Sofia Second Year of Preschool

The air is electric with excitement.

After waiting a full week after Noah started school.

Sofia finally gets to go to the magical Teacher Pat again.

 Sofia is a girl in motion.

So happy to go to school again.

 When Sofia awakes in the morning.

To cope with the day, she turns into a puppy.

Today her name was Rainbow Sparkles.

She has to wear puppy ears to school

and we had to wear a bit of makeup.

It is a special day after all.

Mollie, Sofia and Myka ready for school

Sofia sitting on the rug with her girls from school.

I know she will have a magnificent day. 

It is time to be back on a schedule.  

Oh, Sofia is 4!

In Celebration of my beautiful, mischievious daughter Sofia Caroline and the glorious event of her turning 4!  Can you believe my baby is 4.  I cannot.  Anyway I am going to write 44 marvelous things about my daughter.

1.  She Loves Pink.  It's her favorite color.  You should ask her.  She also loves purple and yellow is her third favorite just like her mom.

2. Sofia loves to snuggle.  And wants someone to snuggle her to sleep every night.   She has a great fear at night.  Not of anything in particular.  She just is afraid and wants someone near. Her daddy and Aunt Christel were the same way as kids

3.  She loves to hide.  And when she is ready to fall asleep.  She burrows herself underneath the covers so that nothing is showing and falls asleep.  One of her favorite games is hide and seek.  She begs anyone who will to play with her.

4.  Sofia is a fabulous ballerina.  Everyday all day she is dancing.  Going on her tiptoes,  doing her "Bal-leaps", and twirling.  She plays pretend ballet teacher and ballet class.  She loves everything about it.

5.  She has a lot of imaginary friends.  One named "Headda".  She is a girl and loves to play with her.  You often hear Sofia say "oh, that is just like a Headda".  Her other friend is "Chitaa" sometimes things are "like a Headda and a Chitta" and she laughs and laughs.\

6.  So far Sofia has had 2 husbands.  The first one Sal, died of old age.  And now she is married to the dashing Dom.  He is a good husband, goes to work, watches her kids and they have a LOT of love songs.  And he loves to dance with her and kiss a very long time.

7.  This girl loves to sing.  When she was littler she would sing, I would run cause I thought she was yelling.  As she has grown, she has a beautiful voice and can carry a tune.  Most of her songs she makes up herself.  Yesterday she made up the "song you sing to hot dogs"  and the "Christmas Magic Elf song".

8.  She makes up words and has her own language.  Like she says "that is pet er abba.  or 'her name is deeboe etc and etc.  or like dance like a firea

9.   She never says that something is beautiful, It is always "beautifuller"

10.  When she is saying something she deems important she smacks her lips together between words.

11.  She has a great love for the computer.  She says she is doing her "computer checks".  She loves disney jr.com and barbie.com.

12. She is so beautiful that her Dad and brother faint all the time when she is ready for church or the day.
She was so confused when the boys at school did not faint on Halloween when she was Tangled.  We had to explain that they were little and did not understand true beauty yet.

13. Any time she kisses her Uncle Nik he faints.  And it can happen over and over again.  Luckily Nik got some Kissing proof armor.

14.  Sofia now has armor too.  It is invisible.  But she has pinching proof armor,  tickle proof armor,  Luckily she does not have kiss or hug proof armor yet.

15  When she grows up she wants to be a Mom, a doctor and a ballerina.

16. Dentist is one of her favorite games.  She puts on gloves and a mask, has a flashlight and looks inside your mouth.

17.She says she has Green eyes like Rapunzel.  But her eyes are really blue.

18. Her favorite lunch is Macaroni and cheese.

19.  She loves to eat meat.  Especially, Chicken, Ham, beef, ribs, salomi,  You name it she loves it.

20.Her favorite doll is Bella,  a Madame Alexander Baby that Annie Rutherford gave her when she was born.

21  She also has twin babies dolls and their names are Eliza and Sally.

22. When she wakes up in the morning she instantly turns into a puppy.  Specifically a Chocolate dog, who wants chocolate milk.

23. She taught her mom that to help your body get out of bed in the morning you need to stretch two times.  She taught me that.

24.  She LOVES to color and to draw.  All day everyday you find her coloring.

25.  Lately I have been finding artwork on things throughout the house.  For example:  the laundry basket, the cupboards.  Dad's Xbox.  We had to have a long talk about what is okay to color and paint on.  I don't think it helps that she see her mom painting furniture etc all the time.

26.  Every morning she has to throw a random major fit about something.  Usually her clothes or breakfast.  It gets old but we know what to expect.

