Mommin' It Up!

September 20, 2009

Weekly Winners – All Sophie Edition

If you’re Sophie, one of the side effects of your big brother going to kindergarten is that Mommy now has only YOU to focus her camera on all day. So, i took a lot of fun shots of Sophie this week that I wanted to share. I love my beautiful sweetheart girl!

All lit up

Blue Bucket Hug

Taking a break from play

Ready, set, whee!

Sweet face

Pretty for a Party

Well, that’s all I’ve got this week! Thanks for indulging my Sophie-centric worldview. 🙂 For more great photos, check out the Weekly Winners HQ at Sarcastic Mom.

September 10, 2009

Sophie, Meet Potty. Potty, Meet Sophie.

Yesterday I literally (it had been in storage for quite awhile!) dusted off Joshua’s old potty seat and decided it was time for Sophie and her “Big Girl Potty” to officially meet. Here are some highlights!

Sophie thought it would be fun to climb onto the potty backwards and try to fit both her little feet in the removable cup:

Then she got the cup out and played with it for awhile. Which, even though it was clean, totally grossed me out! Finally, I got her to put the cup back and assume the appropriate position:

I let her watch a little TV so she’d chill on her seat. Word Girl is good potty-time entertainment, FYI.

Twice I put her on the potty with no diaper. The first time, “nothing happened” (just like on her “My Big Girl Potty” book!) The second time, I went in the kitchen to throw her diaper away, and she stood up and peed on the floor while I was in there. Ahh, that’s my girl!

So, anyways, it’s begun. You have lots of pee-pee, poop, and other assorted potty talk to look forward to, and I probably have an increased dosage of anti-depressants, Mountain Dews, and Hershey bars to look forward to. GAME ON!

August 13, 2009

Enamored

Last week on vacation I did something I didn’t even know I could do. I fell in love with my daughter all over again.

Sophie will be three in November, and she has both enthralled and confounded me for much of her life. She is just so different from her easygoing brother, and really, so different in personality from most kids I know. She has tried my patience, stretched my mothering skills, and made my heart burst with pride.

Sophie has been slower to develop her language skills than Joshua was, and that has been frustrating for all of us. But this last week on vacation, she really started to talk more. And I love her little voice! I love what she has to say. Since she’s no longer frustrated by being unable to communicate, she’s showing a whole new layer of sweetness.

And, oh, it’s so amazing. Being able to talk with my daughter has brought me so much joy. And I am just overwhelmed by it.

I often joke with my friends that I “talk smack” about Sophie – because she has given me some very trying moments. Plenty of which I have read about on this blog. And yesterday, when she was throwing fits at the pool, I may or may not have told Cortney that I was going to look into boarding school for three-year-olds. BUT. Let me set the record straight: I am hopelessly in love with this little girl, and abundantly blessed with the task of being her mama.

Love you Sophie girl.