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.

More Park

As the good weather continues, our trips to the park will continue. We got back today from the park and the little bug is tired out. She dug sand, shared sand, laughed at the sand. She REALLY likes sand. I guess as a kid, I enjoyed sand. They all seem to love it, meaning the children. But as an adult I do not like sand at all. So, i have had to put that aside as a parent:) I have come full circle now to not mind playing,scooping, and walking in sand. I sat Sofia on a teeter-totter today for the 1st time and had her go up and down a few times (I was holding her, so don't freak out Mike) and she kept laughing.

Her new favorite toy this week is the vacuum cleaner. She loves to mount it as if it will start moving. But she likes the shape and size that allow her to get on and off it with ease. And for a food update that you have all been waiting for.....she is eating more meat these days. She still will not eat ALOT of it, but has increased her intake. "Mama" is her favorite word this week and she has said Daddy maybe 10 times total. Oh well, I will not hold it against her.

Playground+

So i took Sofia over to the new house to see the cats yesterday after work. As we were over there, I noticed it was still nice and sunny out and it was already 5:05pm!!! Thankfully we are headed slowly out of winter season.

So we went over to the park by the new house, which we had not gone to before. It is 4 blocks away, which will be great as we can walk there. But we drove yesterday because we were not going to have much daylight left. Thumbs up to the new park which Sofia loved. She still is not much for the swings at all, refusing to be put in one. But she does love the slide--ANY slide.
There were also plenty of dogs there, which she enjoys to watch and say "wow" or "dog".

She also had her 1st gymnastics class yesterday. Jane took her and met her aunt, who has a 2 year old granddaughter, Taylyn. Sofia did well for her 1st time and I can't wait to go see her there-They are going to go Monday mornings. Today they are going to a swim class together.

And to finish up the weekend, Sofia had a party at Papa' Pizza-where they have a HUGE kids play room to make up for the average food served there. We met Taylyn and her mom Sunday night there for dinner. Some of the pictures are below. Sofia drew a great amount of confusion at first with the giant ball pit. She seemed to be unsure of how many balls there were and where they came from.