15 months

So you know those things that before you become a parent you dislike other parents doing. My husband now has one of those...it always bothered him when a parent was asked how old their child was and they responded with a number of months.

But now when he is asked how old Sophie is...yeah he responds in months...because the difference between 12 or 13 months and 15 months is pretty stinkin huge!

I LOVE the toddler stage! They are so hilarious and the playing...the real playing is amazing...the stuff that dreams are made of.

I am astounded by her and feel like such a silly parent for every day being amazed by how smart my daughter is. But really she counts to five!! Well ok fine...I count and she points to her fingers and says "twoo" a lot. BUT heck I call that counting
Its sometimes honestly frustrating to love her so much because I know she will not really understand just how much I love her no matter how many times I tell her!

So intense!

She was so distracted by the flowers that I had the hardest time getting her to look at me!

Here she is reunited with Snow White! I decided that after 12 months I would start only photographing them together every three months....so here yeah here they are.

She didn't like the water?

Watching her become a little person and not a baby gives me pangs knowing that she will never ever be that tiny helpless sweet bundle again but that only lasts for a second because then she makes me laugh by hulking out. Oh what new wonders will tomorrow bring! :-)

Birthday PTY!

OHHHH my....well it was quite a day and totally worth it and so much fun. Little pickle preformed as if she had been rehearsing for the party for the past year. She preformed and entertained and hammed it up so much it left me wondering who this little one was and where my scared shy baby was!!!

I guess the bold colors inspired her!

I officially nicknamed her pickle when she was first born because she was just well...a PICKLE! Sometimes even a sour pickle ...and as I started thinking about planning her party I went back and forth on the idea of making it a "pickle" party.....finally I threw caution to the wind and decided to pickle it out.

I think she decided she likes birthday parties!

She took the tissue out of each bag like a pro...and then knew to look in the bag and get the gift!?!

She even got excited about the clothes!

Yes she is hugging the super cute outfit from her grammy! 

She did so great signing "thank you" to everyone!

She was delicate about the cake at first but once she figured it out she dug right in!

Yumm!

Thank you so very much to all our friends and family for coming and making the party wonderful. And even more importantly thank you so much for the unique amazing and important part you play in Sophie's life!

It is impossible for me to explain how very much I am looking forward to the year ahead. Oh the places we will go.....

Party Preview and 1 year pictures part two.

Here is a little taste of the upcoming 1 year birthday bash.

It will be a colorful day at least!

I am so far very glad that I decided to yank the idea of taking Sophie's picture with the same stuffed animal each month from a local radio personality. Sophie and Snow White have had lots of fun. And my how much has changed!

Oh my little one year old!

Yes she is standing on her own...but only because she did not realize it!

Lets get this party started!

Summer time swimmingly

In Texas the only real way to enjoy being outside at all is to do so in the water. Therefore Sophie's first swim was important on several levels.

We have calculated using the latest scientific methods that the chances of Sophie really loving/enjoying her first experience with anything to be approximately 30%. This experience was definitively part of the 70% chance of not loving.

The most positive response was "meh" and the most negative was crying like we were killing her. It is fourtunate that we have learned our baby and were not disappointed and know that the second or third swim will be all we hope it will be. Or maybe the fifth swim :-)

Yes its true our little pickle is also a fraidy cat.

Checking out the water

Just dipping in the toes!

She did like the fountain!

Meh.....

...and wahhhh

Oh little one we are gona tell stories about you!!!

Tricks..

So about a month and a half ago Sophie reached one of my favorite stages...the "trick" stage as demonstrated below...

She also without prompting started "talking" on the phone!

Needless to say we went a bit wild over it! Tricks are so much fun!

Hope we didn't loose anyone in our first time travelling post!!

Hiatus

So I guess I took an unplanned hiatus from blogging. Sorry all :-(
We will have to take a trip back in time because time travel is cool and full of possible paradoxes....but anyway...
we should start in the present with this amazing cutie...

she is heart melting-ly wonderful...

she is a mover and a shaker

and she LOVES books...

her laugh is incredible and like all parents we will do any silly thing just to hear it..

The above smiles were created by mom singing the ABC song while interjecting Qapla' intermittently. It was hilarious. 

We love her and every day I wonder over the fact that in less than a month she will be a year old. It feels like it was yesterday and yet it also feels like she has been here for always.

And soon I will attempt the aforementioned time travel without unraveling the universe or running into my other self :-)