Spider-Girl!!

As many of you know my husband is a die-hard Marvel Comic book fan! Well really all comic books... Star Wars... Star Trek... all of them! He got Sophia a Spider-man onesie way back when I was just barely pregnant.... as I am sure he was hopeful of a boy... we got Sophia. So I got her a cute jean skirt to match it and of course a bow to match!
This was us out running some errands after church this morning... she was taking a serious nap, you can tell by her expression while sleeping!

Here we took a little photo shoot of her all dolled up in her Spider-man outfit... I wonder what Daddy will want his little princess to be for Halloween :)

BIG SMILES!!

Such a big girl now.... she holds her bottles all by herself!!

I hope everyone has a safe and healthy week.

Show Us Where You Live Friday... Kitchen Edition

I am an avid reader of our friend Chris's sister's blog, Kelly, and she started a Show Us Where You Live Fridays (or weekends) this week and this week we started showing off our kitchens.

My kitchen is probably my favorite room, let alone my most put together room of my house. Excuse our mess, but enjoy the pics and tour!

When we moved in 2 years ago, the kitchen was wallpapered and that had to go. We textured the walls and painted them red. It was a long process, but very much worth it.... I love it!
This is where we occasionally eat. Sophia now eats here everyday for her evening cereal! She loves her high chair. You can also see our window seat, where usually all of Sophia's things are, but I moved them for the picture. Also I got the pictures on the wall from my mom several, several years ago and I finally put them up this past summer and I love those too. The hutch behind the table is where Zach keeps his "junk." Don't worry I have a place for mine too!

This is my beautiful red wall, with my clock that I love, but I need to put new batteries in so that you can actually tell the time.

I finally got some nick-nacks recently to go above our cabinets. The picture I purchased a long time ago, when I was still single, and it used to hang in our living room, but I had decided it went much nicer in my kitchen, and I love that too! I got the other vases at Garden Ridge, which is great place to get great deals for decorating.

Ahh, here you can see my pile of "junk" on this counter, next to the most used item in the kitchen, the coffee maker, one of Zach's favorite wedding gifts! You can also see on the far side my bottle dryer rack... again very useful and now part of my decor!

The window nook above the sink, with my plant that I have surprisingly not killed yet. I got it in the hospital when I had Sophia, I hope I can keep it alive. Also you might notice the super old armadillo, I purchased it for my grandmother when I was a child, and kept it after she passed away. I always think of her every morning when I see it!

My one super organized cabinet. Can you guess who it belongs to? Yes, of course Little Miss Sophia. All things that have to do with Sophia are organized and clean! I try to keep as much of the kitchen as clean as possible, but with a new little one, I would much rather spend my time with her than cleaning as I sure that most of you understand.

And of course I had to post a picture of Sophia. She was leaving with Grandma Charlie so that Mommy and Daddy could have a date night... dinner and a movie. Wolverine... it was a bit disappointing. I know weird of me to say, but being married to a man who loves comic books, you also grow to love and enjoy them, and this one could have been better in my book. Enjoy. I am looking forward to touring everyone's kitchens to get some ideas for mine.

Prayers Needed

I don't normally post asking for prayers, but I know many people that check in on Sophia.
Today as I was reading a friend of a friends blog, I read about Noah, a 5 month old little boy that was shaken by his daycare. He is in need of prayers. I can't imagine what this family is going through, as Sophia is around the same age. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Updates!

So there is a lot to catch up on. First... no more nursing!! I have mixed feelings about this. I planned and wanted to nurse Sophia up until August if not until December so that she would have the breast milk for her whole first year, but that is not the case. Sophia got her two bottom teeth super early, at 3 months!! I know it is CRAZY, but now the teeth have been in for about a month and a half and they are more grown in now and razor sharp... so she starting biting me about two weeks ago and I cut back on nursing and began pumping. As with the pump, not as much milk, I have continously gotten less and less. So I was only nursing Sophia first thing every morning. I love that time with her, she is always so happy and cuddly first thing in the morning. Well two days ago she started chomping down in the am too. She likes to knaw on things to sooth her teeting ( I think she is about to get some more teeth.) I am happy to now share the morning feedings with my wonderful husband and maybe catch a few more zzz's in the am, but I sad to give up that special bonding time I had with my daughter. So we are moving right through the rest of the stored up milk and most likely by next week will be on all formula!! I at least know that I gave her 4 1/2 almost 5 months of the best thing for her.
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I also wanted to tell you about a beautiful gift that Sophia and I received from a family friend. I had been wanting a necklace with Sophia's name on it for mother's day, and a family friend got me this beautiful heart necklace with her name on it as well as a pearl that dangles next to it. I absolutely love it. She also got Sophia a beautiful spoon engraved with her name on it. She gave me the website that she ordered them on, check it out.

This isn't really a good picture of the spoon, but it is ingraved with SOPHIA MARIE, you will have to check out the website.

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DINNER WITH DADDY!

Zach took over the afternoon bottle and cereal feeding! He was a super trooper because he also cooked a yummy dinner for me.

I love this picture it makes me smile... she loves to eat! (and smile for Mommy)

P.S. I am still waiting on the shower pics!!

Randomness

Here are a few random photos from the past few days!

Asleep at Roxie and Presley's baby shower. I will hopefully post more about the shower as soon as Pooh Bear emails me the photos!!

Doing dishes with Grandma!!

Totally getting the hang of this cereal thing!

4 Month Wellness Check Up!

Yesterday Sophia had her 4 month wellness checkup. She was such a good little girl. I had to wake her from a short nap that she got on the way to the doctors, but she always wakes up with SMILE!!

Here are her stats for 4 months!

Head circumference: 41 cm -50th percentile
Weight: 13 lbs 3.5 oz -50th percentile
Height: 26.5 cm - above the 97th percentile

She's long and skinny with a perfect little round head!!!

Waiting patiently!

With Daddy!

After the appointment she fell asleep in her carseat at my mom's house, with the paci stuck in the side of her mouth, she enjoys chewing on it now, not sucking... that is what her thumb is for.... well Mommy and Daddy's fingers too!

4 Months Old!

Sophia at 4 months!!

• you still eating every 3 hours during the day
• you just started eating rice cereal... only about 1 tablespoon
• you now take an 8 oz bottle before bed
• you sleep from about 7 or 7:30 to 6 am!! You are a good sleeper... just like your mommy and daddy!
  
• you still love bath time... it soothes you
• you still LOVE sucking your thumb
• you can now roll over from you back to your tummy, from both sides, but you prefer to roll on her right side, and you can roll from your tummy to back, but you sometimes get very upset if you can't roll back over fast enough
• every morning before we leave for school, you play in your exer-saucer and you love playing with the book
• you love your bedtime routine, you know after bath time and getting into our pj's its time for your bottle... you do not like to stop drinking, you suck it all down as fast as you can!
• You love books, especially the pictures... I think she is going to be a reader like Zach! YAY!!
  
• I can't believe how big you are getting, you are still wearing your size 1 diapers but you are wearing your 3-6 months clothes, and you are almost growing out of your 3-6 month sleepers... you are a long little girl.

We go for Sophia's 4 month wellness checkup on Monday... I can't wait to find out how long she is... and I am glad that Zach will be able to meet us so he can hold Sophia for her shots!