27.  This girl is Passionate about life.

28.  She has the most joyous, wonderful, fabulous Laugh.  It is my favoirte sound  to hear her laughing.

29.  Noah always plays a game in the car.  She likes to play too.  It is funny to hear her make explosion noises and kill bad guys with her pink gun.

30.  Sometimes a Cinderella coach and fairies help us fight the bad guys.  Magic wands and blasting fireworks help too.

31.  All day she plays pretend.  She plays house, princesses, ponies,  doggies, kitties, dentist, doctor, teacher, fighting the bad guys and anything else she makes up.

32.  She LoVEs Chocolate, She NEedS Chocolate, She Wants Chocolate.  Chocolate.

33. She calls Bobby pins = Fireworks.  And asks me to put fireworks in her hair.

34.  She loves to pretend that she can read.  And loves loves loves to be read too.

35.  She is not an easy one to distract away from something she has decided she wants or is right.  She is not easily fooled or persuaded.

She made this face even when she was a baby and upset

36.  Sometimes when she is throwing a huge fit and having a meltdown.  If you start to pretend she is a baby.  She will calm down much more quickly.

37.  She wants her belly rubbed all the time.

38.  She is obsessed with "Lips".  That is chapstick, lipgloss, lipstick and all the above.

39.  Lotion and hand sanitizer seem to be two of her favorite things.

40.  She never stops talking.  She chatters away all day long about everything and everything.

41.  If she stays in her bed all night long she gets to pick her clothes in the morning.  If she sneaks upstairs to Mom and Dads bed we get to pick her clothes.  This is fate worse than death.

42. She knows she is beautiful and I hope she continues this.  She says with confidence.  I have long beautiful legs, curly hair and big feet.

43.She still wants me to hold her all the time. instead of asking if I will pick her up, she says "I want to hold someone."

44.  She loves to say:  "Guess What?  Guess What?  Guess What?  until you say a bit annoyed "What?'
and in a very sweet voice she says "I Love You."

Don't forget to scroll down a bit and see her performance on the Stage.

Sofia's Dancing Debut on the Stage

Sofia in her Stage Costume

 Sofia started taking Dance in the fall.

Every Wednesday there is a whirlwind of excitement as we ready ourselves to go.

To her real ballet class.

Her teacher is Ms Stacy and she loves her.

All day everyday we play ballet teacher, ballet class, dancing etc.

In other words she is obsessed.

That is one of the reasons we put her in a class.

 She had two performances.

One at the Festival of Trees 

and the other at their Dance Recital.

Her costume is so adorable, with the gloves, the yellow and the flower.

She got to wear makeup.

Luckily she had a birthday party to go to earlier in the day to break it up.

I LOVE this,  it brings me almost as much excitement and joy 

that it gives her.  It was so so fun.

Kristin (13) and Sofia after the Performance

She was spectacular. 

Kersten admitted a couple songs in that it 

actually was really fun to watch these recitals.

The kids are so so hysterically adorable. 

My brother Nik and his wife Lena even got her flowers for her performance.

Video of Sofia's Dance

I just filmed this on my point and shoot camera but you get the idea

Ask Me about Dom

A couple weeks ago  on a tuesday,  my Sofia informed me that her husband Sal had died.  He had been her husband for a couple of months.  She would wax poetic about what they did together and that "he Love me".  I was horrified that my son in law Sal (who I always secretly thought was a trucker) had died.  He died of old age.

"He was really really old."

 She informed me then, that she had married Dom that afternoon in the Juna Temple.
I asked her to tell me about him.

"Well, He is a husband."

Like a husband is some kind of species.

She then explained that he had spiky hair that is dark.  He is tall and big.  He is a good dancer at a ball.  He loves to use keys.  And he likes to eat fish.

And he is really old.  He is eighteen.

Sounds like an amazing husband

Happy Halloween 2011

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 Happy Halloween!

Good Ninja with Stealth and Awesome fighting moves

I am Tangled, you have to dance and make funny faces

Eyeshadow

 Imagine me sewing, happily talking to my friend, while Sofia and Dylan play downstairs.

All is peaceful and their is enough noise that your not worried to much.

Sofia comes running upstairs so so excited.

"Mom, mom look at my eyeshadow"

Yes that is blue marker and she is elated about how beautiful she is.

 Dylan looked so guilty so we asked him what happened.

It was all Sofia's idea and he watched. 

Even though it is washable she still has a bit of blue on her eyes.

What a silly little woman.

Best Sunday of the Year

The Primary Program is really the best Sunday of the year.  Yesterday was no exception.  My kids were pure entertainment.  We spent the week and morning before church beautifying them and practicing their parts.  I look forward to this every year.  And I know the Primary Presidency works really hard on this.

