It's been a while since I've posted. Things have been crazy. Last week we didn't have a single free evening. Things have been so nuts that Abby the cat has been lobbying to be shipped to a more sane house and is camping out in a box so she's all ready for the trip.
On Monday the 5th my mother spent the evening with us because my father had a meeting in Salem. As you can see, Sophia is trying to share her teether with Grandma Nancy. Grandma Nancy is always a big hit with Sophia.
On Wednesday my book group had our holiday gathering at my house. I am so lucky to be in 
this book group they are wonderful women and lots of fun. Every year for December instead of reading a book we bring children's books to read to each other and then donate to a local charity. We also pig out on junk food. It takes some pressure off trying to read a book at this crazy time of year and it's a lot of fun to have stories read to us. This year Sophia got to join us and have the stories read to her. 
She seemed to enjoy it!For several days last week and some over the weekend Sophia has been a miss-grumpy-pants for a variety of reasons. She pushed through two new teeth on the top recently. We also discovered today that she has a new tooth on the bottom (bringing her total to 5) and we have no idea when it came through. We have also been having lots of mealtime wars. Almost every meal in her highchair is accompanied by screaming, arm-waving and attempts to push the food away (all on her part). We're not sure what is going on, but it's getting tiresome. She was a pretty good eater until the last several days, but it was comforting to learn today that she is doing this at day-care too so it's not just us! We've been trying to worry less about mess while
she's eating (thus the extreme mess-face in the photo) to cut down on the stress but that isn't helping. Hopefully this is a phase she'll grow out of soon!
