More on Sophie

We have this potty training toilet in the garage for some future date. While Keri was prepping furniture for paint, Sophie decided to entertain herself for several minutes with this. I hope she is always so joyful about the potty.

Often when we get out the camera, Sophie repeatedly says "Cheese?!" and runs to get her camera. This usually ruins the shot we were trying to catch but it's sweet.

Just look at our kid make her way into mom and dad's big bathtub. She has such a cute bum. I absolutely adore it!

Rock On!

What's Going Down at our Place

Splish-Splash. We are enjoying scattered thunderstorms with tornando warnings just west of Fort Worth. Don't worry. We have our shelter and 72-hour kits ready for the season. Here Sophie is enjoying a nice puddle in our front yard walk way.


Shall we dance? Sophie and her parents have this tradition of dancing together often. We don't usually get dressed up but we were getting ready for church this morning (see Keri's freshly washed, wet hair?). Yes, that's John Denver in the background. Keri gets rather winded these days with being 6 months pregnant and whirling a cute, 27 pound child around. It's all totally worth it.


Stuck! She does escape eventually.

Sophie Quirks

When Keri brushes her teeth in the morning, Sophie will grab Keri's hair brush and rub the bristles across her tongue to "brush" her teeth too.

Yes, we know it's mid-February but Sophie while "reorganizing" her closet brushes against her Christmas shirts with the flashing lights that are motion sensitive and decides that is what she is going to wear today. She wore the Christmas green and red one with Rudolph and Santa right on the front to Home Depot and Hobby Lobby. I have to admit, it is the first time since Christmas that she hasn't put up a whining fight to get dressed in the morning.

We often sing the Carpenter's song, Close to You, to Sophie. You know, "Why do birds suddenly appear Every time you are near? Just like me, they long to be Close to you." We sing two of the verses and do the "Ahhhhhhhh Close to You" part twice after each one. Sophie loves to sing along with "You" for "Close to you" and the "Ahhhhhhhhh" part. She really tries to get the intonation in there too. It's Sooooo Sweet!

If You Haven't Got Your Health...

What a week! As posted below, Sophie got the stomach flu last Sunday and then just became a picky eater for the better part of the week. Keri was none to thrilled to catch the stomach flu on Tuesday night. Thank goodness, Neal stayed home on Wednesday to take care of Sophie and check in on Keri. Keri was pretty much back to normal by Friday. Neal got a little digestive funk going on at the end of the week but we are very happy to say that we are all better this Sunday. We were all able to attend church and even had several friends over for taco salad.

Neal has jury duty tomorrow and we are hoping he gets out of it. Nothing else really going on but regular life. We are just happy to be healthy and able once again.

Super Bowl and Super Parenting

Well, we spent our Sunday evening with Rudy and Becky eating all sorts of wonderfully bad foods and watching the Super Bowl. Carter and Kari, and their daughter, Kenzie, were invited over to join in the fun. They are REAL Steelers fans. They wore their jerseys and waved their "terrible towels" and Kari even made a cake (YUM!) with the Steelers and their insignia on it. Neal is a fan of the game and Keri rooted for the Cardinals to create opposition and side with the underdog. Sophie had fun running around the house and playing with Oma, Opa, Tracer, their dog, and Kenzie.

We got to bed a bit late for our sweet Sophie but life is like that sometimes. Sadly we woke to coughing and whimpering at 4 a.m. and saw that Sophie had thrown-up for the first time in her young life. For the next two hours approximately we held her and let her vomit into towels several times while the other parent cleaned up and got laundry going. Poor kid and poor us--no one loves the smell of vomit. She took it all in stride though. She'd sit up and heave and usually after 3 hurls she'd sign "finished" and we'd get the next towel ready. She finally was able to relax enough to get back to sleep without much more trouble. Poor Neal got up and headed to work as usual and Keri has been enjoying a rather chipper, sick kid who is keeping things down for now but isn't eating or drinking a whole lot either. The nurse said it probably wasn't too much junk food from last night but the flu since she wasn't eating much still. Well wishes to Sophie!