My First Week as a One Year Old

Sophie’s first week as a one-year old was action packed, as usual. We started the week off bright and early on Monday morning with a visit to the doctor for her one year checkup.

Everything checked out perfect. She’s growing according to schedule and even took her shots with barely a cry.

After the doctor we met up with Shay and Eric and family for breakfast before they headed back up north. Brynn took the opportunity to teach Sophie how to read.

On Monday night we headed off to Del Mar to go to the circus. Our friends Kelly and Carl and their daughter Addison gave us the tickets for Sophie’s birthday.

I was a bit concerned about how Sophie would react. I figured either she would get bored after 5 minutes or would be terrified from the noise and lights. But she actually did great and sat quietly for the whole thing. (Ok, almost the whole thing. She got a bit squirmy the last 10 minutes.)

On Tuesday, Sophie and I went to swim class as usual, then over to Fuddruckers for lunch afterwards. We generally let the kids run around a bit after we finish eating, and it is always fun to watch them bounce off the walls and each other.

Uncle Brian and Aunt Karen sent Sophie this cool pink car for her birthday. She hasn’t quite figured out how to make it move yet, but she likes to sit on it and beep the horn (over and over and over . . . )

On Wednesday, Sophie and I went hiking down in Penasquitos canyon, which is just north of where we live.

We took our hike during what would normally be Sophie’s morning nap, but fortunately the rocking motion of the hiking puts her right to sleep. (Unfortunately, that meant I had to keep hiking until she woke up. Sort of a mandatory fitness program.)

On Friday, Kandice and Mike dropped off their dogs Cheryl and Harmony for us to dogsit, and we went for a walk down to the park to get some excercise. As always, Sophie loved having the dogs around, and she loves it even more now that she can walk and chase them around the house.

Finally, we switched Sophie over to real milk from formula this week. As you can see, I think she’s enjoying it.

Here is a link to the full album.

2008-03-09 Circus