Funny Girl

Ok, so we sat there watching this go down and knowing we should have stopped it but we were so darn amused by her laughing so hard at her own antics that we just couldn't stop her. We LOVE it when she makes herself laugh. What a joy to watch a sense of humor blossom!

Visiting with Grammy

GGMom and Grammy with Sophie - what a treat!

Happy Birthday Grammy! (No, they are not trick candles, I swear.)

Dee Ree and Sophie doing a second round of Happy Birthday

The Deerings, Dee Ree, Grammy and us

In the monkey house

Sophie in the petting zoo

Brushing her own hair with the goat brush

Grammy was in town for her 60th high school reunion and so we got to have her stay with us for a few days. We had a great visit! On Thursday we went to lunch with GGmom so Sophie got to have lunch with her two great grandmothers (and I got to have lunch with two of my favorite women in the whole wide world). We went to the zoo on Friday and had a great time seeing peacocks, pigeons, goats in the petting zoo and monkeys! On Saturday, Grammy's brother Jimmy and his wife Carolyn came to visit us as well. On Saturday night, Dee Ree came over and we all had a nice dinner and then sang Happy Birthday to grammy who turns 79 on May 2nd. We had a wonderful visit with everyone and can't wait till Grammy comes back again soon. Oh, and nobody got sick this time - hooray!!!

Picking "Flowers"

These photos are from last week when the weather was warmer and we were out picking flowers.

(Nope, I'm not even going to talk about today.)

Random photos from a day

I hope this doesn't come off the wrong way but some days (ok, who am I kidding - it's every day actually) I almost can't stand the cuteness... I mean seriously who is this adorable child???!!!!

Not sure if you can see it but I'm pretty sure in that second photo she is making her now signature "S" sound. She LOVES to make the "S" sound now that she has top teeth. It is one of her most favorite sounds to make and she makes it when she is happy and she makes it when she wakes up in the morning and she makes it when she sees something she is excited about. It's just too stinking cute.

Peek a Boo Me!

Wow - I don't know where the last week or so has gone... Has it really been that long since I last posted???

On Easter Monday, Sophie and I went to the Please Touch Museum with Jim's Aunt Ann and Uncle Tom and his cousin Cristina, her husband Todd and adorable sons Zachary and Nathan. We all had a great time and it was so nice to see them all. The only causalities were that Sophie lost a shoe and got a cold. Good news is that I got the shoe back when I drove there a few days later to check lost and found again! And, more good news that her cold wasn't too bad. Just a head cold really with no real fever and though she is still a little congested, it seemed to only really bother her for a few days. She did have a great time at the Please Touch though. Her favorite thing there this trip was seeing her own reflection in the mirror and playing peek-a-boo with herself while we waited for the others to finish their carousel rides.

In other news, Sophie got diaper burn again. I can't understand it because she didn't have anything weird to eat at all this time. So, now I'm totally vexed that she got it again and we didn't give her anything out of the ordinary. How do we know what *not* to give her if there wasn't anything questionable in her diet?? Oh well. At least we caught it early and plenty of the wonderful Silver Sulfadiazine cream on-hand.

We are getting excited for a visit from Grammy laster this week. And, we had a great time visiting GGMom yesterday for a nice lunch and visit in New Jersey.

More Easter Photos (this is it, I promise)

Here is Sophie at her Nanny and Poppy's playing with the easter eggs her Aunt Pat gave her. We had a great dinner and wonderful visit with the Oxenfords for Easter.

Easter 2009 - Our Little Family

Happy 1st Easter

Happy Easter!!!

Sophie's first Easter has been a great hit so far. She woke up and got to discover her 1st Easter Basket which had 3 books, a stuffed bunny, some candy (to play with - not for Sophie to eat yet unfortunately), and plastic eggs! Guess which are the biggest hit??? The plastic eggs, of course! And, they're a hit with the cats (particularly Ollie), too.

Then, Dee Ree and Pop Pop stopped by and gave her another sweet Easter Basket with a fantastic bunny that plays "If You're Happy and You Know It" and flaps its ears up and down. They also gave her a plastic egg filled with plastic candy (more for me and Jim, yum) and the basket itself is also an adorable sun hat!

Now, she is upstairs sleeping and after she wakes up we'll get the whole family ready to head out to Pottstown for Easter Dinner and more fun.

Other than all the Easter activity, we had a wonderful time visiting with the Snedikers yesterday. Unfortunately, since Jim got strep throat this week our visiting with them got cut short but after three days of antibiotics, Jim was up for a little visit over dinner in the evening and we were so happy to see them again before they left this morning for Ohio.

Hope everyone is having a very Happy Easter so far and much love to all our family and friends this Easter and always...