Monday Soph had a check up. Everything was good. Her next visit is also a well child visit at 2 years. She weighs 27 pounds now. After that we went by Carmel library to drop off some movies. Sophie ran around there for a bit, visited the trains, Pip & Squeek and the doggie. Then we went over to Gymboree open gym for a few. After Soph went to sleep I watched some House M.d., Charla stopped by after that with little Hatchell to visit and drop off some boxes. It was fun, we watched Conan then she went back home and I got ready for bed.

Today we went over to my sisters for a visit. Jonah showed Soph his cool car. Maren toodled around the house on it, which was so funny. They had a delightful lunch of grilled cheese, veggie straws and mandarin oranges. Soph tried some of J.b's chocolate milk. She has never had it before and she liked it. Then we came home and Soph did not take a nap, she just hung out in her crib and talked to her animals. We ran by the grocery store because we were out of everything, came home, had some nuggies, cheese and tomato.

Me n Hatchell

Handing out props
Peek a boo

Bubbles

Miss Melissa her teacher and Bubbles

This morning we went over to castleton mall to meet up with my friend Val and her little Sophie. We wanted to raid The Children's Place store because they were having an awesome super clearance sale. I found Soph a cute little sweater and a shirt and some little pants, all for a mere $9. Ha! We ae lunch in the food court. I had Chick Filet, We taled about Oprah and her PETA videos. I have decided I can not eat animals again, especially ones that can scream. Thanks Oprah. We decided that we could have lived out out lives without having seen that. Ignorance IS bliss. So Hello Trader Joe's tomorrow. On our way out we needed to stop by the pretzel place. I got some delightful cinnamon pretzel stick thing. Sophie LOVED them. They are very bad for you. On the way back home she fell asleep in the car clutching the remains of her little soggy pretzel stick. Poor girl! I needed to stop for gas and had a car wash. She does not like car washes. They are scary. We got home and she took a little nap, and when I say little, what I mean by that is about 5 minutes of head on pillow. Poop. So we ate and watched some Itsy Bitsy, then went off to play gym. She had a great time. She is getting good at following their directions there with the different activities! We ended our evening with a quick visit to Charla and little Hatchell. Sophie likes his toys!

This morning we went over to Carmel Clay Library to go to the drop in play date. There were alot of people there. I had to pick up a book that I requested too. Soph enjoyed herself, as she usually does. Then we headed over to pick up grandma so she could go to lunch with us. We ate at LePeep. Soph had a grilledcheese and some fruit, I had apple oatmeal and toast as usual. I received my birthday present from mom. It was the House M.D. Season 4. Awesome. I will be delighted to have cable back when we move. I am tired of watching PBS all day. Now I will watch these DVD's all day, or rather have them on in the background.
When we got home, someone small was supposed to have a nap. Instead, she decided to have a talk with her babies and Violet. I thought I heard Violet dog singing over the intercom. I peeked in and sure enough, everyone was up! Just as I was about to sneak away, she must have sensed me spying on her, I heard Mommie?? about halfway down the hall. Dang!
I fed her dinner a little early since we were going to play gym tonight. She had morningstar nuggets (thanks Oprah) and peas, I had flounder (thanks George Foreman grill) and peas also. Sophie is a pea eater. She tried so hard to get those peas on her fork. It was interesting to watch. I just told her to pick them up, but that was not an acceptable option for her. She kept messing around with them, and I thought she was done. When I went to pull her chair out, she started at the peas again. There are peas for days now. They were everywhere. It is hard to pick a smashed pea from the carpet.
We went to Gymboree open gym. It was pretty busy. Aunt Missy and JB were there. It was nice to be able to chat with them for a bit. Jonah calls me Kiki and Sophie Tootie. It is very pronounced, which makes it funny. I felt a little tap on my shoulder and there was JB. So cute.
We got home and Soph went right to the bedroom, still in coat and shoes. I put her jammies on, and she just stood there. I got her bed ready and her music on and she put her little arms up so I could pick her up to go in the crib. She very sleepily with her head on my shoulder said Yogi? Which means Yogurt. So I laughed and she lifted her head up and just grinned. So we went back out for some Yogi. I thought I would be cool and get some banana and sweet potato healthy yogurt for her instead of her usual Gogurt. She was not havin' any of that. She ate two bites and looked at me like I was crazy. Great. So I squeezed out a tube of Scooby Doo blue into a bowl and she was happy. Then she went right to bed. Awesome. I spent my evening watching Nanny Diaries and reading a book I got today at the library, exercised and took a bath. Wow, alot happened today!

Tootie at Five Guys

Today was ridiculous. People are ridiculous. The way people rationalize their thoughts and actions are ridiculous. Ok. So that is how my day started. Around 4 or so, I had decided that I could no longer be in my living room. We took some books back to nasty Pike library, to which we will never return. I was tired of eating lean cuisines for dinner, so we went over o Five Guys for a very tasty burger. Sophie and her dad usually go there on the weekends, without me, because I am usually having me time, which usually involves nothing remotely relaxing for me.

She delights in their fries and sweet tea. She also likes the music they play there. They had on some DMB, and she was swaying back and forth in her chair giggling. I just happened to have my camera and got a couple good shots.

We came back home and Soph demanded to watch YBCR, because the Itsy Bitsy Spider song is on there. She now knows how to open the DVD player, take out the disc, without touching the playing side, she sticks one finger in the center and one on the edge. She holds the disc up to me and I stick in the right one and she closes the door to the DVD player and pushes play. She must have been paying close attention to all the times I have done this. I think it is funny every time. David just realized last week that she has this skill. He was laughing hysterically when he saw her do it. He started to play a DVD and here came Toot, I told him to let her do it, and he just sat there watching. I was proud. I took all the credit for teaching her that. She knows how to put start n the dishwasher and likes to close the little door where the soap goes. She really enjoys "helping".

