Things Sophia can do

She's growing too fast. Just this morning David looked at me and proclaimed: "She really does look like a little girl." sigh. Where's my little 6 pound baby??? Ah, although I miss that infant stage, I am finding the toddler stage too much fun. Sophia is an intelligent (sometimes too much so) and affectionate little girl. She loves to give kisses and hugs. Although there are many challenges to this stage there are just as many rewards. Here are some of the new things in the life of Sophia:

1. Words: her vocabulary is expanding. In the last few weeks we have words such as -water, baby, belly, back, cuckoo (this comes from the Kindermusik focus on birds), caw (the sound a Blackbird makes), growls, and mama (with acknowledgement that I am mama!). For a while she's been pointing at my back saying "baby"...not quite but now we have her saying back. Now if I could only get her saying "belly" instead of "baby" when she points to my stomach. I can pretty much assure you there's no baby in there!

2. Sophia is getting FOUR teeth --two upper incisors, an upper first molar and a lower first molar. Yikes. Sleep has not been good.

3. Sophia LOVES books. We went to the library for the first time a couple of weeks ago and she was in heaven. She ran about the children's section (and later the fiction section) pulling books of the shelves and checking them out. There are little people sized chairs for her to sit on so she is quite content. I, on the other hand, am getting very good with the decimal system and might look into a library job when I go back to work.

4. Tents are good. We got this tent and tunnel play structure from the Gerhard grandparents for Sophia (it's her Christmas present really, but we wanted to have some fun. "We" being the adults of course). Sophia sits in the tent with books and toys...and it quite content to just be. It's her own little private space. Too cute.

5. Sophia loves the kitchen. The plastic, mini kind of Kitchen. Again a christmas present from the Mantel grandparents. When down stairs she spends oodles of time putting things in and out of the oven. There are little plastic utensils all over the floor in the basement.

On the whole, life is going very well for us. We are all happy and healthy, enjoying our time together. It's hard to believe how quickly 15 months can go until you have a baby!