"Wunning"

This is how to run, says Sophia.

Climbing into Bed!

The only toddler I know that wants to climb into bed!  Fortunately we've never had an issue with her climbing out of bed in the middle of the night.

Emergency Room

Guess who had to go to the ER?  Poor girl rolls off the couch at grandma and grandpa's house like she does all the time...except this time there was a stool in the way.  I heard her crying and told her that it's fine, just get up.  When she got up, still crying, her mouth was covered in blood.  Turns out she cut her lip so we ended up at the ER that night.   While we were driving to the hospital, she kept saying "it heeeerts".  It pained me to hear that she was hurting, but the way she said it was so cute.  3 stitches and one popsicle later, she was good to go home.  Such a brave little girl!  Hopefully we don't have to visit the ER anymore!

Determination

So determined to get the nails hammered in all on her own!

3 Years Old!

Height: 36.5in (31st percentile)

Weight: 31lbs 2oz (55th percentile)

Poor girl ended up getting hand foot mouth disease for her 3rd birthday but she was still in good spirits.  Something about her getting sick on her birthday...she had a fever on her first birthday, but was okay for her 2nd birthday.  Hopefully this is not the trend for every odd year birthday!

She seems to be enjoying school for the most part.  I think it helps that she's familiar with her teacher and classroom since Matthew had the same teacher.  Drop offs are still difficult some mornings, but hopefully it'll only get better as the school year progresses.
Here are some pictures from her first school field trip:

Pictures top to bottom/left to right: Too heavy! ; Wouldn't pick up the pumpkins because they were dirty; Finally convinced her to pick up one of the pumpkins; Not too sure about taking a picture with Mrs. Maldonado; enjoying the playground after the pumpkin patch.

And lastly, she worked hard at making birthday cupcakes to share with her friends in class, with no help from big brother, as you can see:

Preschooler!

Sophia started preschool.  She's a preschooler!  She's not even 3 yet!  But she has been doing great.  We were really worried about how she would adjust since she's always been with a caretaker who was someone from our family.  To our surprise, she has done great so far and hasn't even cried once during drop off.  Her teacher was also Matthew's preschool teacher so maybe it is a little more comforting that she's already somewhat familiar with the teacher/school.  When we ask her what she did in school, she usually answers with either "I dunno" or "played kitchen".  When we ask her who her friends are, she'll usually answer "John Paul" (cool thing is that he's the little brother of one of matthew's classmates from preschool!)  But we know she does more than that at school because I know her teacher didn't make up the answers to her "all about me" page!

Overall, I think she's doing well in class.  She doesn't really tell us what she does all day in school, but I'll hear her singing songs that I've never heard her sing before.  Songs about heads, shoulders, knees and toes,  how to line up, how to sit down, how to clean up, how the wheels on the bus go round and round.  She doesn't quite know all the words, but enough for me to know what song she is singing.

Speaking of words, here are some words that are in her vocabulary:
duffen duffen = doc mcstuffin (watch video below this list of words)
faywerk = firework
berella = umbrella
gweeze = squeeze
pocanut = polka dot
barkoly = sparkly
bahasmas = bahamas
oomdo = uno (card game.  she'll yell out "OOMDO!" when she's down to one card)

She probably says these words with more clarity now, but over the summer, these were words that I heard often.  She's still doing okay with Chinese and English but I can tell that now she's in school, Chinese is kind of her second choice language now.  She'll speak to Matthew in mostly English - but she's also picking up the Mandarin that he's learning.

Before starting school in September, she had a busy summer! 

 She attended a toddler gymnastics class for about 6 weeks.  I don't think she really liked it that much since she didn't really participate much according to grandma.  But when daddy took her to gymnastics, she did everything the teacher instructed them to do!  

She had fun going bowling once a week with gong gong.

She enjoyed Lego Land...for the most part.  As you can see, she wasn't too fond of the super slide!

She also enjoyed some birthday parties, weddings, time at the park and her new toddler seat on the back of momma's bike!

Words out of her mouth today: I wanna be a princess when I grow up!