Little Sophia

Sophia is at the age where just about everything that comes out of her mouth is adorable. Except of course, when she's screaming her demands at me or make sure just how much she means NO! I know I've mentioned this before, but I want to make sure I have a record of how cute it is when she leaves off the beginning letter in blends at the beginnings of worda. For example, snowman is "noman" and snack is "nack". This just melts my heart, so I have to list all of them that I can think of: poon (spoon) mell (smell) nake (snake) neak (sneak) neeze (sneeze) Another adorable thing Sophia does is pretend that her hands are spiders. She been doing this for a few months now. Sometimes one hand is the baby spider and the other is the mama. Sometimes the spider is feeding her, or it swims in the bath tub with her. It's pretty clever because this way she always has a friend with her and always something to do. She used to pretend her fingers were members of a family. One finger was the dad, another the mom, and the other were children and babies. Creativity at it's best. I love it when I can hear Sophia in another room singing to her self. Her favorite songs include "The Eensy, Weensy Pider " (which fits both themes mentioned above), the ABC's (which she knows quite well), and "Twinkle Twinkle". A few times Sophia has "read" "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?" to me. As you can imagine, I find this irresistibly cute. I've tried to get her to read it to me more times, but she seems to be saving it up for special occasions. She doesn't have the entire book memorized, meaning she often has to turn the page to see what animal is next, but she definitely remembers the pattern. I've also mentioned before that Sophia is very loving. She LOVES to gives hugs! She'll often run up to me and wrap her arms around my legs. When I get her out of bed in the morning, she'll rest her little head on my shoulder and hug me while I carry her down to the kitchen. Occasionally, I'll get a sweet little kiss from her.. She takes her time, and puts the tiniest peck on my cheek. Really, even if I weren't her mother, I would think this was darling. Can you tell that I am one proud mama?