Always a favorite around our house, we had a wonderful evening with Sophie and her first Halloween! Friends joined us and Sophie was excited to "trit r treat". Well that was until she caught glimpses of the huge spiders, skeletons and other ghouls and ghastly gargoyles that adorned the houses of the neighbors as well as ours. The shrills and screams that echoed from the wagon were funny....We only hit 4 houses with her since it was in the low 40's but she received plenty of candy from those four. Three even made her special candy bags which we thought was really nice. This morning she was like a pirate in a treasure chest with all her goodies. PlayDoh and accessories, goldfish, stickers. You name it, she got it! Below enjoy the pix. HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL!
November 1, 2009
TRICK-OR-TREAT! It's Halloween Time!
October 28, 2009
More Updates
It is hard to believe that our girl has been home for just over 10 months. She has made such wonderful progress. The language is so amazing. She is right in line with the other kids her age and now is counting all the way to 10 by herself. She loves anything to do with art. Painting, coloring, play-doh. And now she is even into watching hockey with Poppa. There was one night she actually picked the Blues game on TV over Dora. Promise we will post Halloween if she is able to go. Regardless you have to see her costume :-)
Playing at Jack's party with the trains
October 10, 2009
Getting Out After The Rains
After 3 days of non-stop downpours and about 5" of rain we made our first trip with Sophie to Rombach's Farm with our friends the Walkers to let the girls get out and frolick amongst the pumpkins. Sophie was loving the pumpkins, even saying "I love you pumpkins" and giving them kisses, but for some strange reason she did not want anything to do with the horse rides. We will wait until a few days before Halloween to grab the traditional Belz-gantic pumpkin from Rombach's. So far Sophie is NOT a fan of Halloween costumes or decorations at all, so it will be interesting how 10/31 plays out. We go all out :-) so see might be stuck to us like velcro that night.
Off to watch the Blues hit the ice tonight and a great dove dinner tomorrow night with the Dorris family! Glad the sun is finally shiny, and Noah and the arc went somewhere else down the river!
September 30, 2009
Sophie's Student Week
This week at school, our girl is the center of attention. It is SOPHIE'S WEEK in her class where she gets to lead a bunch of events and cool things. We had to make a poster for her classroom and below is what we came up with. It had to include her family, friends and what she likes to do.
September 28, 2009
Mya Gave Me Money
Just a funny video from a few weeks ago. When we went to NJ in July to visit with the Duckers, Mya had outgrown a pair of her size 5 sandals, which Sophie in great. So we had told her a while back that Mya gave her those shoes. So now she thinks that Mya gives her lots of things!
Cheers to the Ducker family! We also need Mya to give us a few other things when she gets a chance :-)




