A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!!

It's been two months since my last post!  Yikes!  Sophie is running around like crazy, it's all I can do to keep up with her.  I have a ton of pictures on my iPhone.  I get a lot of my ideas about what to write about from my phone!  That sounds crazy, I know.  But, when I sit down to look through my photos, and choose which ones to upload and publish, the last two months come rushing back to me.  Here's my story, as told by my library of iPhone photos...

Sophie would spend every waking hour outside if we let her.  This girl LOVES the outdoors.  Sophie believes that if our door is opening to the outside, she had better be going through it!  Lots of tears have resulted from being let down.  Needless to say, she loves swimming as well. She cooperates in wearing a hat and sunglasses 90% of the time!

Sunglasses indoors too!  A visit to Mommy at work

Having fun at the splash pad at Universal Studios

Anything to be outside!  She can't quite reach the pedals yet, but her feet recently started dragging on the ground.  I've resorted to rolling up a towel underneath her bottom to give her a little boost!  Since she is a collector of "things", we pick up every rock and wood chip along the way.

Another pool date with our friend Sloane.  Such bathing beauties!

The best part about the park, playing in the only puddle there!

First day of facing forward in the car seat.  Still trying to figure it all out in this one.

That's better



Grandma and Grandpa Swartz came for a visit.  The first thing Grandpa did was buy Sophie a bunch of shoes!!  "Shoes" just so happens to be one of her favorite words at this time.  She is also infatuated in putting other peoples shoes on

Wearing Grandpa's hat.  "Hat" is another word that gets a lot of use these days.  She drops the "h" and calls it, "At!"

Grandma and Grandpa also took us to the Rainforest Cafe for lunch.  We saw gorillas  elephants, monkeys and even sat through an indoor tropical storm!  Sophie loved every bit of it.  Especially the monkeys, she says "Ooooh oooh aaahh ahhhh" just like a monkey.

A day at Cocoa Beach with Grandma, Grandpa, Mommy and of course Daddy

She has to wear water shoes since the last time we went to the beach she refused to put her bare feet in the sand.  These worked like a charm.  Even though she is only ankle deep in water here, whenever a wave would wash up, she would get wobbly, as if it were going to knock her down.  It was a bit humorous. She loved being in the water!

Pool date with Ella and Lexie

So much fun in the pool!

Splash pad fun with our friend Sloane.  These two were having so much fun!

Best buds

Trying to figure out this fountain thing

Fun family day at Animal Kingdom lodge looking at the animals

Playing in the dirt!  This same day, a few hours earlier, I caught her playing in a plant in the house, dumping the dirt out on the floor.  I figured she deserved some supervised, mommy-approved dirt play....

"If my "roar" doesn't scare you, maybe this thing on my head will!"

She is a silly girl!  She has my hat on backwards and a toy on top of that!

Shout out to Aunt Linda!  We got a cuuuute outfit in the mail from her that was knitted by a lady she knows.  The money went towards a charitable cause.  Sophie is checking out her new hat here!

Sophie loves reading these days!  Every nap and nighttime sleep is preceded by reading some books.  She has a fit if you don't read a book to her.  She gets really excited, however, when you pull books out for the occasion.  She has even started bringing me books to read during playtime!

Playing "Nurse"!  She is holding a toy syringe in her hands. She loves giving me shots!

Nakey Bums!  With a little light reading on the side :)

Such a sweet face!  One of her many new pairs of pajamas.  I've resorted to buying pajamas with shorts since I can't seem to keep up with her quickly growing legs! That and the fact that it's 90-something degrees here everyday

See the baby lizard on her arm?  She liked it much better when it was in the cup!

A shout out to Aunt Regina. The PURPLE shirt says, "I wanna grow up to be a Puma".  It's a Saint Joe thing

We bought a potty!

We LOVE our new potty!

What do you do when it's 100 degrees outside?  Play in Toys R Us of course!  This kid spent an hour taking things off shelves and bringing them to me

Sleepy beach baby.  She slept like this for a good while, as Grandpa held an umbrella over her.

We have been making daily visits to the park before it gets too hot outside. We get there about ten minutes before the day camp kids show up.  Sophie loves watching the other kids play.  She is so inquisitive!

