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11 years ago
We went to a friend of ours for a Halloween party last night and had great food and desserts. We took the kids trick or treating and it was so fun! I haven't seen that many kids trick or treating in a neighborhood since I was a kid. They were everywhere! Christopher had so much fun going house to house. He was too shy to knock on the door and say anything, but he would tell them thank you. Sophie was starting to get a cold, drop a nap and a bottle all in the last two days, so she was pretty fussy by party time, but still looked adorable as a little lady bug. Here are photos from the evening.
Sophie as a ladybug, me as a cat, Brandon as Mr. Incredible, and Christopher as Dash
Sophie seems to be growing up faster than ever lastely. Now that I've finally gotten her to eat our food I think I've bought my last round of baby food and that is super exciting for me! It's so nice to have one thing down. (Now if I just can just get Christopher potty trained, his diapers will be another thing down!) She is getting more active in her playing and now has so many things she likes doing. For example: jumping in the door jumper, dancing anywhere at any time, crawling after Christopher, singing, swinging, chewing on everything, playing with my hair (rubbing it against hers, guess she's dreaming of long hair), giving Daddy the biggest smiles you've ever seen, making bulldog faces, sniffing really fast and making Christopher laugh, and now her latest, flying planes. We pulled out Christopher's Pooh plane from his first Christmas and they have had so much fun playing with it. She kicks her legs like crazy when sitting on it and tries to catch the spinner when Christopher's on it. He pushes her down the hall and they both just laugh. She just seems to get more and more fun. I love our little girl!
Last Saturday we took the kids to our church's pumpkin patch, which ofcourse Christopher refers to as the "punk-man patch". I had taken the kids on Monday with the MOPS group, but I wanted to go back with Brandon when they had the bigger activites going on. As soon as we pulled into the parking lot Christopher starts yelling, "Dinosaur!!" We weren't sure what he was talking about until we got out of the van and saw the big blow up bouncer was a dinosaur. That was the first thing we had to do. The line was kind of long, obviously, and so we went to the petting zoo. Christopher held a bunny and saw the chickens and goats. Then he was ready to jump. We waited in line, Christopher had his turn and, of course, wanted to go again. We told him he had to pick out pumpkins for Mommy and Daddy. He had us walk all over and finally he found two he liked. (The kids had gotten their own pumpkins on Monday.) The next day, instead of carving them, we had him paint our pumpkins. He had so much fun and was very proud of his work. We think it's pretty cute too!
Christopher has gone potty twice today. That's TWICE!!! It has been a huge battle to get him to go on the potty and about once every two or three weeks we can get him to do it. This morning as we were getting ready for MOPS he darts to the bathroom and I hear him moving his stepstool around. He yells to me that he has to go potty so I run in there and he is turning around, diaper on the floor and pants at his ankles trying to sit down without falling. I put him on the potty and wait, 5 seconds later we have success. I couldn't believe it. I've quit asking b/c he always says no and this time he did it all by himself. He gets his dum dum sucker and is happy as he can be. Then this afternoon I ask him if he wants to try again and he goes a little, but you would have thought he'd won the lottery I was so proud of him. This time he gets a Tootsie Roll sucker, I told him every time he goes the prize will be a little bigger. He's happy again and I'm beaming with pride. Maybe we'll have one kid out of diapers in a couple months, but I'm not going to get my hopes up. Just my prayers!
Christopher has been singing his ABCD's (as he calls them) and he does pretty good considering we haven't taught him how it goes. (We've tried, he just doesn't want to hear it from us.) When he gets really fussy durig the day I have him go lie on his bed and I turn on a cd that Grammie gave him and it sings the ABC's using Bible words to go with the letters. Well, it's working b/c he's singing it. Here's how it tends to go, "A, B, C... H, I... L, M, N, O... Q, R, S... W, X, Y, Z. Now I know my ABC's, next time, sing with me." Pretty good, huh? After singing it a few times Brandon tells him how great he did and to sing after him to help him learn the rest of the song. They get to the "L, M, N, O, P" part and Christopher sings it like this, "L, M, N, O, poopie." He goes back to singing it his way and when he gets to the end he sings, "Next time, see you later!"
The doctor said that when Sophie was 9 months old we could introduce meats. I've been looking forward to the day when this might happen b/c I don't seem to feed her fast enough and thought maybe she'd be happier if she fed herself. I wasn't about to give her a spoon and a glass bottle of baby food b/c, though I love my daughter and want her to try new things, I wasn't up for the mess that would cause. So, the other day, on her 9 month birthday I thought we'd try giving her "people" food and see what happened. I've tried giving her a green bean or two in the past, but she didn't know what to do with it, so I waited. And waited. We had chicken that had been simmering in the crockpot all afternoon and so it was nice and tender. I cut up little pieces and put them on her tray to see what happened and she loved it! I'd already fed her baby food, so she didn't eat much, but it was a huge success. The next night we had meatloaf. I fed her a little baby food so she'd have room for dinner and when I put the meat and green beans on her tray she went to town! She couldn't shovel it in fast enough. It was great! She was a mess, but it was all worth it. She actually wanted my fork, so I got up to give her a baby one, but she just chewed on it like I thought she would. Finally, a nice peaceful dinner where the four of us ate together. This is what I've been waiting for!
Ok, so this is the third time I've had to write this, so I'm going to just show the picture. I'm tired of writing about how we came to these costumes. Just know that they are worn quite frequently and always bring lots of laughter.
Today our little Sophie is 9 months old. She is growing so fast and learning so much right now. She cut three upper teeth at one time while we were at Disney World and last night I noticed the fourth one coming through giving her a total of six teeth. She is like a new puppy and is chewing on everything! The other night in the tub she figured out that if she slides her feet back and forth she can spin around on her bottom. It was pretty funny! She loves to swing outside and watch her brother dig. She giggles when she bounces on the trampoline with us. She enjoys shopping with me and going out to eat b/c she can sit in a highchair. She wants to do what everyone else is doing and be up where everyone else is and she will be soon enough. She's been crawling for a while now and so on Sunday I pulled out our little walker toy to see how she'd do with it and she walked all over the place. She loves using it now and goes until her little chubby legs can't hold her any longer. (I'm excited b/c she weighs about 24 pounds and I'm starting to have hand and wrist injuries from carrying her around.)
I know most moms have a hard time when their children start hitting these milestones, but I actually look forward to them. I love when they start walking and when you can finally turn their car seat around (yes, I'm actually counting down to that day), but I honestly think it's b/c my children usually weigh so much by then that I am sore from having to carry them around. And around 8 or 9 months they cry every time they get in the car b/c they are tired of facing the back of a seat. (I would be too!) But really, I just love when they reach the age where they can run around and play more and do more and learn more. I love teaching them new words and new ways to play. It is a complete thrill for me, I can't believe how quickly the time has gone by, but I'm looking forward to the next few months of her life and seeing what new things she learns.
(Here she is digging outside with her brother. She loves doing whatever he's doing and doesn't mind getting a little dirty while doing it!)
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