Pictures From Today

This one is Sophia feeding Moses her cheese. He patiently waits until she opens her fingers so he can lick the piece out. He is truly a gently giant.

Failure to Thrive???

Now I am "officially" worried. Sophia had her one year check up today and she weights only 16 lbs 13 oz. She has now dropped below the 5 percentile in weight. Her doctor suggested that I start her on Pedisure and not take her off the bottle, which most pediatricians highly recommend at one year. Dr McNinch suggested I feed her lots of small high protein meals through out the day, since it is obivious she cant sit still for long periods of time. You should have seen her in the doctors office, I could hardly hold on to her she was so squirmy. One perk to all this is that I may avoid having to buy a second car seat. Sophia cant switch from the infant seat to a regular car seat until she is both 20 lbs and one year and Anna Marie has to wait until she is 4 years old before she can sit in a booster seat. Anna Marie will be 4 next June, lets hope it doesn't take that long for Sophia to reach the 20 pound milestone.

Peek-a-Boo

Birthday Girl

"Look at me, I'm one year old!"

Anna Marie and Auntie Kristen

"Yum I loved my first cupcake...

...and all my new toys!"

Grandma Van Dyk, Daddy and Sophia
"Bye-Bye"

Wine Tasting

left to right: Linda, Jolene, Amy, Alison, Julie, Lisa, Michelle and me!

I had such a great birthday yesterday. Yes, I know my birthday was months ago, but back in June Julie said whenever I was ready she would take a group of my friends wine tasting for me, in celebration of my 31st birthday. In June it just wasn't the right time since I was nursing baby number 2. Yesterday was perfect timing. The weather was cool and crisp and the vines were changing color. It was beautiful. We went to three great wineries in Paso Robles that I hadn't been to before, Jack Creek, Cass and San Marco Creek. Julie and Alison made us a delicious lunch which we enjoyed outside at Cass Winery. Julie did a great job organizing and hosting our day, we even got "swag" bags! What a great birthday present!!

Michelle, myself and Amy, who has baby number 4 on the way. Amy was kind enough to be our DD after our first winery! Thanks Amy!

Alison and Michelle at San Marco Creek

Jolene even got to play Sommelier for us!

Halloween

This year Anna Marie dressed as Cinderella and Sophia was a chicken. There was, as always, lots of drama getting Anna Marie dressed. She thinks everything is itchy, especially her Cinderella costume. On Friday night we Trick 'r Treated over at Great Grandma Van Dyk's house. While we were there Grandma mentioned how difficult it was to dress Ann (Kevin's mom, and Anna Marie's name sake) She said that Ann thought everything was itchy and Sunday mornings before church were always a hassle. I had to laugh, I guess Ann and Anna Marie have more then just the name in common.

On Halloween we headed up north to visit family. My Dad and Janice were not expecting us. It was lots of fun to surprise them. Jackie and Jay were both home from college so it was a full house. Its always nice to see family.

Anna Marie just loves the captive audience she finds in her Aunt Jackie. She had so much fun. She is still pooping bright turquoise poop from all the frosting she ate while decorating cup cakes!

Janice with Sophia, my Dad, Jackie and Anna Marie.

The Pumpkin Patch