Operation:FATTY and Sophie's big 2!

This adorable little miss of mine turned TWO last week! I can't believe it! Before we get to the ode to Sophie here are her stats from her Doc apt. Ready? Here we go!

 Length: 33.07 inches = 38%

Weight: 22.05 lb=3%

head 46 cm = 15%

 Doc was pretty ecstatic about her weight because she is now officially on the chart! awesome! Everything else about her check up was great!

Birthday Day!

her birthday was last Saturday, Sept 27. We are having a family party squished in with Landon's blessing this Sunday so we didn't have a huge party. But she still had lots of fun I think. We were going to do fun family things outside...but then it decided to dump cats and dogs all over the place THE WHOLE DAY so we ended up having a cozy crazy day inside.

Birthday breakfast! yummy yum.

Present time!

She got a new pink "ruff"

and a NEW BIKE! Which sadly she is a little small for. we thought she'd be ok since it was for 18m-4 years. Guess she's not 18 month size yet! maybe in the spring! But she still loved it and she can straddle the bar and kind of touch the ground.

She also got the movie Frozen.

She kept on laughing while she was trying to blow out her candles so she had a little help.

 

Ode to Sophie

I never realized it before looking back at pictures but Soph has changed so much this past year! So here are about a million and one pictures of her from this last year.

Halloween 2013. She couldn't even walk yet. but she was close!

November 2013

December 2013

Feb. 2014

First piggy tails

The day after we found out Landon was a BOY.

March 2014

First day of nursery

April 2014

 

May 2014

 

June 2014

 

July 2014

Aug 2014

 

Sept 2014

She accessorized herself! she did a pretty good job!

 

Here are some things I know about this little girl....

She can say a bunch of words. mama, dada, quack (duck), fruff (dog), sches (Shoes, cheese, or fish depending on the context) Ca-ca (Conner) cook (cookie), treat, baby, poot (poop) and a whole bunch more but I don't want to bore you.

She sure loves her daddy! if she had any choice in the world of people to hang out with it would be him.

She is such a little mommy! She is always taking care of her dolls, and changing their bums, telling us to be quiet when they are sleeping, etc. It is so cute!

and her hair is forever and always in her face like this if I don't clip it back. Good thing she loves bows!

 

She loves walking around in my heels. I have had to start putting them up high so that she can't get to them and they aren't strewn all over the house.

Which leads me to my next point that she is such a GIRL! She loves all things pink or purple (every time she picks out her plate to eat on it is one of these colors) she loves necklaces and bows and Hello Kitty. "that" as she calls her. because she used to point to Hello Kitty and say "that" because she liked her and it just stuck I guess.

She loves fish.

this is her most favorite book in the world. We barrowed it from the library and went through all of our renews before finally ordering it online. We read it every night.


While she is such a girly girl she still loves to play with Conner's trucks and boy things. Conner doesn't love it so much though...

while she is mostly sweet, she sure is getting a temper! She is very opinionated about what she wears (mostly she wants to wear her church dresses everyday. it's kind of our daily battle) Must be the 2 year old talking.

Happy Birthday to my sweet terribly two year old! Love you baby girl!

Transformation Complete!

We are slightly (and by slightly I mean reeeeally) obsessed with Transformers at our house these days. About a month and a half before the Conner's birthday I asked him if he was excited to turn 4. He started crying and said that he didn't want a birthday party this year because he didn't want to be 4. When I asked him why "because my faborite # is 3! I gotta stay 3" I tried lots of things to make turning 4 sound so cool. Eventually my question "if we have a transformers birthday party would it be ok if you turned 4?" did the trick! ever since that moment he was so excited to transform into a 4 year old.

His birthday was on a Saturday so we had his party ON his birthday this year! Awesome! I will say though planning a giant party during tax season with no husband and being 7 months preggo was a little challenging. I had a giant project every day the week leading up to the big day. I can honestly say that with out my college education this party would not have been possible...or at least it wouldn't have been as super cool.

 

I remember everyone saying that if you majored in elementary education you were a"Mommy Major" Well after this week I officially think that Art is the new mommy major. I graduated in Graphic Design and had to take all sorts of random art classes, some that I never thought would be useful in my life. But oh no. While planning a nearly 4 year old's b-day party I was channeling all sorts of crazy classes. Examples:

 

Graphic Design classes=invitation(well this one's not so random of a class...since it was my major and all...)

 

3D Design/Sculpture= Piñata fun!

 

Conner helped me out with this. yup, he was a huuuge help :) But we had lots of fun working together.

Ceramics and painting= super cute experimental first time Fondant Cake



C helping me make the cake!

The finished Transformers Cake

 It turned out so cute and I only had to call up Rusty once crying! Note to self: Apparently if you try to make gray with black food coloring it turns purple! Yikes! thanks to Google and a little remembering of color mixing rules if you add yellow to purple it makes gray. phew! Although Conner may or may not have thought that it was going to transform into Optimus Prime at some point. He was slightly disappointed.

Party Time!

So anyway the day of the party came and honestly...I was pooped! But C was excited enough for the both of us that it kept me going and made it all worth it! It was a giant party with 21 adults and 12 kiddos! holy cow! That's a lot of people in my house!

"Ocams Prime is in the middle because he's my faborite autobot"



When all the new people started coming Sophie go so shy and scared.

But she eventually warmed up and had lots of fun :)



Energon Cubes (the stuff transformers get their energy from, of course)

 Piñata!
Even though the day wasn't as BEEEAUTIFUL as the weather guys on TV made it sound like it would be, we still were able to go out and take some whacks at the piñata. Either it was very strong to begin with, or a bunch of 4 year olds were hitting it (with really good form like you can see Conner doing) because eventually after every kid went through the line 5 times Rusty had to intervene and it still took him like 4 hits to get to the candy. Guess it's safe to say that if you order something from Amazon.com the box it comes it will keep it safe.

He got lots and lots of presents. What a lucky kid! We, the parents, got him a swing set! which will be set up shortly after April 15th...

Happy Birthday Conner! What a fun little guy you are. You always keep me on my toes and make my smile every single day! Love you so much!

Thanks to everyone who came to help C have an amazing day! He had a blast with you all there!