It's the Sofia Show!

Ok, I feel like a horrible parent because I have no pictures or videos of Ella but I try, I really try, she just refuses. We are now at point where she actually covers her face and yells, "no pictures mommy!". Geez. You'd think I'm the papparazzi or something.

So anyway, this will be the Sofia post. This post is as much for Daddy as it is for the grandparents, since he's in Thailand (has been there since last Friday and won't be home until this Sunday) and he wants to see his girls...well girl.

This is so cool. SOFIA says HI! She really does. I'm not just being a crazy mom. She's been saying it for about a month but I couldn't ever capture it on camera but everyone who heard it swore she was saying hi too. Tonight, Maggie (who's in town visiting) and I got it on film!

She's also a crawling and cruising machine. She'll be 9 months on Wednesday and she's already cruising the furniture. This is crazy to me since Ella didn't even crawl until 10 months and I don't think she started cruising until 11.5 months...Sofia just wants to keep up.

Well she's not going to keep up if she keeps trying to crawl under the sunroom couch. Excuse the blurriness...someone who's name starts with an E and ends with an A got her grubby little paws on my camera.

As mentioned above, Abuela (Maggie-Ricardo's mom) has been in town visiting since last Monday. She's been such a HUGE help and the girls really enjoy having her around. Unfortunately, both girls took turns being sick while she was here. Ella is all better but now Sofia has a stomach bug and has graced but Maggie and I with the contents of her stomach on seperate occasions.

But she is such a trooper because even being sick she's still mostly all smiles.

And look! I have one picture of Ella! Amanda actually took this one while we were playing at Nicole's house on Monday afternoon. It was the one spilt second that Ella actually looked at the camera and said cheese and Amanda caught it...no wonder she's the one who always has her camera out!

Anyway, we're enjoying our visit with Abuela and just counting down the minutes until Daddy gets home. Ella told me today she wants to drive to Thailand to help Daddy on his business trip. She misses him so much it's breaking my heart. She's old enough to know he's gone and miss him but not old enough to really understand why he's gone and how long he'll be gone. She's going to be so excited when she wakes up Sunday morning and sees him here!

Sofia has her 9 month WBV on Wednesday so I'll be back with the stats but I can tell you this much-she is defintely over 20 lbs!!! Holy MOLY! :D

Another Sofia Milestone-She's crawling!

Yesterday-Sunday, March 30, 2008- Sofia crawled! She's been getting so close and has been crawling backwards for a couple of weeks but yesterday she actually moved her knees and her hands forward with her belly off the ground! Yeah Sofia.

Also, today, she's been sitting down and putting herself in the crawling position and then push herself back up to sitting and then repeating. So she's obviously gaining her core strength. Yeah.

Another not so exciting milestone we've reached is seperation anxiety. Oh.my.god. does this suck. I seriously want to shoot myself. I can't even walk around the corner without her SCREAMING. I don't mean whimpering, I mean full on loosing her mind screaming. She's refusing naps because she doesn't want me to leave the room. Gah! When does this part end?

Here are a couple of pictures from this weekend:

Mikka sleeping on Daddy

Ella taking my picture-Notice she's looking through the lens and she's yelling CHEESE

Sofia just wanted to make sure I put her picture in too. Look at all that hair!