Happy 2nd birthday

Today is sophie's second birthday. We went out for breakfast together this morning. Breakfast was really more about me than Sophie--her birthday was mostly an excuse for me to go get my Challah french toast. Sophie held out pretty well throughout the meal. If the food comes quickly, she does a fairly good job of holding still. Now that we can talk more, a good engaging conversation helps keep her quiescent a bit longer. Sophie told one of the employees, who was wiping down the table next to us: "Wipe please" while she pointed to our table. Kind of weird on several levels. The employee graciously agreed.

We accidentally drove by the children's museum, bad. But I seemed to get across to her the idea that it was closed. When we drove by the mall, she said, "Not here! Target!"

Afterwards, we bought her some gifts on behalf of other family members. Sophie chose some PlayDough, cool doll clothes and some toys to play with in the sand when it gets warmer. At the checkout, Sophie told the checkout person, "Sticker." She's has a freaky awareness of what she wants and where she can get things. We went home and played with the PlayDough and she showed us how we don't need sand to play with the sand toys, just some imagination.

After nap, if we manage to get her asleep, we'll go to the indoor jump place. It's like a child's dream: 5 or 6 inflatable castles in one building. At the end of last summer, she went into her first bouncy castle but wasn't too balanced. Nonetheless, she still had a blast. Today, I expect her to just go crazy. Pictures will come later tonight.