Now for my kids,  Shall we start with the oldest

Noah:    who is 7 

The entire time he looked like he was extremely tired and totally bored.  He had a dead pan look on his face.  He was wearing his "James Bond outfit"  from Ginny's wedding with no tie.   He rarely sang the songs except every once in awhile one of the sentences.  Kersten made the comment that he needed to teach Noah the "watermelon" trick.   The boys and their Dads sang the 3rd verse of Praise to the Man together.  Noah just stared into the microphone.  One of the Sunbeams was singing his heart out,  which made this fabulous.  

When it was his turn to do his speaking part
which was to be about how he loves the stories of war in the Book of Mormon, such as the Armies of Helaman and Captain Moroni.
He swaggers up to the microphone as if to say "I am going to nail this"
and says " I love the temple because we get married there, not on the beach or in a church but in the temple" and struts back to his seat.
Kersten and I were laughing so hard that the bench was shaking.  A couple behind us tapped us on the shoulder and said that it was their favorite part of the program so far.  He spoke with such confidence and was factual.  This is the boy who at the age of 3 played Star Wars and flung Spiderman webs all over the stand during the program.

Now for my Sofia: who is 3

This girl said she looked Perfect.  She wore her Easter dress and a flower headband

 she got from Avery's birthday party (Kieran's daughter).

She threw a huge fit before church because she had to wear makeup,

so chapstick was smeared all around her mouth and on her cheeks.

because it was a "special occasion"  I gave in and put a bit of eyeshadow on her eyes.

When on the stand her hair had flipped over the headband and was in her eyes.

She attempted to sing only her favorite songs. 

She started rolling her eyes into the back of her head and 

pulling on them so you could see the whites of her eyes. 

She has dancing fingers so they were all over during the music. 

Our favorite part was when she starting swaying back and forth like Stevie Wonder, 

looking up toward the ceiling, bumping into the kid next to her. 

When her turn came up for her speaking part... That morning she had it down pat.  

She was suppose to talk about how she loved the temple because her mom and dad got married there.  

And that we are a family forever.

She talked all week about how she got to talk in a real microphone.

She says "I love the temple, it's great.  I go there. "

Gives her million dollar grin and bounces back to her seat.

And her parents go into another round of hysterics.  

Their performances were really quite epic.  

At least our children offered up some entertainment in church yesterday.

They made me proud.

9 wishes

One of Noah's friends asked him if he had 9 wishes what would they be
Thanks Elise for having him think of this.

Here was his response

1.  That we could play Star Wars for Real.

2.  That I had super strength

3. I could shoot lava out of my hands

4. That I was an Octo Millionaire (A millionaire 8 times)

5. Shoot lasers out of his eyes

6. It would rain Trix anytime I wanted

7. The fastest Jet that is armored and fully equip

8. A tank

9. A computer that shows him where all the bad guys are.

 SOFIA

She had to have 9 wishes also.

1. Princess Boat

2. Magical Coach with Horses

3.  A real life puppy

4. Fairy Godmother

5. Magic Unicorn

6.  A Ballet

7. Flowers all over, especially sunflowers and pink ones

8.Tiara crown

9.  A Chocolate Milk and Pudding River

Sofia's First Day of Preschool Ever

 Sofia was so excited for her first day of Preschool.

Her energy was palpable as we got ready for school

It was actual torture to wait until it was time to go

since it is an hour after Noah leaves.

 I had to make up things we needed to do, Just on the first day of school.

Like take pictures by every plant in the front yard.

Paint our fingernails glittery,

Put lip gloss on,  Sing the ABC song, 

Even after we finally got in the car I took the long way to school

Luckily we could call Aunt Ginny and Daddy before school

 We finally arrived.  

And Teacher Pat was so so excited that Sofia was there.

There was no nervousness. 

Just happiness.

 When I was little my preschool was in a basement too.

My mom took a picture of me by the door down the stairwell.

So of course I had to also.  

She remembered where to put her backpack

and went right to the rug where her name was. 

 Here the kids are lined up after school to wait for their parents to get them.

Sometimes seeing pictures of her with other kids just reminds me how tall she is.

Sofia said her favorite thing about school was the sandbox. 

I thought that very educational.  

Here she is with two of her best friends from our neighborhood

Mika, Molly and Sofia

After we went to McDonalds and played.

She then told me that she also liked the songs at school

It was an awesome first day of school.

A Bit of Summer

 We miss you Ginny

So glad we got to see you a bit in june and july.

I love this pic of Sofia and Oma Christel

 Swimming lessons.

