Alex's Cool New Haircut!

For quite some time, he has had a REALLY long haircut. It was more like a shaggy, in his eyes, lack of a haircut, but he thought it was a style. I finally convinced him to get a David Beckham inspired cut, and it looks SO much better.

I Love How They Are Starting to Play Together, Even if It's Not Always as Max Wants Its

Sophia keeps waiting for Max's train to come around and then destroys it by grabbing a couple of the cars to chew on. Max is not impressed.

I Love This

"I really am your gift. I am not just a little person who needs to be "raised" and taught, and taken to activities....I came to the people in my life to bring a message: slow down. Feel. Be. Over and over again. When you do, you will notice immediately, that I am not an obstacle to your work, or inconvenient to your daily life. Instead, you will come to appreciate my honesty, humor, presence and love." - Bruce Scott

Sophia is Quite the Eater and Other Stuff

Man, this girl loves her food! In the past week, she has decided she no longer likes purees or me feeding her. She may accept a few bites to humor me, but after that, she likes to take charge. She has an excellent pincer grip, so is is doing remarkably well with finger foods.

Also on a coordination note, she mastered the clap a couple of weeks ago and now loves to show it off.

While she has crawled on her hands and knees a couple of times, she is still mostly scooting around on her belly, but she can get to where she wants to, and she does so quickly. She loves chewing on shoes and playing with velrco, grabbing things out of the fridge, and anything to do with plastic bags.

She is very curious and is still such a loving, quick to smile baby.

This might as well be Max-This is how he prefers to be in the summer!

I Really, Really Love This Age

Sophia is now 7 months, and the best way to describe her is pure joy. She smiles 99% of the time, is loving, cuddly, curious, and has such a calm and sweet nature.

She's still not sleeping through the night :(, but she is down to 1-2 times a night. The girl LOVES to eat, and has liked everything we've given her with the exception of apricots. She still eats them though:)

She's a tall one, just like her brother, with a 95th percentile for her height and 75th for weight.

She's really into her army crawling, is VERY vocal, and loves to explore. Walks and nature are very calming to her, and I love to watch her as she explores with her eyes, taking it all in. I cannot imagine having a better, more loving baby:)

A Pretty Typical Day...

The kids have been crazy today. I think they are conspiring together to wear me down so I will just completely cave, let Sophie chew on anything she wants and let Max watch t.v. all day. 

Some of the highlights...

Sophie was not able to sleep at all due to Mr. Max. I would have her in her room, rocking her, almost completely asleep, after giving Max strict orders to stay downstairs and play. Instead, he would sneak up the stairs like a Ninja, burst into her room in full costume, and yell, "Captain America is here!", before trying to get the "bad guys" out of her room. Sophie would cry, and we would start all over.

At the library, I was changing Sophie's diaper and turned around to see Max had a HUGE stack of toilet paper pulled off. He said his shark was hungry and needed a snack. We cleaned it up, I put Sophie in her seat, and went to wash my hands. He stated his shark was hungry again, and was spinning the toilet paper off the roll like his life depended on it. Yeah, I received some looks from others....they must not have kids!