Saturday, October 15, 2011

All about Sofia at 2 1/2

Sofia is the biggest character you will ever meet! She is so full of life. And boy does she talk talk talk!! She says the funniest things. The other day she asked for a snack and it was almost dinner and she wanted a snack, so I said no. She replied "how dare you!" She says "you can't do it" when there's something she doesn't like and "you can" when it's something she wants you to do. And she loves to walk around and quote Star Wars - especially telling her babies "I am your father!" a la Vader. She talks to Gabby just like me - "Hi Gabs" "you so cute" and when Gabby cries "It's alright Gabbers, you alright, I here" She loves her sister and hugs and kisses her all the time (hence no escaping them both getting sick) She definitely is a mama's girl. She loves to go get frozen yogurt or go with me to the store - grocery or Target. She loves to ride in elevators and always tells the doors "Abre" (open in Spanish) like she learned on Dora. She will put her hands on either side of my face and say "you so cute" or "Mama you beautiful". She loves kisses and hugs. She is such a people person, she goes crazy when her friends or cousins are around. She is a social butterfly. She is resisting the afternoon nap big time and sometimes we'll go in there after 2 hours of "nap" and find that she has dragged every toy in her room onto her bed. When she doesn't want to nap or go to sleep she says "Mom it's not dark here" because she equates darkness with bedtime. She loves Disney Princesses especially Ariel and most Disney movies in fact. Her favorite shows are currently Clifford, Olivia and Team Umizoomi though she still watches some Dora, Sesame Street and SpongeBob. She has a separate playlist on my iPod so when we are in my car, she always wants to hear her songs. The first song is "Barbie Girl" by Aqua so she say "Mama you have Barbie Girls?" whenever we get in the car.
She is 2 so she does throw temper tantrums most of the time related to wanting some kind of food or not wanting to brush her teeth or go potty or not wanting to go to sleep. We are still working on the potty training, it's about 50/50 and she wears pull-ups still during the day and diapers at night. It's hard to focus on it with so little free time. We need to find a weekend to do one of those cold turkey run around with no clothes things - but there's never a free weekend! She loves gymnastics and swim classes, and hopefully she will soon graduate to the classes that don't require parent participation. She is beautiful, loving, funny and sassy. We adore her!



Friday, October 14, 2011

Sick Girls - all week long

We had a pretty mellow weekend but last Sunday night Sofia started to cough a little at bedtime. She seemed OK in the morning so we sent her to daycare. Lena called us to pick her up early because she was coughing and seemed warm. So I stayed home with her Tuesday and sent Gabby to daycare. Lena called after nap and said Gabby was sick with the same thing! (cough, chest congestion, slight fever) Sara stayed with the girls Wed/Fri and I stayed home again Thursday. Took them to the doctor and nothing serious just have to ride it out. The coughing was worse at night and Gabby slept great all week but Sofia was up a lot. And for once in her life Sofia lost her appetite! They are both feeling better now and should be fine to go to daycare next week. Gabby was a real trooper with her first cold. Just glad she lasted 8 months without any other illnesses! She was in good spirits despite it all, as you can see in the pic.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Gabby's Scrunchy Face

She makes this face all the time now when she's really happy. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

I Know I'm Biased...

But aren't these the cutest kids ever????????





Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Sofia is 2 1/2 Today!!

Wearing her S is for Sofia shirt with Elmo!
(and her beads and froggy that mom & dad brought her back from our trip to Vegas)



Monday, September 26, 2011

Bathing Beauties

My funny, happy girls in the bath






Sunday, September 18, 2011

Lexie's Mermaid Party

We had a fun time at Lexie's birthday today - Little Mermaid themed, which is one of Sofia's favorites these days. Her favorite parts of the party were the cake and the pinata. She only got one piece of candy when it broke but it was an edible bracelet which she thought was pretty cool! Lexie was dressed as Ariel too, so after the party I was at Target and saw a really cute Ariel outfit for $20 at Target so I got it for her...she loved it! See pix below.










Saturday, September 17, 2011

Disneyland - Heather's Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday, and it was a great day. Got really spoiled at work with a breakfast, taken out to Lunch, and desserts and drinks, plus we had a fun family dinner out. (not a great diet day!!) Then today we hit up Disneyland for the afternoon. Gabby enjoyed the stroller sans car seat because she can sit up and check everything out. Sofia loved the Parade and the Carousel, as you can see from the pics. We also went on Small World twice, Jungle Cruise and saw the Tiki Room show. Fun and surprising how tiring just 4 hours can be :) Loving the annual passes, we have been at least once a month and getting our money's worth.








Sunday, September 11, 2011

A Visit from an Old Friend

Today an old Kings fan/hockey friend Elta stopped by with her boys Cavan and Aidan. She is also pregnant with a girl and inherited some of the girls' baby clothes! We had fun playing and Sofia even gave and received hugs when they left :)



Friday, September 9, 2011

Sofia's Big Girl Bed

Tonight we took the plunge...we converted Sofia's crib to a big girl bed with a railing. We figured it was time because she was getting so mad in the mornings when she wanted to get up and we don't come and get her fast enough. Now she can get out and hopefully play in her room vs come wake us up. That's why we did it on a weekend, to give it a try!
She was so excited when she saw it, she kept crawling in and out of it and said "it's so beautiful".
I hope we don't regret this :)