Merry Christmas

We left cookies and milk out for Santa last night. Sophie kept wanting to get up and eat the cookies. When she woke up this morning we told her that Santa had come and eaten the cookies and milk and left presents. She was ticked and started to cry. I wanted the cookie!!

Needless to say when she saw her presents she mostly forgot about the cookies.

I love this shot.



The princess dress up box was a big hit as was the Snow White doll and horse.


After presents Mike and I made breakfast and plan to be bums for the rest of the day. Merry Christmas everyone!!

Rain Rain Rap

Do Mike and Sophie have a future in music?

Things Sophie said while in the bath today

“Come on guys before the canos blow!”

“You can’t go backwards you might slip.” (said the her dolphin)

Made up a song with the word mommy.

“Lucky fin!”

More singing.

“Let’s hold on. You like that ride? There, perfect.”

“This is your home. This is your bed. Shh…the dolphin sleeping”

Giving hair-washing instructions to her My Little Pony.
“Get your hair all wet. Squish out your hair. Squish out your tail.”

More singing.

"Hey Hey Hey. I said I don't want to hear it."

"I sorry honey, no toys for now"
"This is Nemo and this is your mommy" (said to Strawberry Shortcake)

"I like the four dolohins mommy." "You jumpin and catch'em" "One more time"

"Look, it's Shampoo the whale"

Baby on the way

Well, we are having a baby. I don't think that it has really set in what that means for our little family. Suddenly our 2:1 ratio goes to 2:2. We planned for this to happen so I suppose we thought about these things at some point, but now they are becoming a reality.

Currently I am 9 weeks and 3 days along. Weeks 6 and 7 were a little rough and felt like they would last forever, but by Thanksgiving Day I started feeling better. Then that Sunday the whole family came down with colds. It wiped us all out. I swear it sucks the energy and life right out of you. I spend all last week coming home from work and laying on the couch. Poor Sophie didn't have much of a mommy to play with for a while. And poor daddy has been working and doing homework/finals for school.

(don't mind the grubby clothes)
Finally week nine I am feeling better, my cold is mostly gone and I am starting to feel human again. I hope the trend continues and that things will just get better from here. I plan to go skiing tomorrow if that gives you an idea of how much better I am feeling.

Something I have had to get used to was eating a lot again. I have managed to keep my weight down by reducing my food intake to regular portion sizes over the past couple years. Especially when I was sick to my stomach for those two weeks, I didn't want to eat at all, but if I didn't eat I would feel sick too! It was a lose lose for sure. When I was pregnant with Sophie I could eat and feel better (as far as I remember) and this time eating didn't help. Now that I am feeling better I am hungry all the time. I can't go an hour or two during the day without eating and I have been waking up in the middle of the night to my stomach growling.

My gag reflex is much worse when I am pregnant. I love to watch medical surgery shows but have to mostly fore go them at least for the first trimester. I have also started to have some heartburn already, which I did not get until I was 5 or 6 months along before.

Thank you to those who have actually suffered through my data recording post. I just want to make sure that I remember so in 25 years when Sophie asks how it was when I had kids, I will really know. I am sure it will still be embellished a bit.

Due Date: July 10, 2011

Festival of Trees

Suzy, Rex Sophie and I joined Tara, Ryan and the girls at the Festival of Trees. A word to the wise,
DO NOT FORGET YOUR STROLLER!!!!

It was not a fun experience picking Sophie up off the floor every couple minutes or telling her that she could not play with all the cute toys and Christmas decorations.

The only thing that saved me was Sophie liked to listen to the singing groups, so we sat and watched them for a while.

Glad I went, but not a good thing to bring unrestrained children to.

Sayings of Sophie

(Grandpa walks Sophie to the neighbors to see the their blow up snowman.)
Grandpa: Sophie it is not made out of snow.
Sophie: Grandpa...It's a balloon.

Mommy: Sophie what do you want Santa to bring you?
Sophie: A ball

Mommy: Sophie what do you want Santa to bring you?
Sophie: a pink trampoline and a pink slide and a pink clock

Sophie: Mommy I want to play at Piglet's house!
Mommy: What?...Where is Piglet?
Sophie: I play with Piglet!!
(Mommy still unsure of what she is talking about, asks a few more times.)
Sophie: Piglet come to play with me!
(Light turns on in Mommy's head)
Mommy: Sophie do you mean Katelynn? You want to play with Katelynn?
Sophie: Yes, Kately...Piglet.
We have know idea why she calls our babysitter Katelynn, Piglet.

It's beginning to sound like Christmas

Books and Tools...What a smarty

My little bookworm feel asleep reading in the car.

Sophie is a great helper and loves to work with tools. Her favorite thing to do is hammer nails into a block of wood in the garage. She is amazing good at it too. I also see her "fixing" her big wheel with a screwdriver. This is Sophie helping her Grandpa Beaird work on the snowplow for the four-wheeler.

Family Lagoon Trip

Another super late post

We took a day off in August and partied at Lagoon with some of our family. Aimee and the kids came up from Vegas, Angie and the kids came, Tara, Ryan and their girls, Rex and Suzy, and Mike, Sophie and I. It was fun having so many of us there and getting all the little girls together.

Our little princesses on the Whale ride.

Kendelle always a cute smile

My silly baby girl

Concentrating on looking at the camera

Beautiful tiny girl!

Young Love

I wish this picture would have come out clear. Still cute even blurry.

How to the Beaird's have the best looking Grand kids?

Sophie loves her cousin Kendelle, though it might not look like it here.

SO CUTE!!!!!

Mommy and Sophie

The girls hanging out having lunch


Thanks everyone for coming. We had the best time. And a special thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Beaird for taking all the little girls home and letting us stay and hang out longer.

