Advent Countdown

Even though I knew I was going to miss out on most of the Advent Activity Calendar, I still wanted to do some of it while I was with Sophie. Day 1 was...


Write letter to Santa. Now we had actually already written one because we took Sophie to see Santa over the Thanksgiving weekend (and we always give Santa our requests in writing), but this letter was the one to be mailed.


I decided to let Sophie pick out pictures of what she wanted and glue them to the letter. She has gotten very good at gluing. (Thanks, Ms. Saoni and Ms. Maria at Preschool.)


Here's her completed letter ready for the postman.

Potty Chair

So I decided to get Sophie a potty chair. She's in the bathroom with me a lot anyways so she might as well start getting used to it. We gotten lucky and she has actually used it a few times. It makes noise and plays music when you do your business. Of course, she has now figured out how to make it play the songs with out doing anything, but that's okay. She loves to look at books and would probably sit here for hours if I let her.

To the Market

Sophie loves to push her grocery cart all around the house. Usually she just has a doll or 2 in it but today she actually put some of her veggies and fruits in the basket.

Of course, you have to taste the foods to be sure they are the best!

Eventually she out all the food up front with the babies. Not sure why she needed the basket empty but she had something in mind. She was very focused working hard to keep the food from falling as she stacked it on top of the dolls.

Loves to Color

Sophie loves to color. And thankfully, she is quite content to keep the crayons on the paper and not the walls.




Look at her grip. Not bad for just 17 months, Ms. Gail and Ms. Marsha would be proud. They will be teaching her Handwriting Without Tears in a couple of years at preschool.

Halloween Ice Cream Treat

Maw Susan sent Sophie a dollar in her Halloween card so we decided to use it on ice cream instead of candy. Sophie loved it!

Thanks to her Daddy we even got a picture of Mommy showing Sophie how to lick, instead of just shoving her face into the cone.

Random Preschool Pics

Church Carnival

Our church's youth group has a children's Halloween carnival every year. We decided to go there before heading over to Paul's parents for trick-or-treating. Sophie got to try each of the games, we shared a funnel cake, and did the cookie walk.

After going to the Boo at the Zoo, Sophie was prepared for playing the game and then choosing a piece of candy from the bucket. I think her favorite game was the duck pond. You know how much she loves the water!