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I love watching all the different stages that Sophia has been going through. I have been doing a lot of reading about what to expect during the toddler years, and some of the books give examples of how a baby may react to something that we. In one of the books I was reading (I forget that name of the book) it said that around the 7 month mark kids tend to get upset when you take an object away from them. I think that’s when they begin to recognize that just because they don’t see it it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. When Sophie was 7 months old she generally did not care if I took things away from her, she would just move on to the next interesting thing around her. Well let me tell you, it’s a whole new ball game now. Dare I take anything away from her that she wants and the screaming and water works come straight out. Like the other day I was sitting on the floor next to her eating some blueberries, she was playing with blocks and the remote control. All of a sudden she spotted the bowl of blueberries and she just had to have it. She scooted on her little bottom to the bowl and started playing with the berries. It was very cute how she investigated a berry, then she threw it our of the bowl, then she put it back in. After she got bored of picking single berries out she threw a bunch of them out onto the carpet and began mushing the rest of them in the bowl. That’s when I took it away because otherwise she would put a bunch of stains on her clothes and on the carpet. Oh man, was she ever angry she it berries were taken away from her. I don’t think she stopped whining until she went down for a nap an hour later. Next time I will know to take them away before she gets her little grabby hands on them.

Here are some pictures of her blueberry party.

Still fairly clean, being nice...

cleaning up……

getting messier….

smushing the berries….

baaaaaa, Mine, give them back!!!!! 

Well I went to the doctor yesterday and got an x-ray, so I guess now I have to wait and see what the doctor says. It’s not feeling any better, so now I hope that he find what’s wrong and fixes my wrist. It’s not fun not being able to play with my baby.

Last week we took Sophie for her very first trip to the ocean. She is such a little water baby, as soon as she saw the water she started squirming and giggling. She really wanted to go all the way in, but seeing as how it was dirty I only let her put her legs in there. I didn’t want a bung of yucky stuff on her. The trip was actually hosted by a church that I attended as a teenager and seeing as how I knew most of the people there I decided it would be nice to go socialize. It was a little odd for me there though, I think it was the first time that I realized that I no longer fit into that group. I don’t know if it’s just been too many years, or if I have changed, or if they changed. It used to feel like home to me, but now I feel like an outsider. I guess people grow up and go in different directions. At least I have a lot of good memories there. A chapter in my life closed, but that’s how it’s supposed to happen. Life would be boring if we didn’t have new things to move onto.

I think I’m going to take Sophie to the lake today, it looks like a really nice day out. That’s it folks, that’s all my wrist can handle today.

Beach Pictures

Today Sophie had her very first play date. A little while ago I blogged about how I felt that I no longer had anything in common with my friends whom don’t have children, and how being a stay at home mom can get very lonely. Well, since the wonderful world of facebook I have reconnected with some people that I had not seen in some time. The last time that I saw Kim was on our graduation day back in 2001. So yah, 6 years, but it was very comfortable and I had a lot of time catching up. She also has a little girl, Haylee, she’s about 6 weeks older then Sophia, but it’s not too big of a gap so it was nice.

We were supposed to get together with one other girl that we went to high school with, but we couldn’t get a hold of her and hoping that everything is ok. Maybe another time all of will get to go out. I was being a bit of an air head when I headed out this morning and forgot to take my camera with me, so I guess I won’t have any pictures from Sophie’s first play date. oh well, she will have many more to come. I’m looking forward to hanging out with her and our kids playing together. That’s it, that’s what we did today. Yay for a fun day !!!

I’m having a little trouble understanding what’s going through my little girls head. For some odd reason she has decided that it’s a good idea to wake up in the middle of the night and play. She has done this before, but I have always been able to get her back to sleep. Now she just wants me to hold her, and as much as I love cuddling with Sophie, I don’t love it at 2 am. It’s mommy’s time to sleep, and well it should be her sleep time as well. Weird kid. I wish I knew what to do about that. it’s almost like she has an internal clock that wakes her at the same time every night and tells her that it’s play time. I don’t really have much to complain about her sleep. She is an excellent, napper and goes down for bed easily, it’s the middle of the night waking that it the problem.

Mu husband is kind enough to get up with her in the morning and let me catch up on some sleep, but I wish that I wasn’t so tired in the morning and could spend the morning with my family.

Brad wants to watch Invisible Children with me, so time to go.

Since I haven’t posted much recently I figured I would today. I don’t really know what came over me, maybe a needed a blog break.

Things have been going well here. I had a wee bit scare last week, and have never been so happy to get my period. It was 9 days late, but it came and that’s all that matters. I think it made me realize how unready I am for another child. I think it would be nice to have kids close together, but right now my sanity is more important. No baby itch here, I’m happy not to have to worry about it anymore.

Sophie has been doing well. She has finally settled into a great napping routine. I can actually get about 3 napping hours out of her. She usually takes a nap at 10am and 2 pm, gives me a break to do some stuff and she is much happier when she is well rested. She still only has one tooth. I thought the other one was going to be there as soon as her first came in, but nothing else is cutting through.

