Logan

On Tuesday mornings Logan comes over to my house so nanny Becca can watch him while his mom teaches a class. Logan is going to be 2 in January so he's an older man. Don't worry dad, I'm not interested since he likes to cuddle with Gabe on Gabe's bed which is SO stinky not to mention hairy. Boys!

Much To Give Thanks For!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

We celebrated my first Thanksgiving at Yia Yia's house in Dayton. G & GG visited from Cincinnati to celebrate with us. Theo Bill, Theo George, Thea Eleni and my cousins Blake, Dorian & Demitra all played with me and took such good care of me. Mom, dad & I also met up with our friends Mark & Julianne who were in town from Dallas. Here are some pictures from my fun weekend!

The Results Are In

Today Taki took Gabe to his 9 year annual shots/check-up. He weighed in at 59lbs (which is an all-time low) and knee high" tall. Ears checked out good...which is a first but they said he has some arthritis in his knee. We are to give him aspirin if it seems he's bothered by it. I can't bear the thought of Gabe getting old. I wish he would just slow down already : (

Here are some then and now pics of our first baby and favorite son...

No Trips to Vegas for the Karras' Anytime Soon

Apparently we don't bet well. Sophia weighed in at 12 lbs 1oz and 24" long! OOPS! Wow were we off. She's between the 15th-25th percentile for weight and almost in the 50th percentile for height. I was all excited thinking she was tall until Dr. Peltz said, "so she's almost average" and I realized she got an "F" on her report card : ) No she's just petite. Dr. Petz said she's strong for a "petite little thing" when she was standing up and kicking like crazy. The shots stunk but that's to be expected and little Sophia was a champ through it all.

Happy Birthday to ME!!!

Today is my 4 month birthday! Tomorrow I will go for my 4 month appointment and will find out how much I tanked up in the last 4 weeks. Mom and dad have a bet going so we'll see who wins. Mom is guessing 13.2 oz and dad is leaning towards the high 13s low 14s. I have my money on mom since she's writing....I mean, since she's around more babies then dad.

I know I'll have grown a bunch in size but the biggest change since last month is how much my personality is showing. I squeal and smile all the time but when I've had enough, I've had enough and I let it be known to all.

I can hold my neck up really well and absolutely love looking at mom and dad...especially at close range, thus cross-eyed. I'm not a lounger. I LOVE to move! My favorite toys are definitely my little stuffed bear that GG made me Ms. Polka, first name Dottie. She's made out of shiny polka dot material. Ironic since her name is Dottie don't you think? And my other favorite is my singing light up butterfly. Mom and Nanny Becca want to burn it when I grow out of it. But that's a story for another day.

Here are a few pictures we have taken this week....

Going on a walk on a chilly yet sunny day!

Bathtime!

The babies in our group realize each other exist this week! So sweet! Talullah and Sophia were holding hands!

"Mommy. don't take my picture! I'm still in my jammies and my hair's a mess!"

The Early Bird Gets the Worm....

and this early bird hit the snooze button too many times.


Here in Michigan we have this wonderful thing called Mom 2 Mom sales and they are incredible! As most know, babies tend to wear outifts once or twice and sometimes not at all before they grow out of them. These sales happen every weekend at various churches, community centers, etc. in the area. For those of you who live here, the website with the "golden list" is http://www.mom2momlist.com/


So despite hitting the snooze button too many times, we managed to snag some amazing stuff. The bargain hunter in me just had to snap pictures because, well, I can't help but be proud. I may have had to trip a few moms and yank some hair but I can assure you that no one was seriously harmed : )

So here are the goods....(oh and dad even came along to be my wing man and create distractions so I could work my magic)

All the clothes was approx. $1 each and for everything in the pictures we spent $15.00! Minus the fact that our main goal was to score some baby gates for the million and one flights of steps in our house, it was a rather fruitfull trip. We got a hooded sweatshirt, cargo pants, bunny sweater (and it has the bunny's butt on the back), 3 footed sleep-n-plays, 2 one piece outfits.
And my crowning acheivement: Converse hot pink high tops and Diesel tennis shoes. They're obviously a bit big now but she'll grow into them eventually.

Leaf Me Alone!!!

Saturday was leaf day at the Karras homestead. We love the trees but we don't love the 2 feet of leaves they shower us with this time of year. We figured we might as well show Soph how the whole raking of leaves thing works so she'll be prepared for helping us out next year : ) We tried to teach Gabe a few years ago but that dew claw thing made it a bit too challenging to hold the rake. Sophia was more interested in eating the leaves then anything else. And yes, those are two different outfits. We can't seem to make it through a day without at least 4 outfit changes lately....and it's not because she's a diva...more like a diarrhea-va

Hair-no-more

I went for it last night and had all my hair cut off. The slight breeze on the back of my neck is quite nice!

Happy (belated) Halloween!

Here's a quick snapshot of Sophia on Halloween sans costume. She was a good little pumpkin. Later that evening when we were getting her ready for her bath she let out a true honest to goodness belly-laugh. It was incredible. Sweetest sound ever!