Pumpkin Patch

We have had the most beautiful weather since Saturday - so we took advantage of it and went to the pumpkin path as a family. Brock had fun searching for the perfect pumpkin and Sophie loved being out and doing a little exploring of her own. I can't believe we are over halfway through October and less than 11 weeks left of 2009.

I love my little family!

Fireman Brockoli

Daddy and Brock in the Fire Truck

Corban, Ella and Brock shooting the house with Mr. Brent

Daddy took Brock to the fire station where our friend Brent works - I had to stay home with Sophie since she'd was sick. They had a great time exploring the fire truck, playing with friends and evening shooting the water hose! Maybe a future career?

Sophia's First Birthday

We had a wonderful time celebrating Sophie's first birthday. I had no idea my kid could put away the cake the way she did (definitely her mother's child in this area)! It was around a 9" single layer cake and she ate a good 2/3rds of it by herself! There was hardly any cake left to clean up after. We were so blessed to have so many friends and family around to celebrate with us.

Sophia is 1!

October 4, 2009 - 1 year!
18 pounds 10 oz (15% percentile)
30 inches tall (75% percentile)

It's almost impossible for me to believe that Sophie is already 1 year old! Time has just flown by and only seems to be gowing faster. The last year has be doubly blessed to have Brock and Sophie in our lives. Sophie is an amazing, sweet, snuggly, intelligent and total little princess. She can say "all done", "thank you" and every time she sees a phone or 'talks' on one she says "Hi Dad!" - and of course the wonderful Momma and Dad. We are so in love with our little girl - Happy Birthday Soph and we look forward to another wonderful year watching you grow and learn.

Apology!

So my first post in 3 months has to be an apology! I am so sorry for being such a slacker and not updating the blog - but here we go - multiple posts to follow!

10 Months!

Little Sophster is 10 months old!! She weighs 18 pounds and as you can see LOVES to eat.  She had 2 chicken nuggets, tons of cheerios, and half a thing of applesause for dinner tonight!  She can walk with a push toy and we are catching her more and more letting go of things and standing on her own.  She has also learned to squeal REALLY loud and spit - Thank you Brock.  She is such a sweet little girl and brings so much joy and laughter into our lives!  We love you Sophie!

Egg Head

Brock battled the coffee table last week and from the looks of it, the coffee table won - big time.  Don't worry, within 5 minutes of this he was laughing and running around the kitchen and pestering his sister as usual.  I however did not handle this as well as he did.  Thankfully he is all healed now with a small little line on his forehead as a souvenir. 

Expeliarmus!

For those of you who are Harry Potter fans you will understand and appreciate this.  Brock spent the weekend last month with Aunt Dar-dar and Uncle Steve down in Tampa and this is the picture they sent me while he was there.  Apparently they had fun teaching him all sorts of things while he was visiting.  When Brock and I walked to the mailbox a few weeks ago he picked up a stick and yelled, "Expeliarmus!"  (it's a disarming spell for those who aren't familiar with the phrase)  He now things every stick, straw, crayon, etc. is a wand! 

Snuggles

Being Silly

Some days we have a lot of time on our hands when we are home all day.  I'm not exactly sure how this came about but we had to take pictures of it!  Brock thought he was hilarious and Soph was a good sport about it all as usual.

little fish

Brock has rediscovered how much he likes the pool this summer.  We've taken him a handful of times and he has had fun going swimming at Nana and Papa's house.  He likes to jump off the side after he counts "1, 2, 3" and sometimes we can convince him to put his face under water and blow bubbles.  

Bad Blog Mom

Sophie turned 9 months on July 4th!  She weighs 17.1 pounds and is 28 inches long.  She has 8 teeth and eats any and EVERYTHING you give her or she finds on the floor.  Sophie can pull up on any object, wall or human she can find as well as cruise while holding onto things.  She sleeps at least 12 hours at night (better than her brother sometimes!)  We are so blessed to have such a sweet and loving little baby girl!  (sadly i will be posting her 10 month info soon because I'm so far behind!!)

Brockisms

I am so sorry I haven't updated the blog in weeks!  I don't know where time is going but it is flying.  Brock has been talking up a storm lately and boy has he had some interesting things to say!  Here a just a few of  the ingenious things my 2 year has said lately ...

