The Miller High Life: March 2013

Dear sweet Sophia,

11 MONTHS!!!!! I'm not sure why 10 and 11 months feel so drastically far apart from one another, but it feel like there is a ginormous difference between these months, and HELLO, how is it only one month until you are a full year and not zero any longer?????

This past month you have learned to motor, and you are all.over.the.place. You started crawling about two weeks ago, and it is this interesting little one leg bent while the other leg stretches across the room crawl. You have no time for that though, your first choice is to walk. While holding mommy or daddy's hands of course, or with the help of your beloved Vtech walker. You absolutely squeal with the delight at the mere sight of it sitting across the room. And once you start pushing it around, there is no stopping you. You love to stand, at all times, and can balance by yourself for about 5 seconds. At school, they have this sweet little bar that all the little ones practice pulling themselves up to a standing position and back down again while looking in a mirror that is placed above it (how cute is THAT visual). You demonstrated this for me this morning and I got misty watching the joy on your face!

You also love your little daycare, and for that, I feel extremely blessed. Your teacher, Miss jennifer, adores you and you adore her. After going through so many daycares and trying out so many things with your big brother, I am so grateful that we found such an incredible place for you to be taken care of by people that truly love you while we have to be away.

You eat everything. Really, there is nothing you don't eat at this point. The sweet potato pancakes that I made from Nurture Baby are definitely your favorite so far. You also love cheese, pita and hummus and avocado.

You loooooove to chat! Dadadadada was your first word, and now you love to say Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh when you really want something. I've been working on Mama, but I think we have a ways to go with that one!

You love my jewelry box. You take everything thing out of it and ooooh and aaaaah like you are looking at the Queen's jewels! You love to swing, play with playdoh, and you are OBSESSED with Elmo. What IS it about Elmo? You don't watch tv, so you have not seen him on Sesame Street, but when we hold up one of Kaden's three old Elmo dolls, you completely lose it. More than anything, you love your brother. No matter what he may do, he can do no wrong in your eyes.
And here he is in his I dressed myself jammies giving you all that he's got!

You are such a bright light to all of us Sophia!

I love you to the moon and back,

your mommy

she squeals with delight when she walks with her little walker.

falling asleep eating her pancakes.

giving her monkey *big hugz*

It's no secret that my cousin Jena is an insanely talented photographer. She lives in NYC and at one point, when Kaden was itty bitty, we lived in California together. She was there to document all those incredible first moments, and those photos are priceless gems to me. I miss her for 3,029,426 reasons, and not having her here has sent me running into the arms of Picture People! They are definitely no Jena Gabina, but the girls are so sweet, and they remember as the mama of the baby that pooped three times in one naked baby shoot on all of their cute props! My Mother always did the quintessential portraits at Sears, so I figure it would be rude for me not to follow suit! And hello, this package cost me EIGHTEEN friggin dollars, and a cd of all the images! I heart me some picture people.

Here are some of my faves...

In other news....

For the past two years, I have been wanting to make Kaden a play kitchen of his own, as inspired by so many amazing DIY play kitchens on Pinterest. I did a little reality check and realized that was not going to actually happen, so instead we found this sweet treasure on Craigslist! Kaden loves it, and we have been playing restaurant 24/7. In the second pic, you can see him peeking out of the drive thru to take my order....