Gone Fishin'

Today, we took Sophia fishing for the first time down at our community lake. She was super excited to get to use her new princess rod and reel. And this is the outfit she picked out to wear. The only thing that she didn't originally pick out were the boots. She wanted to wear her new light pink boots from Gymboree that I convinced her would get dirty and luckily she switched to the polka dot rain boots. Close one!

She was also super excited about using her new princess chair.

Houston! We have a problem! Not long into the trip, Sophia began having problems with her rod. Russell tried to fix it.

It didn't seem to dampen her spirits.

But I could tell there were real/reel problems going on (pun intended).

Sophia just ran around our "camp".

And Sophia's favorite feature of her new chair....a drink holder.

So while Russell continued to work on her rod, she used one of his.

Russell finally gave up and gave Sophia the bad news. Her rod wasn't working and she couldn't use it.

What???!!!

Not happy!!!!

And scene: Upset 2.5 year old dramatically sits in her new princess chair while sticking out her lower lip. The irony not lost on her mama/paparazzi.

She eventually got over it and went to see if her daddy needed a snack.

Then she found  the rocks!

 And had a ton of fun throwing rocks.

And for the quote of the day. We tell Sophia that daddy caught a fish. Come and see it. She says, "I'm not hungry". HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

But she wasn't scared of it and did not want daddy to throw it back. But because it took her so long to get down to the fish, we needed to throw him back in so he wouldn't die.

We knew it was time to go home when she said, "mama, I'm tired". And I'm happy to report no sunburn for any of us.



A Night At The Herron's...Again

My sister Robin invited Sophia and Jack over for a slumber party Wednesday night. So off we headed to the Herron's after PK.  When I dropped her off, there were no tears and she just waved good-bye. It made me very proud of her. I left Robin my camera so she could take some pics of their party.

Sophia was a big fan of the skateboard and the scooter. Must have been the influence of her best buddy Atticus.

Then they had a pizza party!

Then more play.

Big Bunny even took a few spins on the skateboard.

Then, they had an ice cream party.

Then more play.

Then they had a secret meeting.

When I came to pick her up in the morning, she couldn't wait to show me the pics Aunt Robin took. And then managed to hijack my camera. Here are a few of her pics. I love seeing things from a 2.5 year olds perspective.

Then we headed to Chili's to eat lunch with Nana and Paw-Paw. Then, we headed back to Nana's work to see their new office (and so she could show off her grandkids).

Nana is so sweet! She made each of the grandkids a special St. Patty's treat bag.

And then the kids really took over.

They were mesmerized by Nana's screensaver slide show. Sophia couldn't wait to see pics of herself.

Sophia got a little impatient with so many pics that had nothing to do with her.

This is her saying, "where are the pictures of me?".

Thanks for taking such good care of Sophia Aunt Robin. You will be a hard act to follow with the slumber parties. And thanks for lunch Nana and Paw-Paw. We enjoyed bringing our circus to town. :)