Christmas and Sophia is 8 Months Old

Christmas was this past week and it was Sophia's very first Christmas.  She seemed to love the wrapping paper and bows much more than her actual presents - the opening of presents wasn't that exciting apparently.  We celebrated the holidays over three days and there was quite a lot of time in the car, which Sophia didn't seem to mind too much (she slept through most of the car rides).  The day before Christmas Eve and Christmas Eve were spent in the west valley with Jeremy's family and Christmas Day was spent at home with my family.  Later in the day on Christmas, we stopped by to visit the Martin family, where Sophia met June for the first time (Julie and Michael's little girl).  We also took a nice, albeit brisk walk around the Fountain Hills lake. 

This past week also marked Sophia turning 8 months old.  She is crawling everywhere and is now trying to pull herself up to a standing position on any object/person/dog that she can.  She smiles all the time, showing off her sparkly new bottom front teeth (yes, just in time for Christmas, she received her two front teeth!)  

Wishing you all a happy 2013!

Sophia with her Bestamama

Sophia, always on the move

Trying out her new puzzle, courtesy of her Great Auntie Jean and Great Uncle Bernard

Sophia unfortunately couldn't partake in the Christmas feast, but seemed quite pleased with pureed banana and squash

Emma and Toby anxiously awaiting turkey remnants

Sophia meeting June

Michael, June, Julie, JP, Sophia, Jeremy and I

Family time by the Fountain Hills lake

Happy 8-month old!

Seven Months and the Start of the Christmas Season!

Sophia is officially seven months old!  This past month has brought lots and lots of change for her.  About 2 weeks ago, she started crawling and now is an old pro at it, speeding across the living room and attempting to get into all sorts of things that she is not supposed to (like trying to crawl onto the bottom shelf of the coffee table).  We have also been trying several new foods - fruits are a big hit (she loves pears, apples and prunes) but vegetables are pretty much a no-go at the moment (peas are tolerable, avocado brought a significant gagging response and sweet potatoes are blah).  The last few days, Sophia has been exceptionally fussy and today, we realized that it was because she appears to be cutting her first two teeth.  We can just about see the little baby incisors appearing underneath her lower gums.  We hope that they completely appear soon, as we would like our happier baby back!

Christmas is just around the corner, so we spent the day reorganizing the house and decorating.  We had a water heater leak a few weeks back so things have been a little unorganized while things were being repaired.  We had no idea how much damage a broken water heater could do - we had to have someone come out to make giant holes in the wall (in our third bedroom and the garage), then have very noisy heaters dry things for three days, followed by a repair crew to repair/repaint the walls and then a carpet person in to replace carpet padding and clean the carpet.  Needless to say, we were happy when that was all over!  Sophia was fascinated with us decorating for Christmas, especially the Christmas tree lights.  We can't wait until later this month and spending time with everyone!