fireman fun and evan turns 5!

This past weekend, Sophie went to Evan Aliberti's Fireman themed 5th birthday party. She really had a very good time. She got into and out of many vehicles. She also got to see a fireman in all of his gear. Finally, she got to spray the firehose all by herself! See the pics below!

Here is a picture of Mommy pregnant with baby number 2. We learned a few weeks ago it is going to be a girl. Sophie remains very excited and often asks "When can I play with the baby?" The picture was taken when Mommy was 18 weeks pregnant. More pics will come as the weeks progress. We aim for the next one at 22 weeks!

April and early May, 2010

Sophie has had a really good month. At the start of the month, Mommy, Daddy and Sophie all went to go see Curious George Live. This was a musical spectacle where George had to help save Chef Pisghetti's famous meatballs! Sophie loved every moment of it, especially the popcorn...Mommy had to buy two boxes of it!



The following weekend was Mother's Day. Mommy wanted to go to Kimball's Farm to get some fried seafood. Daddy and Sophie were more than happy to oblige and Sophie got her first Kimball's ice cream of the season! Suffice to say, she thought that was one of the best lunches ever! Mommy and Daddy also found out earlier in the weekend (Friday at 2:00 pm, to be exact), that baby number two, code name: Bugaboo, is in fact, another little girl. Sophie is very excited about this as she has been wanting a little girl baby in the house for about a year now.

Finally, this weekend, Sophie got to go to the birthday party of her friend, Giovanni. It was held at a gymnastics complex with lots of blow-up bouncy houses. She greatly enjoyed them as well as the foam square pit. Mommy had to go into and out of the various contraptions as well, which made for an interesting time since climbing out of a pit can be difficult when you are 5 months pregnant. Today, Sophie will go to the zoo. I am sure pics will follow!

Birfday

Sophie had a very exciting birthday week. She got to have her very own cake at home on her birthday, and then got to share yummy cake and cupcakes with her friends and family over the weekend.

She loved having all her friends over for the party, and kept talking about having another party very very soon.

Almost 3!

Sophie turned three years-old this past month. She started her celebration of her last month as a two year-old, as previously stated, by visiting cousin Naomi and having a great time with her and the rest of the family.


She also got to see Disney on Ice, which was wicked cool and full of princess stuff.

Sophie's last month as a 2 year-old

There is a promise of future photograph coming; however, currently, I cannot find the cord to attach the camera to the computer.  With that said, Sophie has had a lovely month leading up to her third birthday.

She started off her last month with a visit down to NY to visit her cousin Naomi and to wish her a happy third birthday.  They had several playdates and a wonderful time.  Sophie greatly anticipated attending Naomi's birthday and was very insistent on which polka dotted outfit she was to wear to the party (it was a white shirt with small black polka dots, a bling-bling heart on a black sash, and a little tulle).  Despite a few mental breakdowns at the party, likely due to being so super excited, she overall had a wonderful time and even really enjoyed playing with Naomi's other similarly-aged cousin, Emerson.


During Mommy's time off from work in February, Sophie went to see Princesses on Ice (a Disney on Ice program).  She loved it so much that she has requested every weekend since to go see Mickey again.  Unfortunately, this means more ice shows and live action shows for Mommy.  But, the good news is that this may be our means to get her interested in actual theatre later in Sophie's little life.  Sophie also went to her first real dental appointment.  She cried so hysterically the entire time in the dental chair that she left with an appointment to return in 6 months "when she is a little older".  Suffice to say, Mommy has spent every week since then explaining to Sophie how wonderful the dentist is so that in August, the appointment goes more smoothly.  Sophie also had an appointment with a preschool.  Mommy and Daddy have their fingers crossed that she will be admitted since it is lovely, near by, and has flexible hours.

