I've just read the last post and realized it's been four months since my last report on Sophia. Wow. Time has a way of getting past us and babies have a way of growing up! Sophia is doing just that. She's 19 months and 4 days old today. She's still extremely busy and now can not be held back! She spends most days playing with her blocks, beads (she has a whole mess of Mardi Gras beads and she loves them!), books (we're not allowed to read them to her though...), stuffed animals, which she arranges in a circle around us on the floor (priceless!) and various other things she isn't supposed to get her hands on! She's now in Mom's Day Out two days a week which gives me a nice break and some time to get things done. Otherwise, all of my time is spent with her. She pretty much demands my attention most of the time, except when she may be paying attention to the TV for five minutes. It makes for some pretty unproductive days around the house! Thank goodness her daddy takes over when he gets home and I'm able to do my chores. Let's see, we've been through Halloween and yes it's the second year she's dressed as a Steeler Cheerleader (thanks cousin Phyllis for the great outfit) and she liked the little bit of candy she was allowed to have! We are getting to the end of the Thanksgiving weekend right now and she enjoyed that as well. She was more fond of the cranberries than anything else at dinner, but that's because Aunt Cindy's cranberries were awesome! She's been through an excruciating two months with cold symptoms and then a full-blown ear infection. It's cleared up now but she's still cutting teeth so we never know when there will be a fever. She's talking up a blue streak....and can say difficult words like bathroom and elephant!! Weird that we can't get her to say "car," but she can say elephant. We're gearing up for our move back to the Northern VA area. Alan changes command on Monday, December 7th and we hope to be driving out of Alabama sometime around the 15th. We've found a home to rent in Springfield and we are anxious to see how Sophia will adapt to it all. We'll likely spend Christmas in Jeannette so hope to get to see lots of family and friends then. Christmas photos will be on their way very soon...watch out for them!
I want to take a minute here to say thank you to all of our Alabama family. This was the exact right place for us to add Sophia to our lives and you all have been so supportive and have loved her as much as we do. We will never forget that.... ACLC, LASSIES, FRCSC, Community Foundation, Enterprise and Daleville friends.... thanks to you all. You will be missed.
