First Haircut

I know there are some women out there that would be shocked to know I cut my 4-month-olds hair. but she needed a trim. She had these two "wings" on either side of her head. Sometimes they even looked like little horns.

Since my mom is a hairdresser, she of course did the honors, trimming those wings just a little. Now she looks even more beautiful.

First Birthday Party

I was invited to one of my students birthday party. It was at one of those jumping bounce house places. I took Sophie with me and we had lots of fun.

She was passed around from one mom to the other. Before we left I did get some pictures of her pretend playing.

High School Football at Cowboys Stadium

We found out that my alma mater was playing their football game at the new stadium on Labor Day, so we decided to go. After standing in this really long line, we finally made it into the stadium and found seats. (We really should have arrived sooner so we could get better seats.) It was time for Sophie's bottle and of course she promptly fell asleep afterwards. She ended up sleeping through the entire halftime show (the only reason I wanted to go), but did awake to see some of the 3rd quarter. She is definitely going to take after her mom and be a tv person. She LOVED the huge jumbotron.

First Food

At Sophie's 4 month check-up, the doctor said we could start her on cereal and baby food. He is pretty relaxed about the whole process, believing that as parents we have to decide exactly how to proceed. He did have some suggestions (like start slow, add foods one at a time, let her determine how much to eat), but said we could introduce whichever foods we wanted. I chose to wait a few days until her actual 4 month birthday, which also corresponds to our monthly Chinese meal for MIC. So in MIC's honor, Sophie's first food was RICE cereal!

I let her play with the spoon while I got the cereal ready.

She wasn't too sure about it, but didn't gag and may have even swallowed some.

Of course, we also had to give her some in the traditional Chinese way...with Chopsticks.

On a side note, a funny story about Paul. He would always look at me funny when I would mention that Sophie's first food would probably be cereal. It wasn't until recently that I found out why. In his mind cereal was the same stuff we eat. So he was trying to figure out how she was going to eat Raisin Bran and Captain Crunch.

You've Got a Baby...in a Bar!

Fantasy football has started! Sophie and I spent draft night watching a Disney movie, but we did join Daddy at the sports bar to eat lunch and watch the first game. Really, we only saw about half a quarter of football before we went home.

Lunch with Priscilla

Daddy's friend Priscilla gave me this pretty Ralph Lauren dress. We went to eat at Chuy's, usually they go to eat sushi or pho. We had lots of fun!

First Teacher Work Day with Mommy

So, this is how I spent my day at Mommy's preschool for the first day of inservice. I looked really cute until about 5 minutes after we got there. (Big potty while sitting in the car seat can make a mess.) Mommy had remembered to bring all kind of extras (extra bottles, extra diapers, extra water and formula, extra blankets) but no extra clothes!

Since this day she has taken extra clothes to leave in her desk.