Our Casa Lennon is your Casa

Everyone thinks their kids are cute. Sophia just seemed to be in rare form Sunday morning.

As background, you need to know that “Ellie” is Sophia’s most treasured posession. Ellie is a Carter’s pink, elephant plush toy. (Get it, “Ellie”?) Once we realized how much she loved this toy, we started hunting for a duplicate. We called multiple Targets in multiple states. (Really.) No dice. We wanted insurance should something happen to Ellie. Our solution was Paco (the Pachyderm). You can see a pic of them side by side. Alas, what we got was a daughter who now needed two elephants to go to sleep.

Sophia giving Alexander an unprompted hug

Well, last week Mommy Michele texted Daddy Dave cuz we thought we might have found a suitable stand in.

And (finally) on to the point of this post.

We came downstairs and Sophia spotted the 3rd elephant and yelled “other Ellie!” She lit up and was delighted. She grabbed and hugged her. Alexander was already awake at this time but a wee bit fussy. Sophia-being the sweetheart she is-walked over to him and started trying to appease him by playing with him. When that didn’t settle him down, she leaned down and gave him a big old hug. (Proud, beautiful moment for a parent to have your 2 year old hug her 5 month old brother without prompting.)

But then things got even cuter.

Sophia's "pink choo-choo"

As I calmed Alexander down (read, found pacifier), Sophia went off and entertained herself. When I turned my attention to her, I saw she’d definitely found a way to keep herself busy.Without any intervention or input from me, Sophia had set up a “pink choo-choo”. Her words, not mine. She had arranged to kitchen chairs back-to-back, put the Ellie and other Ellie in one chair, and sat in the second chair. Her “pink choo-choo” was complete with the requisite “choo-choo” sounds. Of course, the highlight was when she asked if I wanted to ride the pink choo-choo. Of course, nothing is beneath me.

Once the rest of the house was awake, Mommy realized she needed to go upstairs for something. Sophia very much wanted to stay with Mommy. As we all began heading upstairs, Sophia turned around, looked at me and said, “Daddy, go downstairs.” I guess I had outlived my usefulness.

Small Album of pix from this AM

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This is mommy michele’s low-tech post (high tech for me though). My goal is to have more frequent posts with less info. Last week I had a great coupon for pictures at the place we’ve gone to, so I took Sophia at the last minute to get some pictures since it had been a year since her last one.

I picked her up from daycare with food in her hair and a skinned up knee. This wasn’t planned, so I wasn’t even sure if the dresses and shoes I brought would even fit. Luckily, the dress from the Greshams fit great and looked great. Sophia wasn’t smiling too much for the camera though, but we went with what we had.

See the slideshow below. I can send you the scanned version if you’d like to print it out. I did buy a a sheet of each picture, so I do have some to spare if you’d like me to mail you an original Sophia Sept 2009 .

More to come on what we did this summer with all of our guests.