Presents

Sonja loves presents, cards, and anything that arrives in the mail.

She also has a lot of hair, but she refuses to wear a ponytail or clip.

3:25 am

Sonja stayed sound asleep for our annual HAPPY BIRTHDAY photo at 3:25 am this morning

2 years ago today...

Sonja started making her entrance into the world.

Ryan and I ate pumpkin pie at Grand Central Bakery as the contractions began.

To celebrate today, we took Sonja to Grand Central at lunch for some pumpkin pie!

Great-Grandma

Sonja's Great-Grandma Rosenkranz passed away this morning. She will be missed. Sonja spent the day with sad family in Yakima. There is such comfort in having joyful children present in such times.

Pumpkin Patch

(they don't look alike at all)

Fall Update

Babies...Sonja loves babies!

Here she is with my cousin's baby girl.

This month, a few friends have had babies.
We've brought them meals and Sonja runs right to the couch so she can hold the baby.

When we get in the car, Sonja asks if we're going to see babies.

Krumkake

On a whirlwind trip to Portland, we stayed with Grandma Grandma Sylvia and made
Sonja's favorite dessert-krumkake.
Pumpkin Patch

While in the Portland area, we visited a pumpkin patch on a lovely Saturday morning.

We took a "wee" ride (hay ride), picked out a few pumpkins, climbed on hay bales, and watched pumpkin bowling.

Even Grandma Grandma took a "wee" ride with us. Sonja pointed to "the man" driving the tractor and talked about "the man", the "wee" ride, and "grandma grandma" for days.

sawn-ya

Finally! Sonja says her name.

There are many things we've begun to intentionally teach her over the past few months (numbers, letters, colors, animals, names, manners, etc.). But, I forgot to teach her to say her name. I assumed since she hears it enough, she'll pick it up soon enough.

We were out for a walk last week and I asked her, "Say hi, Sonja" when we met someone on the street.

She said "Hi Sonja"!

She pronounces it like many of our friends and family did when she was first born, "Sawn-ya" rather than "Son-ya" with the "o" sound. Maybe she'll convince us to change the pronunciation!