Names my baby has been called this week...
Weirdest thing a stranger said this week:
"Well, you're pretty! Good thing you were a girl!"
What?!
Hee hee. Eating supper at Red Robin. Thanks for the hat Erin:)
What!?
What a beautiful smile
Oh Momma! No more kisses.
I just can't help myself when your face is this cute!
Sophia has been making some big steps this week. Her first exciting accomplishment was when she started saying "dada." She does not correlate it with Jared yet, but it is really fun to hear.
She has also been enjoying some finger foods now and loves chewing on her teething cookies and apple puffs. She got to order her first meal last night at a restaurant! Papa brought us all to IHOP and she got some mashed potatoes and applesauce! It is so fun to watch her grow and enjoy new flavors.
The last bit of big news for this week is that Sophia is back in her "own room" again in her crib! When we moved in with Gary, we put the crib in our room, and she would NOT sleep in it. So she ended up in the bed with us again until last week. We cleared out the game room, and made it a small nursery. She has a heater to keep her warm, a CD player crooning lullabies in the darkness, and her comfy crib. I was really worried about how the transition would go, since she was moving to her crib, and another room all at once, but she has been an angel. The first two nights were hard, and I was up about 12 times. The third night, however, she made a huge improvement, and only woke up 3 times! Every night since then she wakes up twice and easily falls back to sleep. She is to the point now that I can lay her down while she is still awake, but very sleepy, and she will fall asleep on her own! This may sound like a late accomplishment since she is almost seven months old, but anyone who's had trouble transitioning a co-sleeping child knows how exciting this is for us!
I have been starting to do some baby signing with Sophia. I started with the sign for milk, which is opening and closing your fist like milking a cow. Every time I am getting ready to nurse, I ask Sophia "Do you want some milk?" while signing milk. I have been doing this for about three weeks. Now, when she sees the sign for milk, she gets a big smile on her face, starts flailing in excitement, and immediately turns her face to my chest.
She gets it.
I have been waiting for this moment for six months...
(Natalie and Shirley- I'm jealous.)
Sophia went swimming for the first time yesterday morning! We brought her to the YMCA and met my mom and Anna. Unfortunately, the kiddy pool (which is of course ten times warmer than the big pool) was closed. Some kiddo had a poo poo in the kiddy pool the night before and they must have triple shocked it. It was scheduled to open at 8:30am. We arrived at 9am, and it was still closed. We swam until 10:00, and when we left, it still had twice the acceptable chlorine level to be open. Oh well. We had lots of fun splashing and swimming in the big pool. Sophia did surprisingly well, despite the cold temperature of the water-- better than her momma in fact. I finally got so cold that I got out. I bundled up Soph and we went into the family dressing room and took a warm shower together.
I am so happy that Sophia loves the water so much. The highlight of her evening is always bath time. As a young girl, I was terrified of the water, so I am glad she is already so comfortable in it.
Every night after bathtime, we wrap Sophia up in her pink bunny towel, and then sing a song about our pink bunny hopper, as we bounce her all the way back to our room. If anyone (Mommy, Daddy or Uncle Na Na) is on our way to the bedroom, we always make a stop and bounce in front of them for a minute. Sophia loves being the pink bunny hopper, and is always a smiley bunny.
Pretty pink bunny hopper
Any of you who know Sophia, know that her arms are always in the air. She may be rubbing off on us...
