Two Teeth

For the record, Sonia got her first tooth on August 27th and her second a couple days later. They are the two bottom middle teeth.

Crawling

Although she's been crawling for a while, I haven't documented it this good thus far in a format that I can easily put online (i.e., shot it with my digital camera instead of with a video camera). Anyway, notice the cute smile at the end. Enjoy!

Look, I'm Standing!

This video is quite representative of the last three weeks at our house. Notice the cute smile at the beginning and at the end of her doing her most favorite activity.

The Music Baby

With mommy in a band and daddy taking drum lessons, our house is often filled with the sounds of music rehearsal. Mommy makes a point to sing to Sonia every day (right now we are working on the ABC song and the "Doe a Deer" song from the Sound of Music with "I've Been Working on the Railroad" thrown in there for variety every few days).

Sonia is "cruising" around the furniture now and is best friends with anyone who will hold on to her hands so she can try her hand at walking. She babbles and laughs often, likes to have her feet and belly tickled, and enjoys chasing the cats around the house. Her idea of crawling is to travel with hands and one knee and one foot. At times she tries to walk on her hands and on both feet, but quickly falls over as her hands cannot keep up to the back end. Everything goes in the mouth now, which has been quite a chore for mommy in putting things up and out of baby's reach. Recently, I fell while running to take something out of her mouth and hurt my arm and got nine stitches in my little toe. Ouch. At least she was ok. Maybe the kiss she gave me in the doctor's office was to say "Thank you."

Summertime Outside

I the last weeks Sonia has joined her Mom and Dad in numerous outdoor events. From camping and four-wheel driving in the mountains, to swimming in pools and lakes, she has become quite the outdoors baby.

The Blue Key

We had good times with family in Florida. Sonia loves to get in the water and swim. We also bought her her first piano, complete with four keys - a blue one, a green one, a yellow one and an orange one. She'll graduate to black and white ones someday.

First Plane Ride

Here are some of the best photos of the latter part of June. Sonia now sits up very well, eats cereal and grabs and holds on to anything within reach. At the end of this month, we flew to Florida (her first plane ride) and Sonia had a chance to meet her new, first cousin, Mark.