April 12, 2009 - Sophia's 2nd Easter

Egg hunt at home.

Another egg hunt at the neighbor's house.

April 11, 2009 - Easter Egg Hunt, Birthday Parties and Rock Band

We took Sophia to her first Egg Hunt at North Elementary on the day before Easter. She was so excited. She loved picking up the eggs and was even more excited when she saw the Easter Bunny. She ran up to him yelling, "Hi Bunny!" and showing him her basket. I thought she would be afraid of him like she was last year, but she wasn't!

Mommy, Sophia, Easter Bunny and Great Grandma

After the Egg Hunt, we had my cousin Kurt's 9th birthday party. She couldn't play laser tag with all the other kids, but she loved the spider web arcade game and the car racing games.

After Kurt's party everyone went over to my parents house to some family Rock Band time. We left at about 10:30 exhausted from the long day. My poor parents- everyone else stayed until 3:30 in the morning!

April 9, 2009 - Dying Eggs

After the art show, we came home and dyed eggs for Easter. Although, she looks happy in the pictures, she did not want to participate and cried for majority of the time. Oh well, next year she'll probably enjoy it more. I think she was so tired from the excitment of the art show.

April 9, 2009 - Art Gallery

We took Sophia to an Art Gallery in New Bedford that was hosted by our friends Jess and David.

Sophia had a blast there. She loved looking at all of Jess' paintings and David's photography.

Jess specializes in custom animal portraits, so if you would like a custom pet portrait check her out at http://www.jessboyerart.etsy.com.

Sophia was the star of the show. David had taken a series of pictures of Sophia's first time at the beach last year when she was 10 months old, that he displayed that night.



If you would like to contact David for Graphic Design, Photography or Web Design, you can email him at vitiare_solari@yahoo.com.

Anyway, Sophia had fun running around the room and playing with anyone and anything she could find.

Afterwords, she had fun playing with Uncle James' drum set.

January 2009

I've been slacking posting pics, but here are a few from January:

Christmas and Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve at my parents house with all of the extended family. We open all the presents from grandmother, aunt, uncles, etc on that day. When we go home we each get to open 1 present. Sophia got a cheerleader costume from me and a magna doodle from Daddy. We opened Sophie's gift to us, which were 2 ornaments that had her picture on it. She made it in day care.

Our Charlie Brown Christmas tree- Sophia started stripping the ornaments off the tree, so it's a little bare.

Sophia, Courtney and Jeffrey

Sophia and her cousins Kurt and Brady

Christmas Morning

She was excited about "Zelle's" castle! She loved the movie "Enchanted" and the main character is a princess named Giselle. It came with a prince and she carries him around saying "Pwince Ehwad" - Prince Edward is also in the movie. lol

She made out good. Santa got her:
-crayons
-paint
-paint brushes
-coloring books
-construction paper
-Disney Potato Heads
-a Mickey Mouse ride on car
-A Dora the Explorer art tray
-big girl underwear (hoping to start potty training soon!)
-a Little Tikes Castle slide- it has a rock wall to climb up it. Great for when we're stuck in the house this winter!

She's having fun playing with all her new toys!

December 22, 2008 Making Cookies

This year Sophia and I made homemade cookies. We made sugar, chocolate chip and gingerbread cookies. We cut the sugar cookies in to Christmas tree and snowmen shapes and then frosted them and added toppings.

Taste Test!

Attempting to frost a cookie

The finished product

She thought they were funny. She ate a couple bites, but wasn't too into them.