This is what we do at 5am

On the Move Movies

Sophie is loving her new mobility!

The Goofball Chef

Georgia affixed this sticker to her forehead last Saturday morning and didn't take it off until bathtime.
She and daddy offered to make sandwiches for our lunches. Georgia said, "I have to put on my chef costume first."

The Spiderman chef.

First words, best friends

First things first, Sophie is 13 months old. She can crawl like a cheetah but hasn't really been pulling up too much. Miss Toccara seems to want us to be helping her to stand up more at home, but I'm not pushing it. She's just perfect, to me.

Sophie has definitely been trying to communicate with us. We're going to call it and say her first word is "MAMA" because that's what she wails whenever she sneaks up behind me and starts pulling on my socks.

We're pretty sure that she's also saying "Georgia" because when she looks at her very-best-pal-in-the-whole-wide-world she says, "Dehr-duh," which just sounds too close not to be the real thing.

Remember when I was complaining about 5:38am? Well Sophie decided to give me something real to complain about, so she's been showing us 3:45am and 4:26am for the last week. It's been horrific. I have no idea what is going on, but she is fuss fuss fuss and just wants to be held held held (can you tell we've been reading a lot of "Eloise" over here lately?).

Sophie also wants to eat whatever Georgia is eating, as long as it's not beans. This is very depressing for me, since we are having a hard time getting her to eat much protein that isn't yogurt-based.

Sophie loves to pick up toys and press them to her ear and say, "BLAHGERRABBLEBABBLE." Just like mommy!

She has 5.5 teeth to date.

Tomorrow we meet with the ENT again and I am GOING TO GET HIM TO PUT HER ON THE SURGERY SCHEDULE FOR EAR TUBES. He will do this, or I will put them in her ears myself. She's had at least 6 ear infections since August - perhaps all the same giant ear infection, but six rounds of antibiotics regardless and we are not having this.

She's smiley and fun and just so cuddly. I absolutely love this time with her, except when it's so hard and exhausting that I want to cry. That about sums it up!

Henry's bounce house party!

Superhero Party!

Henry's birthday party was super - literally.

Sophie was invited, too!

Georgia squeezed right into the front - we were sure she'd try to blow out the candles along with Henry and co-birthday-sponsor-Ava.

Um, what's that you see in the background? Yes, that IS an indoor bounce house.

All the kiddos got capes and masks. Methinks Daddy was a little jealous.

This was her "picture" with the superheros. This was as close as she was willing to get.

They also gave out superhero stickers and Georgia chose an Incredible Hulk one to put on her hand. In the car on the way home she said, "I need you to tell me about this green boy."

Daddy's Little Personal Trainers

This actually was Daddy's idea, we swear.

Georgia was thrilled to help him get in a little strength training last week.

She's like adding 32lbs to your barbells.

Sophie is calling the shots from the sidelines.

Then she decided to make things even more complicated!

Georgia decided it was time to add a few items to the process.

Daddy was the very best sport.

Dressed and Ready for the Cold!

Sophie just looks too cute in G's hand-me-downs.

Eaaaarly

Sophie I love you, but 4:57am is too early for us to have to talk about it.

Brussels sprouts and toast...

...make a very nice lunch.

Hairdo

Sophie just has SO MUCH HAIR, it's awesome, but it is starting to get into her eyes. We are in the experimentation stage of learning to deal with her coif. I still think she looks like a cross between a Kewpie doll and Betty Boop.

When Georgia was about this same age, we really didn't have this sort of problem, as you may recall.

She went along with it for a little while at least.

Here's a flashback to when Georgia first started wearing bands in her hair, at around 16 months.

But look at G now!

Lunch with Henry & Ellie

Um, so cute, right? This was on New Year's Eve day - we were so lucky to get to take Henry and Ellie along on our annual trip to Steak N Shake (we so need one in our town!).

Henry - older, wiser - kindly obliged when we asked him to wear the hat for the photo.

Sophie always likes a good hat (really, she smiles every time we put one on her head).

Georgia thinks Henry is hil-ar-ious.

Milkshake: good.