Sophie's Car Trip

If you are at all curious about what Sophie does on long car rides, you will want to know that she loves coloring, playing with her stuffed animals, singing songs, and of course, taking panoramic self portraits of her and her surroundings.

Christmas 2008

We had a great Christmas this year and Sophie spent it with her friends, Ella and Sophie Mei. They opened presents, had a lot to eat, and then, of course, hilarity insued.Nothing says the holidays like lounging around in your Sox garb

and taking in the Christmas specials. The flashlights were a big hit.Elefun nets: more comfortable than lampshades

Thanksgiving 2008

Sophie's Thanksgiving photos.

It seems that she's able to capture things on the camera that no one else can.

Thanksgiving was great and produced some great photos but add a few mai tais

and a Christmas Tree to the mix and all of the sudden: We actually did have a sedate moment over the weekend. We spent the day with the family at the Field Museum. Thanksgiving can't be all crazy faces and food, can it?

Daddy Fun Day: Handprint Turkeys

Sophie had the day off from school on Veteran's Day so I decided to take the day as well and spend it doing some crafts with her. We spent several hours at Michael's picking out beads and such for a "Martha" ornament project we'll be doing in a few weeks and we also picked up some things to make place cards for the family members coming to Thanksgiving dinner.

Sophie is a very good cutter, gluer, and printer. I had to trace out the feathers, cut out the hand tracings and I also added glitter to all the names but she did pretty much everything else. It was a fun day and I think the turkeys turned out pretty good. Hopefully our be-jeweled birds for Christmas come out just as good.

A Perfect Day for a Dog Wedding?

It was pretty cold this weekend but it didn't stop OPers (us included) from coming out for what hoped to be the world's largest Dog Wedding. Sophie had an absolute ball - being surrounded by so many puppies. As you can see, quite a few people got a little out of hand for the occasion.