Sophia has acquired some new mealtime tricks! She can make her food reappear! She does this by forcing her whole fist into her mouth to gag herself when she gets a spoonful of something she doesn't like. This list includes EVERYTHING except fruits. It's really a disgusting habit and Mommy simply cannot take this new found talent. 
Yesterday we had Sophia's baptism. She was a doll through the entire 11AM church service. We sat in the front row so we had easy access to the Baptismal Font. Will held Sophia while Dr Moore cupped the water onto her head and dedicated her in front of the congretation. Then Dr. Moore took Sophia and carried her around to all of the pews as she was "welcomed" into the church. She was delightful. I think she knew she was the center of attention. She was on her best behavior throughout the rest of the service. 
As we were driving home we opened up the certificate expecting it to read Sophia Amber Alexander, but instead it read: Abigail Elizabeth Gilbert. A slight mix-up. There was a message on our answering machine when we got home asking us to make the exchange this week.
Sophia just turned 9 months old. 
Talking - Not really, but she makes the mmm...mmmm...mmm sound when eating her favorite crackers. She also shrieks, squeals, squawks and screams all day long! Dr. Mitchell told us this is her way of babbling. He thinks she really likes the sound of her own voice. 
Food - She's a big girl now! She doesn't really like Mommy feeding her with a baby spoon anymore. She wants to finger feed herself. Some of her favorite foods include vegetable crackers, cheddar cheese, yogurt, apples, pears, mac and cheese and toast with jelly.
Sophia and I went to a Valentine's Day party earlier this week. It was so cute to see everyone decked out in red and pink. Sophia received so many Valentine's from her little friends. She gave out candy message hearts to everyone. That's her red bag in the front left corner of the photo. 
Sophie's reached the separation anixiety phase. She clings to me when we're around strangers. Once she warms up a bit, she can even be pleasant to interact with, but she wasn't even interested in mingling at the party. This was the ONLY salvagable photo of her from the entire party. As you can see, she's interested in playing with her Paci which has been her best friend throughout this teething pains.
Yesterday we went to take a "romantic Valentine's Day gondola ride" at the Y. The only bit of information we knew was that between 2-4 the YMCA was offering gondolda rides in the indoor pool. I thought we should wear our bathing suits. Will had a good point, we would never get wet on a gondola ride, so we did not wear our bathing suits. In fact, our plan was to go out to dinner afterwards so we wore nice clothes. 
We went to Babygarten this morning. Sophia really enjoyed watching all the other kids in the class. In fact that's all she did for the first 10 minutes. I think she was just being a little bashful, but she took the time to stare intently at each little face in class and then decided that she felt comfortable and started shrieking in delight. 
