Time for solids!

It was a momentous weekend for the Smiths... Sophie started trying out some big girl food :) And she couldn't get enough! This kid loves to eat!

Here she is in a beatufiul dress from her friend Alicia Fuller...it's still a tiny bit loose and big, but it fits well enough to wear it I reckon :) Sitting up in the big livingroom armchair. She's such a big girl!
Ok, well, she's tiny actually! Her Christmas gift - a high chair. Most of the time she really likes it...as long as she's in a good mood. Sophie says, It's fun to be able to see everything!


And it's fun to look so pretty and hang out with my flopsy bunny...


But mostly it's fun to have tasty new things in my mouth

More please?!
Yum! I can lick it off my bib too, oh goody!

Let's get even more of that food-covered bib into my mouth, shall we?!

Fingers are covered with sweet corn too? Oh yay! Even tastier than normal fingers. Everything in my mouth! Big party in there!

I wonder if there's any more in there....

Ooooo...the spoon! Now that's good fun!

I'm thankful for...

Happy Holidays! So we had a little Thanksgiving downunder this weekend.... loads of food. My first roast turkey ever... didn't turn out too badly. Pam brought beautiful fresh flowers, everyone brought food, and Dominika took some photos of Sophie. We had fun :) She's 4 and a bit months now... growing so fast!

She's fascinated with laughing and giggling these days! Keeps trying out lots of different sounds. She cracks me up :)

Baaabbling

Sometimes Sophie likes to talk to us. Other times, she really doesn't even care if we're there...she just wants to chat. She babbles at her toys...even while trying to stuff them in her face. She cracks me up :)

(This was about a week or 2 ago.)

Sophie and her friends

Sophie's learning about other little people...and she's pretty fascinated. This is at our house with Ryan...he came over with his lovely mum to watch the Melbourne Cup Race. Sophia was just a bit more interested in watching him than the horses during the actual race time.


On Thursdays we go to Mothers' group - it's a bunch of mums with bubs born around the same time, who all live in our area. Here, Sophie is pretty confident in her tummy time skill, and it helps her keep an eye on absolutely everyone!




Oh, this is a bit out of order... this is just Sophie waking up after a nap and being adorable :)

Now we're back to Mums' group. We decided to make a long line of babies. It was funny the many ways that the different babies reacted to this . The girl on Sophie's right was just squealy with joy. The boy on her left was pretty unhappy about being set down. And Sophie just pretty much had that look on her face the whole time - content and quiet curiosity.

It's so fun to watch them grow...and to start to akwardly interact with each other. The girl in the red was happily throwing her arms around, and she often had an arm just resting across Sophie's chest. She didn't seem to mind, but she was studying that arm and I knew what was coming! Sure enough, that arm went straight into Sophie's mouth! I didn't get a photo of it, as I was busy rescuing her victim! Fortunately, her busy little mouth doesn't have any teeth yet, so the girl in red didn't seem to mind at all. They're still friends :)