Finally, Sophie's dream of the last 6 months is coming true: she is having her birthday party next weekend.  She has been planning it since October.  To accommodate the requirement for 5 birthday cakes and themes of Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Polka Dots, and Curious George, Sophie will have a lot of disparate balloons and decorations, a polka-dotted birthday cake, and lots of cupcakes.  We fully anticipate an overly sugared and excited child by the end of next weekend.  Naturally, she will be wearing a polka dot dress, for she is the "pink polka dot princess" (Sophie came up with that moniker all by herself).

Pictures will be posted shortly.  Stay tuned!

sophie the photographer and more!

My bad, it has been a long time since I have posted on behalf of Sophie. So, here's the past two months in a nut shell. First, Sophie has begun to take her own pictures. Some of these pictures have even been interesting and/or beautiful. Above, see a self portrait entitled "The fuzzier side of me".

So, as part of the last few months, we celebrated some major holidays. First, we made it safely through the Thanksgiving season without any major weight gain, but a whole lot of singing!

Then, we made it through Hannukah and Christmas time with a little bit of weight gain and not as much singing. We came back to Chelmsford for New Year's eve.

Sophie started off the new year quite properly with a very large growth spurt and her first case of strep throat in early late January. She was a very good sport about it, forcing Mommy to take her to the doctor only because has a fever for more than two days and not due to a lack of appetite or complaints of a sore throat. On the otherhand, trying to get the medication into Sophie involved many special ops.

This past weekend, we all went to the Children's Museum to enjoy the brand new Curious George exhibit. Sophie had a fantastic time until the a furry version of George showed up. We thought there was a chance she might want to meet this new and very large George, but Sophie began crying that she was scared shortly before we hit the front of the waiting line to meet George. Apparently, he was too big and did not have the right amount of fingers and toes. This was unacceptable for Sophie. Mommy has to agree as furries haunt her nightmares. Furries to Mommy are much like animals from Australia for Daddy.

Whoops!

Sorry for the delay in blogging folks. Sophie has had a great time since the last time. First, she went to New York and was able to experience the joy of Thanksgiving. This involved Mommy inventing a game called "Oh no!" where Sophie and her cousin, Naomi, ran around the living room waiting for Mommy to tackle them or just waiting for one person to fall and scream "Oh No!". This was lots of fun! Sophie also indicated a love of Thanksgiving because of all the cakes present.

Sophie dancing with Great Grandma Sally and Cousin Naomi

Since then, Sophie has also celebrated Channukah. She greatly enjoyed the candles burning and even got her own mini-Menorah. Her favorite part was lighting it each night. She also did not much mind all the presents.

Sophie jamming on her new guitar (from Grams and Gramps)

Mommy and Sophie have also engaged in some mild baking lately. This has resulted in Mommy coming up with creative ways to give away cookies. During the time we made Chocolate chip oatmeal raisin cookies, Sophie greatly enjoyed stirring the batter. This weekend, we made sugar cookies and she greatly enjoyed eating the frosting that we used on them and dumping colored sugar everywhere. Her hands were green by the end! Next weekend, Mommy is thinking of trying peanut butter cookies with a hershey's kiss on-top (a co-worker recommended this). I just hope this kisses make it to the cookies! Sophie sure loves chocolate!

Random photo of Sophie enjoying her very FIRST hot chocolate. She told me it was "belicious" (not mis-spelled)

This past Friday, Sophie finally got to see Mommy's band play! Mommy was very excited about this, until Daddy got caught in traffic and arrived one song from the end. Lucky for Mommy, Sophie was a great sport and sat very quietly in the audience, in front of Mommy, and played with toys and books very patiently. Everyone was so impressed by how good she was! Then, we went to a small party afterwards where she really liked the house of the host. Every room she entered, she said "wow!". She was even willing to eat plain pizza dough! Maybe next month, we'll manage actual pizza!

Last night Sophie went to a wonderful Channukah party where she ate lots of desserts. She told the hosts that she "had fun at the party. I liked the desserts".

So, Soph's been busy! Unfortunately, Mommy and Daddy briefly lost the camera, so there are not many pictures from this month.