A QUICK UPDATE

 

 

You guys. I neglected my blog ... again. I think it was just so much easier to blog when Sophia was a baby. I've noticed that once she started walking, talking & basically turning into a little girl, it's been harder to find time to blog. But like always, I'm going to try and get back into it again, but I'm not promising anything.

 

This month has been super busy with birthday parties, baby showers, my first ever 5k & some beautiful weather. I plan on posting about all of these within the next couple of days but for now I will share my most recent pictures of Sophia playing with her favorite thing ever, bubbles! She also loves her little swing/slide set that was given to us last year. She uses it to "explore" the back yard.

 

Hope everyone has a great Thursday.

NO MORE BINKY

I am so happy to share that Sophia has gone a week and a half without her binky! This is big for all of us because this girl couldn't go anywhere without it. She was always asking for it and couldn't go to sleep without it. Because of this I thought it was going to be extremely hard for us to take her off of it but surprisingly it wasn't bad at all.

Last Monday, 4/15/13, I decided out of no where to just take it from her. We came home from daycare and played and started to get ready for bed. She asked for it and I told her that we didn't have it anymore. She freaked out and probably cried/scream/went crazy for 10 minutes. I almost gave in because I hate seeing her like that but she eventually stopped crying.

We went to sleep and she asked for it again but I held her and patted her little butt as she fell asleep. 

The next couple of days she would ask for it here and there but now she doesn't even mention it. I'm proud of my girl. If I knew it would this easy on her then I would've taken it away after she turned 1 year old. 

Next is potty training! Wish us luck! 

LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN

Hey guys, remember us? I can't believe I went without blogging for over a month... again. I blame it all on being super busy as always and also because of a new diagnosis I'm pretty sure I have -- seasonal depression ha. I don't know what it is but colder weather makes me so lazy/unmotivated/grumpy...  just not myself.

I hate being outside in the cold so as soon as I pick Sophia up from work we stay inside. I do everything I can from leaving the house... maybe it's cabin fever? I don't know.. what I do know is we have experiencing some warmer weather this month SO I'm slowly (and finally) becoming my happy old self again. I'm also starting to think I shouldn't be living in WV if I hate cold weather this much. 

But I just wanted to stop in very quickly and say hello to anyone who is still reading/following along. As I was catching up on some blogs last night I read about GFC leaving this summer. I've had a Bloglovin account, just never used it. I decided to give it a try and I like it SO much better than my google reader. I even downloaded the app on my phone. My google reader was becoming very cluttered feeling and I couldn't find a way to delete blogs that haven't been updated in years. I suggest using Bloglovin... and I also suggest you following us there. If you have a Bloglovin account please leave your link and we will follow yours as well (if we aren't already). 

Today Sophia has to get shots and I have to get a physical for my new job that I start next week (more on that later!!) and work right after. It's going to be a long day. Let's hope Sophia doesn't freak out over her shots today. And also let's hope this momma doesn't freak out about the TB Test she has to take. I need to get over my fear of shots. 

Hope everyone has a good day!

CURRENTLY

S O P H I A  I S  C U R R E N T L Y ...

WONDERING: I'm pretty sure Sophia is wondering about every little thing. She is always asking me, "Mommy what's that?" or "Mommy whats this?" She just wants to know everything and I'm glad that she is learning.

LOATHING:  That we have to start getting ready to leave for daycare. 

COOKING: all kinds of food for me using her own kitchen. Her favorites are cupcakes that she calls birthday cake and french fries. She is SO cute playing with her kitchen. I'll start cooking & she'll run to her kitchen set and say "Mommy, I'm cooking too."

READING: her huge collection of books. Sophia loves books so we're always buying or lucky enough to have books given to us. Right now her favorite is Once Upon a Potty. This book was given to us from a family of boys. So this book is about a little boy learning how to potty train. Sophia loves it. I may have to find the girl version.

LISTENING: to Yo Gabba Gabba. This little girl will listen and watch Yo Gabba Gabba all day if I could let her. If it's not on the TV then she's playing it from my phone. 

I  A M  C U R R E N T L Y ...

WONDERING: if my house will ever be clean. Ha! It's like I can get it somewhat clean during the weekends when I'm not working but from how exhausted we are in the evenings after work it just gets messy again. I need to hire someone to do the cleaning because right now, I just can't keep up :(

LOATHING: all the cold weather and snow we are having. I feel so lazy during winter because I don't want to leave the house. I just want it to be summer. 

COOKING: to be honest. I haven't cooked anything all week. After work I pick Sophia up at daycare and my parents restaurant is next door so I have been grabbing food there for Sophia and I. Gary works real late every night so he picks up food on his way home. So there hasn't been any dinners in our home for a long time. 

READING: One of my goals this year was to read books. Well, I haven't even started one so before I started this currently post I was reading my towns news online. 

LISTENING: I am currently listening to the Yo Gabba Gabba that Sophia is playing from my phone. Yay!

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