Play date with friends

Last weekend we had a play date at Sophia's friend Zachary's house with a bunch of their friends. All four of the babies are within about 6 months of each other, and we've loved watching them grow up together. Everyone had some yummy snacks and lunch and a lot of play time together.

Going for a Sunday drive


Playing with all of her friends


Brushing her hair with a baster


Friends looking out the window, February 2011:
Olivia, Zachary, Brady, and Sophia


Friends looking out the window, August 2010:
Sophia, Zachary, Brady, and Olivia


Zachary, Brady, Sophia, and Olivia

Using Utensils

Sophia has loved using utensils for quite a while now. She's been pretty good at using a fork for a few months, but in the past month has gotten good at using a spoon. She seems to finally understand that if she tips the spoon upside down, the food falls off of it, and keeps it steady to her mouth. Of course, she still can make a mess (and usually does)! When she sees her yogurt coming, she yells out "foon" and often tries to tell me what color it is. Her favorite is "orangish".

Having some yogurt for breakfast (note the bed head)


Here it comes!


Big bite!


Cheese face


Talking to the baby on the container (she likes to
share her yogurt with the baby)

Shabbat Bag

Last weekend, it was Sophia's turn to bring the Shabbat bag home from school. The Shabbat bag is a bag filled with lots of Shabbat goodies that each child brings home once each school year. There is a Shabbat bear, a kiddush cup with stickers, a challah, candle sticks, and candles.

We had such a fun Shabbat together! We ate a yummy dinner first so we could wait for Nana to come over and celebrate with us. First Sophia decorated her kiddush cup. She put lots of stickers on her cup, and was so excited and proud of herself after each one. She couldn't wait to drink juice out of her cup!

Putting stickers on

Having so much fun!

She kept asking for more stickers

Go me!

The finished masterpiece

After she finished decorating, we did all of the prayers together. Sophia took a sip of her juice from her cup, ate some challah, and even said a little bit of the Hamotzi that she learned in school!

Saying the prayers

High five after helping with the Hamotzi

Eating her challah

A few cute pics

Here are a few cute random pics from the past month:

Pop reading Panda Bear, Panda Bear while Sophia snuggles her panda


Sophia finally gets to face forward in the car! She kept calling it a treat!


Eating an orange for dessert. She calls it "orangish" or "arancio"

Sophia rocking with her friend Zachary

Sophia and Zachary reading with Daddy

Sophia playing, jumping, singing

Just a quick video of Sophia playing our our office. She seemed to be on caffeine that night, running around spouting various songs and playing games.

Snow day activities

Last week we were trapped in the house all week! It snowed on Sunday and Monday, and the roads were icy until the end of the week. School was cancelled, as were the rest of our activities. Sophia and I both were going a little stir crazy and had to come up with some new activities to entertain us.

Trying on Mommy's rain boots


Laughing from Daddy's tickles


One of the days, I decided to try baking with Sophia. She loves to watch Daddy cook, but she's never actually helped cook. We decided to make chocolate muffins. I measured out the ingredients and let Sophia pour them in the bowl. She helped mix everything up, and watched as I spooned the batter into the muffin tins. She watched the muffins bake through the window of the oven, and when they were done she got to taste them! Yum!

Mixing up the liquid ingredients


Stirring everything together


Watching the muffins bake


Look what I made!


Mmmm...I'm a good cook!


Being so silly


Later that day, we decided to get out the art supplies and do some art together. She loved coloring with the markers and using the do a dots. She also liked touching them with her fingers and seeing how the color rubbed off on her skin.

Sophia's masterpiece

More snow

This week we had a big snow storm! It started snowing Monday night, and we are still stuck in the house on Wednesday. We got about 6 or 7 inches of snow at our house! Monday we took Sophia out in the snow to play. She was a little unsure of what to do! We dressed her in warm clothes and rain boots so she wouldn't get too wet.

Checking out the snow


Lots of snow on our porch


Backyard


Almost 7 inches


I'm stuck!


Lots of snow in the cul de sac


Walking around with Mommy


Making silly faces


Happy to be outside