days on the beach...

Swimming with the locals has made Sophie a great swimmer. She's become fearless of the water. After watching some local girls swim (the fact they were six didn't seem to matter) got Sophie to put her face in the water. She'll be out in the huge waves laughing and they crash over her and now she wants to go snorkel after trying it a bit yesterday.

I really never imagined Sophie wanting to snorkel.

I didn't put this on my list...

As Sophie opens a present that turns out to be a book she frowns, "I didn't put this on my list to Santa."
Dang, girl, you are stone cold sometimes.

Later she reminded me that she didn't get everything on her list. Welcome to reality, Sophie.

What's Hawaii like?

I asked Sophie what she thought Hawaii is like. She said, "Like a jumpy castle." Not too far off, I guess.

Meditations on Motherhood

"I want to be a mommy without the childs when I grow up."

"I don't want to have a childs because I'm afraid that would hurt my body."

"Daddys can't have babies, only mommies. And babies can't have babies."

"Cause they in they mommies' tummies!"

in re: stealth party

"Why was they eating in the living room?"

"How these people come here?"

"I thought only Rachel was here."

"Do grownups eat in the living room?"

"Are these people going to sleep my house?"

"Where they gonna sleep?"

stealth party: fail

Last night I invited some friends to come over after Sophie went to bed. The only problem was that Sophie never fell asleep before they started arriving. For several hours we could here her roaming in her room, talking, sticking her head out, going to the bathroom, asking for mommy. We tried to tell her nothing was going on, then we changed our story to only Rachel was visiting. It was no use. She wasn't buying it. But I think she was truly stunned when we finally marched her out to say hi to everybody. So many people who she didn't know who where hanging out in her house. Stealth party: fail.

coolest mom ever!

Last night we started making Christmas cookies. They´d would have been more fun if it weren´t for the fact that we had to make cookies for our cookie exchange tomorrow at school. Obligation can suck away enjoyment at times. Nonetheless, we did have a fairly fun time making the cookies but didn´t get quiet enough time to frost them before bedtime so I told her we could frost cookies before school. How frickin´cool is that? Most kids would give a left pinky finger for the chance to frost cookies in the morning. We busted out the frosting and sprinkles--lots and lots of sprinkles--and threw together some cute cookies for school.You can probably guess what we had for breakfast ;-(. Not the healthiest choice, but one that got us up and going.