Well I’m wearing one of those wrist bandages right now so typing is really hard. Have a good day

I was going to blog about this a few days ago (when she actually got her tooth), but I kept forgetting to. Sophie got her first tooth on June 15th. I knew that she had been teething, but the little sharpie took me by surprise. When she was 3 months old I was convinced that she was teething, had all the classic signs. She drooled like a mad dog, chewed on EVERYTHING around her, and had huge red cheeks. Nothing came for months. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the unexplained fevers that she had, well I guess now I have an explanation. It wasn’t a virus like that horribly rude doctor told us, she was cutting a tooth.

I was actually checking her gums and she bit me, those little things are really sharp. I can see her other bottom one is right behind the one that just popped through.

That’s it, I just wanted to share our first tooth excitement. I’ll post a picture later.

Yesterday I did something that I haven’t done in years, I went to the gym. Yes you heard me, I went to work out. I think I was just as shocked at myself as everyone around me. My body hurts now, but I had a lot of fun there.

Before I was heading there I put Sophia in her exersaucer so that I could get some work done. Somehow she got a hold of a piece of paper and started munching on it. I didn’t think it was a big deal as she loses interest in things pretty quickly. The next thing I see are a bunch of holes in the paper and a huge piece in her mouth. By the time that I got to her she had swallowed that chunk of paper. So much for it not being a big deal, I let my kid eat paper. I guess it really is not that big of a deal, I just have to be more careful now.

Back to my  going to the gym story. I went for a 20/20/20 exercise, which concentrates on butt/thighs/stomach areas. I know that I am skinny and all, but my body doesn’t feel as tight as it did before Sophie so I have to take care of that. I also went to be healthier, as I am incredibly out of shape. It was a good workout, and I wasn’t the only one huffing and puffing by the end, I am proud of myself.

Ohhh Brad is out of the shower, my turn. I love taking showers. Laters……

Sophia by her crib, just after a nap

I haven’t felt like blogging much. I suppose I just don’t have all that much to say. Sophie has been doing very well. Her weird fever has gone away, thus her days are much happier. I love seeing her big smiles and giggles. She lights up my day. I know that I complain a lot when she is cranky, but I really love her with all my heart. She is such a joy to have.

On Monday she had her last swimming class and received a little swimming diploma. It was sooo cute, I can’t believe they give those out to babies. I am so glad that I took swimming classes with her; we had a lot of fun and she learned a lot. It seems silly to take a baby to swimming classes, but it is very useful. She learned to prepare to be submerged under water, how to kick her feet, and to float. We’re actually going to take another course starting July 7. My mom is going to buy her a little kiddie pool so that she has somewhere to have fun during the hot days.

That’s it, that’s all I have to say for now. Here’s a picture of Sophie and her swimming diploma

I never thought that  would see my 7 month old baby have tantrums. I always thought that the tantrum stage starts around the age of 2, oh boy was I wrong. I don’t know if they will start full blown or if she is just acting out randomly, but I do know that it has began. Yesterday I was offering her some food and she starting swinging her arms back and fourth and making really loud screeching noises. Of course the food went flying up in the air and landed on top of her, and that just made her more angry. I wish I knew why she is throwing fits like that. I’m pretty sure that at this age she is unable to rationalize and try to manipulate us, there is no way that she is doing that. And I know that at this age she won’t understand “NO.” I thought that I would have a lot more time than 7 months..ahahah.

I’m in the process of reading Positive Discipline, as I in no way believe in hitting, pinching, flicking, or smacking a child. Not that I would even consider something like that at this age, but I figures that once the toddler years approach I want to have some sort of a clue what I will be up against. I just know that I am completely against spanking children, to me it’s just plain child abuse I don’t care what peoples reasons are. I think we as parents have a responsibility to teach our children right from wrong and how to deal with their emotions, not smack it into them. It always made me so mad seeing a parent hit their kid and say “don’t you hit your brother,” how hypocritical is that? I guess I just don’t get it how someone can inflict pain on their precious little child. I know that I could never do something like that.

Anyway, I don’t really know why I ranted about that, I just felt I needed to say that. Back to Sophie’s fits. I think that she flips out because she is unable to do the things that she wants to do. What I mean by that, is when she sees a cat walk by  she wants to touch it but she can’t reach the cat. I can see her legs going, but she is just not strong enough to chase the kitty, so instead she just screams in frustration. I have seen her do that on daily account for a couple of weeks now. Yesterdays food throwing was a new one for me. I guess when you have two temperamental parents you’re bound to be the same, the poor kid had no hope

So if you have any suggestion on what I can do to help her at this age I would love to hear them. I guess the biggest thing that I can do is distract her with something else. I just don’t want her always feeling frustrated, and it seems like lately that has been the majority of her days. She is a happy little girl, when she has what she wants.