Walking Alert

Our big big girl now is walking on her own. It is official. After weeks of being very close, she is talking well over 10 steps on her own. Over the weekend, she had lots of practice and loved every minute of it. Last night, for the 1st time she got herself up to take a few steps.

We have some video of it that we will upload as soon as we can find the charger for the video camera.

Quick Hi

Sofia had quite a Thanksgiving feast as you can see. We had to hose her down afterwards!!



She then wanted to do some shopping with the rest of the country at the mall.

Wiggle It

Sofia has not really watched much TV. The longest she would sit was maybe up to 2 minutes for your average cartoon.......

But not for the WIGGLES. We came across it last week and she has been hooked since. She loves to dance -which happens often. The show is filled with music and songs.

It is pretty entertaining to watch her watch TV. From what we can tell, she really likes animals and gets excited when Wags the Dog has an appearance on the show.

We hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving. We will be back in Vancouver Friday night.

Pix Pix Pix

We are now 24 hours after the Santa incident of 2007. Sofia is in good spirits and itching to see the family this week in Eugene. From what I hear--we have almost 24 people coming for dinner. It is going to be a real party. We celebrated a small anniversary over the weekend--we have had our baby home with us now for 7 months, which has been amazing! What a miracle she is and she knows it:)

Santa Time!!

This photo pretty much sums up the Santa visit.


Today Sofia met Santa. She is not too fond of him... We know it's a bit early for Santa, pre-Thanks Giving and all, but we happened to be at the mall today. We tried for a picture of Sofia sitting on Santa's lap, but she was having none of that! When we attempted to put her on his lap... Sofia started screaming, crying, and hitting Santa in the face and yanking on his beard all at the same time. We very quickly moved her and I think Santa might have actually been a bit scared of her after that... He told the girl to hurry up and take the picture when Tim and I jumped in to hold her for the last photo. You can see she doesn't look happy. I'm not sure how many presents Sofia will be getting from Santa this year after hitting him... lol.


Sofia was still happy with Alexis holding her... I don't think she had even noticed Santa yet.



Our very sad girl... even the lollipop didn't help.

Hello Hello

The girls are still sleeping and it is the end of another week. Sofia has had a great week thus far. She seems to be in a lot less pain due to teething, which obviously has made her happier.

She is getting ever so close to walking on her own now. Last night, she sat up and took 3 steps on her own. So she is getting the hang of it. It is amusing to watch as she gets excited when we walk with her, that it turns it speed walking after a few steps. I'm sure in a matter of time, she will just be running around everywhere.

Sofia got some good news yesterday that her Uncle Ken and Grandma are coming to visit next week for Thanksgiving. We are all going to meet in Eugene for a few nights and celebrate with the family.

Well, hope everyone has a good weekend. I will try and get some new pictures up soon.

Monday, Monday

Not much too say about Monday. It never seems to be exciting and everyone seems to just dread Monday's.

Anyway, we had a great day yesterday with a smooth ride down the I-5. We were lucky and got to have Alexis join us for the quick trip. Sofia was a darling in the car and we tired her out all afternoon by looking houses and Home Depot. It took her all but 3 minutes to fall asleep last night when we laid her down.

We are here for a home inspection today and then will go back to Vancouver after work today.

Can you believe it is Thanksgiving next week???

These pix were taken from Saturday night when we made a trip to Ikea and treated ourselves to fro-yo and cinnamon rolls. We got Sofia laughing more than ever I think. She could not get enough of the cinnamon rolls!!!!

Hello....

I've got a few new pix to add----
Sofia was able to take 3-4 steps on her own last night. She has accomplished that a few times now. And she seems content to not really walk too much more than that. I'm sure that will change in in the upcoming days,weeks, and months.

Random thought....

We need to use our video camera much more. We bought it before our 1st visit trip to see Sofia. Since we got back in April, we have hardly used it at all. I had never owned one before that.

We are in Vancouver today, but will go back to Eugene tomorrow afternoon.

Hi

Sorry for the lack of anything on the blog here.
We have been busy bees commuting between Vancouver and Eugene.
Hopefully we will end that in the near future.
Sofia is doing just great and excited the commuting is hopefully getting closer to ending.

Animal Tribute+Weekend Plans (QUACK!!)

Greetings to all!!

Well Friday once again is here and in a real twist of events we are going to Eugene. As some of you may or not know, we are in the process of selling our house here in Vancouver, WA and moving to Eugene, OR.

So we are headed down today after work. We pick up Uncle Ken at PDX and get to torture him with a baby CD that will be played in a loop for the 2 hour drive. Sofia has not seen Ken in a while, so it will be fun to get them together. She can impress him with her new skills of walking and eating everything in sight:)

Since we post 100% Sofia pictures on here--I wanted to give a shout out to the pets of the house. Sorry toonces, I did not have a photo of you.