Breakfast Chat

6 (and a half) Months

Sophia is 6.5 months already. The days can be slow sometimes, but the time overall seems to fly by. She is sitting-up really well and started solid foods a few weeks ago. Nothing I've given her has been refused. This is just like her mama (for better or worse).

She also started sleeping through the night. At about 6:45 pm she starts to get grumpy and is usually asleep by 7:00. Her wake-up is early (around 6:00), but I'd prefer that over a late night baby. She sometimes thinks it's OK to wake-up at 5:00 and make a lot of noise, but I ignore her until 6:00 because 5:00 is just too early. I'm a little nervous about the time change.

Stranger anxiety has set in a bit and she seems to have no tolerance for older men or women. Every time one of them talks to her, she starts screaming and crying. It's really sad. Hopefully her fear of the elderly will end soon. It's really unfortunate because they are usually the ones who want to stop and chat with her.

Sophia is a really great baby and I'm so thankful for that. I've started to talk to her about what we are thankful to Jesus for in the mornings when I feed her breakfast. She doesn't get it, but at this point it's more for me than for her. We are also working on being gentle and not pulling hair.

Sweet Potato Pancakes

Last night I was pureeing sweet potatoes for Sophia and thought they looked really good and wanted to make something with them. So, our Sunday night dinner ended up being sweet potato pancakes and bacon. They were delicious and a great fall recipe. I cut down the cinnamon by half and put more nutmeg...personal preference. This morning I had them with melted chocolate chips on top. Delicious! Here's the recipe:

Sweet Potato Pancakes

2 cups Bisquick Mix
1 egg
1/2 cup sweet potato puree
1 1/2 cup milk
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg

Mix the Bisquick, egg, sweet potato puree, milk cinnamon and nutmeg. Whip until smooth. Pour on a hot griddle and enjoy!

Our Little Pumpkin

This is a little pumpkin outfit that my mom sent for Sophia. It makes us want to eat her up she looks so cute!

I Love My Daddy

Sophia loves her Daddy. Mike does such a great job with her and she lights up when he's around. I'm so thankful for a man who sacrifices so much for Sophia and me. Mike turned 35 yesterday and looks just as good as he did at 34:).

I loved taking these pictures of Mike and Sophia.

Visitors

Sophia had a lot of visitors this week. Popsi and TeeTee came over with Victoria one day and the next day Grandma came over. Sophia loves Victoria and always wants to grab her face.

She is trying very hard to crawl and is doing a great job of sitting up. She loves to be outside and go for walks. Some noises she is making are: whoo, whoo, ma and la. I try and get her to say "mama" all the time, but she only does it on accident.

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