Joy for Flamingo

Last Friday, Noah was off school.  So we went on an adventure to the dollar movies and saw Gnomeo and Juliet.  It was  a little bit of heaven sitting in the theatre between my two children, munching on popcorn and laughing so hard we almost peed our pants.  I love hearing their gasps, ooohs and ahhs during the show. 

At the end of the movie as we were walking out,  I asked each kid what their favorite part was.  Sofia promptly chimed in "All of it".   Noah on the other hand kept talking about the Flamingo "Featherstone", in the movie you discover that he used to have a wife and when their owners split up, they were seperated.  And in his wisdom he says "I know what it is like to have a love torn apart by other peoples choices,  Don't let that happen to you."  At the end of the movie, one of the gnomes learns how to use the internet and finds the wife and they are reunited.  Noah said that his favorite part was when the flamingo was reunited with his wife.  He asked me if that was my favorite too.  I of course agreed.  He kept talking about how happy it made him that they were together again.

As we got into the car,  he says "Mom,  I think I am going to cry.  I am so happy."  I turn to look at him and he has tears streaming down his face.  And he keeps saying "I am just so happy for the flamingo."  I rubbed his leg and told him that he was going to be an amazing man and father someday because he has such a tender heart.  "Mom,  I already Know that." 
Sofia was worried that Noah was so sad and kept telling him it was okay.  He tried to tell her that they were "Tears of Joy" for the flamingo.  This is something she totally can not grasp.  I told her that I cried tears of joy because I was so happy when I had my two kids. 

Noah's prompt response  "Yeah, I cried too when I had all 41 of my kids."
That explanation is a whole other post for another day.
I just love this boy.  He just gets more and more fun.

GOT MILK?

 We Sure Do

And it sure does a body good!

Per Request, some Pictures

Sofia resting in her car seat

Sofia split her lip and had to have a bandaid on it

Caught Noah "Chilin" on the lounge

Just one darn handsome boy

Dangerous Tangled

Who knew that Tangled could be so dangerous?

I just got hit in the head with a frying pan.
It snuck up on me from behind.
You see Sofia was Rapunzel
and I was Flynn Rider.
I was just not informed of my role in this game.
We had a disscussion on how we can pretend but not really hit people with frying pans

Just say Rats!

Sofia amazes me.
On Saturday Noah, his friend Dylan and Sofia were playing outside.
Dylan comes running in yelling "We found a dead rat,  Sofia has a rat."
I go running outside to see my daughter
Holding a purse in one hand
and a dead rat in the other.
This rat looks huge hanging from her small sweet hand
the tail dragging on the grass.
She calmly says "Look,  I have a rat."
Instantly I start screaming "Put down the rat, put the rat down"
I run down our deck pick up the little person and scrub all her limbs.
Kersten disposed of the rat.
We talked to our bug/rodent guy
and most of the disease in rats are in their insides and bites.
And this was a freshly dead rat.
She had a bath and is just fine.

I marvel at her bravery and curiousity.
I don't believe there are many kids or adults for that matter
who would think that picking up a dead rat is a fun and exciting idea.
My, Fia is sure one of a kind.

Filled

 NOAH

 SOFIA

My days are filled with these little people.

I am enjoying them a bit to much to think about blogging.

I write in my head but never actually sit down to express all my thoughts.

Let's hope tomorrow inspires a bit more.

They Kill me....

In all ways possible.

Who knew that motherhood 

would be so difficult 

and so rewarding all in one.

Man, I love these kids.

Wa Who

Today was a fun day.  

we went over to play with Kaitlyn.

After Cinderella dress-up, popcorn eating, Haeley kissing and

dumping hand-fulls of sand on top of each other.

It was time to go home.

And take a much needed bath.

To Mom's surprise after I grabbed new towels

I waltz into the bathroom to discover a 

Sofia on the toilet.

Making a very big poop.

All by herself.

"Not get it in the bath"  she says

I help her wipe

We flush it down

"My poop go down the wee slide

It say Waaa Whooo.

It have fun."

Before and After/Sofia's Haircut

Before

Seriously so cute but so so wild and hard to contol

Her hair was straight on the end and her thickness was growing in curly

She still got a lot of compliments. 

I put it in pigtails a lot to have some semblance of control

After

She is seriously stunning

I think she looks like Marilyn Monroe.  or she has a forty's haircut.

Her bangs give a natural finger wave.

And we will train the straight pieces over time to curl.

She is so so beautiful

And this is at the end of the day when most of the moouse is gone.

In church I had 2 mom's ask me how I did her hair.

I am so happy she got her Daddy's natural curl.

He has more curl than I do.  :)