Twofer

This is Sofia getting ready to go out. She now, for sure, recognizes herself in the mirror and we always take a look to make sure we are up to scratch before we head out. This sequence of photos cracks me up. She was mugging and posing and generally letting herself know just how fabulous she is. And, I may be a bit biased here, but I couldn't agree with her more. Too bad we can't take the little girl out of the mirror. I'd take another one, just the same, in a heartbeat.

A little night music.

Sofia gave us a little concert before bed last night. Don't you just love how she uses the whole keyboard, at least as far as her little arms will reach.

Bath Monster

All Hail....

.....the magic milk warming machine.

Where's my pony daddy?

Check out the scrape down Sofia's nose. The first of many I am sure. It's tough being a big kid.

Mates!

How absolutely cute is this?

This is Sofia with one of her best mates, Peter, who lives across the street. They were pushing each other back and forth in Sofia's Radio Flyer up and down the footpath.




Whoops....lost focus for a minute.


Peter's turn. Sof is thrilled. Peter pushes her way faster than Daddy does. Look at her face.....I definately think she has a taste for speed. I hope Peter isn't allowed a motorcycle when he grows up - he's a wild man!

Hangin' with the big kids!

Today when I dropped the Sofster off at school, Miss Wendy asked her "When are we going to see you walk, Sofia?". Sof is the youngest kid at school and is the only one still crawling. She has consistantly been taking two, maybe three steps and falling flat on her face, which by the way, she finds extremely funny, but nothing more than that.

Well, something clicked with her today.

Maybe it was all the big kids at school but apparently she walked all over the place today, and it didn't stop when she came home. In fact, she was so determined to keep up with the big kids that she got a nice scrape all down her nose from going down the slide face first into the ground. She's a pretty tough kid though and it didn't keep her down for long.

GO SOF GO!

New duds

The mailman delivered Sofia a package today from her Aunt, Uncle and cousins in New Zealand full of wonderful summer clothes. One of the few, in fact, probably the only advantage of living in different hemispheres, is that it is possible to buy clothes for the others season at really good sale prices. So, Sof got new, super cute Pumpkin Patch clothes.
Unfortunately, the model was only up for one showing so you will have to wait and see the other ensembles in action. Thanks Wilsons!!

Just because....

....this is the most beautiful face I ever laid eyes on.

She drinks at last.....

....from a sippy cup. And, after every sip she lets out a little "Ahhhh". It's not that Sofia didn't know how to drink from a sippy cup, she did. She just didn't want to drink out of a sippy cup. She drinks the bath water out of a regular cup - maybe we should have added some bubbles to our tap water. We are learing that our girlie does things when she is good and ready and no amount of coaxing will change that. I am thinking this ought to be interesting in the teenage years!!!!!! For now, we will be happy with this progress. Cheers Sofia!