Jumping bean

Just took this photo this evening while Sophie was helping her dad water the garden, and doing big froggy jumps through the puddles :) She is SO full of energy, and so all over those gross motor skills in which she was once delayed. I swear, she can jump higher than me.


I'm trying to find time for a longer post soon, but there's not much news to report. Sophie's doing amazing things every single day, and talking like a grown-up. Today we went to drop something off at the house of a friend who has a younger baby. The whole way there, she was in the back of the car yammering away. "Sophie see little baby? Sophie cuddle baby? Baby cuddle Sophie?"

When we got there, doh! The friends had popped out, so we left their package on the doorstep and hopped back in the car to go visit the hardware store. Sophie couldn't let it go. "Where's baby? Sophie see baby? Baby not home?" In the end, I told her maybe the baby would be at the hardware store. Well, that worked. "Baby's going shopping! Baby's in Bunnings!"

Was there *one single baby* in the whole Bunnings store this evening? No, no there wasn't. But it was okay, because she got to wheel around a mini-person's trolley, which she loves.

On the way back, she consoled herself by running through her favourite song of the moment- Old MacDonald- with her own Sophie insertions. "Old MacDonald has a baby. Ee-i-ee-i-oh." (He also has a Sheba cat and a Daisy dog, just like us- how about that?). He also has some ice cream *and* an owie finger, both of which Sophie has had in the last day, strangely enough.

When we got home, she ran in the front door, straight to daddy, and said, "No baby in Bunnings."

I was totally told on by my two-year-old. This toddler makes me laugh day in and day out.