Strawberries!

Sophia loves strawberries -- and fortunately we planted quite a few last year. Instead of running for her swing she now runs to the strawberry patch and gasps excitedly -- as if she's surprised they haven't disappeared. Tuesday evening Keith could hardly pick the berries fast enough for Sophia to eat them.

Time to swim!

Sophia's aunt and uncles gave her an inflatable whale swimming pool for her birthday -- last Thursday we filled it up. Sophia had a blast! She took a little while to decide it was okay to sit, but then she began splashing like crazy. I'm sure we'll be spending plenty of time in the pool this summer!

Mommy's Helper

Sophia loves helping her parents (especially emptying clothes baskets and unfolding clean laundry) and copying our actions.  Today I was putting dishes away and turned around to find Sophia taking her clean clothes from the laundry basket and putting them away.  Wrong room, wrong shelf, but right idea.  

Happy Earth Day!

We celebrated Earth Day by spending a lot of time outside.  :)  Yesterday, Keith taught Sophia how to blow the seeds off of dandelions -- so she spent a good portion of time today hunting for dandelions she may have missed.  

Circleville Egg Hunt

On Saturday Sophia and I drove to Circleville so Sophia could participate in her first Egg Hunt.  We picked up my mom (Grammy) on our way.    After all the kids in Sophia's age range lined up along the fence, we were told everyone could get 11 eggs -- and then they blew the starting whistle.  

Sophia loved carrying around her basket and gathering eggs.  So much so that when it was time to open the eggs she was pretty upset -- and then she realized there were goodies in the eggs.  Yum!  

Laughing with Daddy

Sophia was copying Keith's fake laugh -- one of her new favorite things.

Time for presents...

Thirsty after all that cake and ice cream!














Fun flower headband from Grandpa and Grandma.













Baby doll from Grampy and Grammy.













Chair from the Sanderson's.



















A xylophone!