Ashley & Daniel

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Good Days

Some days are good days, some are less good. Mostly we have good days. I love this little squish with all the love my heart can muster. She's insanely sweet. I've discovered two molars have popped through and a handful of other teeth are brimming to the surface. That explains some of our less good days. But those good days mean the world to me. I could have a million babies at this particular age. It's more fun every day.

Sophie loves going outside. She walks the most outside too--I think it may be a desire to escape. She is walking more and more every day. People have said that magically one day their kiddo just starting walking--I don't think that will be the case. Sophie is more of the slow and steady type. She takes up to a dozen or more steps unassisted now. She loves putting on our shoes and can actually walk down the hall wearing an adult shoe on one foot. She's goofy. Daniel and I now teach a Family History Sunday School class so last week we took Sophie to nursery (even though she isn't the requisite 18 months yet) just to check it out. Sophie's a social little gal so we weren't terribly worried...until one of the older girls chucked a plastic toy bus straight at Sophie's head. I expected the usually nursery bumps and kids that don't share, but wow, what an introduction to group play. This week our class started and Sophie went and a great time in nursery. I'm amazed. I'm glad she likes social situations and we don't (currently) have a dramatic freak-out over being left to play.

Sophie's beautiful locks get lighter and lighter every day. By the end of summer, she may be a total blonde. It got up to 81* the other day so we splashed around on the balcony.

Daniel bought us Wicked tickets for Valentine's Day and our ticket day finally came! I honestly knew little about Wicked and was pleasantly surprised. It was cute, silly, and well-produced.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Easter Weekend

Daniel had the Friday before Easter off of work (that's what I call a "Good" Friday!) so we decided to make our first trip back to Idaho Falls since we've moved to Boise. It was our best drive thus far--Sophie did great. Friday we hung around Grandpa's and dyed eggs with the cousins. Saturday we packed full of activities. We went out to breakfast at the classic Smitty's downtown. Then we went to the Easter Egg hunt at McCowin Park. Sophie's age group was on the cement tennis court which didn't make a whole lot of sense, but she seemed mildly entertained. At the sound of the alarm Daniel scooped her up and plopped her in the middle of all the eggs while all the other kids scrambled at the perimeter. He did a great job protecting her from the madness. Once Sophie discovered the eggs popped open, she thought they were so cool. She doesn't understand what exactly candy is--so it works out great for us.

That afternoon we went swimming with the cousins, which Sophie LOVED. Then a nap, and back to playing with cousins. Sophie probably had the most fun of anyone this weekend. She adores those girls and they are so great to her. She is on the grumpy side today and I blame that on having too much fun this weekend. My heart melted into a big, mushy pile of goop watching them play so sweetly and Sophie giving out adorable spontaneous hugs and kisses.

The Easter bunny was so clever and stuffed Sophie's eggs Easter morning with Cheerios, fruit snacks, and Goldfish crackers. Sophie ate almost every egg before moving on to the next. She also thought that the Easter grass in her basket was pretty tasty. Grandpa was great at spoiling Sophie with lots of Mickey Mouse clubhouse, strawberries, and cuddling up for Frozen on the laptop. Also, he is better at forcing Sophie to try to walk--we might take a leaf out of his book for that one.

Easter morning we also did a photo session at the Enger's. With so many cute girls how could one resist? Sophie was super cute and silly until it was time to take a family photo. Figures.