Ketchup Part II: Autumn 2010

Howdy!

Welcome back to the cathing up style posts. I expect there to be four posts in toto, to catch us up with Sophie for the past year, though there may by more, depending on how I break things up as we get closer to May 2011, which is still a long ways off at this point...

We begin with Sophie's 4th birthday, which was August 6, 2010...



Here is Sophia with her grandma and grandpa Gabriel...



Here she is proudly displaying a new shirt that she received.



Sophie is putting a pretty bow on her head.



This is Sophie opening up a gift from us that is from one of her favorite cartoon movies (at the time - Wubb-Idol, a take-off on American Idol with the Wubbzy characters).



Here's Sophie eating a plain english muffin (she is weird) while wearing another gift from her birthday, a towel with a crown on the top, so it's kind of a dress-up thing, too.



We have started a tradition, of sorts, of traveling out to Virginia every year so that Sophie and Stacy can visit Stacy's dad, Cal, and step-mom, Julie. Sophie's uncle Cory was helping her play basketball in their driveway.



Here is Sophia and uncle Cory taking it easy.



Sophie loved giving big hugs to grandma Johnsrud...



...and grandpa Johnsrud.



This year, they took us to what was billed as a children's museum, but was really more of an indoor play area. It was pretty cool, with a lot of different things for kids to do. Sophie had a great time, and not surprisingly, didn't want to leave.

Here, Sophie is inside a tube in the giant gym set that they had. She loved climbing.



Sophi also liked riding the sring animals, and I showed her how to do the "no hands" move.



Here's something else she came up with, the "freeze game" - where she would be frozen, then we'd have to thaw her out with heat from our hands. Dispite not having seen Star Wars yet, she looks just like she's mimicing Han Solo in Carbonite. Thats my girl!



A few weeks later, we had friends over, and during their visit, we had a major thundertorm, and lost power to the neighborhood for the first time. After the storm passed (we went down to the basement to be safe, as their were tornado warnings) we went back upstairs, found some candles, and played Yahtzee in the dark. It's not that easy, to be honest.



Late August bring the Minnesota State Fair, and this was Sophie's first visit. She loved the animals, as we knew that she would, and got to take a picture with this cute sheep.



Right after the State Fair, comes the beginning of school. We enrolled Sophia in a local preschool, and here she is on her first day, ready to go!



Stacy and Aunt Aunt (my sister Allison) took Sophie to a pumpkin patch in October.

Here she is with mommy in one of those picture stand-ups.



The Pumpkin patch that they visited had a petting zoo, and Sophie loved feeding these goats.



Here's my cutie taking a quiet picture in a field with some pumpkins...



And here she is with Aunt Aunt at the store.



Sophie and I then went to work on the pumpkins that they brought home.



Sophie liked the messiness of the whole process - look at her smile while holding the pumpkin guts!



Here are the finished Jack-O-Lanterns, a traditional face, and a silly face.



Right before Halloween, Sophie's preschool class had a party where all of the kids could dress up. It's cool to see her having fun with the kids.

Once again, that's all for now.

I'll be following up with at least one more today to cover winter, but spring won't get done until this weekend, as I don't have any pictures with me after February.

I'm going to go get some lunch, so I'll post the rest that I have this afternoon!

Later,

Larry