Lately Sophia has been gaining more of a girly girl personality. She has started to love to play dress up. It all started when I bought her a winter coat. It has the fake fur around the hood. She just laughs and laughs when she is wearing it. Now we have moved on to the hat of her Halloween costume. She will wear it and run around the house, also the same applies to her tutu. I know the pictures are blurry but try taking a picture of a hyper 1 year old with your camera phone :)

Petting Zoo

On Sat we went to the petting zoo at Garder Village. Sophia LOVED it. The whole time she kept walking around saying "Oooooo" I was surprised how melow the animals are. Kids were just pulling on their fur (at least Sophia was) and they would just lay there. Poor animals everyday they are subjsct to tiny fingers grabbing at them.

Tag your it!

So I was tagged to blog about the fourth picture on my computer. Which is funny because I was just talking to my brother about this picture today at dinner.
This picture is of my brother Shane and Sophia. She is probably 9 weeks old. Shane lives just a couple streets away from us and we hang out with him frequently. He is a great uncle to Sophia and was one of the first people up at the hospital to meet her. Sophia adores Shane, and even more so after he told her that she should be nice to him because he is the uncle that will let her break all our rules.
The funny thing is that early today I was telling Shane about how I have only one picture of him with Sophia and to be honest I do not think it is that great of a picture. Which makes me wonder on how many people are tagged and REALLY put up the picture they are suppose to, or lie because they do not look the best in that picture?
Anyways sorry Shane that this pic is on the Internet, but for what it is worth you are the best uncle. I can see it in Sophia every time she reaches out to you wanting you to hold her.

Birthday pictures

Here are some pictures
from the BIG birthday! Sophia enjoyed her cake, but I think she was more excited about the cardboard it came on!

The birthday princesses!
Swinging! Don't you
just love the crown.
Sophia and Nana Aldrich
A wonderful day at the park.

personality

I have taken these pictures all within a couple of weeks with my phone. I love all of them because they capture all of Sophia's personality. We have the fake laugh, the really what the hell look, so sweet, and then just her true self-really happy! I know I should pull out a real camera, but the cell phone is more convenient and seems to get the most candid pics.

Sophia's 1 year pic

I can't believe that Sophia is one already. I tried to cover up her accidental bangs with a bow, but I think its a little off center. For our birthday (we share the same birthday) we went to the park with family. Ate good food and cake. Later that night I watched Sex and the City the movie. Luke tried to watch it with me but only lasted an hour, just in time to miss this sexy shower scene-oh la la!