Sophie and Cosmo Play - a story in pictures

Sophie discovers Cosmo's toy mouse.

"You want this?"

Sophie throws the mouse to Cosmo.

Cosmo bats the mouse back to Sophie.

Sophie taunts Cosmo. Cosmo remains slightly interested.

Sophie throws the mouse again. Cosmo is ready to play (look at the curled paw.)

Cosmo passes the mouse back to Sophie. Sophie then puts the mouse in her mouth, thus ending the game and my picture taking.

An Apple a Day

I hosted a jewelry party today, so my morning was filled with cleaning and making snacks for the party. Sophie was not interested in letting me work though, as she fussed until I picked her up. I sat her up on the counter (she loves being up there) so that I could still try to work on things (right next to her, of course). Sophie quickly became fascinated with an apple she found.

She held it in her hands, turned it around a few times, and squeezed it to her body. Then she tried to bite into the apple. I smirked because it was a big apple and she has such a tiny mouth with just a few full sized teeth. Of course I forgot how stubborn determined my daughter can be. She continued to try to bite into the apple. After a few minutes I noticed the apple had a tiny bite taken out of it's skin.

Surveying her progress

Sophie wasn't satisfied with that one tiny bite though. She kept trying to eat the apple. Even when I moved her off of the counter back onto the floor, she continued to eat the apple. If she crawled somewhere, the apple went with her.

She was so occupied with the apple that I was able to finish making my snacks. When I went over to see how she had been doing with the apple, this is what Joe and I found.

Wow! I guess the kid likes apples.

It is Here!

Tooth #7, that is. I noticed earlier this week that her other 'fang' tooth (or right upper lateral incisor for those who don't use my 'slang' terms). She has been crabby this week, especially yesterday. Today she let me look back in her mouth and, sure enough, the tooth had broken through.

In other news, I am pretty sure that I should rename this blog "Yup, she has another tooth." It seems like I keep posting about teeth. Hard to believe she only had 3 at the beginning of October (Yes, I went back and checked in the blog to be sure). Crazy!

Harry Potter

I have a future Harry Potter fan on my hands.

Daddy's Girl

We celebrated Thanksgiving early with Joe's family today. Sophie loved being with her cousins, aunts, uncles, great grandpa, and of course her grandparents. She also enjoyed some delicious Thanksgiving food. Her favorite part, in my opinion, was rubbing food in her hair. (This was my least favorite part. I hate messes....good thing I have a child!)
With all of the food in her hair, I knew tonight would be a bath night. Joe usually gives Sophie her baths. She always seems to have a blast when he is in there with her. I always hear her laughing and splashing around. When I give her baths she doesn't seem too impressed and wants out early. Sure she will laugh and splash a little, but nothing like when she is with her dad. *heavy sigh*
When it was time for her bath, I decided to let Sophie decide who she wanted to give it to her. So I asked, "Sophie, who do you want to give you a bath? Mom or Dad?" Without any hesitation, as if she really understood the question, she loudly answered, "Dad!" I tried again a minute later, switching the order of mom and dad. Again, "Dad dad!" She then crawled over to him and pulled up on his knees, as if to let him know that it was time for her bath.
I definitely have a Daddy's girl on my hands!

Another!

I was looking in Sophie's mouth today to check on how her teeth are coming along. I was very surprised to see that her right front tooth is coming in! Now she has 6 teeth - her upper and lower center incisors and her upper and lower left lateral incisors. 3 teeth are fully formed, 1 is halfway formed, and 2 have just broke through. Wow! I guess we won't have to sing "All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth" this year for Sophie.

A blurry/grainy picture of her teeth. You can't really see the ones that are just now coming in, but you can see the others.

Happy Halloween!

Today was Sophie's 2nd Halloween. I still remember my little flower last year...so small, so sweet. She laid in my arms as Joe and I passed out candy. She only lasted about 20 minutes since it was so cold. 

As you could already tell from the previous post, this year Sophie was a ladybug. {I'm sensing a garden theme...I need to break that next year!}



Look at the sad, floppy antennae. Ha!

I know there are a lot of people who take their 1 year olds, or those younger, out trick-or-treating. I don't really see the need for this (more power to you if you do this-just my own thoughts on it all). She isn't going to eat the candy so it would just be for us and we can buy our own candy. (We will take her next year though.) So once again this year, Sophie sat outside with us to help pass out candy. We didn't get that many trick-or-treaters, so mostly Sophie just played in the candy bowl.

She loved pulling out the Hersey Kisses. She would push away the bigger pieces of candy to find all of the kisses.

She even tried to stick a few kisses into her mouth...with the wrapper still on! (You can barely see the foil on the kiss she is putting in her mouth in the picture below.) She was very good though and always took them out of her mouth and gave them to me when I asked for them.  

Since it was Halloween and she was so interested in the kisses, we decided to let her have some. We don't normally give Sophie sweets except on rare occasions. I mean we do feed her a lot of 'crap' food like nuggets and fries because she will actually eat them, but usually no sweets (with the exception of rice krispie treats and her birthday cake/cupcakes). She does drink chocolate Pediasure from time to time, so she knows what chocolate tastes like, but Hersey Kisses are the real deal. She LOVED it!



Yum!

Notice the chocolate fingers and tongue. She couldn't get enough!

She wants more!



Besides loving chocolate, Sophie really enjoyed all of the kids who came to our house for candy. Every time they would come to the porch she would spin around to look at them. Half of the time she squealed in delight or 'ohhhhhhhh' excitedly at them. A few of my old students stopped by and Sophie was giggling and pointing as they came down the driveway. Sometimes Sophie would grab a piece of candy from the bucket, as if she were going to pass it out to the kids. She would never give the candy up if she did this, but it was the thought the counted. We still had trick-or-treaters when we took Sophie inside. Every time the doorbell would ring she would say "ohhhh!" really loud and crawl toward the door. Adorable!

It seems like Sophie had a great time this year on Halloween. I can't wait until next year. I have a feeling that she will love going door to door, especially when she sees all of the chocolate she will get!

"Would you like some candy?"
(Notice the mouth full of chocolate.)