Grandma and Grandpa

Grandma and Grandpa are here!  This week is going to be an awful lot of fun.  I will have to write more and let you know what we get to do with them. Yesterday was a REALLY long day.  We drove to a Bavarian town called Leavenworth.  The drive THERE wasn't so bad.  I was sitting in my car seat between mommy and grandma and when I wasn't napping, they kept me nice and entertained.  When we got to Leavenworth we stopped at a German restaurant and ate lunch.  Like usual, dad played with me while mom ate her food.  They said they liked the wiener schnitzel dishes that they ordered.  Grandma had some goulash soup but it wasn't like the goulash they were all familiar with.  It didn't have any noodles in it, but she said it was still good.  

After lunch we visited a fudge shop and they handed out samples of fudge.  The special of the week was buy one pound and get half a pound for free, so we walked out of there with a pound and a half of fudge, six different flavors:  Peanut butter, blueberry cheese cake, coconut almond, lemon, pistachio and regular chocolate.  My favorite part of the trip was the Kris Kringle Christmas shop.  It was full of sparkles and lights.  Daddy carried me through the shop and at one point I almost fell asleep under my floppy sun hat until a woman who works there lifted my hat to see my face.  She thought I was cute, but she woke me up.  

On our way back to our car we stopped at an ice cream shop.  Mommy got a scoop of rainbow sherbet (no milk for my tummy).  And Grandpa got a scoop of licorice ice cream.  He shared it with grandma.  You should have seen their tongues.  They were the darkest green color I have ever seen.  Mommy got a picture of them with their colored tongues sticking out.  She wanted me to post the picture, but I didn't want to do that to them. 

On the way home we were going to stop by a big waterfall, but I was getting really tired of sitting in my car seat.  I wanted to get home and I made sure that everyone in the car heard me.  I screamed for a long time.  I accomplished my goal because we didn't stop.  I am sure they will drag me out again, but hopefully the next trip will not be as long.  Other than sitting for too long, I think we all had a good first day.  

Sophia's First Poll

So we have a winner on Sophia’s first blog poll. With 50% of the vote it seems as though Sophia has a good mix of both Mommy and Daddy in the looks department. That was closely followed up by 40% Daddy and some joker ;) gave a single vote for “Wow! she’s way too cute to resemble either”. Time for that person to fess up.
So with the first poll complete it’s time for a new poll. The story behind this one is Sophia’s reluctance to any product silicone, or so it seems. She doesn’t like the bottle so far and would rather keep the nipple in the corner of her mouth and just let all the milk spill down her chin than feed. She’s a silly one all right. Neither will she take a pacifier, which may or may not necessarily be a bad thing. She just pushes it out with her tongue. Yeah, silly :) So what’s it gonna be everyone? Bottle or paci? Let the votes decide.

Ups-and-Downs

I'm not in a very good mood right now.  Yesterday was my two-month check up and everything was going well until that mean ol' nurse brought out those nasty needles.  Before she came in though, I met with the doctor.   When he walked in the room, I was standing on the examining table with some balance support from mom.  The doctor was impressed with how well I can support my own weight with my legs already.  He asked mommy is she was sure I am only two months old because babies usually don't start doing this until around 4 months of age.  He said I may go straight to walking and bypass crawling all together based on what he was seeing.  To tell you the truth, I don't like sitting or laying down very much like normal babies.  I much rather be doing ups-and-downs.  That is where I stand up then sit down repeatedly until I am ready to move on to the next thing to keep me occupied.  The rest of my appointment went well, like I said, until the nurse came in.  She is a big lady.  Much bigger than my mommy.  She had mommy lay me down on the table and hold my arms.  I thought it was a game until I felt a prick in my thigh, then another one and another one.  I cried so hard.  My face got all red and scrunched up and I CRIED.  After I settled down a little mommy let me eat and that made me feel better.  I got drunk on milk and fell asleep.  Sleep is all I want to do right now though because my legs don't hurt when I am asleep.  Needless to say, I have to take a break from my ups-and-downs because my muscles hurt, but believe me, I will be back at it as soon as I can.  

Deputized

This weekend I was deputized.  We were eager to get out of the house on Sunday so daddy checked the newspaper and found that  Mercer Island was holding an arts and crafts fair.  Mommy and Daddy hadn't been over in that area for quite a while so they decided to take me over there and show me what it is all about.  As we were walking around the booths, we decided it was time to take a break so we sat on a small grassy slope under some shade trees.  As mommy was walking up the slope her foot slipped out of her flip flop and her shoe broke.  We were right behind the police safety booth so we went over there to see if they had a safety pin to hold her shoe together until we were finished walking around.  They looked all over to booth and in some of the first aid kits that they had, but no safety pin.  Of course, when the two women police officers saw me they just melted.  They gave me a sticker badge and told me they are recruiting because they need more women officers on the force.  This police officer was kind enough to to pose with me and daddy in a picture.  (oh, and we ended up stopping at the mall on the way home so mommy could get some new flip flops.  Her new ones are black with pink straps.  Pink is my favorite color... or at least until my hair grows out and people can tell that I am a girl).

The Mercer Island craft fair was the second one that we had been to this weekend.  Every Saturday through the summer Edmonds holds a farmers market where they close off one of the streets downtown and people set up booths to sell their wares.  There is everything from fruits and veggies to jewelry to musicians.  It is small, but it's fun to go and see what's new.   Mommy and daddy bought a neat metal coat rack to hang up in the entry of our house.  The artist makes all kinds of metal garden elements.  His company is called Chirping Gardens.  Now all mommy has to do is hang it up.  Wonder when she will get to that.

Worn Out

What a week!  I am worn out.  Monday was kind of leisurely and thank goodness because I was already worn out from the weekend, but the rest of this week has been full of activity.  Tuesday mommy and I visited a friend of hers and she has a little girl just like me.   Her name is Violet and she is only two weeks younger than me.  Mommy told me that she is really cute and one day, when we are old enough to be aware that the other is in the room, we could be friends.  I would like to be friends with Violet. 

On Wednesdays daddy plays soccer with his team from work.  It is a co-ed team so both boys and girls play together.  The weather was really nice and I was tired of being cooped up in the house all day so all three of us drove out to Marymoor Park.  I get bored pretty easily so mommy and I weren't able to watch daddy play the whole game, but we saw most of it.  I like watching the people running back and forth on the bright green fields.  Unfortunately his team lost 0-1, but daddy plays on this team more for the exercise than the competition.  It ended up being a pretty late night for me.  We didn't get home until after my bedtime and it was hard for me to wind down after the exciting evening watching daddy play soccer.  

Thursday evening brought another first for me.  Mommy and Daddy took me to their favorite Mexican restaurant called  Taqueria Guaymas in Shoreline.  Daddy ordered his favorite pollo con creme and mommy got the pollo en mole.  For dessert they had Churros.  I don't remember dessert, or even the meal because sometime after ordering, I went into a daze and fell asleep.  It must have been all of the lovely white noise with people talking and dishes clanking.  I might let them go out to another restaurant.  It wasn't too bad.  

The tongue game

This one is for Daddy.  He showed me how to play this fun game with my tongue.  He sticks out his tongue at me and wiggles it all over the place.  It makes me laugh and then I stick my tongue out at him and it makes him laugh.  We could do this for hours.  It is such a fun game I thought I would try it with mommy this morning while she had the camera out.  We wanted to show daddy that I had on my cute orange pants, so this tongue game was a bonus.