7/11 means free Slurpee day at 7-eleven!!  Sophie's first Slurpee and no complaint of brain freeze! Of course she shared it with her Mommy :)

Sophie taking Sloane for a ride!

Such a big girl!  15 month stats: 31 3/4 inches tall,   21 pounds 3.5 ounces, she's tall and skinny!

"Cheese!"  This is the face I get when I ask her to "cheese" for the camera.  She loves to say the word, and loves the food even more!  We have two cheese mongers in this house. (The other one is our hairy, four legged child)

A lovely video of our daughter working out before bed time!  Dan put a pull up bar on one of our door frames.  As soon as Sophie figured out what it was for, she cried every time she passed it so she could be lifted up for some baby pull ups!

The last video is of a little friend we found in the house.  Sophie insisted on holding the cup so I took her outside.  At one point she holds the cup to the side of her head, "hugging" the lizard.  The end of the video that was cut off due to size, she attempts to drink the lizard out of the cup.  From the picture listed previously in this post, you can tell she had more fun with this cute little guy while he was inside the cup!  She has a fondness for lizards of all sizes, however.  When she first started noticing them, I would point it out to her, and start whispering to her about it, as though to try and keep her quiet so she wouldn't scare it away.  Now, when we go out looking for them, and she spots one, she points and starts whispering some sort of gibberish  telling me all about them.  It's so sweet!

Ahhh, all done!  That took me about a week to write, edit and publish!  Hope to get it more streamlined next time...

Love
The Family York


A ONEderful photo shoot

We had our friend Mandi Backhaus take some photos of our sweet girl for her big day!  Sophie had a great time and enjoyed an entire cake made just for her.  Here is a sampling of the photos we captured.

My favorite! Stunning, sweet face!

Mmmm, cake!

Sophie had a visit to the doctor for her 1 year check up.  These are her stats:

18 lbs 15 oz
31 inches tall (95th percentile!!)

2 shots :(

Sophie had her first bad reaction to getting vaccines.  The poor thing had a fever for about 2 days.  She was grumpy and snuggly at the same time.  This mommy was worried about the poor baby, but we struggled through our first fever and she is back to her normal self.

Sophie is babbling up a storm!  She has something (I'm not quite sure what) to say about everything.  It's adorable how enthusiastic she gets about certain things!  Lucy continues to be one of her favorite things to talk about and interact with.  She enjoys poking her eyes and sticking her finger up her nose.  If Lucy is especially comfy in her spot, she will let Sophie poke as long as I let her.

Sophie started walking the day before our 2nd wedding anniversary, April 20th!  She took about eight steps while we were having a little dance party.  I actually caught it on video!  She still prefers to crawl, but walks a bit when she feels like it.

We have been enjoying being outside more these days since she has gotten more mobile.  She loves being outside!  We frequently play on the front porch and wave to every car that passes by.  That's a lot of waving!  We live on a busy street!  She enjoys pushing her toy around on the porch and occasionally venturing off the porch while holding my hand (*sigh* so sweet!)  We even have a tiny tricycle with a handle attached to the back and a buckle to strap her in.  She enjoys sitting back, taking in all her surroundings while I push her around. 

Playing on the porch.  "Bring out the butter! I think I'm stuck!"

We RUN with our push toy on the porch!

Rock star!

A visit to mommy's work on the weekend

 We went to the beach for Mother's Day with our friends Jay and Megan and their little girl Sloane.  This was Sophie's second time to the beach and boy was it different.  She did NOT like the feeling of the sand on her feet.  She didn't mind that she had sand all over her, she just wailed every time I tried to stand her on the sand.  Needless to say we spent a lot of time on the towel or being held by mommy or daddy.  She enjoyed the ocean and the waves so much, they lulled her to sleep!

I am not touching that sand!

Beach buddies!  Sloane on left, Sophie on right

Tu tu head!  Grandma and Grandpa had to ship all of the presents Sophie got for her birthday.  She had a great time going through boxes.  She even enjoyed wearing her tu tu on her head for a bit!

I think they saw a squirrel

Boo boo bunny on the gums, so good!

Enjoying an apple

Happy Mother's day to all the Mommies!

Love,
The Yorks