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On Thanksgiving Day Sophia took her first plane ride to see her Grandma and Grandpa in Utah. She was such a good girl the entire way, despite her filling her diaper during the first 5 minutes of final decent. When we finally had a […]

Sophia has learned how to give kisses…her own version of a kiss of course. She comes straight on with her mouth wide open and sometime proceeds to lick us. She’ll wrap her arms around our neck and hold on tight. Sometimes we’re even lucky enough for her to rub her little snotty […]

Wow, she surprises us every day. Tonight she was very cranky, but during one of her tantrums, she surprised us by sitting up. She was scooting toward a doggie toy when she started going in reverse. She got her hands going and ended up sitting herself right up. It was so […]

Since we’ve firmed up our nightly ritual (which is still working out wonderfully), Sophia is really starting to look forward to her bathtime. She has now learned out to splish and splash. By the time she’s done with her bath, I look like I’ve taken one too.

Up until last week we had a very difficult time getting Sophia to sleep. For the first months of her life she would take a late afternoon nap, then go to bed around 9ish. It seemed to work pretty well, because she had no problem sleeping through the night.

About a month […]

No wonder these are so popular:

I would love to see how the dogs would enjoy this toy…

Howdy faithful readers,

Over the past year and a half, our blog really has transitioned from my technology sounding board, to something pretty much dedicated to Sophia. Not that this is a bad thing, it just makes it tough for me to post things of a technical nature, the context really isn’t there.

In any case, I […]

Most of last week all three of us were slowed down by a little cold bug. That was nothing compared to the flu bug that we got this week. Kevin was up most of Saturday night not feeling so well. Sophia and I made him stay in the spare bedroom for most […]