The First Cut

Well, I finally had enough of Sophia's fly away hair. I booked her an appointment at the salon that I frequent asking for a hair dresser that can deal with a 20 month old who had never had her hair cut professionally before. We were booked in with Joanne. So yesterday we made the trek over to The Fixx Hair Salon, and I was only a little bit fearful of what was to happen. Honestly, Sophia is a child who really doesn't know how to sit still, how on earth was she going to sit long enough to get a decent (and straight) haircut??? I really hoped that Joanne knew what she was getting into.

I am happy to report that the appointment went really well. Sophia sat relatively still, just moving around to see what the other people were doing, and that was easy to do on a swivel chair. And the hair cut isn't that bad. She still has the length in the back and can see again without hair in her eyes. The only challenging thing was when the hairdresser looked at me and said "so what do you want done?" What do I want done? Cut the child's hair and make it look nice. I come to a professional trusting that they know what they are doing. I know nothing about cutting hair to look good. Yikes. Anyway, she did okay in the end.

Gotta Keep Your Head Warm

Sophia LOVES hats...they are one thing that she can easily manipulate and successfully get on each and every time. This last time it was my toque that caught her attention. BTW, she can actually say "toque" fairly well...very important given the subarctic climate we have chosen to live in. Anyway, she paraded around with much pride the other day wearing this toque.


posing for the camera...



still content with the hat.




Less than happy with the fact that Mom tried to take the hat away. Silly, silly Mom thinking that she had some control over when a toddler gives things up. Silly mom now knows better...


See, she won.

Pam's cake

So, I have a friend here in Regina (shocking, I know) who does photography. She did our Christmas photos actually, so you know what a great job she does. Well, she called me up a couple of weeks ago to request a cake for a very specific reason: she wanted to take pictures of her daughter demolishing a cake. She just celebrated her first birthday you see. Her request was simple: a heart cake covered with fondant with pink icing. Simple enough...it only took two days to do the cake, and two weeks to get rid of it...but that's another story. I promised not to post pictures until she actually had the cake, so here they are:



BTW, David did not make this post...I had to use his account...technical difficulties on my part. So, for the time being, I still decorate the cakes around here! :)

misheard lyrics

Sophia has a number of words we have come to understand from context and repetition, but are probably going to confuse some of you. Also, some of them are quite funny. Here is a brief list of some of her more non-obvious words. Some of them you should be able to guess, some probably not.

• 1. nama
  
• 2. leek
  
• 3. boobie
  
• 4. leap
  
• 5. hadie
  
• 6. pooter
  
• 7. baka
  
• 8. moon
  
• 9. luthor
  

Everyone knows that there are times in a song where the singer is saying one thing (or trying to) and you hear something else. The one that makes me laugh the hardest is from Elton John's "Tiny Dancer", when he is clearly singing "Hold me closer, Tony Danza."

Some of these misheard words of Sophia's are are ambiguous as well - the same word means different things in different contexts.

Did you guess what those words mean?

Here are the answers

• 1. pajama, or grandma
  
• 2. leg (leek sometimes sounds like lick, too)
  
• 3. blueberry (most berries are blueberries these days)
  
• 4. sleep. Used when she's tired (with "nap-a"), or in combination with putting her finger in front of her lips and saying "sssss", when someone is sleeping or when putting her toys on their side. also when seeing pictures of sleeping things.
  
• 5. Haley, the dog
  
• 6. computer
  
• 7. bottle
  
• 8. spoon, or moon actually...
  
• 9. soother, or Lex Luthor. We watch a lot of smallville here. not really.
  

SweaterHead

Sophia has been trying to dress herself (from time to time) and sometimes she is more successful than others. To be clear, she has never been, what one would call "successful" in an absolute sense, but she has come close. This morning, Tricia said "Pull up your pants, Sophia" and she grabbed her pants at the knees and pulled, to little effect. But at least she has the cognitive idea.

Here is some evidence of one of her more recent (and more successful) dress-yourself attempts. She got the sweater on her head, and could see through the head-hole, but couldn't figure the rest of it out. Far from getting frustrated, however, she went about her day "wearing" the sweater thus until I laughed enough and helped her the rest of the way. Well, until I snapped some pictures, then helped her the rest of the way.

Have Your Cake...

Well, Marie-Eve and I just completed our third Wilton Cake Decorating class. We had a good time. This class focused on fondant and tiered cakes, plus a couple of royal icing flowers (which I don't have pictures of.) The picture of the two cakes are below. The present cake was the first attempt at fondant decorating...it is entirely decorated in fondant on the outside, and is a chocolate cake with white buttercream icing on the inside. The finale cake is a two tiered yellow cake, with chocolate buttercream icing, and an apricot glaze on the outside. It is covered in homemade chocolate fondant, with fondant roses and leaves. The ribbon was a last minute addition, mainly used to cover the areas where the fondant and I had disagreements. There is a chocolate buttercream shell border on the top and the bottom. The fondant is dusted with a white shimmer powder to make it sparkle. I am pretty proud.