Cool Hat, Baby!

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CORRECTION: Contest ends April 5th. Again, thanks to all who voted daily for Sophia!

My Little Daredevil

It's official. Sophia is her father's child. I never would have risked this at 6 months. Or 6 years.

Happy Easter!

Sophia had a wonderful first Easter. We started the day with an excellent sermon by Pastor Porter. Then off to Great Grandma Betty's for family meal. After playing with all the relatives, we headed back to Papa Nourse's for another feast and Easter basket hunt. It was a long, but wonderful day.

On our way to Grandma's

Kisses for Mommy

Eagerly awaiting her Easter feast of peaches and sweet potatos

Finding her Easter basket from Papa Nourse

Resting after a long day and wonderful meal

My beautiful little girlybug

Pretty princess in her pretty dress

The Many Faces of Me

"Momma! Let me show you all my faces. Watch!"

I had carrots last night for dinner. Yuck.

Get lost little boy. I'm not impressed.

Hi-yaaa! Watch out, I know karate.

My fellow Americans...

Did you see all my faces Momma? Aren't you proud!

My Big Sitter

Sophia learned how to sit up on her own this week! She has been working on it for the past week and a half now. we have been sitting her up every chance we get. Now she's an old pro! She loves to play sitting up all by herself! It won't be long now until she starts to crawl...

It's Gonna Be a Bright, Bright Sunshiny Day

I was absolutely smitten with the weather yesterday. I woke up and spent the first couple hours of the morning inside. Then I had to run out to the car to get something, and couldn't believe the sunshine. So I ran back inside, got myself together, kissed Jared and Sophia goodbye (they were taking a nap together), and went to revel in the warm sun. I did several errands, including wandering the aisles of Wal-Mart for 1.5 hours, looking at everything I wanted to look at. I haven't had much "me time" lately, so this was a special treat. Then I came home, whisked Sophia from Jared's arms, and brought her out for her first ever stroller ride!! (By the time she was born last fall, the weather was already too cold to bring her out on walks.) We had a nice long walk, stopped back at home to grab some lunch, then were off again to drive around for awhile and soak up the sun. I just really couldn't get enough and found any excuse I could think of to go out yesterday. It was pure bliss.

Dinnertime!

Sophia sat in her highchair for the first time last night for dinner! Perviously, we fed her in the exersaucer. She also tried pureed bananas for the first time. Too funny! It is so much fun introducing new things to her. Her reactions never disappoint.

In her highchair for the first time

Aren't I cute sitting in my new highchair, Mom?

I'm ready to eat! I want to try bananas!

That's bananas? Yuck.

I don't think I like bananas very much.

Yup. I'm pretty sure bananas are gross.

Mommy, please, no more bananas.

Sophia, what did you think of your bananas?

Bright Eyes

Sittin' Pretty

Look at what a big girl Sophia is becoming! She is really working on sitting up on her own now. I have her play sitting up for awhile each day, while I spot her. If she starts to fall, mommy is there to catch her, but otherwise I let her try to balance herself. She is so close.


She has no problem lounging in the easy chair however...

Rice!

On Sunday, after we moved, we sat down to enjoy some pizza. Sophia was grabbing at our pizza and watching each bite travel to our mouths (she had been doing this at every meal for quite some time now). She had also been displaying all the other signs of "readiness," so we decided it was time to give her some rice cereal. We got out the camcorder, and in front of several relatives, she tried her first bites of rice. Yum! She liked it! Everytime she saw the spoon coming, she got very excited and leaned towards it. Everytime the spoon entered her mouth, she bite down, and I had to wiggle the spoon out of her strong clamp! She did a very good job and stayed fairly clean too! Yay for big girl food!







She has been eating rice cereal for dinner every night now, and just loves it. She has a bottomless stomach when it comes to her cereal, and most of the time, we just have to cut her off because she would eat the whole box if we let her. I can't wait to see how she likes fruit and veggies!

Dinner at Josh and Shinae's

"Oooo! Juice!"

"I think it's for me!"

"Mommy, look! Uncle Josh gave me some juice!"

"Alright. Ready to try this."

"Echh. This is funny tasting juice Uncle Josh.*"

*She did not really taste any. Just so we're clear;)