Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!

Happy Christmas Eve!

before last minute shopping with daddy
in her first christmas outfit looking so beautiful although we only got 3 pictures and this was the best one so we'll have to see what the fam got :)
Sleigh ride - my folks have this sleigh - thinking she would hate it we put it in front of the tree...well she jumped in and started shaking it like it was a ride.
our newest trick - putting the phone up to her ear when someone says - hello?

Happy Christmas Eve!Wishing everyone a super, blessed Christmas!

Cannot wait to read all the adventures and I'll be sure to post ours. Here are a few pics from Christmas Eve.

love to all...

What a month's it's been!!!

Enough said!!

Daddy and sophia on their laptops
Came home and chris had his nacho libre wristband which came free with our DVD last year..sad thing, she loved it!
Crazy Christmas with the girls (and Jimmy!)
Reagan and Lily checkin out their viewfinders
Maddie and Sophia on Maddie's new couch from Uncle Bo had we known this was all we had to do to get them to sit beside each other and both looks at the camera we would've done this 3 weeks ago when both my sis Keri and I tried and then my mom came over last weekend!! :) They were sooo very cute together!

Grandpa Dutton and Sophia. G-pa has been very sick since we got home fromeTaiwan and has only seen sophia from a distance and couldn't visit for the last 3.5 weeks and she was very excited to see him again

Grammy had cookie and this is what happens - sophia and winston on their best behaviors
Storytime with Aunt Keri

Daddy dressed me today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posin for christmas photo
and again....
and again!!!

HAPPY 1 MONTH HOME BABY GIRL!!!! I cannot believe it has been a month already but yet feel she has been with us forever :) My apologies for lack of postings but tis the season, huh?? Sophia has experienced it all these last two weeks folks - - she has been busybusybusy!

She has met some new friends (sophia and olivia), she had her first U.S. shots (BOO!), cleared her first row of shoes with her arm from her stroller this week at Kohl's (I don't blame her the shoes were not good-lookin at all - LOL), experienced her first ice storm as we saw 2 trees go "bye" in our yard. She went to her first family christmas party - which is our extended family party with 70 adults and 14 children and had a super time. She learned 4 new tricks this week. She can blow kisses, give kisses, make clicking noises with her tongue and she can roll her eyes when she's not getting her way. Yes it's deliberate and yes I'm pretty sure she's seen me do it 100 times to her, LOL. She had her first christmas with her aunt keri, uncle justin and cousin Maddie and also with her aunties and her friends Lily and Reagan.

She has also started mimicking everything we do (good and bad) She also had her first photo shoot for christmas pictures! Last but not least - she has discovered how fun the toilet water can be. I was emptying a load of laundry and our powder room is right across from the dryer. I literally turned my back for 3 seconds to put the laundry in the basket and I hear this giggling. I turnaround...she had opened the toilet and dropped two of of her animal magnets from her leapfrog fridge farm (favorite toy) and was reaching in and splashing to get them! Guess it's time to install the toilet locks huh? She of course thought this was hysterical.

She's very verbal these days, talking up a storm in baby babble with an occassion, mamma, dadda, bababa (bottle), duhduh (dog), and HEY! And I got my first scream "mmmoooommmmmyyy this week as I did not have her milk fast enough for her at breakfast. She's sassy and we LOVE it!

It has been great preparing for the holidays although I'd be lying if I said it's been smooth sailing - it's harder with a little one in tow! How naive of me to think I could wrap all the gifts and put them under the tree? Yeah right they now have no bows and half of them have ripped paper now! It's pretty funny. Shopping for sophia has been fun and it was hard to contain ourselves at toys r us but we did but we let her test out the toys to be sure it was something that interested her - - at least for that minute :)

She really is doing great. I've been really impressed with how she has adjusted and what a completely different child she is right now. She is a lot of fun as she experiences something new each and every second. She challenges me everyday. We are so blessed to have her in our life. I am hoping I have the opportunity to post before Christmas but if by chance something comes up we wish each and everyone of you a very very Merry Christmas!!!

Tu-Tu Cute @ 13 Months!!

Sophia is 13 months old today! I just cannot believe it. So much has changed in this little girls life and I'm constantly amazed at how well she adapts to all of these massive changes. She is walking all over the house, in a matter of 2 days she now goes from room to room - walking not crawling. She has discovered Winston now and she wants to share all of her toys with him and then Winston takes them and runs with them and we run after him to get them as he's chewing them to pieces. I swear this girl's first words will be NO WINSTON LOL.

Her favorite thing in the world is blanket rides with daddy. daddy puts her on the blankets and runs from room to room as she laughs hysterically, she just lounges.

YOU MUST BE MY LUCKY STAR...

A special thank you to hannah claire's mommy, Sarah (my fellow fashionista!) for the cool zebra and rhinestone pacifier holder to go with her animal print fashions - it's perfect and we LOVE it, you've done too much for us and we cannot wait to shower Hannah Claire with goodies!!! - we just got it in the mail and it was wrapped with this cool bow - check it out - mini madonna!

FABULOUS IN FUR

For those of you who commented on a previous post pre-sophia homecoming on her fur cuffed jeans - she sported those bad boys today and she looked sooo cute - thought I'd share the photo shoot with ya

Whatchadoin?

future golfer?
daddy hopes so!

brrr, it's cold outside - but I LOVE IT

sophia and owen chowin down
owen and his baby blues
check out my duds? cutie patootie
chilling with paul

dawn and sophia pointin at the picture taker

first attempt at a christmas picture - - not her favorite thing
now I'm happy since I'm not in front of that stupid tree
wow - maddie's got some killer toys, ummm mom can we get with the program?
I'm a walkin machine these days
ahhhhh daddy and daughter posin in front of the tree.

daddy knows how to play!!! mommy's b-o-r-i-n-g

I think I'm hot stuff in these black and silver shoes!

We have been busy, busy, busy here at the Rhine household! And like Stella we're trying to get our groove back! (haha - little shout out to all you movie buffs out there)

We are now sleeping through the night...EVERYNIGHT and taking a 2 hour nap each afternoon - mommy is thrilled. The house is decorated for christmas, we have started the christmas shopping and this morning I actually got up, made her breakfast, ate breakfast, fed the dog, she was still hungry, made her an egg while playing fetch with the dog while warming her bottle all while singing a Christmas carol and dancing like an idiot through the kitchen to try to keep her attention and her from screaming all within a 5 minute timeframe. This is progress!!!!

We've had many the visitors and love it, she has been to great nannies house for a cookie bake off, aunt laurie and uncle carl came over, she had a blast showing all her recent tricks, she went to aunt keri's to play with madeline and also went Christmas shopping for an entire day!! Dawn, Paul and Owen came over from Pittsburgh and she LOVED Owen. The two of them played great - it was awesome to hang with Dawn and Paul and we cannot wait to get those two together again soon!!! She's our little singer and dancer, she LOVES it and is always singing. I love it because I love having music playing in the house all day. She hates SOCKS, she could give Kobi a run for his money Sherry - LOL

I SOOOOOO wish we were off during the spring she loves the outside and her skin is so sensitive her poor little cheeks are REALLY chapped so we need to visit the outdoors in moderation. We took a walk today - its been snowing on and off the last few days and she discovered snow for teh first time yesterday. It was pretty amazing.

Mommy thinks she'll be into fashion or singing - daddy thinks a golfer. LOL!!!!!

On the agenda for this week: Christmas photo's and lots of shots at the drs :( notice the order.