Week 36: Happy Halloween and First finger foods

Sophia doing her John McCain impression. Where's your neck?

Udette visited for another day this week and we got to spend time playing and laughing. Thanks for this new pretty outfit! It is a little big but will fit soon enough...

Sophia has started to TRY and pull herself up to standing.

What a fun time she is having in the jumperoo. Thanks Kerrie,

We had a special pre-holiday Thurs playgroup at Janelle's house this week. Of course Sophie was scared of the pop up pumpkin.

Sophia succomed to peer pressure and had her first finger food at play group - a puff. Looks like she loved it!

I also let her suck on a piece of apple. I watched her carefully and she didnt really bite much of it and lost interest after about 3o seconds..

So I decided to try cheerios at home. She played with her first cheerio for about 20 minutes and then decided it was ok to put in her mouth. She missed her mouth the first time and hit her cheek which was so funny.

"Yeah, I can feed myself!"

Happy 1st Halloween! I think it is time to lower the crib before she escapes...










"Let me out of here, I want to go trick or treating!"

Getting ready to go out trick or treating, we made sure we had enough candy if any kids came to our house... Sophia prefers the Reece's peanut butter cups.

Out and about in town. It was a beautiful afternoon and we headed out early to enjoy the day.

She was very chatty at The Gap.

All dressed in her flower costume and ready to hit the town.

The first treat she received was of course Reece's pieces. She seemed to pick everything her mom likes, I wonder how that happened.

We walked around town with Amy (w/ her husband Elad and Noa) and Ali (w/ Layla).

Daddy joined us after work for the festivities.

We stopped at the park for a quick swing and a junior mint.

Some of the houses were really elaborately decorated.

At Jodi's halloween party, we were of course the Vader family.

Our little Princess Leia.

I was Padme, princess Leia's mom..

"Are you my father under there?"

Princess Leia had to fight the empire for a toy that wasn't even hers.

...be nice Miss Sophia.

All the babies got together for a group photo.. Sophia was thrilled to participate.

All the mommies and babies.

All the dadies and babies.

On Sunday, we went to our old church and saw Sophia's godfather (John)

and our friend Carol.

After church we met Kerrie (w/ Justin & toddler Ryan) and Shawn (w/ Andy & baby Alex) for lunch.

Sophie had fun playing with Ryan's toys again. Alex is almost as big as her at 4 months!












Yeah, we went to the park for playtime on the swings. There probably won't be many more beautiful weather weekends like this one for awhile!

Alex and Sophie back to back swinging away.

When we got home, we watched the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown to end the two weeks of Halloween events. All done with halloween and ready for thanksgiving in just a few weeks!