Baby bulemia, tree hugging and the beach

Soooo, my kid is a puker. She always has been. As a brand new infant, she could spit up a higher volume of fluid than she ingested. Unfortunately, this has not yet gone away. Insead, it has morphed from "spitting up" to, well purging. Sophia is in the process of discovering her gag reflex at the same time she's in the "everything goes in her mouth" phase. This usually results in the kid gagging herself. She has not yet realized the corrolation between sticking things down her throat and vomitting. Needless, it makes for real fun in my house. Yeah, good times.

Sophia is crawling all over the house now, but still a military style crawl. She contemplates getting up on her hands and knees, but we're still not there.


Sophia has a cold-again. This one is not as bad as the last one, but it was making for some rough nights. She's just very congested, so breathing can be difficult. Needless, if the baby doesn't sleep- no one sleeps. Daddy did manage to get her to go down- and himself as well.


Ok, the new "it" baby thing are these things called "Baby Legs." All the mommy chat boards are a-blaze about who has what pattern, and how many pairs they have blah-blah-blah. What are "Baby Legs"? They are little baby leg warmers, oh so fabulously "She's a maniac" and all that. Anyhoo, the husband saw them online, and thought they were cute, and we ordered a pair. And for the record, my kid is sooo flashdance in these things. Take that Jennifer Beals.





Now that Thanksgiving is passed, it's time to turn our efforts to Christmas, specifically, our Chirstmas card. Now, the Husband and I have had some killer cards in years past. But since this is Sophia's first card, we really want to make this year's card special. Naturally, we want a photo card so everyone can see how big she is.
So I find and order this fancy dress and get her all dressed up and we are READY to take some pictures outside. And by "ready" I mean only the Husband and I- as Sophia was not having this one bit. She was much more interested in eating the leaves on the ground.
The Husband gets this bright idea- let's stand her up and have her hold onto the tree and that way we'll get this really great picture. When he says this to me, I think this sounds like a pretty good idea. Ok, go ahead. Stand her up. Little tree hugging California born baby wants to eat the damn thing.


On to Plan 2- The Beach. Very Southern California- No? I still can't believe I was at the beach 2 days after Thanksgiving. As you can see, it was basically glorious. Sunny, low 70's and not a cloud in the sky. This was Sophia's first real trip to the beach. She went with the Husband and her Granny when she was about 9 weeks old, but slept thru the entire experience. This time, we had to stop her from eating sand. (The kid wants to put EVERYTHING in her mouth.)


Is everyone looking down my shirt??





These are just a few pictures. The best of the group will be shared later (shhhh, top secret!!)

Gettin' fancy

Not alot to report right now. We're pretty sure tooth #3 is trying to come in, but it hasn't cut through yet. Sophia continues to get bigger and stronger. Her personality is really starting to show- and it's pretty funny to The Husband and I. Naturally, being a redhead, Sophia is already starting to show a stubborn streak. She's starting to throw big fits when she doesn't get her way. But even more interesting, it appears that being anal retentive is passed through the genes! Today, Sophia lined up all of her blocks in a very neat row and then later, in my closet, she actually matched up shoes and lined them up. I guess I can look forward to a neat and tidy child.

We went to Zoe's baptism last weekend. Here are a few pics of Sophia dressed up in the most adorable dress ever. I just loved the thing. Please note the fancy patent leather shoes. She wore them for about an hour before she managed to figure out how to get them off- and then off they stayed!!

And the other adorable milestone is wardrobe related. Sophia wore tights for the first time. I put her in this dress that didn't have "fancy pants" as I call them. Well, I couldn't take her out with her diapered butt just sticking out for all to see. So, I had a pair of pink tights in her drawer that happen to match the dress I already picked out. Of course, some of you know- I don't normally put shoes on Sophia. So it was tights with no shoes. I don't think she cared too much.

My new favorite thing

How cool is this?? Now I can share even MORE pictures.....and there are a TON of effects and themes. Oh I am going to have soooo much fun with this.