What attitude!

"BOO"

Sophie says "Boooo" to anything Halloween-related--orange pumpkins, ghost and witch decorations, gourds. So, when we trekked to an amazing farm this weekend, Sophie called out "booo" to everything! Since she is still a crawler (with 1 week to go before she hits her first bday!), she crawled in the mud from "booo" to "booo" (from pumpkin to pumpkin). She was dirty but so enthralled by the pumpkins, the other children running around, and the big tractors. Doug and I ate roasted corn on the cob, took one million photographs of our adorable daughter, and enjoyed the crisp, fall air. Here are just some of the photos that capture our 1st trip to a pumpkin patch!









Update: Since visiting the farm, Sophie has begun to say "boo-kin" when she sees a pumpkin. It's closer...

S is for SICK

This week has been a very different week around the Whitfield household. While Doug was in Jordan riding camels.......

(seriously, that's his calf riding a camel in the Middle East!!).....

Sophie got the flu. She has never been this sick and unfortunately, 6 days later, she is still recovering. My mom flew over one night to help me, I stayed home from work to nurse the little S, and Doug had no time to recover from his jet lag before he was put on sick duty. On several occasions, I felt confident I must be on some hidden camera show; I was running up stairs with towels, doing loads of laundry at lightening speeds, cleaning up one mess just as another one landed on my newly changed clothes. A sick baby girl makes for mayhem! The germs have conquered me and are now working their magic on Doug.

Today, Sophie had more energy and posed in her jammies for some of these photos. She wants to make sure that the blog community knows she's working hard to be healthy and strong for her birthday in 2 weeks!!

Sunday Reading

Today, it was just Sophie and Mommy. We stayed in our pajamas all day long. When Sophie napped, I napped. We giggled, tickled, played, imitated, snacked, sang, drummed, cuddled, and READ a lot!

Here, Sophie is reading the summary on the back cover to double check that the book "Baby Animals" is in fact really about baby animals.


Our 11 month old is so smart that she can even read books upside down.




She sat in her rocking chair with this book for nearly 10 minutes. About half way through, she pulled her feet up to get even more comfortable. So adorable!!


Although you cannot tell from the tongue sticking out, she was actually pointing to the sheep and saying "aaaaaaaaa."



Later in the day, Sophie abandoned "Baby Animals" in favor of some heavier reading...