15 month check up

Oh Sophie...I can't believe you are 15 months.  You bring so much joy and laughter into our home.  You are always keeping me running and on the move trying to find you, what you are into, and what you have made a mess doing.  Here are some highlights of the last 3 months.

I often find you in Allie's room up on her table.  You climb up onto the table and love looking outside

You fell asleep for the first time in my arms when you were 13 months old.  I loved every minute of it!!!

You fell asleep for a second time, rocking with me in the rocker.  Slowly you are warming up to be a snugly one.

You love your babies and slippers.  You love sitting up in the rocking chair and rocking your babies.  

You love Max!!!  You two must have a special bond.  You are constantly snuggling on him and he is the most patient kitty.  Over the last month he enjoys jumping in your bed and sleeping with you all night.  

Mommy was cleaning up toothpaste you had squirted out all over my bathroom, when I heard you screaming from the other room.  When I came to find you, I found you in the toilet.  You had climbed up and jammed your foot into the hole of the toilet and left one leg hanging out. 

I had to run and get the camera to grab a few shots before I pulled you out.  You are starting to show interest and use the potty. I think you might have been attempting to sit on the potty, but your foot went in.  Luckily it just took some wiggling to get it loose.

The day of your 15 month apt. was 2-15, exactly the day of your 15 month birthday.  We had some time to kill waiting for the Dr. so it was a good thing Mommy brought your bugs

Your grasshopper was "hoping" on your legs and I love this picture of the little yellow centipede on your head

Daddy and I just love your belly.  Compared to your tiny little body, you have the biggest Budda belly

Taking a spin on the Dr.'s chair before he needed to use it.  We had good news at the Dr.'s this morning.  We learned you finally made it onto the growth chart.  We learned you were off the growth chart at your 12 month check up.  You are 5% in weight and 20% for height.  According to the Dr.'s projections, you will be 5'8.5".  Sure glad you are growing!!!

Valentines

We had a fun filled Valentines Day this year.  We got together with work friend's and had a Valentines lunch for the kids,  let the kids decorate sugar cookies, and then exchanged Valentines.  

My two cute Valentines

Exchanging a kiss on the Day of Love

Our Valentines Table ready for the party

The kids hard at work decorating sugar cookies

Owen and Allie

Say Cheese

For dinner we continued the heart and red theme and ate heart calzones, strawberry spinach salad, and 5 layered red jello

We swapped babysitting with our friends the Histands so we could each enjoy a date night with the hubby for Valentines.  Owen and Olivia got to hang out and celebrate Valentines with us for the night.  Blake and I got to look forward to the weekend ahead of us for our date night.  Loved celebrating Valentines with my beautiful family. 

Seattle

It had been almost a year since we had been up to Seattle to visit the Littles.  Blake headed out on a fishing trip with some friends, so we decided to leave at the same time and jumped a plane to Seattle.

Sophie did pretty well on the plane.  The last 20 minutes was a little rough, but we made it.

We took the kids down to the Seattle Aquarium.  Lots of the tanks were floor to ceiling and Sophie loved just staring into the giant tanks of fish and coming face to face with them

Allie the octopus



Allie meets a shark....I couldn't believe how long a shark can be.  I hope I never have to encounter one

Allie loved this puffer fish

Sophie checking out more fish

Sophie found Nemo

The kids were so excited to see the baby otter that had just been born a few weeks prior to us visiting.  The disappointing thing for the kids was the otter was really big for being a one month old baby.  The kids had in their minds the baby was going to be a little tiny thing and it wasn't. 

Allie getting hands on with the starfish

We attempted to make some Valentines suckers from Jolly Ranchers.  The girls loved mashing the candy into tiny pieces

The girls filled the heart molds with candy pieces and got them ready to bake



After several trial runs, we ended up with a few good looking heart suckers

These girls love getting to see each other.  They wanted to do a few different faces for me; we got a cute one and then a mean and sassy one

There is nothing like lots of sleep overs with the cousins; the baby dolls even joined the girls.  We had a quick fun trip up to see the cousins and got to also see Uncle Jeremy while we were there too.  Thanks Little's for having us up to visit.  Hopefully we see you guys soon!

Skiing with Papa

The time had come for Allie to head off with Papa Jim to the mountains.  Allie hadn't been up to the ski hill this year and she was thrilled when Papa invited her up for the day. Papa Jim is an avid skier on the mountain and is much more patient than her mom or dad when it comes to helping Allie on the ski hill.

Bundled up in her ski gear ready to hit the slopes

Allie and her Papa!

First up was the "magic carpet."  It's a little track that takes you half way up the bunny hill to practice.  Allie ended up going down this countless times.

After a few runs, it was time for lunch.  Gotta love that feeling of being wiped from all the skiing.

Enjoying a view from inside the lodge

After lunch it was time for the chair lift.  Allie did awesome once she got to the top of the hill.  She loved going fast down the hill.  Papa came back with lots of video's of Allie from the day and his famous words were, "Slow Down!"  So glad she had a great day on the ski hill and a big thanks to Papa for his patience.

Cabin Snow Days

 It finally snowed up at the cabin, which meant that we got to go enjoy some sledding and fun in the cold.  We have made it up to the cabin a few times and wish we could go more.  The girls both loved sledding and playing in the snow.

There is a perfect little kid's sledding hill right outside of the cabin; it leads right down to lake

The hill was perfect for Sophie to tackle on her own when she was strapped into the sled.  Every time she got to the bottom she would say "MOOOOR"  It's one of my favorite words that she says

We had a duo of the sisters together and the sledding stunts just kept getting crazier the more times we went.

Sophie tried sitting on Blake's back.....she loved it

We then tried a dog pile on Uncle Rod.  The whole bunch amazingly made it down to the bottom of the hill this way

Off they go....

Then we sent all of the cousins together and they made it down all together

After we got in enough sledding, we moved on to snow angels.  We are so lucky to have a place to retreat to and enjoy the snow.  We all love it!!!

New Years Eve

We headed to Blake's Dad's house for New Years Eve and they had decided we were ringing in the new year with a Mexican Party.  We got some Mexican dinner, had a pinata, and created our own Mariachi band with a house full of wild, excited kids:)

The pinata with the Sombrero that you had to wear when you took a swing at the horse

Sophie loves hats and tried the Sombrero on for a bit; the hat was so big you could only see Sophie's little legs sticking out underneath

Sophie checking out the donkey

Let the fun begin...we went youngest to oldest taking turns with the ensemble; the hat, blindfold, and stick in hopes that someone would bust open a hole to get to the candy  

Peyton got the hang of things really quickly and in true boy fashion, loved waking the horse with a stick

We first lost the head of the donkey and it became Blake's new hat

Someone finally busted a hole and the kids went crazy, gathering all the candy they could

Thanks Papa and Grandma,  we had a fun night ringing in the New Year.