Happy New Year!

2010 has come to a close and 2011 is officially upon us! 2010 was an amazing year. Not only did we welcome our beautiful daughter into the world, I graduated from nursing school! We have so much to be thankful for.

A year in pictures
As I was looking for pictures, I realized Rudy and I hardly took any pictures before Sophia was born :( So I guess I will make that my New Year's resolution. Rudy and I will take more pictures together!

January

 Rudy putting together Sophia's changing table

25 weeks along

26 week ultrasound

February

30 weeks along

Getting Sophia's room ready for her arrival

March

 Rudy & I at our baby shower (35 weeks along)

 My mom & I

My oldest friends Ashley and Leah (all 3 of us were pregnant)

April

The day before I delivered

The day our lives changed forever

May

4 days old

 May 6th, My nursing pinning ceremony

One month old at Steve & Crystal's wedding

June

On the blanket I had made from my wedding dress

July

 Headed to the Williamson 4th of July party

 4th of July

 At the Parker County Peach Festival

August

 Her Baptism (Her dress was made from my wedding dress)

The first time we found her on her tummy

September

First time eating solids (She had peas)

Nana's visit

Sophia loves her Uncle Gregg

October

Crabby Crabkins

First play date with Nolan

Pumpkin patch

November

mmmm cookie :)

First tooth!

Big girl bath



December

Play date with baby Gene (80 degree december day!)

First Christmas!

There you have it, here's to another wonderful year!!

8 months old

Dear Sophia,

You are growing fast my darling. You are getting to be such a big girl, you don't look like a little baby anymore. You still aren't crawling yet, but if we put you on your hands and knees you'll stay there and rock for a few seconds. Maybe one of these days you'll get it, but if not that's ok too!

A couple of days ago, you learned to drink from a straw. What a big girl! I'm so proud of you. You are eating more "big girl" food these days. I think you are over purees. You love to pick things up with your two little fingers, you are a pro now. You are eating meat too, you love chicken! I gave you a piece of broccoli last night for the first time, I don't think you are a fan.

You are babbling a ton, but you still haven't said any real words yet. We get a lot of babababa, boof (that one always makes me laugh), papapa, dadada. I'm still crossing my fingers you'll say mama first ;)

We have been signing to you for a few months now. You haven't signed back to us yet, but I think you will soon. You are starting to make movements with your hands, but nothing that resembles a sign. So far we are teaching you the sign for milk, more, eat, and bath. I can't wait until you can start communicating with us!

You are such a sweet, smiley girl. We are so lucky to have you as our daughter. I love you more than you will ever know.

Uncle Gregg giving you kisses

Love,

Mommy

Pigtails

I can't believe Sophia's hair is long enough to put up in pigtails. She looks so darn cute with them in. It makes me a little sad though because it makes her look like a big girl :(

All of her loot :)

I'd say she is just a tad spoiled :p

Feeling very blessed

I can't believe Christmas is over already. I love Christmas, it is defintely my favorite holiday. I love the excitement and anticipation, cooking and baking, shopping, and all of the family time that goes along with it. Let me just say, this year really lived up to the hype. The only thing that was missing was my mom being here, that part was hard, but hopefully she will be here soon!

This year was especially great, because it was our little bug's 1st Christmas. She was definetely spoiled by everyone. She has more toys than she knows what to do with. Pop bought her a toy box, so now all of her new toys have a place to go and won't be scattered around the house. Sophia and Bittles had to test it out first :)

We spent Christmas eve at Sophia's godfather's house eating tamales and spending time with family. Sophia had fun being with all of her cousins. She even played dolls with Emily and Natalie. We let her stay up later than usual so she could hang out with everyone.

We woke up bright and early Christmas morning, Sophia drank her morning bottle and then we dug right into the presents. Sophia had a blast even though she had no idea what was going on. The paper and boxes were the best part for her of course :)

Christmas is different to me now that I am a parent. I know she won't "get it" for a couple more years, but it was so much fun watching her have fun. I am so excited to start traditions and make it special for our girl like my parents did for me.

I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas as much as we did. Here are some pictures from our day. Oh and these were taken from my new camera Rudy suprised me with :)

Uncle Gregg

Tio Domingo

I hate this picture of me but she just looks so darn cute :)

With Pop

My girl loves her books!

Laughing with Aunt Jenni

"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"