Sophia is 9 months old!

On the 26th Sophia turned 9 months old, and we had her check up with the doctor. She is growing up way too fast. Her weight was 16lbs, 6oz, and height was 26.75in. I checked Dylan's calendar, and he was an inch and a half taller than her at this age! The doctor said she's growing right along her curve so she's healthy, and she expect that she'll pretty much have my body structure. So...she's probably gonna be short. Her crawling has evolved into some crazy zombie, one legged crawl, but it gets her around the house. She stands up when she gets to anything that will hold her up, and loves to crawl to the xbox to turn it on. She plays with Dylan in his room, and loves the tool bench. She was even brave enough to stand up without holding anything in his room, but no steps by herself yet.

When I first started writing this blog post (3 days ago!), Sophia had no teeth. However, as of last night, I felt the tiniest little sliver of a tooth at the bottom center of her mouth. Finally!! I'm sure she's not going to be too happy over the next few days as it makes it's way out, but at least the process is started! I was starting to get so worried that I even googled "is it possible for a baby to be born without any teeth". FYI, it is, but it's very rare. Now that she's getting teeth, I can start expanding the foods that she eats. She hasn't had pureed baby food in a few months, and it's really hard to find foods that are soft enough for her to eat on her own.  The good thing though is that she isn't a picky eater. She loves any and every thing that I give her. She loves it so much that she rubs it all over her face and hair. Ok, maybe that comes from her being a messy eater, but none the less, she loves food. 

It seems like she does something new every day. She says MAMAMAMAMA and BABABABABA, and she yells at Dylan when he takes toys away from her. She dances when music is on. She never wears shoes because her feet are too chunky to fit in them. I have only been able to fit shoes on her a handful of times. I keep trying different styles because if she's walking soon she needs shoes, but so far no luck.

She outgrew the moby wrap that I used to carry her when she was a newborn. I had been putting off buying a new baby carrier because I felt like I would be enabling her clingy behavior. But after borrowing a friend's carrier when we went to California Adventure, and realizing that even when I don't put her in a carrier she's still clingy, I decided to by a new one. Luckily I found a pretty good deal on a Baby Hawk, and it should be here in the next few days! It holds up to 45lbs, so I won't ever need a new one. Technically I could hold Dylan in it if he wasn't 2/3 my height. I promised Josh that for fun I would put him in it once and take a picture. 

Taking 9 month pictures of Sophia for her baby book was hard! She won't sit still at all. I still need a picture of her next to her build a bear, but here's what we got so far: 

We had to switch to this booster because she was tearing the other high chair apart. She had one of Dylan's old shirts over her, and still managed to get this dirty. Yes, those are peaches stuck to her face.

Game Face!!

Who taught you to pose like that?

On my last post I said Dylan had taken some self portraits with my camera. When I say some, I mean like 20. I was looking through them and laughing so hard because some of them look like they are straight from myspace. OMG. Where does this kid learn these things? From me? Jesus, I hope not. Here are some of my faves-

 Yesterday on his way to school he was telling me that a girl in his class cries because she misses her mom. Then he said "but I never miss you because I'm brave". Um....ok? You don't miss me at all? Not even a little?? ha ha, this kid cracks me up. 

Sophia is on the move, and it's actually helped her neediness a lot. Rather than wanting me to hold her all day, she's ok with crawling around and finding things to hold on to while she stands. She can cruise around the table, and will let go and stand by herself for a few seconds at a time. Josh thinks she'll be walking in the next month so we'll see! 

Sunday is the last day of this online class I am taking, so that should free up some time for me for at least 2 months. Mid-November my respiratory classes will start, so that's going to be another hectic time for us. I'm really excited that time is going by so fast because every day that passes is one day closer to Josh being home with us! And the countdown continues...

Busy? Me? Not at all...:)

Ok...so...I'm not very good at keeping the blog up to date. Things get ridiculously busy around here, and it's not uncommon for me to not even know what day it is. I'm not even sure where to start with all of the updates. First up...

DYLAN! He finished his second session of swim lessons. He is ready to move on to the next level, and I think we may start that on Saturday mornings. He also started karate a few weeks ago. He loves it! Right now it's just him and a karate teacher but he is going to start going to a class that has other students that he can interact with. He practices his moves at home, and when we FaceTime with Josh, he shows off his karate skills. Tomorrow is the start of his 3rd week of Preschool! On his first day, I held back the tears as I walked him in. He's gone to daycare since he was 1, but this was different. This was SCHOOL! He was wearing his little Bumblebee backpack, and he walked in like he owned the place. I can't believe how grown up he is already! He likes to say that things are disgusting (which he pronounces "us-gus-ting") and he just started saying that everything Sophia does is adorable. It sounds really cute, but he says it over and over allllll daaayyyy looonnngg. The attitude comes and goes, but I think I've cut him some slack on it ever since I had the realization that the attitude is my fault (I'll save that story for another day).

