When i grow up.... by Sophia 2008

while riding in the car today, Sophia talked, a lot. However, it was some really good conversation.

We had to go to my work and she wanted to talk about jobs.
S: "there are too many jobs to pick just one."
R: "sometimes people never pick one, they just change jobs a lot."
S: " I have 5,
1. painter (not sure if she meant artist or house painter)
2. hospital worker
3. teacher for gymnastics
4. teacher for swimming
5...........

and then she got off on a tangent.

we are in for some TROUBLE!!!!

Miles is really starting to show his true colors, i.e. a mischievous little boy. some examples include the following:

*Miles enoys taking his sisters drink, getting her attention, "soph, soph" and waiting until she is watching to actually take a drink from HER cup.

*Tonight at dinner, we were having grapes. Miles 'armed' himself with 2 grapes. When Justin was not looking, Miles got his attention by launching the grapes at Justin, one at a time. When asked about throwing grapes, he just laughed at Justin.

*Also tonight, Miles said, "pants falling down." Justin helped to pull them up, however, Miles quickly responded, "no dad, no." Miles removed his pants, went over to sophia, called, "soph, soph, " to get her attention. When she did not pay any attention to him, he then took off his diaper and ran around naked trying again. THEN he crawled onto the coffee table. It has been cleaned, but i do not recommend placing any type of food on the coffee table.

* At naptime, Miles had finished the 2 books that he gets at naptime. Then, asked for another, "read Thomas?" I reminded him, only two books. With this information, he tried another tactic, the puppy dog eyes and speaking slowly, "read Thomas?" with a big smile at the end. When he was called on it, he said, "man," and turned around to lay back down.

now remember, this all happened in the span of just a few hours. He keeps us very, very entertained each day.

Miles' 1st snowfall

Last year, Miles did not get the chance to 'play in the snow'. Therefore, this year, when it started to snow, he was eager to get out in it. Sophia had fallen asleep on the couch and Miles asked Justin, "Go out, Go out??"

Miles enjoyed trudging thru the snow, all 1/2 in of it.

He was especially excited and happy to be out in the snow, even if it was cold.

Writing a letter to santa......

Last night, Sophia was working on her late letter to Santa. She needed some help, it went something like this.....

Dear Santa,

I want
2 barbies
1 princess bean bag chair
3 princess chapter books
2 necklaces- dog and cat
love, sophia

About 1/2 way thru writing the letter, i asked Sophia if she wanted to tell Santa how good she had been. Her answer,

""NO!!!""

I think that she was not sure that she had been good enough, and did not want to tell Santa.

Christmas tree and such

Sophia has always enjoyed helping to decorate the house and trees for Christmas. Here she is helping un-roll the lights to allow Justin to place them on the tree.



Miles was excited that he was allowed to help this year.

Sophia took the time to unwrap all the ornaments.

Miles took the time to review all the ornaments, especially the angel.

Miles attempted to string the lights on the tree as well, with less luck.

Firetrucks galore!!!

While in IL, we had the priveledge to visit the local firehouse. My friends son is a volunteer firehouse chief. He invited us to the firehouse on Thanksgiving day to see the truck. This was a GREAT experience for all the 'kids'.

They both LOVED driving the big trucks.

Thanksgiving

Over Thanksgiving, we traveled to IL to visit with Justin's parents. Sophia and Miles took the time to make the pumpkin pie for the big day. Everyone had a turn stirring the pie mix.

Back to himself

Yesterday Miles had new ear tubes placed. Unlike any other trip to Childrens Hospital, we were only there for 2 1/2 hours. It was actually an in and out procedure. Miles did great and we got to see some of our Cardiology Dr.'s. Everyone felt that he looked great. We are glad to be home, watching Laurie Berkner DVD's, eating donuts and recovering. He is getting closer to his usual self, not fully there yet, but i assume by tomorrow, there will be no stopping him.

Taking a Christmas card picture.....

is never actually easy. Here, Sophia and Miles are dressed to get a "formal" picture taken at the local photo studio.

Here they are practicing their yoga doing 'downward dog'
Tried to get situated sitting next to each other.

A little TOO happy and squeezing each other TOO hard.

Not quite the best smiles,

We are getting closer.....

and finally, the best picture for our card this year.

Ear tubes please

we are now officially scheduled for sometime in the morning of Dec. 17th. Wish us luck.

Wedding Photos

Our great friends, Kevin and Margie, finally got married after only 9 years. Here the kids are all dressed up for the wedding.

Miles looks very handsome in his jacket, vest and tie. Let me just tell you that it is hard to actually tie a tie for a 2 y/o. the longer part of the tie was tucked into his pants.

Miles completely enjoyed the ice cream bar at the end of the night!!

Waiting for the ceremony to begin, Miles and G.G. sit together.

A few days before the wedding, we had to practice to make sure that everything would work together and fit.

We tried to decide about wearing the tie with the vest or without.

Look at the little Republican.

Ear tubes anyone???

Miles already has ear tubes, but they became dislodged and blocked. Therefore, he is in need of new ear tubes. We can only hope that it goes better than last Jan when he was scheduled for tubes, cath, and bronch, only got the tubes because he was too sick for the rest and then ended up getting admitted for observation because he would not bring his o2 sats above 90%. I mean really, getting admitted for ear tubes, that is an in and out procedure. Right now, we are scheduled for the 20th of jan, but it might need to be sooner. we will know more tomorrow

Halloween Pictures

A few days before halloween night, we decided to carve the pumpkin. Sophia was a pro at this, since she had worked with many pumpkins in the past. However, Miles had never experienced "carving" a pumpkin. He was happy to have his picture take with the pumpkin, but did not enjoy actually reaching in and getting the 'guts' out.

The weather was actually great for being late Oct. in OH. Our kids did not have to add any extra warmth to their outfits. Our little pirate, decided that he would sit on the curb before getting too tired. We had not even made it to ONE house yet. But he looked so cute, i had to take his picture.

Sophia was showing Miles the ropes on how to go to the house and ring the bell.

The before pictures were so funny. Miles did not know what he was about to do, but he was excited no matter what!!!

Getting ready for the evening, he decided to study the pumpkins.

and this little pirate starting eating before we even left the house.

He continued to check out the pumpkin (not lit of course), even closer!

he was happy to get to go out with sister.

then he learned that they would be getting CANDY!!!

By the end of the night, he was a pretty happy kid! The mustache had started to wear off.

At a pre-halloween party, Miles wanted to be THomas the Train. He did not wear Thomas outfit for actual trick or treating because it seemed to drag in the front and trip him up. Not worth it when there is CANDY at stake.

And here the kids were trying to decide what to be, SpiderMan.

Or SpiderGirl.

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