Sophie dances to disney pop songs

Sophie watches a lot of Disney channel Saturday mornings, and I think has maybe seen too many videos by Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez:

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First Dance Class and more!

Sophie started taking dance classes last week (Sept. 18). Initially, she was very shy and did not want to participate. But then...

she realized she could run around, jump, skip and play parachute. Suffice to say, this week's class (Sept, 25, for those of you keeping track)though it involved a minor tantrum, went much more smoothly than last week's

Last weekend was also very busy because Sophie went to temple to celebrate Rosh Hashanah. She then went to a party where she hung out with a lot of her much older friends. She had a good time sitting on a couch, playing with toys or hanging out with her friend, Julia, her sometimes baby-sitter. This all occurred much to the shock of Mommy, Daddy and the other 20 adults at the party.

See below a picture of Sophie being cool. Lately, Sophie has really taken to wearing hair-ties as bracelets and calling herself "pretty" and "princess". She especially feels princess-y whenever she wears skirts and whenever her hair is pulled back. She very much likes it when Gretchen places her hair in "piggy tails" at daycare.

Today was Yom Kippur. Sophie and Daddy celebrated by staying home, going to the zoo and then going to temple to see the children's service. Mommy got stuck at work and then at a class after work. But, she came home in time to hear all sorts of stories about the scary monkeys (she means Mandrells and Gorillas), the nice monkeys (she means the lemurs), and the stinky camels (she means camels...they can get stinky, you know). Apparently, Sophie and Daddy both had a good and Mommy needs to teach Sophie the difference between a monkey and an ape. She supposes Curious George being called a monkey when he is clearly an ape is of no help (he is supposed to be a chimpanzee, right, right???).

Princess of the Pumpkin Patch

Sophie has certainly changed a lot this month. All of her t-shirts have begun to run too short (but tummy shirts on a 2 year-old are sort of cute, right?), she towers over me if I sit on the floor while she is standing, and now when we pull her hair away from her face, she says "I'm so prilly" (Sophie translater: I am so pretty).

We have also had some big changes in the house. Mommy went back to work at the end of August. Sophie has been loving going back to day-care full-time. Roxie was not so thrilled since she is still only 90% house broken, and so has to be locked up while Mommy is at work. We think in another week or two, we can start leaving her out.

This past weekend, we went apple picking with the Dibners. Sophie very much enjoyed being given the Princess treatment....dragged everywhere in her lovely wagon:

She also really loved all the pumpkins in the pumpkin patch, but we're waiting to buy one until we go apple picking with the Alibertis in three more weeks.

Here's Daddy trying to look noble. It's a bit difficult, though, when you have your wife's purse strapped over your shoulder.

Finally, here's Sophie being dragged by her newest slave, Tal. For some reason, he thought it was fun!?