Here are some of his pictures from the past few weeks...

He finally got a haircut! I kept it long enough for the mohawk, but the sides are shaved again.

First day of Preschool!!

Walking into school. I told you...he thinks he owns the place.

Watching Dark Knight Rises, in his Batman shirt of course

Luigi!

This is their idea of bedtime 

Now for Sophia! 

She just turned 8 months old yesterday. Since my last update about her at 6 months, she started (army) crawling, pulling herself up, and she can stand for a few seconds without holding on to anything. This girl is all over the place. Despite her mobility, her favorite place to hang out is sitting on my hip. I keep telling myself that this is just a clingy phase, but she doesn't seem to be growing out of it at all. She thinks that everything that Dylan does is hilarious, which just encourages him to be loud and run around the house like a mental patient. She still has NO teeth! This doesn't stop her from eating everything though. I have to make sure anything I am eating is out of her reach because she will grab it and shove it in her mouth. Also, as of 2 days ago, she has been upgraded to a convertible carseat! I searched for the perfect seat for weeks, and when it finally came, it sat in my living room for over a week because I was too busy/tired/hot to go out there and install it. 

Here are her 8 month pictures, and some random ones taken over the past few weeks-

Doesn't she look so big in these pajamas? There's a huge difference between wearing the infant sleepers and these 2 piece pj's!

When I was taking pictures of Sophia yesterday, I took some with my camera and Dylan ended up taking over the camera. I thought that he was taking pictures of Sophia, and there were a few, but the majority of the pictures were of him! They are hilarious! I'm going to upload them tonight or tomorrow so I'll be sure to put them on the blog! :)

Can I squeeze in here?

I woke up, went in the kitchen to turn on the coffee pot, and came back to the room. Um...this is a king size bed. Guess I'll go lay on the couch. 

Our Anniversary!

I know I usually only post about the kids, but today I'm gonna talk about me and Josh.  Today is our 7th wedding anniversary! Pretty crazy, right?! On our wedding day we were only 20 years old, living in our first apartment, and everything was planned within 3 weeks. So much has happened in the past 7 years. Just like every relationship, we've had so many beautiful memories, and some not so shining moments. I'm not gonna lie, sometimes marriage is hard. We've been together since we were 17, and a person grows tremendously between 17 and 27. There was a point in time that I wasn't even sure we'd make it. Instead of saying it was too hard, and giving up like so many couples do, we worked on it. Now I can honestly say that we have an amazing relationship and it gets better everyday. I love him so much and I can't picture my life without him. It's tough being away from him (especially on special days like this), but he's worth waiting for. He means the world to me, and I'd marry him all over again in a second. I came across this quote a while ago: 

"the couples that are 

"meant to be" 

are the ones that go through 

everything that is meant to 

tear them apart and 

come out even stronger

than they were before."

I can't think of words that describe us any better than that. We aren't a perfect couple by any means, but we are perfect for each other. Happy Anniversary love!

Our first minutes as a married couple: 

The most recent picture I can find of us: 

Quick Updates!

I know it's been a while since I blogged. Things are busy around here! Maybe I was a little too ambitious thinking I'd be able to blog every day.  Dylan just finished his first session of swim lessons. He's going to stay in this same class for another 2 weeks because he needs to get more comfortable with keeping his face in the water, and he needs to work on listening (no surprise there!). Sophia continues to try to crawl. She scoots herself backwards, and in a circle, but I've only seen her bring herself to her knees a few times. And when she does, she puts her face down and licks the tile. 


Dylan got a really cute batman shirt! As long as he can contain his little attitude, we are going to see the Dark Knight in a week or so.

 AND we are starting to bring back the mohawk! I'm going to let it get a little longer before I make a decision about shaving the sides. 

Later that day, batman needed a nap. 

While Dylan slept, Sophia and I kept busy. I used the front camera on my iPhone and let her look at herself while I recorded it. The result was hilarious. Watch the video below!

A trip to the Phoenix Children's Museum

I thought I posted these last week, but I guess not! These are pictures from our trip to the Phoenix Children's Museum 2 weeks ago.