Earlier in the month, Sophia came out of her room like this. She's got style!
We think it's so funny how she's started "feeding" her babies. (Again, she dressed herself in this photo!)
I think this is Max's favorite smile for the camera. He always has his lower lip tucked in. Such a handsome guy!
He's started pulling himself up on furniture and it STRESSES me out! Yesterday he fell and hit his head on the bottom shelf of our TV stand and got the biggest bump. Then he tried to stand up by the bathtub and fell and hit his head. Then it happened in our room. Then in the living room again. He's nothing if not persistent! I told Rich I want to get a baby helmet for him! He also crawls under the kitchen chairs and gets stuck. He'll try climbing head first over the bar to get out and I have visions of the chair toppling over on him and blood everywhere! Argh... I wish he would just focus on crawling for now!
This President's Day weekend, the Bowens invited us to meet them in St. George for their kids' soccer tournaments. It was so nice of them to invite us (and give us the big room!) (and let us use their van!). While down there, we went to Zion National Park. One of my favorite places on Earth! We took the kids on a little hike up Emerald Pools. Sophia did great and wanted to walk most of the way. My legs were a little shaky when we were done from carrying an extra 15lbs, but Max did great too!
Sophia's smile kills me!
I love this kid! He got so happy thinking I was going to let him play with the camera. After this picture, he started screaming. :)
Sophia and Hailey taking a break and replenishing their energy with crackers.
Sophia kept calling the condo we were staying at, "St. George". By the time the hike was over, she was hungry and exhausted and kept saying, "I want to go back to St. George!"
On the ride back home, Sophia's favorite girl in the world got to ride home with us. Kate is such a nice and sweet girl and always looks after Sophia. I thought this was so cute, Kate let Sophia hold her hand while she was falling asleep!
Some other fun things we did this while we were there:
Rich played lots of Clue with the Bowen kids. He won all but one game (he lost the only game he played with adults), but the best part was that during one game, he was the first person to roll, he got into a room, and made a guess and he was RIGHT! The game ended on the very first turn! Everyone was amazed that that he happened to get into a room on his first roll and that he guessed everything right without any clues! Amazing!
Rich took Sophia fishing at the little pond.
We went swimming. Sophia amazes me at how fearless she is in the water. I think Max is going to be the same way. He'll stick his face in the water (he does this in the tub, too) and comes up smiling, like feels pretty cool.
We watched some soccer games. At the soccer compound, there was a really fun play area for kids with lots of farm animals too. Sophia loved it!
We also watched Downton Abbey in our room on the big TV while we let Sophia watch the ipad. I think she thought it was cool to sit on the big bed and stay up late watching a "show" with us.
On the ride home, Sophia got car sick and threw up twice. That is the worst! It was kinda cute though because she said she wanted lotion to make her tummy feel better. (I put lotion on her at night, telling her it will make her skin feel better and she must have thought it was a cure-all for tummy problems!) Then when we got home, she fell asleep on the couch two different times before we finally put her to bed at 6. She slept until 10 and woke up for some toast and a story, then went right back to bed and woke up at 6:30. She might have caught a little bug or something. Or else she's just exhausted from not napping at all this weekend.
