Me Spelled My NaME

So for the first time, all by myself, without being prompted I spelled my name. Daddy and I were having fun with sparkle glue and markers. He was spelling words for me as they came up. If I said "pie" he would write down PIE on the paper in front of me. I decided to surprise him. I told him I was going to write my name: Sophia.

He looked doubtful, but said, "OK, I'd love to see you do that". He had up to this point ever only seen me write my first name as "S" as in "S" for Sophia :)

I wish I would have taken a picture when he saw me write out the following:

S O p (backwards) H A (upside down) I (Big I)

I know, I know, the I and the A were reversed but hey, I'm not even 3 yet.

The "I" is probably the hardest to see, but it's just to the right and above the upside down "A". I made a little cross on the top and told Daddy it was "Big I"

Christmas Morning

Daddy saw that Santa's cookies were missing Christmas morning. He asked me what happened to em'.

Christmas Eve

Mommy and Daddy told me how Santa was going to get into the house on Christmas Eve. I wasn't sure if that was going to work or not but I gave them the benefit of the doubt. They have been through this before (that's what they keep telling me anyway). But before Santa magically made his way inside the house we had cookies to make!

We made gingerbread cookies. Did we have fun . . of course! Was it messy . . . you betcha!!

Were the cookies pretty . . . not so much :)

A new tradition is getting to open one gift on Christmas Eve

I'm laying out the milk and (fudge) for Santa. I have carrots for the reindeer too.

I unlocked the fireplace door for Santa. He forgot to shut it on his way out though. I woke up and the door was wide open!!

Downtown Shopping

We went for a little shopping trip downtown on Saturday. We usually avoid downtown on the weekends since Mommy and Daddy spend enough time down there. But on Christmas we make exceptions, and . . . . there's the carousel of course.

Watching the street performer playing on his plastic drums. He was pretty good and I gave him a tip!

Me and Mommy on the carousel. It went really fast!

Me and Daddy. We all went on the carousel twice. Once when we first got downtown and once before we left.

Anonymous

We had an anonymous comment that someone missed my animals in the top banner of the page. Well, I'm here to please and I put the animals back. We have a double top banner now. Me, Mommy, and Daddy and my critters.

Enjoy Anonymous and thanks for the comment.

Christmas Tree Huntin'

This year for our Christmas Tree we went to a tree farm to cut one ourselves

Me and Mommy loading up on the trailer to get deeper into the tree farm

Me and Daddy trying to find the perfect tree

Found it! Just my size. Now, to cut it down. Boy that's hard work, especially when you're trying to cut it down with a stick.

Here I am putting one of my first ornaments on MY tree. One of my requests this year was to have a pink, purple, and blue tree. Mommy and Daddy bought a pretty pink ribbon/weave thingy and put it around the tree for me. I like it!

Daddy said he wanted me to put this picture in here. Nothing Christmassy necessarily, just me being a little sassy :)