Aside from giving birth to him and his red hair (mine was red as a baby and my birth father had red hair) there is not much about Jonah that I can claim. He looks just like Neal, he even looks like Neal as a baby, in fact Sophie actually mistook a baby photo of Neal for Jonah!
Then my mom brought over this photo, sorry for the quality folks, apparently 1982 was big on Polaroids. Now, I am not saying that he looks just like me, but there are some similarities, Neal and I have settled on the fact that we think he has my mouth and nose, but was blessed with Neal's ears, because to quote my loving husband, "you have big ears, babe". Thanks honey.
Sophie's birthday was celebrated over the course of several days and two parties, well three actually if you count the trip to the Tea Room! My grandmother, who Sophie is named for, my Aunt Nancy and Uncle Chris came for a visit and timed it perfectly to celebrate both of the children's birthdays! My aunt and my grandmother LOVE the Tea Room, so we have to go when they come and Sophie is very much into tea these days so we all got dressed up for tea complete with hats and went there on Sophie's birthday, it was lots of fun. Then she had a party with 4 of her friends where they dressed as their favorite princess, colored their own tea cups, and frosted and decorated their own cupcakes, just two words for that one.... SUGAR OVERLOAD literally, but it was fun. Then we ended the birthday celebrations with a nice family party with Neal's parents, my parents and Uncle Joe. All in all let's just say that November is a pretty busy month for us, with birthdays right in the beginning and then followed up by Thanksgiving and then we dive right into Christmas! Come January I'm going to need a really long nap!!!
Posing with her presents on birthday morning.
So excited about the color your own Kid Robot cupcake
Another Kid Robot figure, this one is a Bunny Pirate, named Clutter. They are little figures that vary depending on the artist who designed them, Neal and Sophie collect them together and are fans of Kid Robot's designs.
Ready for the Tea Room.
I had to get her a little cake for the actual day of her birthday, you can't go with out cake on your birthday!
Auntie Nancy, Uncle Chris and Great Grammy Sophie.
Princess Sophie
Princess Claire
Princess Madison
Princess Morgan
That mountain of blue and green on top of her cupcake??? Yeah that's sprinkles.
Loving her Toy Story cake.
I would like to formally introduce you to "the girls" as we so affectionately refer to them. Roxy, the Barred Rock, the stripey looking one, she is Neal's chicken. Betty, a Black Sex Link, the black and amber one, she is Jonah's. Mabel, an Amber Link, the one in the back who sort of reminds me of a toasted marshmallow, she is mine. And finally, Butterfly, another Amber Link, the little cream colored one in the front, well she is Sophie's, I mean didn't her name give way to who her owner was?
They love to hide out under the shed, we finally had to cut off their access under the shed for fear they would feel too safe under there and start laying their eggs there.
A better look at Mabel, seriously though does she not remind you of a perfectly toasted marshmallow?
Sophie wanted to help in every capacity!
Naturally, Jonah is fascinated with the tree and lights. He keeps trying to blow the lights out and stick my cooking utensils on the tree like ornaments.
Jonah enjoyed rolling around and breaking ornaments.
She was quite into decorating this year
She was SO excited to put the star on the tree.
Posing with her presents on birthday morning.
So excited about the color your own Kid Robot cupcake
Another Kid Robot figure, this one is a Bunny Pirate, named Clutter. They are little figures that vary depending on the artist who designed them, Neal and Sophie collect them together and are fans of Kid Robot's designs.
Ready for the Tea Room.
I had to get her a little cake for the actual day of her birthday, you can't go with out cake on your birthday!
Auntie Nancy, Uncle Chris and Great Grammy Sophie.
Princess Sophie
Princess Claire
Princess Madison
Princess Morgan
That mountain of blue and green on top of her cupcake??? Yeah that's sprinkles.
Loving her Toy Story cake.
They love to hide out under the shed, we finally had to cut off their access under the shed for fear they would feel too safe under there and start laying their eggs there.
A better look at Mabel, seriously though does she not remind you of a perfectly toasted marshmallow?
