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For about 6 months, we have been telling Sophia to take her feet off the table. Today, she learned the very hard way why she wasn’t supposed to be doing that. While eating lunch, she put her feet on the table and, you guessed it, kicked it right back. The wooden chair, with the wooden spindles, fell flat on the hard wood floors.

There was the 0.231 second-look of “what- just-happened?” on her face. That was quickly replaced by the floodgate of tears.

Mommy consoled her as much as we could. Sophia was already tired and pretty soon thereafter fell asleep on Mommy. We’ve been putting bags of frozen veggies on the back of her head to try to keep the huge bump on the back of her head from growing. Fingers crossed. Given Daddy’s history with head injuries, we’re obviously nervous.

She seems to be doing pretty well now that she is resting on Mommy in their mutually loved glider chair. I think Mommy and Daddy’s hearts are probably done racing now, too.

Oh, yeah, Alexander is out cold on the kitchen table.
Quick Update: Sophia just had her first ever “Children’s Ibuprofen” as opposed to the previous “Infant’s Ibuprofen”. I know we age, but it just seems like she shouldn’t be there yet. :/

It happened less than a month ago, and I am actually posting about it. The careful reader (i.e.; only Daddy Dave) will note that I have yet to post anything about Sophia’s first birthday. I am utterly delinquent. But you gotta start somewhere.

As may very well become our custom, we hosted an open house for Sophia’s birthday. The event serves the dual purposes of getting to see many of our friends that we haven’t seen in a while and celebrating Sophia’s birthday. Aside from the fact that the sun decided to be an active participant in this year’s festivities, we all had a really good time. Most importantly, Sophia had an absolute blast. We also were able to get several of our friends together that we have been trying to introduce to one another.

Of course, this format may not work as well for Alexander’s birthday, since he is in mid-winter. Oh well, I am sure his celebration will be great, too.

Note to all other parents of young children: We got a lot of feedback that the “format” worked very well. We opened our doors in the early afternoon and invited folks to drop by whenever they wanted for as long as they wanted. This definitely helped with toddler/infant nap schedules. Some stayed for 30 minutes as they squeezed us in between competing weekend events. (Thank you!) Some stayed for hours. It was great to be able to see people for any period of time.

We are so blessed with so many wonderful friends who would take time of their hectic lives to help us celebrate. We are genuinely grateful.

We are especially grateful that Dave’s parents (a.k.a. abuela and grandpa) made the trip down from DC. Especially since two days prior they had just arrived back in the country from a month in Spain. WOW! We love you.

Photos from Sophia’s 2nd Birthday

Here are the pictures from Sophia’s second birthday.

Videos of Sophia’s 2nd Birthday

Terrible recording of us singing happy birthday to Sophia. Direct Link to YouTube video

Sophia having fun, as usual, with the Mackes. Direct Link to YouTube Video
(Forgive Daddy’s awful singing)

This actually happened a couple of weeks ago. I am just now getting around to posting it. I hope to post a bunch of stuff, even really old stuff, in the days ahead. (Promises, promises.)

The story here was that the day after Sophia’s second birthday, we went out with the grandparents to Bond Park in Cary. It was rather toasty. Abuela, aka, Daddy Dave’s mom, really wanted to get Sophia some ice cream. That’s what grandparents do, right? Anyway, as you’ll see in the video below, Sophia rather enjoyed her first ever Cherry Garcia.

Some Pictures

The few pictures in this album illustrate the point as well.

Video Evidence

Direct Link to YouTube Video