Sophia Walking with Daddy

Sophia cannot walk on her own yet, but she's been enjoying practicing while holding on to us. Notice her really cool shirt! :)

Sophia's Weight

Sophia has been a bit underweight in her life, so I like to know how she's doing. She has not been weighed for a while now, so when I was at the post shop today and saw a scale for weighing packages, I popped her on it. She now weighs 8.8 kgs=19.4 pounds. Good job Sophia! Another pound or so and she can face forward in the car seat (I think she's a bit bored with being backwards). Sorry, no photos today.

Yummy Ice Cream!!!

Sophia had her first real ice cream cone the other day. She had Kiwifruit flavor and loved it. She was so excited! She kept smiling and laughing while she was eating it. She was such a sticky mess but I'm pretty sure she would say it was worth it. Afterwards she was totally on a sugar high, it was so funny! She was talking to everyone we passed on the street on the way home. When we got home she would crawl one way, laugh, then crawl the other way and laugh again! Thankfully she burned off all her energy and was able to sleep that night. :) Aaaahhhh, summer! I just couldn't decide which photo to put up, so here are a few.

Summer Time

Sophia had been a bit scared of the water lately. I read about this pool in a magazine, and it's about a 5 minute drive, so we thought we'd try it. It has a nice gradual entrance into the water, so Sophia did very well playing in the pool. We even went into the deep end and she was happy with it. Go Sophia!

Sophia has been having fun playing with her buckles on her stroller.  She can stand there for so long!  It's a good distraction.

Yummy watermelon!  

Baby #2

Well everyone, here are some ultrasound pics of baby #2! We found out what it is, so we can have a poll. Actually, I was thinking of more of a betting thing, so I can raise some money to help my mom pay for a flight so she can come here to help when this baby makes it's entry into the world! Anyone want to place bets? :)

I know this is freaky, but I just had to post this!

A Day in the Life...

...of a mother. I'm sure this has happened many times before to many other parents, and much worse than it could have happened to me, but it was still gross. Sophia and I were both napping this afternoon, and I woke up to her crying so went into her room and it smelled like poo. I checked and sure enough, her nappy was off and there was poo in her bed. There was also some poo on her hands and face and dress. Not too bad though. She has not had a dirty nappy in quite a while since we've been using her little potty, so maybe she just thought, "This is gross, I don't want to lay here with poo on my bum," and took it off. I'm just glad she didn't smear it all over the place. Note to self: next time, duct tape the nappy on. :)

Snorkeling

Travis was finally able to take me snorkeling to Goat Island Marine Reserve on Saturday. We were going to go last weekend, but the weather did not cooperate. Unfortunately everyone else decided to go as well so it was a bit crowded, but it was still fun. It was good we went before I got even larger out front! I had to get a wet suit that was too big so I could fit my belly in it. That meant it didn't keep me as warm as it normally would have. And that meant I was cold and ready to get out after about an hour. Poor Travis! He said he could have kept going for another few hours. We saw an eagle ray hiding in the sand and watched it for a while, then it started swimming so we followed it. All of a sudden it just took off really fast and we didn't know where it went. It was so amazing to see something like that up close and in person!

Alisa came over and babysat for Sophia and as you can see, she enjoys being with Alisa. She was really good while we were gone, Alisa said.