What a character!

At 16 months, Sonia has quite the personality and it is funny to see her come into her own. She is into making herself laugh, throwing tantrums (but only if she has an audience) and singing songs. Over the last several weeks we've had many visitors, but lately we have been enjoying some down time as we prepare for the holidays.

Best friends!

Future Starbucks employee?

Isn't this used for cooking?


Enjoying a tea party thanks to cousin Leela!!

Happy Halloween!

This year, Sonia was a little pig for Halloween. Our weekend started on Friday with a parade at daycare. All the parents and several co-worker friends came out to watch our little piggy! Check out the photo of Sonia and her friend Bear stop mid-parade for a hug!
Each Halloween, all the stores & restaurants in our neighborhood hand out candy to all the trick or treaters. So on Saturday, we joined forces with our friends from our Parents' Group and did the Queen Anne trick or treat. After getting lots of candy and doing lots of costume-watching, everyone headed home to our place for some food and fun. All of us have known each other since the kids were about 10 weeks old so it was fun to celebrate Halloween together for the 2nd time.
The weather was perfect - it was a perfect fall day - and I entered (and sadly did not win) the Farmer's Market Pumpkin Pie recipe. I think my pie at least looked the best and given that it was devoured by our friends after, maybe it should have won!!

Here are some more pictures from our fun weekend:

Ammamma in Seattle

Ammamma visited us (Sonia) in Seattle and chased Sonia around with the video camera one morning. (Sorry about the video quality, I had to shrink the file to upload it.)

Take 1: Sonia hugs Olive



Take 2: Sonia enjoys singing. (We've been meaning to get her "Twinkle-Twinkle" rendition on video for a bit. She sings it constantly! That and, "This Old Man, He Played One.")




Here's a fun pic of the jack-o-lanterns we made during Ammamma's visit. The "dog" jack-o-lantern is Sonia's, not Olive's.