Almost there!

She's been practicing everyday and today I took a video of her trying to crawl. She hasn't figured out the moving your hands part yet...but she will in time. It looks to me like her bottom is getting ahead of her. Ha ha.

Fall is here!

I love the fall...except for the fact that it kinda passed us up in a week. It is too cold to be fall now and it is supposed to snow tonight! Just flurries...but still! I also want to say "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!" to Ross today. Hope your having a fantastic day and that you are enjoying your new toy.

P.S....guess who earned a 100% on her College exam!!!!!

Oh and I just wanted to say..."I love you Christy!"

A laugh that melts my heart.

I have no idea why, but Sofia finds me hilarious and likes when I do silly little things. Ha ha. Here's a video of her giggling at me while I was spending my Friday afternoon with her and Tricia.

Lions, Tigers, and a three hour nap! Oh My!

Yeah, so today Sofia and I were both a little extra sleepy today before our weekly aunt-niece nap together. She was falling asleep while eating lunch and so was I. We laid down and fell right asleep around 2 pm and stayed asleep until about 5 pm. I think we are now ready to go! Ha ha.

This is a picture of Sofia wrapped in my track jacket trying to stay warm. I had to go out to my car and get the camera so I could post all of these cute photos and it's COLD outside!

She was a little gangster today in her one piece body suit with her hood up. Word ha ha.

Ha ha she looks like a baby seal. A cute one I might add.

This was her before our nap...

This was after....(crazy hair!)

Exercising 101

Sofia is quite flexible and she shows us just that whenever you lay her on her back. She instantly grabs her toes and does these little "one and two-three and-four" exercises again and again. We try to do them right along side of her , but none of us are that flexible. Ha ha. We are supposed to be teaching HER new things, but she's teaching us something new everyday.

A Girl of Many Faces/The Big News!

Sofia loved to pose for the camera today. Usually Tricia says that my picture-taking-abilities cause Sofia to always look surprised and shocked in her photos. Well, today was different. I received a variety of all sorts of emotions and she worked it. You go girl!

"Hi everybody!"
"You're sooo funny aunt Laura!"

This was her lion impersonation. ha ha
What a precious face."Excuse me?"
"Would you like a kiss???"

OK, so now the BIG news. I know that most of you know this already but I'm still posting about it because I am extremely excited. My dad just bought me a plane ticket to go to Louisiana on Dec27 - Jan3! I am going back home for the holidays (well, two days after the holidays) but I am going down south to see my Maw-Maw, Paw-Paw, aunts, uncles, and all of my cousins. I LOVE spending time with family and I cannot wait until Christmas. I do have to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas day but this makes it ALLLL worth it!

Aw...I love my Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw.

Family means more to me than anything.

Hopefully, they will be able to drive over and visit while I am in town! Tamara and I haven't really gotten to talk in a LOONG time.

I miss them so much.

Time with family is time well spent.

She was a little curious about what this thing was.

She wants to be like her daddy and play the guitar!

Kameron loves his cousin.

He was being so gentle...like a little gentleman.

This boy's got class!

Big dog for a big boy!

I've been having a pretty great weekend so far. I went and bought a majority of my senior costume last night with Dad and Krista, so now I just have to build the rest of it. I watch the TV show called "The Office" all last night and this morning online and then spent the rest of the morning mowing. Dad and I went over to the Mclains for ribs and Missy and Kameron joined us. It was nice just to get away for a while and spending some time together as a family. The pictures up ahead are from babysitting the other day and from tonight. Kam sure loves his cousin. = )

A Day with sunshine...

I've been having an OK week so far. It has been a mix of really great things and really bad things. First off, there was a boy I knew all through my years in Lebanon and whom I got to know in 8Th grade when he rode our bus home. He committed suicide this past weekend and it traumatized our whole town. His name is Jacob and as of right now...my school is still in shock. It's been hard, but everyone is leaning on their neighbors' shoulder for support and its great to see just how supportive my class mates are of everyone around them. We'll miss you Jacob. Peace.
Some great things that have happened...include my homecoming dance. I know I didn't go into much detail last post but I had a BLAST. I didn't think that going with friends would be all that much fun as having a date would be but I had tons of fun anyways. Just because I didn't bring a date doesn't mean I still cant dance lol.
As of right now, I'm spending time with my favorite niece and I'm just relaxing. I look forward to this day each week and I enjoy watching her.(Even when I do it for free lol...but don't tell Tricia haha.)