Happy Mid-Summer to all our friends and family the world over. It's July 13th, Sophia will be 15 months old in 12 days.... and let me tell you, girlfriend is B-U-S-Y! My apologies for not keeping up with the blogging. The summer is a busy time on a military post and there are plenty of you reading this who know what I mean. We are winding down our change of command and farewell and welcome season. Seems we've had at least 4 events every week since the end of May. We've had to say goodbye to some of our wonderful Ft. Rucker family....so there have been sad days. But, the wonderful thing about being in this crazy business is that we now get to make some new friends! But, you don't want to hear about mom and dad's boring lives....let's get to Sophia Marie!!
Since Sophie's first birthday, she's grown some more teeth (she's got six up front and one back molar the whole way in and the other just busting through), she's gotten way taller (I'll report on exactly how much after her 15-month check up next week) and she's so heavy now that I'm making her walk everywhere!! She still isn't saying much clearly but she can say "Hi Cheen" (for Chena...our cat!) and Mom and Dad and she says "Da" for "bye" but she waves at the same time so that's how we know. She barks when she sees a doggie and meows when she sees a cat. She's eating everything and liking most of it. If not...it gets thrown on the floor. Can I just mention here how much I hate that?! She's still a champion sleeper and most nights we get 13 or 14 hours out of her. She is transitioning into taking one nap a day, but it's usually nearly 3 hours long. We've got her taking swim lessons from a good friend of mine who comes here to the house. She seems to like the water but is still just a little afraid to fully let go of me. This week we work on going under....yikes! I've been taking her to Kindermusik...which is a great half-hour long class for singing and movement. So far, she hasn't sung a single song or done any of the scripted play with the rest of the group. She just runs around the gym, steals toys and tries to climb on the various gymnastics equipment. I'm pretty sure I have her in the wrong class and am looking to take her to baby gymnastics next week!! I truly believe that because she isn't exposed to other children on a daily basis, she isn't sure how to interact with them. Hence the "classes".... We'll keep on trying and see how she does. Sooner or later some other little varmint will haul off and whack her for stealing his toy and maybe she'll catch on!! :) Hopefully I won't become "that mother" any time soon....
We took Sophia to Tybee Island, Georgia (near Savannah) in early June for our yearly visit with the Ernst/Lanier/Porier families. She loved the beach and wasn't scared at all when Daddy took her out into the ocean. One of the nice things about Tybee is that when the tide goes out, there are miles of sandbars and tidal pools for the kiddos to play in without having to worry about waves hitting them or scaring them. Sophia enjoyed sitting in the sand and splashing Daddy especially. She did very well while we were there and I think she really had fun with the four granddaughters. Our love and thanks go out to the Laniers for hosting us at their beautiful home once again and to the whole family for loving us enough to put up with us!!
We had cousins Sarah and Blake Roden here from Huntsville over the fourth of July and we made a day trip down to Panama City Beach to visit with the Packetts. Another good beach day ... but Soph enjoyed the pool much more! She really had a lot of fun with her cousins and she told me she hopes they come back to visit again soon!
Sophia also recently helped her BFF, Ava Biland, celebrate her first birthday. It was a fun party and Ava, being the sweet and unselfish child she is, shared her "baby jail," toys and high chair with Sophia. She even let Sophia finish her snack for her! We're having a bit of a hard time teaching Sophia the concept of sharing. She loses her patience and is quick to anger, which scares me, but everyone tells me it's normal. I blame it all on her father...
We've been very fortunate this summer to have a wonderful babysitter, our friend Megan Stockhausen. She's been taking great care of Sophia for me during all of the events I've had to attend on post and she's been phenomenal at helping me out so I can get things done. Al and I have paid for Megan's next year at college, but it's been well worth it to have someone to rely on to take good care of our baby when we need her. And, Sophia loves her ... until I get home.... at which point Sophia starts telling Megan, "da" and waving her away!! It's pretty funny.
So, that's the update on our sweet Principessa. We send our love to all and as always, our invitation to come visit us any time!!
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