Building Blocks and a new tooth!

See these blocks? Sophie LOVES them! My cousin got them for her for Christmas, and she hasn't stopped playing with them since. On the first day she had them, I swear she spent about an hour with them. She likes to see how far up she can stack them. Then she laughs when they fall over. "Bocks!" she calls them.

She is starting to talk like crazy. She'll say "eat" when she's hungry. "All Duhhhh..." when she's done. One day this week, she carried one of EJ's shoes over to me and said "shoe". Very exciting! About 10 days ago, she was very sick and missed school for several days, and boy are we glad to have her smiling face and giggles back!


You might be able to see her new top tooth if you look close enough in the photo above. Just don't stick your finger in her mouth to see it - she's a chomper!

Today, Miss Sophie was WIDE AWAKE at 5:30 AM. There was no turning back. K and I would have liked another hour of sleep. K, by the way, looks like a chipmunk today - he had a little oral surgery on Thursday to clean up a root canal from about 9 months ago. So, given the early start, we decided to get up and clean! Nothing like having your floors mopped by 7 AM, the first load of laundry in, and all the groceries bought before 9. All that's left to do is put the laundry away and vac the floor, which I can't do right now since Sophie has been napping since 10 AM! That's cheating!

Anyway, tonight we are going out to dinner with a gang of friends and leaving the girls with the fabulous Miss J, a teacher from daycare. It will be nice to get out...we haven't had a night out since we returned from China, which is pretty sad. We thought for sure we'd take advantage of built-in babysitters while K's parents were here over the holidays, but time just flew by!