June 16th - I took Brock on a date this morning to see "Horton Hears a Who" at the movie theater. There is a part where a vulture swoops in after Horton.  When this happened, Brock screams out in the theater "SHOOT BIRD, SHOOT BIRD" followed by a very impressive gun noise as he shot the movie screen with his imaginary gun.

June 29th - Brock's prayer tonight: "Dear Jesus, thank you for Daddy, Momma, Soph, Olivia, Jess, Jayhawks, water, fish, and thank you for hot dogs. Amen."

July 1st - Bedtime prayers got cut off when Brock started saying thank you for the walls.  We were about 10 minutes into "thank you for..." of Brock's prayers.  He had already said thank you for my glasses twice amongst other things.  Micah kept interjecting "Amens" until Brock caught on and finally wrapped things up.  His prayers are so awesome.

July 2nd - This morning Brock was standing at the open fridge and said "Beer?" "No Brock, there is no beer in there." He paused for a second and looked around some more and looked at me inquisitively "Wine?" What the heck! He's 2!! For the record - there is no alcohol in our fridge!!

July 2nd - Tonight I took a shower with Brock and Sophie. When I opened my eyes from washing my hair, Brock was PEEING on Sophie!! I squealed, picked Soph up and started rinsing her off. "No Brock, we don't pee-pee on Sophie!" He replied very matter-of-factly "Sophie sit here" (as he pointed to where he'd being taking a whiz) 2 year old logic is amazing - obviously it's Sophies fault for crawling within his pee radius!

This Old House

I went to lay Sophie down for her nap while Brock tried to go "pee-pee in potty" because now he must have privacy and cannot go if he can see you (which makes me nervous because I can't monitor his aim anymore!).  When I walked out of Sophie's room this is what I found ... My 2 year old sitting bare bottom on the toilet, feet propped up on his Elmo stool reading Micah's copy of "This Old House" magazine.  I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.  I LOVE this kid!  (some day he will kill me for posting this all over the internet - till then enjoy :)

8 months!

Sophia Ashlynn Forman is officially 8 months old!  Time is flying - I cannot believe how quickly 1 year is approaching.  With clothes and a full diaper she is tipping the scales at an even 16 pounds - which is amazing that is all she weighs given the way she eats!  She has 7 teeth and eats any and everything you put in front of her (including play-do, thank you Brock!). Sophie says 'Dada' and waves (quite often at herself).  She is pulling up on everything and uses her 7 teeth to help anchor on the couch!  I also found her sitting in her big girl chair the other day.  She was so proud of herself for climbing up into it with out help.  Sophie is a wonderful, smiling, slightly dramatic little girl and every day our lives are better because of her!

Sleeping on Daddy

Eating Sghetti

Big Girl Chair!

Beautiful smile

Being Silly

Brock is into making silly faces when he sees the camera and Sophie loves to play with her feet while watching what her big brother is doing.  She is turning into quite the ham herself.

Bromance

We had a play date last week with our friends.  Brock and Corban get so excited when they see each other - it's hilarious!  They squeal and scream and give each other hugs before they run off to dump every single toy out on the floor in Brock's room - it's great!  When it was time to go, Abigail (Corban's Mom) and I walked in to round up the boys for their respective nap times and this is what we found ... apparently nap time had turned into a slumber party.

Life

Nothing interesting going on, just a few pictures of the kiddos over the last week or so.

He refused to smile - imagine that

Warning: View at your own risk!

Yup, I posted it - the large surprise my son left on our bathroom floor for us.  Let's just say we still have some work to do as far as potty training goes!

Update:  Micah thought the picture of the poo was too disgusting to post so I removed it - for now.

So NOT Asleep

Brock was supposed to be in his bed asleep, however, when I walked by his door this is what I found :)

So Cute

Had to take a picture of this when I went in and checked on her.

Mr. & Mrs.

Soon to be Mrs. Musha

Me & Louisa in the limo

Steve praying for them before the wedding

Papaw & Sophie

The Ruckus!

Dancing machine!  We could not get him off the dance floor.

the cutest picture - she needed her Uncle Jeremy