Lions & Tigers & Bears... Oh my!

 On Friday, May 11, 2012... Suri and I went to the World Famous San Diego Zoo, with our good friends Terri, Dylan, Megyn & Kaitlyn. We had a great time in the beautiful sunshine walking around and checking out all the animals! Suri wanted to pet them all and got a little annoyed when she realized she couldn't :( Poor girl! But she loved seeing the monkeys and Mommy broke down and bought her a polar bear stuffed animal souvenir! Thanks so much to our friends for taking us on this wonderful adventure! We had a blast :)

giraffes

zebra

grizzly bear

getting his treats

red panda

sleepy panda

group shot!

turtles

checking out the turtles

Fun at the Park

     Here are the pictures from our weekend of playing at the park! You can see Suri loves to swing & slide and overall, just loves to be outside! I've also included some pics from our apartment where she's playing with her friends. Enjoy! :)

***(well you can't tell from the pictures, but yes, I was there and I did play with her! Stupid new blogger format loads my pictures sideways with no way of turning them the correct way...ugh! Sorry!)

Lots of randoms...

First I'll start off with my growing bump... 

                     April 9- 27 wks                     April 13 - 28 wks                 April 20 - 29 wks

                                                  April 27 - 30 wks              May 5 - 31 wks

As of today, I am 31 weeks and 2 days... with 61 days to go! It's exciting & nerve-wracking all at once! Exciting to have a new little girl in our lives to love & cherish, but nerve-wracking in that we'll have TWO little girls to take care of - one (Suri Jean) that is very mobile & sassy! lol. We are very happy though and look forward to the wonderful adventure that awaits us in just 9 weeks! All my appointments at the doctor have gone well and baby Sofia kicks & punches all the time! I have a feeling she'll be a wild one just like her big sis :)

Which leads me into Miss Suri Jean, who just turned 16 months yesterday!! She's getting so big & so smart & so so sassy! Must get that from her daddy ;)  But she is really doing great. She has opened up the bathroom door all by herself, so that's a new trick we have to watch out for cause she tries to open all the doors! She climbs on anything and everything...nothing seems to be off limits or scary to her... including the kitchen table. Luckily she hasn't attempted to break out of her crib yet! Suri absolutely loves to play outside...it's always the first thing she does when she wakes up is go to her shoe bin and pick out her shoes so we can go outside. This weekend, since Seth had a 3 day weekend, we took her to two different parks and she had a blast! She loves the swings and going down the slide. And love love loves to say 'Hi!' to everyone! I have lots of pictures from my phone to show off, and then I'll need to also upload recent pics from my camera of our park trips, for you all to see soon!

                                                  silly girl loves to climb in her toy chest
 

                                                   or just sit in it and hang out w/ her baby

                                                   also enjoys sitting inside our ottoman

                                   took this picture cause I plan on doing a silhouette painting, 
                                    but also wanted to show you all her little curls in the back!

                                                       such a big girl w/ a pretty smile :)

                                          her new Crocs from Great Auntie Pat! Adorable!

Then here is a bunch of random stuff... 

                                                   My new 'diaper bag' from Lily Bloom

 

A rag quilt I made for Suri (which will probably become Sofia's cause I plan on making Suri a bigger matching one); Button letter 'S' that I made for the girls' room, either on the door or a gallery style wall I'm contemplating doing.

And last but not least, Sofia has a full name! Sofia Edie (ee-dee), to honor her daddy's middle name. So Suri has the same initials as mommy (SJC) and Sofia & daddy will have the same initials too (SEC)! Thanks to Mama Denise for doing these for us! :)


I'll try to get the camera pictures uploaded to the computer and do a post of those this week! We had lots of fun & I took lots of pics! It was nice to actually get to spend time with Seth without him worrying over classes/tests/homework, but unfortunately, it's back to the grind tomorrow! Hope you all enjoy & had a great weekend too! Xoxo, <3 Sc

15 months

eating her italian dinner all by herself! :)

 playing in/with her new toy box

 playing outside * trying on daddy's slippers

 reading on the couch

 

 hanging with mommy

 riding the scooter with daddy

 silly girl :P

So I haven't updated on Suri's 'milestones' in quite a while, and Seth & I were discussing the other night how many words she says and sounds she makes, so I figured I should be sharing this info with all of you! Right now, Suri is 15 months....almost 16 (next Saturday). She had her 15 month appointment last week and everything went great! Her measurements were all much on the same track they've always been, except her weight is more in the 75% nowadays, since she's such an active little bug! Height is 32 1/2 inches...still don't know where she's getting that from. She has lots of teeth coming in...slowly but surely. As of right this moment, she has a little bit of a cold and it's so sad to hear her miserable little cough :(  But let's see, she's: walking, crawling, climbing, dancing, bouncing, running...loves to tumble...smiles, laughs, cries, throws tantrums (fun times)...and as I mentioned before says a lot of words and makes lots of sounds! We made a list of all the words she can say and it came out to about 27...with her favorite words of the moment being: Mama, Hi, Buh-bye, Dog, Nana (for banana), No, Shoe and Ball. She also loves to identify/say: eye (while pushing on your eyeball), nose and belly button. She knows what an elephant, dog, monkey, cow and monster/bear say. She also loves to pant like a dog. She loves shoes! Pulls them out of the basket and always puts them on, whether they are hers, mommy's or even daddy's! She has started to figure out where her special treats are (cookies and Goldfish) and will stand by the fridge pointing up, staring at them & eventually throwing a fit if she doesn't get any. Amazing that the tantrums have already started. Seth and I were hoping they'd be a bit later on, but oh well. Suri is eating pretty much everything we eat, which makes cooking a lot simpler. She's also got her own bowls that she can eat out of on her own, and is still mastering the fork, but is pretty good with a spoon. She loves fruit more than anything it seems, which is good. Strawberries and bananas are her faves. Likes to scoop peanut butter off the bread with her fingers. Had edamame for the first time this week & likes it! Pretty much she'll eat anything at any time...lol, she never stops! Suri loves her bath time & could probably spend forever in there. She's learning to brush her teeth all on her own and freaks out if you try to help her. She is a little BOOKWORM! Absolutely looooooooves to read! Her favorite book of the moment is: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Which since we read it about 3 times a day, I know if by heart. I hope to get her the rest of the series from that author soon, so we'll have more variety! lol. I guess that's all her major 'milestones' up to this point. Her eczema completely cleared up after we got some Zyrtec and used the hydrocortisone and Aveeno eczema lotion all together. It comes back in little spots, but nothing as bad as it was, thankfully. She's such a blessing and joy each and every day and we are always amazed at how quickly she's learning & growing! We love our little princess more than words can express....XOXO <3 Sc