Halloween 2008

Sophie at grandma & grandpa Schlueter's house, showing off her turtle costume.
Cousin Kiera as Dora the Explorer, and cousin Isabella as a Pumpkin Girl. All the little girls with grandma.
Sophie with a mouth full of banana.

A little dark, but too cute.

Skyler and Sophie. Skyler was a butterfly.

Baby Rylee as a Caterpillar. Very cute.

Daddy and Sophie.
She got her head stuck in their after this photo. Daddy just about broke the spindle to get her head out.

Sophie went Trick-or-Treating at two of my parent's neighbors houses. Her first REAL Trick-or-Treating!!!! She didn't know how to say Trick-or-Treat, so I just had her say please 'peas' and thank you. Maybe next year she will 'get it' a little more!

Halloween Day at the Park

Since it was so nice out today, we decided to get some exercise and walk to the park. My cousin Hellane came over with her baby Izaac. They had fun running around and swinging.

Sophie going down the slide.

Her hair was SOOOOOOO full of static after she went down the slide. So funny.


The kids playing on the stairway.

Izaac and Sophie

Play day

This was us messing around today, being silly. Those stupid overalls have such weak snaps, they come un-done all day long. Sophie had built-in air conditioning today.
The family on our walk yesterday.

We had fun getting outside and enjoying the beautiful day.

OB Appointment

Today I had my second ob appointment, this time with the actual doctor, Dr. Linda Collins. They switch off every appointment with the physician's assistant. This was the doctor who actually did my c-section with Sophie. So, I have kind of met her before, but I couldn't see her face with the surgical mask on in the delivery room. (If you are wondering, my original doctor, Dr. Robin Clemmer, that I had throughout my pregnancy with Sophie wasn't on call the day I went into labor with her so, Dr. Collins delivered Sophie, AND since then Dr. Clemmer had developed breast cancer and went through chemo and is not seeing any ob appointments anymore, so I had to switch to seeing Dr. Collins...I know confusing).
Anyway, my appointment today went good. She couldn't get the heartbeat with the wand-thingy (yeah, that's technical lingo for ya) so, I was in the ultrasound room anyway and she just whipped out the goop and did a quick ultrasound and we saw the baby moving all around and kicking up a storm and the heart beating. It was looking straight up and she got a picture of it's alien looking face and it's little legs.
She did say that they usually schedule the c-sections a week before the due date, which I am kind of bummed about. I really wanted it to be scheduled ON the due date: Monday, May 4th. So, it could be as early as Monday, April 27th, but she said we could do it just about anytime that week, so maybe I will go for a May Day baby!!!
Really nothing else exciting about the appointment. Everything is normal, which is a good thing.

First Pumpkin Carving

The girls are ready to pop open the pumpkin to see the guts inside.

They are looking at the goopy goop.

Touching the slime! She liked it and kept going in for more.



The finished pumpkin. Yeah

Visitors

Our friends Julie and Brad are visiting from Minnesota this weekend. Their son Will and Sophie were fast friends. Will was pushing Sophie around in her stroller. She loved getting pushed around.

They both loved playing in Raja's kennel. They think it is a cool fort.

Sophie was messing around and climbing around and got herself stuck in her toy box and couldn't get out.

Arrrrr Matey

Lately Sophie has been sticking her foot into buckets or other contraptions and walking around with them. She looks like she has a peg leg. Maybe we should changed her Halloween costume to a pirate!!!!

Mom Jeans

For Christmas this year, I’m asking for several pair of THESE. I don’t know how I missed out.

Big Girl Apple

So, I used to cut Sophie's apple up in small bite size pieces and take the skins off. Well, lately she has been wanting to eat the entire slice by herself, skin and all.

She is so funny when she does it. She holds the whole piece in her hand and when she gets down past where she is holding on, she digs lower with her teeth instead of moving the piece up.

FUNday continued...

All bundled up for the walk. She had to bring both babies with her.

These videos are of Sophie feeding herself. She has been feeding herself for a while now, but we finally decided to get it on video!

It's Monday and that's our FUNday!

We didn't have our funday last week because Vernon was going to be out of town and wanted to make a day up, so he worked last Monday. : ( We made up for it today.

Sophie found a box that was ready to be recycled and started playing with it. She climbed through it like a tunnel.
Peek!
Roar!!! She was acting like a bear.
Here is her monkey hanging around her neck.
Here she is riding and jumping on poor Raja's head. Not good.

Rub a dub dub

Well, my sickness did not last more than just that Thursday. I am feeling much better. Thank goodness I don't feel like that everyday!!!

Tonight I took my camera up to get some picts. of Sophie in the bath tub. What an interesting bath night it was.

Sophie with a soapy mohawk.
I don't know what this face is?!?!? She is looking older I think.
Spiky
Looking back this is when it happened.... What happened you ask???? She pooped in the tub. Yep, that's right POOP and a lot of it. She has never done this before. All I can say is good thing it was me and not Vernon. He would have died, just died.
After cleaning everything up and re-washing her, we were finally done.
All clean
Getting lotioned up

Ready for bed with pj's on!

Sick Day

Well, I haven't been feeling the greatest today. After lunch I was so tired I was falling asleep in my chair. I told Soph we've got to go take a nap now. She obliged. After I woke up from my nap my head was pounding so hard. I thought it was dehydration. I drank two huge glasses of water and took 2 Tylenol. It didn't get any better, in fact I started feeling worse. I felt nauseated and didn't want to move. This lasted for a good 2-3 hours and came in waves. I asked Sophie to bring me one of her buckets. She did. Then I had her drag my blanket over to me. I finally had to get up and go to the bathroom after drinking all that water. After I came back to my chair, I felt the puke coming up. I grabbed the bucket. Sophie stood in front of me while I was hurling and she kept saying mama, mama. Then she said Hi. Then she took her hand and rubbed my arm. It was precious. After I was finally done, I did feel a little better stomach wise, but my head was still pounding. Vernon could not have got home soon enough today. I was at the end of my rope and still couldn't do anything. Poopy day all in all : (

80's Flashback

So, yesterday I made homemade chili and today of course I had leftovers. I decided to feed Sophie some chili for her dinner and see if she would like it. All I kept thinking about was that scene from Mr. Mom when he feeds the baby Hormel Chili from the can and the tv repair woman saying, "Are you crazy? You don't feed a baby chili!" That kept replaying in my head over and over and it gave me a chuckle. BTW, that baby was like 6 months old in the movie AND Sophie is 16 months old and eats hamburger, onions, beans, corn, tomatoes, etc... all the time. She actually liked it! So, I feel okay that I gave it to her!!!

Playing Around

This was from the walk yesterday before daddy left for Chicago. I loved how that house in the background decorates for Halloween, they really go all out.
This was yesterday when Sophie was playing. She took my blanket and spread it out on the floor and then put her baby and bear on it and some more toys, then she was laying down on the blanket. Then she got up and was laying back on daddy chair. I think she looks so funny with one shoe on the wrong foot and her hand in her pocket.
Playing in the driveway.
Trying to get a pict. of Soph and I. She was in the middle of a cough in this picture. It was really windy out today, my hair was blowing every where.
Another attempt...failed.