One and a half!

Well she is officially one and a half, here are a couple of pictures of the special occasion.
She got a potty, however we aren't really doing much with it, but sitting on it:)


Princess Sofia ready for her party!


Trying out the new potty, while reading her Dora book about the potty.


Hail to the potty!


The half birthday cake. She actually tried some cake and liked it this time. Nothing like the first go around of cake, if you remember

Super Bowl

We were really excited that the Cardinals went to the super bowl. It was a great game, we were sad they lost, but we had a great time none the less.

Babies and ear plugs

Yes these are all the things that we are into right now. I know it has been awhile since my last post (we had some camera issues, being that we didn't have one for awhile).

Sofia LOVES babies as you all know, and she was really curious about Karen my sister-in-law being pregnant over the holidays, so she is still pretending to "have a baby in her belly!"


Karen had her baby, a beautiful baby girl, Abigail on January 31st! We can't wait to meet her!

Sofia also really loves jewelry. She thinks that her earplugs that she has to wear in the bath tub since her ear surgery are earings. She she is constantly putting them in her ears and her babies ears.

Back Seat DJ

So Sofia has developed a real love of music. However she limits herself to just a couple of songs. For about two months now she has only wanted to listen to "Sherry," by Frankie Valli and the 4 seasons. All we hear from the back seat is, "More Cherry baby, more Cherry baby." We even affectionately named Bitty Baby, Sherry. Well now we have a new song as of this week, "Money, Money, Money," from the Momma Mia sound track. So now from the back seat I will hear, "more Money, more Money." This only becomes more hysterical because she only likes the chorus, so the whole time she is waiting for Meryl Streep to belt out, "money, money, money...." she is crying (and I mean literally crying) "more money momma, more money." I couldn't help but laugh today, and tell her, "Sofia sometimes mommy also cries and wants more money."

1.5

Sofia will be one and a half on Friday! So of course we have been preparing for the big girl transformation. Today we went and got her hair cut, and then we went and picked out a big girl potty (we wrapped it up and are going to give it to her for her 1/2 birthday!). So here are a couple of picks of the hair cut.


The before!


More before, notice the shaggy bang look


Christy Anne cutting her hair, she was wonderful!


The after! What a big, and beautiful girl!


More after, this time with a big girl clip:)

The good, the bad and the ugly

I know, I know, it has been awhile since my last post. Here is a recap of the last month, and an explanation of our very busy Dec/Jan.

• The first three weeks of December Sofia had double ear infections, yet again!
• Sofia had surgery to put tubes in both ears to help her to stay well, and hopefully NO MORE ear infections!
• Chad’s family came in town!
• Chad’s graduation!
• One day later fly to Tyler!
• Christmas in Tyler with family. It was a great Christmas, very relaxed and wonderful.
• Came home to a violent case of the stomach flu, or food poisoning we still aren’t sure which. Chad and I finally got a night out by our selves to the ER..ha, ha, ha:)

So as you can see we have been busy good, and busy bad...I promise to be better about posting. I have missed such things as Sofia's first braid, lining up babies yet again and again, stuffing babies down her shirt (she got to see Aunt Karen with a baby in her belly), singing any song that she hears especially her favorite "Sherry Baby," by Frankie Valli. But don't worry I will start posting these as soon as I can:)

But to hold you over here are a couple of cute pics


At the Tyler Zoo with Cousin Anne, in matching dresses:)


Celebrating graduation with daddy's hat.


First braid, can you believe that her hair is long enough for this!


All dressed up and no where to go.


Singing to PB, her favorite song "Sherry Baby," of course.

True Love

Tonight I was getting Sofia ready for bed, and she looked at me and said, "love you mama." Then pulled me in for a big kiss! As you can imagine it made my day, my week, my year! This truly made my heart sing. I really needed this pick me up after our car got broken into this weekend and my cellphone and GPS system were stolen. So I won't be able to know where I am going, and I can't call for help...ha ha ha.