21 months

At 21 months, Sophia seems so grown up! She is full of energy and always entertaining. She loves to be the center of attention, and if you're not paying attention to her she will get an inch from your face and say "Hi, hi, hi" until you acknowledge her.

Sophia loves to read and sing. She likes to sit on the sofa and look through books herself, and will not go to bed at night without reading. A couple of her books, Goodnight moon, I Spy Hearts, and a few others, she will even "help" read! If we read the first few words on a page, she can tell us what comes next. She is constantly singing too. She doesn't know all the words, but loves to sing "Ditsy Ditsy Spider", ABCs, Twinkle twinkle, Wheels on the bus, the "Motzi", and Bim bam.

Reading with Aunt Jenn


Cheese!


She is obsessed with baby dolls and loves to change their diapers. Her baby has a potty that she likes to put her on. She climbs in or under anything and calls it a house. Under my legs, under the desk, into her tent, under a table. She is constantly asking to watch tv, but is over the Wiggles. She is now obsessed with Dora, and thanks to Dora has added a dance move to her repertoire. She loves to dance to the "we did it" dance and twists her body back and forth with her arms bent.

Sophia is talking a lot, and has started making 2 and 3 word sentences pretty consistently. She now understands the difference between you vs. me. When she wants to be picked up and we say no, she tries to trick us and puts her arms up and says snuggle ("shuggle"). She recognizes something about our neighborhood from the street and every time we pull up to the entrance Sophia yells "Home!".

She is still super loving and loves to give hugs and kisses, but has definitely started the terrible twos in the past few weeks. She has started having some tantrums when she doesn't get what she wants and has been in time out a handful of times. She's gotten more particular about food and refuses to have something on her plate that she doesn't like. She's started throwing food when she doesn't want it on her tray.

All bundled up on a snow day


Napping with Daddy out of town


My little girl, all grown up

Gymnastics

On Mondays, Sophia goes to a gym class with some of her friends from school. She has so much fun playing on all of the equipment, but doesn't always want to do the planned activities. Since Daddy worked all weekend, he got to come with us this week and took pictures of us.

Sophia's favorite activity, hanging from the bar


Whee!


Walking on the balance beam


Sliding


Face first into the ball pit


Swinging like a monkey


Doing a handstand with the teacher


Silly with Mommy

Weekend fun

Last weekend was an exciting one for Sophia! We had a weekend packed with lots of activities. On Saturday Aunt Ronni and baby Max came over to play! They were in town visiting some family, and came over for a play date with Sophia. Sophia loves all babies, but she had a blast playing with Max. She showed him all of her toys, gave him hugs and kisses, and had lunch with him. She was sad to see him leave!

Giving baby Max kisses


Kisses for Aunt Ronni


Helping Max eat his bottle


The next day we went to the synagogue's Purim carnival. Sophia is still a little young for most of the games, but there were still several activities for her to do. She made a princess crown with Daddy, rode the train around the parking lot, ate lunch, and saw a bunch of her friends.

Doing art with Daddy


Wearing her cool crown she made


Choo choo! Going for a ride on the train


That night her friend Olivia came over to play. It's so much fun to watch the girls together now that they can interact with each other. Sophia shared all of her toys, but their favorite was the swing and slide. They pushed each other in the swing and took turns running around and going down the slide on their bellies.

Sophia pushing Olivia


Sophia's turn!

Visiting Valdosta

Last week Sophia, Mommy, and Nana went to Valdosta to visit Gramdma for a couple of days. We had a long ride down, and Sophia was very happy to get out of the car and run around when we got there. That night, cousins Brad, Sarah, and Julia came over for dinner and to play. Sophia absolutely loved her cousin! Julia and Sophia are only a little over a month apart, and Sophia was so excited to see her. She wanted to give her lots of hugs and kisses! We had lots of play time at Grandma's house, and even went over to Julia's house to play for a little while. We had a great visit and can't wait to see everyone again soon!

Playing with her new purse from Cousin Julia


Giving Julia hugs


Loving Julia


Cousins


Looking for the imaginary squirrel


Wearing Nana's glasses


Being silly with Nana's glasses on


Reading before bed with Nana and Hop


Grandma, Sophia, and Nana

Nonna and Nonno come to visit

A couple of weekends ago, nonna and nonno came to visit! Sophia hadn't seen them since Thanksgiving, but thanks to skype she talks to and "sees" them all the time. We had lots of fun playing with toys, going to the Asian market, going for a walk, and eating lots of yummy food. She loved having nonna take her upstairs to read and go to bed, and still asks for her when we go in her room! We weren't very good about taking pictures this time so I only have a few to share.

Sophia loved nonno's ipad


Nonno feeding Sophia apples


Sophia sharing with nonno


Sophia oversharing with nonno


Hello??




Eating ribs with Daddy


Mmmm....delicious

Morning coffee

Every morning I (Jason) go to our basement for my morning espresso. I'll have my first, and Sophia will wake up shortly after that. I'll go get her, and she wants to go back to the basement for "caffe'" (coffee). We go back downstairs together, I'll make another, she'll lick the spoon and then while I sit on the couch drinking it, she'll get in her box with her espresso machine and make her own.

Here she is in her box!