BYOB (Bring Your Own Baby)

I have gotten to bring Sophie to work with me over a few days this week and last and she has been an angel.

This is Sophie and her teddy fast asleep.

New Year's Resolution: 12 step program

I have been thinking about some goals for the New Year. Of course the first things that I think of are the typical resolutions of getting in shape and saving more money (or any for that matter). I really do want to make some goals to achieve, but I think that I am going to make them monthly goals. With monthly goal I figure that I will be more likely to accomplish something and I will feel the rewards from my diligence to them sooner. It is like a 12 step program one step each month to help me reach my end goal. I am not going to list all my goals here, partly because I haven't decided them yet and partly so that I am the one holding me to them.

January:

• Spend one hour a week to either blog or write in Sophie's scrapbook about the things she did that week.
• Prepare for work and getting Sophie ready the night before. (This includes remembering to charge and pack my cell phone)
• Put $25 away each week to save for visiting Hawaii! (Sara, I miss you already)
  

I think that this will be good for the first month plus a few personal ones! Good Luck with your goals and have a Happy New Year!!

Sledding all the way!

Erik has come to visit us here in SLC and today he and I went sledding while Mike was at home working and watching Sophie. Here are some shots from our adventure.
Erik's action figure shot.


This is a 16 shot clip with our new camera! Thanks mom and dad!


Erik and I found this jump and padded the landing area so that we would have a softer landing then Erik's first jump. The first jump he went off, he landed on the 1/4" of snow and the grass.


This tree was just begging to be climbed.


Hanging out with the little bro!

Olson Family Christmas 2008

Month Five: The First Bite

Sophie got to taste her first bit of "food" last Friday for her five month birthday. I could tell that she was very ready to eat because had been watching us eat for about the last month. She really liked the rice cereal and has eaten it happily everyday since. Sophie doesn't know yet, but Santa (Grandma and Grandpa Olson) got Sophie a High Chair for Christmas.



Sophie would go cross-eyed looking at the spoon. She is so dang cute!!

Merry Christmas from Sophie

Since Sophie is the cutest of our family, we voted that she represent us for our Christmas picture. Well, really we just haven't taken a family one yet, but hopefully we can do that soon. I looked forever to find a cute Christmas dress for Sophie and finally found one. Here are some cute pictures we took in front of my parents' Christmas tree.

Thanksgiving Glamore Shots

Thanks to Angie I have these beautiful memories!!!

This is Sophie and me at the Salt Lake Temple (Mike had to work)


These cute pictures are thanks to Suzy's front porch display.

Four Months Old

Sophie turned four months last week and yesterday had her doctor's appointment. She is now 13lbs 3.5oz and 24 inches tall. She is still in the 50th percentile for her weight and head size, but has moved to the 75th percentile for her height. The doctor says she is looking great. We really like our pediatrician, he is pretty funny. He always tells us the "book" answer first and then what everyone really does. We talked about starting to introduce solid foods, but we are not going to till she is at least 5 months (which is only in a few weeks from now).

Sophie has started to roll from her tummy to her back and is getting closer with rolling the other direction. She smiles all the time and is still such a good baby. The only time you don't want to cross her is when food is taken from her. It doesn't matter if she has had 1 oz or 100 oz she will scream when it is gone. As for diapering, my vote is Luvs!!! We switched from Huggies and the Luvs work so much better. They hold so much more and fit much better. Plus they are the same price as Luvs. (End commercial for Luvs)

Sophie is going to have her first Thanksgiving and Aunt Holly bought Sophie and Tayen (Tara and Ryan's newest addition) matching tops. We will have to get a picture of them together.

Yeah Turkey!

Sick today

Mike and I have food poisoning. We are pretty sure it was from a frozen pizza we ate last night for dinner. Needless to say we tried to go to work but left to work at home after an hour. I hate to be sick. Thanks Grandma Beaird for taking Sophie for us.

4th Annual Halloween Party

We had our 4th Annual Halloween Party. It was a blast. We played some games, ate some yummy food and had a good time. Here are a few of the costumes. (I didn't take that many pictures so you will have to check out other peoples blogs for more)

Mike as Iron Man / Mike trying to fix the computer


Sophie as a bouquet of flowers


She is so cute I had to put two pictures in!!


"I'm thinking Arby's"


Sarah and John, I mean Juli and Dan