In Sophie's library bag

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day, Deano! I love you for being such a loving Dad to Sophie.


For having fun with her.


And for showing her that you're definitely still a kid at heart!

Mmm... watermelon!

Sophie is a watermelon fiend and happily gobbled up this enormous slice of juicy melon at Sarah's birthday party in May. It gives me shivers just looking at her sticky arms, but she was happy as a clam!

Unfortunate genes

Sophie showed a glimmer of her Daddy's taste (or lack thereof) today.

While she was napping, Holly and I were rummaging through piles of our junk, looking for stuff to cull. One tacky little trooper that (thanks to my veto power) has survived every round of culling thus far (and there have been many) is my Godzilla mug. It's a cheap plastic mug with Godzilla's dinosaur-like snout protruding out on the opposite side from the handle.



Note that this isn't even the cool Godzilla of Japanese films, this is Godzilla from the 1998 Matthew Broderick bombshell that only managed 26% on Rotten Tomatoes. Everyone in the world hated this movie. I loved it. I saw it in the theatre. I bought the soundtrack. I went so far as to buy the mug. I have taken a lot of heat over liking this movie.

Anyway, the mug was out, sitting on a counter (waiting for a trip to work, so Holly won't have to set eyes on it) when Sophie woke up from her nap. She saw the mug and said, and I quote... "That's pretty cool."

That's my daughter.

A day to note

Let the record show that on Saturday, June 13th, 2009, Sophie turned 2 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, and 2 days old. To celebrate, she went for a bike ride with her mom and her aunt up to the UBC farm market, went out for sushi with her parents, and rode the duck at the Kits Community Centre playground.

Our little hockey fan

Take note: Sophie's true allegiance lies with the Canucks, but with our team out of the Stanley Cup playoffs, she supported the Penguins due to our family connections to the state of Pennsylvania. Plus, Nonna once took a photo of Sidney Crosby at the Pittsburgh Airport, so it's almost like we're family.

Gym class

Sophie has been attending (and loving!) toddler gym classes at Phoenix Gymnastics since January 2009. We go each Wednesday morning for 45 minutes of bouncing, rolling, balancing, hanging and climbing. The instructors have been very willing to have visitors join us, so Nonna, Grandma & Grandpa, Aunt Kristi and now Janet have all joined us at gym class. Dada is hoping to take in a class before work some day too!

Enjoy these pictures from today's class:

I put them on all by myself!

In Sophie's library bag

Ambidextrous

When I was filling in Sophie's preschool registration forms this week, one question I had to answer was, "Does your child show a preference for using one hand or the other?" As you can see from this photo, we haven't quite determined if she's right-handed (like Dean) or left-handed (like me) yet.