From crawling at 8 months to starting to walk at 8.5 months!

Daddy baby proofed the house while mommy was in Miami last weekend and it was just in time...Miss Sophia Lillian is "cruising" already after 2 weeks of crawling. She's been crawling around the house at lighting speed since her 8 month birthday. Now she's 8 months 2 weeks and she's standing/pulling herself up and cruising around the furniture! She's making kissy faces(which we LOVE) and says "mama", "dada", "up" and "uh oh".
Our lil' crawling monkey!

We love her in purple:)

A Sunday stroll with mama.

As usual...Sophia is smiling!

Daddy's lil' girl!

Sophia's Baptism 2/15/09

Our little Sophia Lillian was baptised on Sunday in front of lots of friends and family. Sophia's godparents are Kelly Gordon and Frank Tees. It was supposed to rain all day but the sun was shining instead! Sophia's baptismal gown and shoes are family heirlooms. Her maternal Great Grandpa Art was first baptised in the gown over 100 years ago, then Nana Paola, then mama, then Sophia! We are so thankful to everyone who came from far away to be a part of Sophia's special day.
A great picture of the gown and shoes courtesy of Ryan Gordon!

Sophia and her godmommy just before the baptism!

She was such a good girl and didn't cry(she was a bit wiggly though!)

Grandma and Grandpa Paola

Grandma and Grandpa Tees

Sophia with her godparents

Great Aunt Mary Ann

Great Uncle Jack blowing kisses

Becka, Marta, Heather, and Matthew all came out to celebrate.

Auntie Julie and her sister Mary made the treck from San Diego!

Proud Mommy and Daddy!!

Our little angel after a LONG day...

Weekly update!

Sophia started on veggies this week and LOVES carrots! She's starting to run sounds together and her new favorite sound is "mamama" which of course makes mama very happpy. We're trying to teach her "dada" too:) We had an entire week of Sophia not being sick!! We're on a roll now:)

Last weekend was our good friends Kelly and Ryan's baby shower! Here's a picture of some good girlfriends(sorority sis's) and their kiddies. Can't believe we're all grown up!

Mommy-to-be(doesn't she look great??) and Sophia!

Uncle Frank's 35th birthday

Last Sunday we celebrated Uncle Frank's birthday with Auntie Sarah, Cousin Emily and Grandma and Grandpa Tees. Sophia's is sitting up on her own now and her new favorite thing is clapping. She claps when music is playing and claps when there's no music playing too!

Grandma Tees made us a yummy chicken and pasta dinner!

The birthday boy!

Sharing smiles with Grandpa

Sophia spent some floor time with Grandma and Grandpa

Auntie Sarah made an amazing birthday cake(she's very creative like that)!!

Uncle Frank was REALLY happy to turn 35!(or maybe it was Auntie Sarah's cake he was really excited about)

Sophia's Doc visit and bath time!

This picture is from our Urgent Care visit last Sunday where we had a 5 hour wait. Sophia was in good spirits in her tennis outfit! She's finally getting better now and has slept 9 hours 2 nights in a row. We're on a roll!!

Sophia had her first bath this week in a "big girl" bath tub. She got a lot of bath toys for Christmas so we decided to try them out. She loves splashing around in the water but hasn't quite figured out how to "play" with the toys. She thinks everything is edible!

Sophia Lillian turns 6 months!! 1/19/09

We cannot believe how much Sophia is growing and developing. At the moment she's teething so she's had a few sleepless nights lately. Today we also found out she has "croup" which is basically a cough that sounds like a seal! Poor baby is in such good spirits considering she's so sick. She's a VERY happy baby overall and we are so blessed to have her in our life.

Sophia's Second shot at food 1/9/09!

OK so we were more successful the second time and Sophia was much happier with us(we found out she didn't like the rice mixed with formula...picky lil' thing!). She was actually lunging at the spoon this time so we think that means she likes it...ha! She's a bit happier in these photos:) We hope Sophia had as much fun as her mommy and daddy did...can't wait 'til we move on to fun foods(rice cereal doesn't look all that appetizing!)