Ready for the Big Game!

Tomorrow is the big game between Carolina and Duke. We're all ready to watch it and cheer for our team, but I think that Sophie is having some split allegiances. In the following pics from a couple of weeks ago, she's wearing her Wisconsin Badgers shirt while watching a UCLA game. (FYI...she set her own chair up this way to watch the game.)

SupaStar!

Last weekend, while shopping, Ian came across some Sophie-sized sunglasses. She loved them so much, she started crying when we had to take them away to pay for them. Here she is sporting her new glam look:

Daddy's Home!

Ian came home from his class trip to Europe last night, and Sophie was so excited to see him! I wasn't sure how she'd react since he'd been gone for a while, but as soon as she saw him she ran straight to him! She wanted him to hold her the rest of the night (even insisting that he change her diaper at the airport...I didn't protest!). When he was getting the luggage, she'd get a little upset whenever she'd lose sight of him. Most of the time that he was gone, she'd had trouble sleeping, but she slept right through the night last night!

Needless to say, Mommy's just as happy that Daddy's home safely!

Here are some random pictures of Sophie over the holidays. The first one is one of my favorites. I remember this pretty clearly...Sophie watching Shrek the Third (which she got for Christmas) with her new Shrek and Donkey dolls. I'm not sure where she got this pose from, but she seemed extremely comfortable!

Sophie enjoyed sitting on Grandma's Harley...no rides, though, for a few more years!

Sophie received a hat in her stocking on Christmas morning and insisted on putting it on right away...that girl loves hats!

I don't know if you can tell in this picture, but she received a little stuffed hippo from her great uncle Kenny. She is really into wrapping her animals and dolls in blankets and putting them "night-night," but we didn't have any blankets handy, so she stole some tissue paper from someone's present and insisted on wrapping the hippo in it!

"Christmas" in Kentucky

We celebrated Christmas in Kentucky over the period of a couple of days before we left for California. We spread the present opening out because we discovered that Sophie insisted on playing with each toy as she received them, which would have taken forever in one sitting. So she opened a couple of presents from Mommy and Daddy and all from Grandma and Grandpa Schmidt, Grandma Dennis, Aunt Heather, and Uncle James, Aunt Lea and Ayden on our "Christmas Eve."

We bought her a Cabbage Patch Kid, and here she is opening it. After this experience, we'll definitely open and assemble all toys in the future before wrapping them. She was so excited to play with all of her toys that she'd get really upset when she couldn't get to them right away.



Her baby came with a bottle, which she loves to feed to all of her babies and stuffed animals (and occasionally to herself!)


She really liked the train set that she received from Grandma Dennis and played with it for quite a while. She also insisted on wearing her new dinosaur sweater as soon as she opened it until...


She opened another outfit from Grandma and Grandpa Schmidt. She then made me change her again and wore the new outfit for the rest of the evening.

Christmas Eve Night

Finally, I've had a chance to upload some pictures from Christmas to our computer. Being a single mom while Ian's in Europe has had its challenges, so I'm running behind on almost everything! I hope these pictures make up for the delay. Grandma Schmidt made Sophie's dress that she wore to church on Christmas Eve. She looked adorable!



I have some more pictures of her in her dress, but I forgot to upload them last night. I'll post more each day this week until we get caught up from Christmas.

Master of Disguise

Sophie really has a thing for hats. She tries to make everything into a hat, so it was no surprise when she decided to use a bucket. She sometimes wanders around with this bucket on her head. She also came up with a "new ensemble" that includes her pjs, her Carolina hat, and her goggles.

When It Rains, It Pours

Sophie's eyes are doing much better today...a little puffy and red, but on the mend. Her cold has taken a little turn for the worse, but it's still just congestion and a cough--treatable by over-the-counter cold medicine (which must now be bought with proof of ID at the pharmacy counter just in case we are really covering for a meth lab that uses tiny drops of infant medicine!). But...yesterday Sophie took a little bit of a tumble while at the playground, and although it's rather superficial, she looks like she was in a bar fight or a car accident! This poor little girl needs the weekend to come more than her mommy and daddy do!

On a funnier note, last weekend it was cool enough one day to wear long-sleeved shirts, so I put her in her new shirt that Grandma Ethel bought her on their last visit. I had to run to the bank, only 5 minutes away, so I packed Sophie up in her carseat, and by the time we returned she had done this (and I'm still not sure how, considering she was strapped in at the time!):

New Favorite Jammies

Sophie has really been into dragons and dinosaurs lately, mostly due to the fact that one of her favorite movies, Shrek, has a dragon chase scene in it. (She also likes chase scenes!) A couple of weeks ago, I found some dinosaur pajamas for her and bought them, and it's been cold enough at night for her to wear them the last few nights. She gets really excited to put them on. These pictures also have her sticker from when she got her shots last week. The sticker stayed on for two days!