Maybe You Had To Be There...

This morning, when I walked by Sophie's room to the laundry room, I noticed she was just starting to stir in bed. So when I walked back by about three minutes later, I looked in on her.

By this time, she was standing beside her bed, had removed her pajamas (no small feat since they are the fleece one-piece style with feet) and was just pulling off her Pull-up.

I stood there for a moment undetected to see what she was going to do next.

She abruptly caught sight of me from the corner of her eye.

Sophie (buck naked): Mama! You TOTALLY scared me!

Don't Turn Me In

I had to laugh when I read this post from Molly, because I had this picture waiting in the wings as further evidence that we bloggers are crazy mamas. Yes, I looked over from the kitchen to see my daughter on the 11th stair on the OUTSIDE of the rail, grinning down at me with pride at her accomplishment. And as I was yelling at her to "get down right this instant... but be careful!", I of course had to grab my camera from the bar and snap a picture. By this time, she was two steps down and seeming pretty stable. (And after all, there's a couch there to break her fall, right?)

Nevertheless, this picture still gives me the heebeejeebees, and I bet it will you too!

Snow Face

I'm not sure where they got the idea, but Andy and Will reinterpreted the "snowman" concept while we were on vacation, sculpting a truly impressive snow portrait. I can't wait to see the sand castles they build this summer!

Also note in the lower picture that Will's shoes, as usual, are on the wrong feet.

(I'll be done with six-week-old vacation pics soon, I promise. Somehow, my blog tends toward smaller posts and long lags...)

Our Snow Angel

Will and Sophie are fascinated by snow angels, I think partially a result of watching "Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas" about 5,000,001 times. They try to make snow angels everywhere - in the grass, on department store carpet, in the middle of our living room.

They got to make REAL snow angels in Breckenridge...

Will On Skis

Will also got to ski on our recent vacation. He had a full day's lesson at Breckenridge. Here he is, riding up on the gondola with his skis before his lesson. He was happy to have a lesson, but there's no doubt we were more excited than he was.

These other pictures were taken at Keystone at night, where he got lots more practice on the bunny hill there. After Andy followed him up the magic carpet a couple of times, he said, "Daddy, this time you can wait for me at the bottom!" Sure enough, he proceded to go up and down by himself about a dozen times! He still needs to work on his wedge, but as he explained to me, "Mom, it's not that I CAN'T stop, it's just that I don't want to!"

Sophie Skis!

Sophie had her first experience on skis at Keystone while we were on vacation in January. Can you tell she was excited?

Picture Tag

I was tagged by Erin to select the fourth picture in the fourth folder on my computer. I only have pictures on this computer from July 2008 to date, so this was what I found. This picture was taken July 10 at 10:53 AM, so Sophie was... two days and about an hour and a half shy of being 22 months old. We visit the zoo quite often, so this picture is very typical of our summers, but on this particular day Mimi and Grandma Spangler were visiting, and Daddy was even able to come by and have lunch with us at the zoo. Here is a link to my blog post from that day.

I'm not sure who has already done this and who does and doesn't do tags, but I'll tag Rebekah, Rebecca, Tasha and Stephanie and see if anyone actually does it. Here are the rules:

Go to the 4th album in the place you store your pictures on your computer
Select the 4th picture in that album (no exceptions)
Post it in this post with an explanation and link it back to your tagger
Tag 4 people to do the same thing