I miss her already!!!

The girls just left to go to Vancouver for the week. It is Sunday night and I will not see them until 2 weeks from today. Why you ask? Jane had to go up to Vancouver for work and comes back Friday. I leave Tuesday for 13 nights for a work trip.

Anyway, the last week was a LONG one, as the girls spent most of the time under the weather. Jane is still slightly sick and had a bad cold all week. Our little one didn't have it that bad, but still seemed to not to be her usual crazy self. She had a great day today and it was good to see her well again before they left.

Everyone tells me how quick "they grow up" and "enjoy them while they are this age". For every time I hear that, I notice it in great magnitude. I catch myself blown away at how tall, big, fast, funny, loud, smart, strong, and clever our baby (she is not a baby anymore) is. But she is and will always be our baby. In the pictures below you will see her enjoying her 1st backpack. My mind quickly thought of how before I know it I will be dropping her off (with a different backpack most likely) for 1st grade, 8th grade, etc.

That's enough of a deep thought for tonight. Anyway, Sofia is the best and we are very lucky to have her in our lives.

Back to that backpack.....

She got that Saturday and could not stop rolling it around or carrying it or packing things into it. We were amazed, as most things keep her attention for not more than 1-2 minutes. But she was attached to the duck backpack. And it is fitting as she will have a trip out to Oklahoma in May and I'm sure they will get a kick out of that, since they are HUGE duck fans out in Oklahoma!!

Video and more Video

Here are some videos from the last weekend. You can see Sofia did her best to ensure years of dental work. We only celebrated Easter three times, which meant loads of candy at 3 different times over the weekend. The weekend ended with and Sofia and Taylin battling it out for candy,eggs, and baskets. They are are playing together quite a bit these days and its fun to see them interact with each other. They do gymnastics on Mondays, swimming on Tuesdays, and story time on Wednesdays.

What a Weekend!!

It is still not over yet, but the weekend has been action packed. We spent the day yesterday at a ranch 2 hours outside of Eugene with some family. And it was amazing how much there was to do there!

Through the day Sofia fed goats,ducks,horses. She also rode a horse, hunted for easter eggs, and started a rock collection. And after all that she still did not sleep one minute on the ride home. We were slightly concerned, but then figured it may have been due to the 89 jelly beans she ate all afternoon.

There were more Easter eggs this morning and in a little bit, we are going to see The Wiggles live and in person. She is napping now and getting ready for a BIG afternoon. After the wiggles, we have more easter eggs to go hunt for over at Jane's aunt Shirle's house.

A few new things took place this week that may or may not be interesting to those without kids, but we find them quite funny... well, most of the time (#1 got kind of old after the first 20 times).

1.  She likes to take her pacifier out of her mouth and drop it behind the bed where we cannot get it and then say "uh oh" and laugh. 

2.  Sofia now refers to dogs as "arf-arfs" instead of dogs.  Sees a dog and does not say dog anymore, but says arf, arf.  This is due to the massive amount of barking that goes on in the house by the 4 dogs that live here.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend. Here are some recent pictures.

Birds in Person

We paid a visit yesterday to Linda's work and Sofia had a great time. Not only is there a large fish tank, but there are several birds on display. Here are a few pix. Sorry for the lack of updates as things are super busy these days with work,house, and of course our baby girl!

More B's

She also added blue and book this week, after adding ball and bird the previous week.

Here are some videos I have been meaning to add for a while.

Bird

Bird is the new word. Sofia is really enjoying one book we have for her, that is about animal sounds. She loves going through the whole book and looking at all the different animals.
So, she said bird the other day, which was great to hear. I had an old t shirt on yesterday and we were in the supermarket and I said where is the bird and she pointed right at the t shirt that has a few birds on the front.

Anyway here are some before and after pictures from last night. Before and after dinner that is. I bet you cannot guess which picture was taken before dinner.

Uh Oh its a Pink Ball

Well those are 2 different items for the week. "Uh oh" is her new and I guess 1st phrase she has been speaking. She likes to say it so much, she will repeat it sometimes if said to her. Even better is that she will say it sometimes after dropping something. This led us to wonder who in the house says Uh oh and we don't have a clue who does say it. Regardless, it is her favorite word right now. She has also been saying daddy much more, which is nice to hear. We got a few evenings where her mood was so good that we got some laughing that was almost equal to a yell or a scream, which made us laugh just as hard.

Now, the pick ball. Jane and her were shopping yesterday and they walked by a ball display (you know those round bouncy ones perfect for kickball) and Sofia says "ball". That was enough for Jane to get her the pick one to bring home with them. She carried it around as much as she could yesterday and loved to watch me dribble it in front of her and really laughed alot at the ball.

Have a good weekend!!

How was your weekend?

I hope you had a great one. We most certainly did here!! Last week we hired a new babysitter for Sofia and she started on Friday. Thongs could not have gone better and they hit it off right away. So we had quite a productive few hours at the house getting some work done. Sofia was also excited to see Auntie Karen and Dakota. She always has lots of fun when they are around, especially Dakota!!

We did get some sunshine yesterday afternoon and we snuck in the park real quick by our new house. Sofia laughed forever on the mary go round. She even continued laughing as her face gave the look of "I may vomit any minute"--At that point we took her off as Daddy may have spun it a bit too hard.

The girls are still sleeping as Sofia decided 4am was a time to not be sleeping. They need to rest up as they have gymnastics at 10 this morning!. Hopefully I remember to send the video camera with Jane.