Nana teaches Sophia her last name AND we have a front tooth!

This week Nana Paola taught Sophia to say "Tees" after we say "Sophia Lillian" which is soooo cute! And alas we have a 3rd tooth. It's her front tooth and it finally broke through this past Wednesday at 13.5 months. We think this tooth has been causing Sophia a lot of agony so we're happy it's here! We had Grandma and Grandpa Tees over yesterday for lunch and a swim! We had to postpone our park trip due to it being 100 degrees out! Here are some of our favorite pictures from the past week!

Sophia LOVES the neighborhood kitty that visits our backyard. Every time we open the blinds Sophia announced "Meow" whether kitty is there or not!!


Sophia's new love is cream cheese so we spread some on a waffle and she goes to town. Most of it ends up between her fingers and on her face and nose like this:


Grandma and Grandpa come to visit!! Sophia was sooooo happy!


We bought Sophia some "water shoes" so she can walk in and out of the pool without burning her feet.


It's pool time! We decided to blow up the pool in the back since it has a shaded cover rather than take her to the big pool. She LOVED it and played for a 1/2 hour all by herself.


Until DADDY joined in the fun!


Grandma Tees and Sophia having fun with buttons!

Peanut #2 in 4D!

We had the most amazing doctor's appointment on Tuesday. Brian flew back from a business trip JUST in time for our 4D structural ultrasound! The doctor was soooo proud of the pictures he got that he gave us not only a DVD but a CD of jpg's to "share with our family". Baby looks "perfect" according to doc and is measuring 1 week ahead(so was Sophia!!) which puts my due date at NEW YEARS EVE! Party at Cedar's Sinai!!We kinda figured this anyway since Sophia was a week early also. Here are a few of the MANY pictures we got of our baby boy:)

Here's the "perfect" picture of him. He looks sooo much like his big sister already!!


And a nice shot of the umbilical cord:)

A day at the zoo!

We had a fun day at the zoo on Sunday. We bought an annual pass and Sophia is really learning her animals. She now loves to make monkey, kitty, doggy, lamb, and cow sounds! Her new favorite saying is "bye bye" and she's been saying "mommy" a lot which makes my heart melt:)She knows some sign language and says "more" while signing which is VERY helpful to us!! Nana also taught Sophia her last name this week...Nana says "Sophia Lillian" and Sophia says "TEES" with a BIG smile!


Daddy and Sophia checkin' out the zebras:)


Nana and the "hot" lil' Tees! It was almost 100!


"The monkey's are this way!!!"

20 weeks! 1/2 way there~we have a cantaloupe!!!

20 week baby bump with Baby Tees#2!


Belly shot from 20 weeks with SOPHIA just for fun:)

Sophia's hair do's and her school carnival!

Sophia is 13 months old(as of yesterday)!! Many days she comes home from school with a new hair do that the girls give her at school and we love it!! Mommy isn't quite brave enough to do the pigtails yet so we're happy she gets them at school. Thought we'd share a few pictures of the do's she come home with. She also had a school carnival this evening which Nana, Grandpa, and mama all went to b/c Daddy was traveling. There were lots of different animals and bouncy castles, pony rides, dinner and snow cones!

Mohawk 'do! (We don't think she fancied this one from the look on her face!)


The 3 pony 'do!


And today she had the 1 pony 'do!


And last is the 2 pony 'do!


Sophia and Caroline daring each other to touch the turtle at the school carnival!


Nana and Sophia hangin' with the pony!


She was pretty brave with the bunny


A lil' blurry but TOO cute!


Here's a token "just 'cuz" picture!


Token #2


OK we'll stop!!

18 weeks and going strong!

"Your fetus has become amazingly mobile (at least compared to you), passing the hours yawning, hiccuping, rolling, twisting, kicking, punching, sucking and swallowing. And, baby's finally big enough that you'll be able to feel those movements soon."

And my growing belly looks like this...

It's a BOY!!!

Friday night (at 17 weeks pregnant) we drove to Long Beach to meet our dear friend Mary for our ultrasound. She used to work at this hospital doing ultrasounds in the ER and she's kind enough to sneak in her closest friends and family for ultrasounds still!!! We were soooooo happy to find out we're having a baby boy! Now our household will even out a little...ha:) He wasn't quite as wiggly as Sophia was but he was definitely wiggling around in there. We're so excited to start shopping for our lil' guy. Mary gave us a LOT of picture but here are just a few. We cannot thank Mary enough for her time...this night meant a lot to us and our family and we love our new boy soooo much already!!!!

Flexin' his muscles

He was just relaxin' with his legs crossed for a few minutes until he started wiggling again of course

It's DEF a boy...he showed us many times:)

Busy weekends!

We've had lots of family time these past few weekends and have lots of pictures to share. We had dinner with Nana and Grandpa Paola last Sunday and a visit from Uncle Frank, Auntie Sarah, and Emily where we bbq'd and swam. Sophia LOVES her new swim boat and cousin Emily took a ride in it too! Sophia's new favorite word is "opey" for "open" and she's active and running around like crazy:-)
Shopping with Daddy at the mall

Nana showing Sophia her favorite animals

Backyard dinner with Nana and Grandpa

Grandpa reading to Sophia...she likes to be read to but only for 3 minutes tops ha!

Cutest picture ever of BT and his "mini me"

It's BBQ time!

Sophia looked so cute in her new swimsuit from Grandma and Grandpa Tees!

Her new boat was a hit...she's liking the pool more and more.

Even cousin Emily dug the new boat!

Sophia enjoying her nectarine

The only decent picture we could get of the two of them...talk about wiggle worms!!

The "Grill Master"!

Auntie Sarah workin' hard!


Sophia enjoys her Starbucks just like mommy does:-)