Close to bedtime, I let her have her little snack with her last cuppie of milk for the day. I guess she was ready for bed, because after I got her jammies on, she just walked on back to her room. She does this every so often. It really makes me laugh as I am following her. She has quite the bedtime routine. At least she doesn't fight it. She rarely wakes up in the night. When she does it is just until she or I locate her paci. She goes to the bookshelf and waits for me to turn on her sleep music and light. Then I put her in her crib, get a hug and she hands me which blankie she wants covered with. It amazes me that she established such a little routine. So that was it for today. I exercised after she went to bed, watched some Biggest Looser for motivation and now I am going to read.

Choo choos

At Carmel Library

This is her little scarf I just made for her

Hailey's birthday

This weekend was awful. The only good thing that happened was that David made a small effort and bought 20 totes. I asked for boxes. But now I have an abundance of Rubbermaid totes. Great.

Oh. Also, On Saturday me and Sophie went to Hallie's 2nd birthday bash. It was cute. They had a pinata that had strings to pull instead of having to hit it. So the little kids each took a turn to pull a string until it opened up. She had a minnie mouse cake. Sophie had fun as usual being her little social butterfly self mingling with all the other kids. Most of them were around her age. I also met a couple of other moms there who I friended. One lives on the Southside where I will be moving shortly.

Today, we had all kinds of plans, but naturally they got cancelled. I was literally just standing by my front door trying to think of a way to get out of this house. I decided that we needed to go to Target, which we did. Soph is addicted to the V8 splashers juice. Which is good, I guess, since it has fruit and veggies in it??? She goes through a bottle every 2 days. She loves it! She knows when I try to water it down. She says, Mommie. yuggy (yuckie) jute jute (juice), and hands the cuppie to me. So by the time both of us were ready, I looked outside and it freakin started snowing, and was super windy. I was holding all of our stuff is disbelief. Jeeze. Luckilly, about 15 minutes later is was ok. We got in and out of Target without any ordeals. Then we wanted to go to open gym at Gymboree, but it was 4 something and it ended at 5. So we went over to the Carmel library. There were alot of people there surprisingly. Soph went all over the place. Which was good. She was very good. She picked out some books and a couple of movies, She liked looking at Pip and Squeek their hampsters there. They were actually awake this time. We brought our dinner over there. I stopped by Arby's on the way and picked up some food. We ate in the little cafe area there.

When we got home Soph had a bath. Then we played feed the baby dolls for a bit while I watched House M.D.

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Sophtastical Sophariffic Day

This morning, Toot woke up at her usual time 9. I got up way early to prepare for our afternoon at the Children's Museum with Val and her daughter Sophie. It takes forever for me to get ready when Soph is awake, you can imagine why. Today I got up extra early and was just one coat of mascara away from being completely ready when I heard Mommie?? over the monitor. Awesome. While Soph was eating her waffle, I made our lunches to take with us, and packed up the tote bag. It was an easy transition out the door! We met up with our friends at the museum and headed up to the toddler zone. Both Sophies headed to the giant sandbox first.

It wasn't too busy when we first got there, but an hour later people started pouring in. Tootie spent most of her time in the sandbox. Then a bunch of kids showed up and she moved on to the coloring area. Both the girls colored for a minute or two. They spent the rest of the time kind of wandering around. We decided that at about 11:30 it was time to eat. We were both hungry after chasing the little mimi me's around!

We had a picnic lunch down in the cafeteria. Val and I had a chance to alk for a minute. Toot was getting antsy because when she is done eating, she puts her hands up and says down! Which means now. So we wrapped it up and left. It was alot of fun. I liked watching Soph figure out the sandbox toys. Scooping, shoveling, and she was watching the other kids to see how they did stuff and she would try it too. She couldn't quite get a scoop of sand up into the sand toys, because she would tip it and it would spill first. She would look at me like, hey, what happened?

On the way home she fell asleep in the car. I just put her right in her crib for a little nap.

My sister with Soph and Jonah

My sister and her daughter Maren and Soph talking into the cone

Soph on the go

Most of the day we spent at home. Sophie got a Melissa & Doug clock for Christmas. She is getting pretty good at putting the shape blocks in the correct place! She likes to do it herself. I try to help, and she removes my hand and looks at me like, hey what do you think you are doing, then smiles and goes back to it. She is also mastering the buckles that are on her baby stroller and sled. Coincidentally, also on her car seat, hmmm. She gets excited when it snaps all the way. We watched some Sesame Street. She really likes Abby Cadaby and the flying fairy school. She also does a dance when Elmo's World comes on at the end. She stands right by the TV, puts her cuppie on the tv stand and whatever cracker or snack she has and stays glued. She turns around every so often to make sure that I too am watching!
We left for Gymboree open gym a little early so Soph could get her usual at McDonalds. She also had nuggets tonight since it was about dinner time. She knows as soon as we get off 465 on Michigan that that is where we are going. Sometimes if I am going to Target I have to stop because she happens to be paying attention and sees it. She calls it middy (mickey D's)

Gymboree was fun. She was running around. Most of the usual people were there. Alot of kids were getting hurt for some reason. My sister was there this time and brought little Maren who was sitting up, checking out the place. he is good at removing her socks. I put it back on, but she was like, umm no, let's just get that back off. My sister brought me a bunch of hangers for the so I can organize my clothes for the move. We have shelves in our closet now, so just a few things were hung, the rest folded. I am glad my new closets will have a better system. We came home, caught some of Mercy, and Soph had some yogurt and went off to bed.