Walking on Sunshine

Yes, Mommy is doing her dance of joy!! Sophie took her first steps on Thursday, March 5th. Like a true theater child, they were in the parlor at Westwood Town Hall where my husband and I were setting up snacks for the show I was producing. The room was big and empty and carpeted and Sophie crawled around exploring while we portioned popcorn and poured sodas. All of a sudden, out of NOWHERE, she stopped mid-crawl, straightened up her legs as if to bear crawl and simply stood up with no assistance or support. Then, two steps were achieved before returning to the floor to investigate some apparently very interesting fuzz. Our jaws dropped!! Although she's not yet walking across the floor, she's up to a consistent 5 or 6 steps in a row now. We are so proud of you Stinkerbell.

As I alluded to earlier, Spring has finally arrived, officially and temperaturally, in Cincinnati. We took the opportunity of the first nice day in forever to go and have lunch at the only place close that had a patio...TGI Fridays. Sophie has mastered the sippy cup, but is also getting quite experienced at the straw. Here she is during her first patio dinner (not at Rally's anyway).