Kathryn, thank you for sharing your day with me. I praise God for our friendship that has stretched across many miles and through many years. I love you friend!
Sophi continues to add new words to her vocabulary on a daily basis. Some of the ones she is using most right now are ball, up, book, bite, duck, bow, shoe and baby. Since learning to walk one of her favorite things to do is put on shoes. She LOVES her shoes and fortunately Lolly helped us stock up on some really cute ones!
Sophi has developed several new tricks over the past month. She has perfected a "fake" laugh which she loves to use, making her sound almost identical to a billy goat! Historical!
She still loves to be on the beach but much prefers to climb on the beach chairs instead of play in the sand. Yet another new trick she has acquired, climbing. She tries to climb on everything! While at Lolly and Pops we found her standing on the door of the dishwasher while it was open! Crazy girl!
Sophi also found a love for sunglasses while we were at the beach and would walk around for hours with them on. It was so cute!
Sophi's favorite person right now is her daddy. She missed him so much while were gone. Every male she saw she would point to and say "dada." The look on her face when she saw him at the airport was priceless!
All of the sudden she got very upset as though her fingers were stuck, which at first is all I thought had happened. However, as the blisters started to appear I realized her fingers had been burned! So sad.
We made a trip to the doctor that afternoon and were told she had second degree burns on two of her fingers. We were shown how to take care of the burns by putting ointment on them, dressing them and sent home with instructions to change the dressing once a day for a week. 
Needless to say the first night we had to "dress" it ourselves I think all three of us were in tears and felt as though we might kill each other! We have gotten the hang of it since then and I am impressed we have kept it on this long.
She doesn't complain about it or mess with it and does everything (or at least tries to) as though her bandage wasn't there at all! It is amazing how resilient and adaptable kids are!
Ready to see some animals!
Petting the goats (notice our "booboo")
Checking out the monkeys
Sophi turned 10 months old today! Double digits!!! I can not believe she is almost one! These past 10 months have gone by soooo fast but hold sooo many sweet sweet memories for our family of three...four (sorry Shiloh!).
Check out that top tooth! One of many changes this month, we know have two bottom teeth and one on the top!
Several other new words for Sophi include goal (yeah for World Cup Soccer!), down, and no (great!). She is on the verge of saying words such as water, turtle and cup. It is crazy how much she learns by watching and repeating.
She loves to play in the grass and watch the older kids play. Sophi has no fear of strangers and loves to crawl right up to anyone she sees. Sophi is forcing her introverted mom to learn how to be extroverted because if your baby crawls up to someone you have to talk to them, especially if your baby doesn't want to leave! I know God must have be chuckling to himself even as I write this!
Sophi is really enjoying spending time with her new friend Caroline. For the fourth of July weekend we spent some time with Caroline and her parents, eating yummy food, watching fireworks and hanging out at the beach. It is so fun for us parents to see Sophi and Caroline playing with each other. We recently enjoyed spaghetti night with the Flannery's and we let the girls have at it. This was the result!
I have to say that this past month has been one of my favorites! Sophi is so much more interactive and she is constantly learning through out each day, it is just so fun to watch!
We were able to get the bulkhead seat which was so nice and made the flight so much easier!
Sophi learned a new word while at her Grammy and Poppy's, "comb." Check it out!
Sophi still loves the sand and the water. She also loves being in the pool. We had fun playing on the beach with Lolly and Pops and being able to relax for a few days. 
The last couple days of my trip I get to spend some time hanging out with Graham and Ashley and getting our girls together to play. 
It was so much fun to see them interact and get to know each other better. I look forward to seeing all the fun they will have together as they grow up.