

Sunday our very good friend Jenni, who I have known since the first grade and Paul since collage, she is the person who introduced me and Paul, came to visit and meet Sophia for the first time. Jenni and her husband Steve (who sadly was not with her) live in Luxembourg, so we don't get to see them much. Sophia is developing some stranger anxiety, so it took her a while to warm up to Jenni, but she did eventually. Before lunch we went downtown to the carousel and Sophia, Jenni and Paul went for a ride. Sophia seemed to enjoy it, although she doesn't have any big grins on her face. It's all a little overwhelming for her. We had a lovely visit with Jenni and wish we got to see her more often.

In other Sophia news, her fun new game is running (or at least walking very fast), yelling and smacking into furniture and cabinets. She really is doing this on purpose because even when she does it into hard things she doesn't go hard enough to hurt herself. She was going around doing

this for about a half an hour last night and it's very silly.