Can you believe it? It has been 6 weeks since miss Sophie Brooke joined our family! As of her 6 week check up, she is has grown from 7 pounds 12 ounces to 9 pounds 6 ounces and 22 inches long. (Basically she is tall and skinny. We'll see if this trend continues...) Sophie currently has strawberry blonde hair and when you take her out in the sunlight, it is a very pretty shade of red.
When I told Craig it was his turn to post about Sophie, he said, "Sophie is cute and snuggly and fluffy and has a bum and toots and burps and poops and sleeps and eats and cries. Don't write any of that, please." I'm sure I'll be in trouble for including that. He is a very good daddy who obviously loves his little girl very much. She loves it when he reads her stories and sings her songs before bed at night. Craig doesn't understand baby shoes but he does appreciate a good pair of tights with a "ruffle bum." Headbands are starting to make a little bit of sense to him. A little.
Sophie loves her daddy, putting on pretty dresses & accessories, visiting Aunt Erin, Uncles Grant & Bryan and the cousins, snuggles and movies in bed with mommy & daddy and playing with Grandpa Merrill. Sophie misses her grandma and grandpa and Uncles Andrew & Jeb-eye (Jeffrey) in Connecticut.
Yesterday Sophie went to Walmart with Grandpa Merrill & I. She and grandpa stayed in the car to eat & play. When I came back out of the store, she was sleeping with a happy little smile on her face holding grandpa's finger.
My sister, Erin, took these pictures of Sophie on Thursday afternoon. I asked her if she's planning on doing this professionally (or even semi-professionally) but she says not yet. If/when she decides to, I'll be sure to share her information with you. She took our engagement pictures and does fantastic work with babies & children- as you can see here! Erin- you need a website!
Here are a couple more of my favorites. There were SO many good ones it's hard to pick just a few to post!
P.S to answer a question already asked, yes, I made the headbands. When we were in Connecticut, I tried putting the flower one on Sophie to wear to church and dad kept telling me she didn't like it and it looked silly. I think they're cute for pictures. :)
*Buttercream frosting made with real butter tastes good
The two disappointing recurring themes that we've discovered while looking at these various items is that first, the items are not usually the greatest quality (I am very disappointed in Nordstrom's apparent lowering standards) and second, the items are nearly always ridiculously over-priced for what they are. An example: a really cute headband with ribbon was $18. It was a thin band with ribbon hot-glued on it and there were some sloppy glue drips on the back. Sad. So, naturally, the only thing to do other than whine is to change the problem, right? Craig's suggestion: start my own online store selling things that I want to my own quality standard.
Before anyone says it, I know there are a million and ten online stores, such as Etsy, that sell handmade items. The problem is, even those places sell things for too much. I'm sorry, but a pacifier clip is just not worth $12 and a plain, no-frills car seat cover just isn't worth $50 to me. So, the plan now is for me to just keep on making the things that I've been making for Sophie & friends and add the other little projects I do as I go. I will have an example picture of everything and then most items will be made-to-order. This will allow people to pick their fabrics, ribbons, clips etc. from a predetermined library of supplies.
My sister, Erin, took these pictures of Sophie on Thursday afternoon. I asked her if she's planning on doing this professionally (or even semi-professionally) but she says not yet. If/when she decides to, I'll be sure to share her information with you. She took our engagement pictures and does fantastic work with babies & children- as you can see here! Erin- you need a website!
P.S to answer a question already asked, yes, I made the headbands. When we were in Connecticut, I tried putting the flower one on Sophie to wear to church and dad kept telling me she didn't like it and it looked silly. I think they're cute for pictures. :)
I'm actually right in the middle of a rather involved cake project so naturally, I'm stopping to blog. No, I'm not going to go into detail about how I have now ruined not one but two complete batches of buttercream frosting (okay, mom calls it buttercrap- I make it with shortening so I can decorate with it but she's right-it's not very tasty.) Really, all I want to do on this little break is post a few pictures my sister took of Sophie yesterday. Trust me, many more to come!