Seven is a lucky number

On Monday was our 7 year wedding anniversary

Happy Anniversary Babe!

Happy Halloween

This is Sophie first time really trick or treating.
We went to the first house and
when they opened the door,
Sophie walked in a started to take off her costume.
She was ticked that we were not staying there.
After about two houses she got the
concept and wanted to go to every house.

Back at our house checking out the booty.

This is the best smile I could get, she was very focused on the candy.



Unwrapping her candy...

Tasting her candy...

Giving her candy to mommy because she doesn't like it!

The Reason I haven't Blogged

I have not taken any pictures!! I am making a promise that I will take more pictures.

24th of July, A Visit from Uncle Erik

So I started a bunch of blog posts and have yet to finish them. So prepare yourself for posts that are not even close to being in time order.

Uncle Erik came down to go to EFY at BYU for a week and then spend the weekend with us for the 24th of July. We headed to Fairview for the 24th of July Parade and demolition derby. Not to many pictures. Just the highlights.

Erik and I at the Derby. Mike was judging, as he does every year, and Sophie was at Emilee's mom's house with Cambree and some other kids.

The moon coming up before the sun had set.

In between the parade and the derby, we head over to the little fair that was going on and let Sophie go on some rides. She loved the bounce house, but was not a willing subject for a good photo. All in all a great time as usual.

Softball Daddy

Mike has been playing on a Softball Team with a bunch of guys from work. Sophie and I went out to a game last week and he did AWESOME! He helped get 6 runs in between two at bats!

Sophie is so kind to share he sucker with Daddy

This is Mike hitting a double. I didn't get his triple on video but it was great too! Bases loaded.

Sophie Moments

Today Sophie dropped her potty seat on Grandma Suzie's foot. Suzie told Sophie that it hurt and Sophie said with out missing a beat, "it's ok, the doctor should fix it."

I was reading a book to Sophie and the line in the book said count your toes. So I asked Sophie to count my toes and she counted them in SPANISH! I had no idea she knew any Spanish. I guess we have been watching a lot of Dora.

Overveiw of Being 2

Holy Cow...2...Really? How did this happen? I swear it was just the other day that Sophie was born. I know that it has been almost two months since her birthday, but I feel the need for a better 2 year old update. (The professional pictures in this post were done by a friend of mine and they are so beautiful. Here is the link to all of them.)

First and foremost WE ARE POTTY TRAINED!!! About three weeks ago we decided to head for the home stretch. She has be potty trained for pooping on the potty since she was 18 months and will go pee when ever we have taken her to the potty, but now she is telling us. She has been in big girl panties for 3 weeks and of course we have had our share of accidents, but all and all she has done great. Way to go Sophie. Mommy and Daddy are so proud of you.

Next is the opening of doors. About a week ago, Sophie opened her bedroom door for the first time. Since then, she can open any door including the front door. She has not figured out the deadbolt yet, but I am sure that is coming. Since Sophie is not too adventurous she has not gotten into too much trouble with her new found door opening skill, but we have to watch her more closely now.

Our little chatter box. Sophie can talk about anything. She bumped into Grandma Beaird yesterday and said, "oh, I'm sorry. It was an accident." Or when Mike was calling for her to come and eat she said in a very sweet voice, "I'm on the potty. Hold on a second, Mike." I replied back, "that is Daddy to you," and she said, "oh ok, hold on a second daddy."
She always has funny little replies and is very polite. Please and Thank You for everything.

About food she says "I can't like that" or "Mmm, Yummy" (but she will just be pretending to eat).
When she hugs you "I like you."
What'ch doin?
How's it goin?
What's that Mama?
Oh no, are you ok? You feel better.
Whenever we Skype my parents she always asks where's charlie?

Sophie is our little singer. In church Sophie will sign out loud to the hymns. She also sings all of the stories in her books while sitting on the potty. I swear she knows every song on all the shows she watches and can sing them word for word.

Lately you and daddy have been playing Dragons. He will say "Sophie, DRAGONS!" and you and daddy will run and hide under the covers of mommy and daddy's bed. You love this game and play it almost everyday. You also like to pretend that Bjorn is a Dragon.
You love both Kuma and Bjorn. (BTW we got a new dog a few months ago.) Kuma is very big, but that doesn't stop you from playing with him. The picture below is from June 19. Kuma is about two or three times this size now and will continue to grow. I think he will end up the size of a small pony. He is an Akita.

Sophie you are amazing, smart, funny, kind, observant, polite, beautiful, sweet and a million other great things! I love coming home everyday to hear everything you have to say.

Sophie's First Movie (We have lots of Firsts)

This is from July 2, 2010
Something that I have talked about in my adult life was questioning which was the first movie my parents took me to when i was little. I don't know that i know the answer to that question. The first one that I remember was seeing The Little Mermaid at the Roxy Theater in downtown Renton.

I am blogging this so that Sophie will know that the first movie we took her to at a theater was Toy Story 3. She loves popcorn so that makes going to the movies even more exciting. She sat for the first 1hr and 15mins watching the movie. The rest of the time she ran up and down the stairs and through the rows of empty seats. The theater was not very full so she had plenty of room to roam. I think she liked it. We still agree that Toy Story 2 is our favorite.

Sophie's First Hair Cut

This was actually back on July 15th, a few days before Sophie's second birthday. I had never cut her hair, but her bangs were a little out of control so I decided to finally do it. I took her to Cookie Cutters. I think the part she liked best was playing on the slide in the waiting area.



The girl was kind of in a hurry and took more off the length then I wanted, but it looks really cute. I think they are sort of on auto pilot there for kids hair cuts. Not every child needs the same cut.


Love you Baby!