Day at the Beach

Over the weekend I came down with a double ear infection.  Sure makes it hard to sleep.  All I want to do is lay on Mommy, day and night.  It's been tough.  With my ears hurting, I have been thrown off balance.  I try to walk, but I wobble more than usual.  I fell flat on my face on the tile floor the other day and got a little bloody nose.  Then the very next day I tumbled and hit my mouth on the seat of a wooden chair.  My tooth that was almost ready to poke through?  Well, it was quite bloody, but that was enough to make it appear.  I saw my pediatrician on Monday and he gave me some yummy medicine to take.  Its pink and it tastes like bubble gum.  Mommy tells me I am a good girl because I take my medicine, but really I just like the way it tastes. 

 Towards the middle of the week, I started to feel better and the weather was really nice so mommy and I decided to get out of the house and we took a walk down to the Edmonds beach.  Like usual, I napped in the jogging stroller on the way down there.  Once there, we got to watch a ferry dock, load and take off.  

Then we walked hand-in-hand in the sand along the water.

Then I got my first taste of SAND.  And I mean 'taste.'  I picked up a big handful and shoved it right into my mouth before mommy could stop me.  Good thing mommy thought to bring my sippy cup with us because I was able to wash out my mouth.  Yucky.  I will think twice before doing that again.  (notice I didn't say I would NEVER do that again...)

The beach really tuckers me out.  But we had a good time.  We were able to enjoy a hint of the nice weather that is just around the corner.

Happy Easter

I have never seen a stuffed animal so BIG!  AND it MOVES!  I was okay with it when we were in line and it was waving at me, but as soon as mommy sat me down and moved away that was the end of it.  The camera flashed once and then the bunny tried to bounce me on it's knee to make me laugh, but it had the opposite affect.  I didn't know that the thing I was sitting on could move.  It really freaked me out.  I turned to see why I was moving and I saw that this big stuffed animal had ahold of me.  GET ME OUT OF HERE!  Well, HAPPY EASTER anyway.  

Cheese Ball

What a cheese ball grin.  After opening up the Easter package that Grandma and Grandpa sent, I pointed the camera at Sophia and told her to smile.  This is what I got.  It wasn't a fluke either.  I pointed the camera at her a few more times and again told her to smile and she did the exact same thing.  This it true TROUBLE shining through!  

Mommy Journal: Something Special Every Day

Every day Sophia does something new to surprise me.  Today was no different.  Every evening around 7:00 the three of us go into her room to start winding down for the night.  The first thing we always do is 'make it night time' in her room by closing her blinds and turning on her lamp.  This is especially important as we are nearing summer and the sun is staying up later and later.  Next we change her into her jammies, read books, and play with quiet toys.  Tonight daddy had a soccer game to play so it was just baby and mommy to do the bedtime routine. 

After reading a few books to her, I laid down next to Sophia on the floor.  I knew she was watching my every move like she always does so I closed my eyes and pretended to fall asleep.  Next thing I knew my little girl, who moments before was surrounded by board books, had leaned over and laid her head down on my chest.  She snuggled her face into my neck.  Then she adjusted herself a couple of times until she was more comfortable and we laid there like that for a while.  She breathing her tired shallow breaths on my face and me stroking her back with my hand.  I can't quite explain the complete peace I felt as we both laid there cuddling and enjoying each other's company.  We had a moment and what a sweet moment it was!  

Bath time

It was only four days ago that I was telling you that I have four teeth.  Well guess what.  I have  SEVEN now!  Three of my teeth poked through over the last few days.  My smile is getting toothier as the days go by.  =)  Sorry, no close up pictures of my teeth.  I hardly let mommy or daddy get a glimpse inside my mouth, let alone a picture.  

Instead, I will share a bath time shot.  I really like my baths.  Here I am posing with my bath toys.  I still have a little black eye in this picture because it was taken a couple of days ago, but I promise you it has gotten better.  You can hardly see it now.  I have a few more little bruises on my forehead, but no pain no gain, right?  It's all the price I must pay for learning to balance on two feet.  Mommy shot some videos of me walking over the last few days and daddy is showing her how to splice a couple of them together so you can see how fast I am improving.  We will get a combined video posted soon.  

It's official: I can toddle

I am through with playing around.  Well, with learning to walk that is...  (this is my friend Violet and I can play with her for hours.  She is the one with the ornery smile.  Her mommy has watched me a couple of times while my mommy has gone to some job interviews.  We have fun together.)  Anyway, I am in full practice mode.  I practice walking any chance I get.  Instead of playing with my toys, I grab on to the closest set of big person fingers I can find and make them walk laps around the house with me.  Mommy sits down on the couch:  I find one finger and then two and I make her get up and follow me around the house.  Daddy comes home:  I wiggle in his arms until he puts me down on the floor and walks with me.  Miss Meg comes over for a visit: first thing I do is find her fingers and drag her around with me.

Up until yesterday (April 1st... I didn't get this blog published until a week later) I have been toying around with one unsupported step here or two wobbly steps there.  Now I can practically make it across the room without help, although I prefer to hold onto someone's hand while we walk.  

My favorite thing to do is take a walk outside.  I like to walk all over our cul de sac.  We are one of the rare streets in our neighborhood that has sidewalks.  I like to step up on and jump down off of the curbs.  Mommy is afraid that one of these days I am going to fall down and skin my face on the sidewalk.  Maybe, but until then and probably even after, I am going to be a dare devil and push my limits along with mommy's buttons.