New toy

Sophie has been standing up, so I got her this new toy today. She LOVES it! It's nice that she has something her size to practice standing up on. She still fell over a couple of times, but she doesn't really cry because she's hurt, she cries because she wants to get back to her toy.

Almost crawling

Sophie can get up on her hands and knees now and gets around by doing the army crawl. I have been getting everything up off the floor and baby proofing like mad!

She's on the move!

Binkie, eating and tongue?

Sophie loves her binkie and can play with it and put it in her mouth whenever she wants. So funny!
For some reason this is how we feed Sophie now. Most of the time she will sit up and eat, but when she doesn't always understand the difference between meal time and play time. Really?? I mean really?? It is not easy to get the spoon in her mouth this way.
Daddy, Sara and now Sophie all have this LONG tongue. Sophie just loves playing with Daddy's tongue. She stares at it, tries to touch it and even tries to eat it. Good times!

Fun with Sophie

Here are some pictures of Sophie playing her most favorite games. She loves to play peek-a-boo with anything she can get her hands on. She plays at home, in the van and in the store. It is very distracting because I love playing with her and hearing her laugh, but she usually likes to play when I am shopping or trying to get things done.

Sophie is rolling all over the place and usually has a fun time playing on the floor- until she gets stuck under a chair or table. When she gets stuck she will try to get out by herself and if she can't she will cry until someone saves her.
Her newest love is daddy's ties. When daddy comes home from work he loves holding her, but she just wants to pull and slobber on his ties. This picture is while we were eating dinner one night and daddy was trying to keep her entertained.
She is an expert at "so big", unless she is in front of lots of people and being asked to perform her trick. She does it a lot at home even while she is eating so she gets lots of food in her hair and all over her face. She is learning "hi" and "bye", but doesn't do it on command. She likes to practice on her own time and opens and closes her fist one finger at a time.

Halloween fun

Here are some halloween pictures. We had a lot of fun and thankfully it wasn't too cold. Since it was month end Ben had to work and he got stuck with the 3pm to midnight shift, so I got to take the kids to the trunk-or-treat by myself. It was still light outside so we got some good pictures. Sophia was a black cat and she stayed pretty warm.

Brandon was a storm trooper and even though he was kind of sick he didn't want to stay home.
Sara was a 50's girl and her costume turned out so cute! Thanks Nicole for lending us the skirt! After the trunk-or-treat we got some quick dinner and then Sara wanted to go trick-or-treating with a friend of hers. Brandon wanted to go too, but he still had a bad cough so I told him he should stay home and I would just buy him some candy.
He still really wanted to go, so since Sara had Ben's cell phone I told him to call me whenever he wanted to come home and I would come and get him. Sara's friend picked her up at our house with her older sister and a couple of her sister's friends. They were gone for about 2 hours before Sara calls to tell me that Brandon wants to come home. I went to get him, but Sara wanted to keep going. About an hour later she called and told me she was at her friends house having hot chocolate and they would drive her home when they were done. I was impressed at how often she called me and I had a great Halloween because I got to stay home in my warm house.