The Many Faces of Sophia Genelle

Lets just say Sophia gets SO excited when she gets packages in the mail. She just lights up and requests opening it right away. She knows it will be something cool from one of her grandparents. I just wanted to do a quick post from yesterday where I could barely get a picture in. She was jumping around, dancing, singing and giggling the entire time I was trying to get a good shot. Love this girl!

Sorry in advance for the blurriness of the below photos. It's hard to catch her in action.

My little Chef/Baker

Sometimes I wonder if I am raising a foodie. She loves to cook dinner with Tata. Every night when we get home she has to "help" her Tata make dinner. She helps clean the veggies and then helps chop them. Of course her Tata is there to make sure she knows the safety rules and knows exactly what vegetables she is preparing. It's fun to watch and she gets so excited. She drags her chair over to counter and smiles really big and says I am helping my Tata.

Her favorite foods include baked sweet potato fries, salmon, broccoli (oven roasted), bratwurst with sour kraut, WW pasta of all shapes and sizes, various types of fish and soup. The only thing she doesn't love is cheese. Or food covered with cheese. I don't know who told her that cheese on food was a bad thing but she has it in her head that it's gross. Her favorite dessert is Vanilla Yogurt with a touch of sprinkles. She has that after her dinner as her treat. She also LOVES LOVES LOVES ice cream. Which we allow sometimes if we have it. Especially on the good days.

When she eats her food she makes us blow on it to make sure it's not hot. Even if it's ice cold she makes us cool it down for her. The uses a fork even if it's not really required for things like fries. She still has trouble but I love watching her eat. She does have a issue with having to have everything at the table just right. For example we get the table all set up but if we miss getting her water in a "special" cup (at the moment it's the heart shaped cups her Nana gave to us) she will not eat until it is. She will keep asking over and over until everything is perfect. She also often requests ketchup. Which I guess is a normal kid thing. As soon as you think she has everything perfect she says she needs to go potty. This is a everyday dinner time occurrence.

Rewind to Christmas 2012

I was not much in the Christmas spirit last Christmas. Mainly health and mental reasons but I still made the best of it. Sophia of course was undeniably cute as a button as always. Excited about the entire process from start to finish. She loved the thought of Santa coming and talked about it daily. Next year we are completely changing it up and going to Kauai! I can't freaking wait. Not that I don't love Christmas at home but I think it's time to break the every year tradition. I am still planning to do Santa but it will be on a MUCH smaller scale. Enjoy!

Getting Ready For Santa

Santa loves his cookies

Christmas Morning

Most Cookies eaten

Daddy getting Sophia Princess ready

She named all her new Disney Barbies

The guys dressing Sophia! It was so cute.

Tea for 2 or 4?

Getting a little sleepy

Opening Paw Paw and Grandma Norma gift

Break Time

Then Sledding in the snow

Chinese Lantern Festival

I had originally purchased a Groupon for a  4 pack for a double date with my BIL (brother in law) but we kept dodging the weekend because of Holiday activities and out of town guests. (And that fact that it was BLISTERING cold outside.) Finally we got the opportunity to go but it was the last weekend and BIL was out of town so we took Sophia and MIL. I think many people had the the same idea since they too were holding their Groupon voucher waiting in line. The line was instantly. I felt really bad for the guy because it seemed to be the only one person who was able to scan the Groupon and he was doing it all himself. In addition there was a lot of people who would skip the line entirely then merge right at the end leaving everyone waiting behind them. It's just like Dallas traffic. I think we spent more time in line then we actually did looking at the beautiful lanterns. Having said that, it was totally worth the wait. Sophia was in awe the entire time. She just could not believe how beautiful everything was. It was fun just watching her run around and look at everything. 

The line getting in. We where standing in for a hour.

Entrance

By the time we left the line was twice as long. It was almost 2 full blocks. :)