You have to see this!!

The two Valentine's showing off their Valentine's Day flowers.
Our camera has a delay built into it after you push the button to take a picture. Rascal was sitting on the couch when we started to take the picture, and by the time the flash went off he ruined the whole thing!
We have been working on reading eye charts lately. Right now it looks like she has Mike's vision, but we won't know for sure until she can start to read...and she will probably need the ability to speak as well.
Too cute!
Also very cute!

Mike's finally home!

Parenting at its finest. Sophie is watching a Baby Einstein educational video. I don't think she's learning anything other than how much of a sucker I am for buying it.
Sophie hasn't decided if she likes sleeping in her crib yet.

The dogs really missed me while I was gone.

Look at the cute little bunny slippers.

Sophie is starting to smile all the time now!

Our last few days in Colorado were great, but all vacations have to end sometime!

Sophie got dressed up to go out for lunch in this outfit from her Great-Grandma Ellie in Michigan! She looks so pretty in red!




Grandpa and Sophie watching t.v. during a meal!

Sophie getting to meet her Great-Grandma Alsum for the first time...they smiled lots at each other!

Well, we're back home now in Oklahoma! Rascal welcomed Sophie back with many kisses!Many of you have remarked on the absence of Dixie in this blog, so Sophie and I went off in search of her and made her pose for this picture. She has been very antisocial lately, but she did welcome her sister back from our trip! Boy, were the dogs glad to be out of that kennel!

I think she's gotten a little chubbier, don't you?

You guessed right...more pictures of Sophie!

This is Sophie getting ready for bed.

Sophie and her uncle, Abel
Walking around the bike path...Sophie loves walks! (She just sleeps the whole time!)

My awesome friend Liz, who went to nursing school with me in Oklahoma but now lives in Denver with her husband Cameron, came up to visit us on Wednesday. Sophie was kind of grumpy when Liz first got here, but then they became the bestest of friends! Liz got to feed Sophie twice (she ate 8 oz of formula during one of the feedings!!) and they spent a lot of time making smiling faces at each other! It was great to see Liz again!!!

This is a picture of Micah. We really miss him, so I thought I'd include my favorite picture of him in this blog entry. Isn't he cute?!?!

More pictures of the peanut...

Sophie has been able to visit lots of friends and family during this visit. All of the second cousins got together on Thursday night. In the picture of the three babies on the couch, Makenna is on the right (she's one month old) and Micah is in the middle, since he's the only boy! We also got to see Amy during her break from flight attendant training with Frontier (yeah, Amy!) Grandma helped me give Sophie a bath in the sink, and she actually enjoyed it (usually she screams during the whole thing!)

Sophie and Micah

More pictures of Sophie and her cousin, Micah. Micah is 2 1/2 months older than Sophie, and he lives in Virginia with my sister Katie and her husband, Reed.

Visit to Colorado

Sophie and I traveled to Colorado today to see Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie Katie, Uncle Reed and Cousin Micah. Sophie did great on the airplane! The cousins are already best of friends! The last picture is of Sophie crying because she misses her daddy (we miss you, honey!)

Sophie is all smiles!

We're almost positive that Sophie has been smiling at us on purpose (seriously, she can't have that much gas, can she?) She especially likes it when Mike says "Goo, goo, goo" to her. She will just stare into Mike's eyes for the longest time as he talks to her! Sophie is becoming quite the popular girl and had another play date with her friends last weekend. Hannah is on the far right and is 5 days younger than Sophie, and Sarah is in the middle and was born about a month after Sophie.

Sophie's first play date!

Sophie had her first play date yesterday with Hannah Smith. Hannah was born 5 days after Sophie (her mom and dad, Michelle and Trevor, are in our Sunday School class). The girls seemed to enjoy playing together, so maybe they'll be best friends! The other pictures are of Sophie and her brother, Rascal, lounging on the couch this morning. Rascal loves licking Sophie...she's going to have a great immune system! Poor Hannah got licked a couple of times by Rascal too, as you can see from the second picture!