Home from Christmas

OK - I think I've finally recovered from being gone for over a week. Sophia too. I feel like I'm finally caught up on getting the house back in order and things put in their proper place. I've used my awesome Christmas present, the Dyson, a few times and so has Will (yea!!).

Sophia finally went to bed at her usual time last night - 7:30 pm - and that's after finally! taking a 2 hour nap in the late afternoon. She woke up around 8:30 this morning. Phew...things are getting back to normal.

Well, maybe not totally normal. For starters I'm feeling the baby move all the time now. Little kicks that feel like thuds and thumps. And.....Sophia's speech has exploded in the last week and she's saying so many real words now. She's repeating lots of new words all day long too. In fact, she just held up a Little People Daddy person and told me he is "COOL".

When she isn't playing Little People House with the Daddy, Mommy, Baby, Nana and Car she's playing Little People Farm. Yesterday afternoon while she played Farm she put all of the animals in the silo and then had each on "FALL" out of the door opening. It was hysterical. Right now they are all stuck in the rain drain gutter of her Front Door house toy. Mom and/or Dad need to "save them".