Moved this Blog

Hi, all -
I moved this blog to http://soniagrace.blogspot.com.
Myah's blog is at http://myahmichelle.blogspot.com.

Thanks!
-m

Mother's Day

On Mother's Day, we stopped by a park to let Sonia run around and used this opportunity to take some pictures of her in her pretty, blue dress.

Spaghetti

Here's Sonia having fun with some spaghetti on April 30th. I was having just as much fun watching her and taking these pictures. :-)

Portrait Studio

Beth came to visit on February 19th and we had these pictures taken on February 20th. As of this writing, Sonia can now answer, "Meow" when you ask her what a kitty-cat says. She says the word "hot" for warm food/drinks, and "hi" on the phone to people when she feels like it. Of course, "Momma," Dadda," and "Kitty"(a "K" sound with a rolling, Spanish "rrr" after it is the Sonia pronunciation) are all regularly spoken. With sign, she knows and uses the words "eat," "drink," "bye-bye," "book," "apple" and "all done." With sign AND vocalizing, the cutest, "no-no" comes out with her shaking her finger at you when she iterates back that she understands that some item or activity is off limits to her. This week, she's learned how to climb on the dining room chairs and from there, up onto the table and, get this, actually get into her on-chair high chair! Ok, ok, she's not ALLOWED to get herself into her high chair via way of the table (which is her only viable route), but we let her do it once because it was funny. Today, while working in the back room, I came into the kitchen and there she was, sitting in her high chair...and I didn't put her there. She also climbs on my night stand now (which is another "no-no") and has been caught recently up on bookshelves and coffee tables when we mistakenly left something nearby that she could use as a step-ladder.
As of yesterday, she's 14 months old.
Ok, enough chatter and status. Here are the best of the recent JCPenny photo shoot. Enjoy!

Videos

Here are some videos that I shot today with my digital camera.

And here are some pictures that I took on February 1st.

First Birthday

Here are the pictures of Sonia after she ate her first birthday cake. Wow. Hard to believe we have a kid. And she's more than a year old. We still can't believe we got married and here we are with a 1 year old! Her birthday was a quiet one with Don, Sonia and myself all at home that day. I baked her a cake that afternoon and sang Happy Birthday to her that evening after she'd eaten her supper. It was really a nice day. And a lot warmer outside than it was a year ago. Don remembers that... I was in the hospital room, so I don't remember much about the weather. All I know is that I was so happy that my baby had finally come. And now, it's amazing looking back how far she's come from that point. I'm just so glad she's here. :-)

Christmas

Sonia's first Christmas was wonderful. We opened presents on Christmas morning. Not being a destructive kid by nature, she didn't want to rip the paper off the presents. It took us starting each tear for her and then coaxing her take hold of the paper to tear some herself. It was cute and she truly had a good time.