate breakfast at the hotel (Sophia ate 2 powdered donuts & a waffle...hey, it's vacation!), got dressed, and headed to the zoo. It was supposed to be a chilly day but it wound up being gorgeous! Sophia loved all the animals. I think she enjoyed the people watching as much as she enjoyed the animals. She's definitely my girl! She was so good and just took it all in. I just love watching her little mind at work. After the zoo we headed to the hotel for a nap before dinner. We went to the Cheese.cake Fact.ory for dinner. YUM! I'm glad we don't have one around here....we'd be broke! Sophia ate quite a bit of Jeff's Jamaican Black Pepper Shrimp...she preferred it over her baby food. Smart girl ; ) After we got back to the hotel, we spent some more time at the pool. I think we will be spending a lot of time this summer swimming at her Gigi & Papa's house!

We slept in Saturday morning & got our stuff together & headed to the mall. It was freezing and windy. We wandered through the mall & headed home to work on the den. It was a nice little getaway and we enjoyed our first "vacation" as a family of 3!

Now, the good part....pictures!!

Not too sure about the goats...

she finally warmed up to them and tried to climb all over them!

that was one fat bunny!

ready to go to the pool!

our little fish!

I LOVE how their faces are the same in this pic!



she also loved to scream/yell and hear herself echo/amplified in the pool room. Thankfully we were the only ones in the pool

I just love this girl!


Family picture before dinner. I'm married to a lumberjack apparently. I don't miss that beard/big hair...at all

her face cracks me up! Already tired of the camera


My happy girl!

She knows the cheesecake is good! (No, she didn't get any...it had peanut butter ; )

9 months

Sophia Faith, you are 9 months old! Holy moly! Here's what you have been up to:

*You weigh 16 lbs 11 oz and are 28 inches tall. That's 50% for weight and 75% for height. I forget the measurements of your head, but it is 50% so it's not too big ; )

*You are STILL in a size 2 diaper. We have 2 jumbo boxes of size 3s waiting patiently in the closet. You have a teeny-tiny waist & booty

*You wear 6-9 month clothing. You still need 6 months for pants/skirts/etc.

*You have 1 full tooth and one currently cutting through. You have been a champ with the teething process. A few ice cubes in the mesh teether and some Tyl.enol and you are good to go!

*You FINALLY decided to crawl on your hands/knees. You army crawled for the longest time and then one day you finally went to your knees and have been crawling like a pro since!

*You are beginning to pull up on things and would rather be standing than sitting. You can't stand by yourself, but you want to stand while holding something/someone. We had to move your crib down because of this.

*You say "mama," "dada," "bababa," and a bunch of other jabberings.

*You can clap, wave, give kisses, make a "stink face," share "bites," and blow raspberries. You have recently started "dancing" by waving your arms around/bouncing around. You also "head-butt" mommy and think it's the funniest thing!

*You are officially done nursing. I quit pumping when you turned 8 months old, dropped the night feeding a week ago, and dropped the morning feeding yesterday. I'm proud of us and how far we made it with breastfeeding!

*You took to formula quite well. You are currently eating 20-24 oz a day. Sometimes you want 6 oz and sometimes you want 5.

*You eat breakfast and dinner. You are also beginning to eat more table foods. I'm a nervous wreck letting you try new things, but you love it and have done great so far!

*You take a "real" bath now. No more inflatable duck tub. You LOVE the big bath...you crawl around, pull up on the side, splash, and have a grand 'ol time.

*You go to bed around 7-7:30 and wake up around 6:30.

*I'm sure I say this every time, but you seriously are the best and happiest baby I have ever met. You are constantly smiling, laughing, being goofy, or just taking in everything around you.


<~~Apparently you are part hamster ; )

<~~Uh, really, mom?!

<~~Your Aunt Debra loves spoiling you. With a face like that, can you blame her?!

<~~You love your mesh feeder! So far we've used it for ice, watermelon, cantaloupe, and banana (not doing that one again, impossible to clean!)

<~~You love love love to swing!

<~~Blurry i.Phone pic...I forgot to take some with the "real" camera. oops!

This week in third grade...

This week has been a rather interesting one to say the least! I'm so glad tomorrow is Friday....it can't get here soon enough! Here's a little recap of some of the goings-on in Room 44...

*I checked out the Netbooks so that my kiddos could use them to publish some of the poetry we have been working on. I figured it would be a nice break since I have been working them hard lately to get ready for the state assessments. Before letting them get to work, I projected my computer screen onto the SMARTboard and did one for them as an example of how to change fonts, add images, etc. So, we are at the part where I'm showing how to add clip art. My poem was about "Mom," so I typed in "mom" in the clip art section. I'm half paying attention/half teaching and I see a picture of a mom sitting in a chair reading to her child. Perfect for a literacy class, right? Well, it would have been perfect if that's what it really were. No, it was a picture of a mother breastfeeding her child! Oops! Several kids giggled while I scrambled to delete it without showing too much emotion. (you know, if you don't act like it's a bad thing, they usually don't either) No emails from upset parents the next day, so all is well!

*On a different day, we were working with the Netbooks again and I'm walking around the room helping the students with their work. It was very busy in the classroom as half the students were on the computers and half were in the "comfy" area reading. After several minutes, I notice that a particular student "Johnny" was missing. I made a mental note to make sure he was back in a few minutes. A few more minutes go by and still no Johnny, so I ask his group mates if they know where he went. Nobody knows. He has no pass on his desk letting me know where he went. Great. I left to check the bathroom and sure enough, there he is. I ask him to come out, and here he comes out of a stall with a library book in his hand. After some questioning and reading between the lines, I figure out that he had an accident. So, what does he do? He ties his hoodie around his waist, takes a book, and sneaks out of the room. His master plan? To read in the stall until his pants are dry. I send him to the nurse so that he can get a change of clothes and I notice a big, wet spot on his back. Yep, don't tie a hoodie around your waist when you have an accident. 'Cause then you have wet pants and a wet back. Poor guy.

*Little "Sally" comes up to me to inform me that her bottom hurt when she went to the potty and when she sat down. Being the hypochondriac overly concerned child that she is, I talked her through it and we decided that we'd let mom know about it or I'd send her to the nurse later if it still bothered her. Fast forward 30 minutes: she comes back from a bathroom break and tells me "My bottom doesn't hurt anymore! I guess I just had to finish my poop." I had to giggle.

I'm sure there's more, but miss thing is up crying now. I've gotta go give her some love and Motrin. Teething bites...(pun intended ; )