10-11-08 We go to visit my grandmother, Sophie’s great-nana, who is slowly losing her mind in a (very expensive and very nice) assisted living facility. Sophie is telling great-nana, “Toto do boo boo,” on her hand. Kokopop (Toto) scratched her a millenium ago, but Sophie still gets a lot of mileage out of the story and lots of kisses.

10-12-08 Sophie sits on Santa’s lap for the first time. She just went right up to him and allowed him to lift her onto his lap. She wouldn’t smile at all for the picture, though, not even scrunchy face. For the whole time afterward, far as long as we were in the mall, she wanted to go back and watch him, however. Now whenever she sees this picture, which we have on the fridge right now, she gets excited and yells, “Santa!”

10-13-08 Sophie displays a couple of her favorite books. That’s Not My Dragon! and Goodnight Gorilla. She also really loves this book below. It’s probably her Number One Fav, Kitten’s First Full Moon. a Caldecott winner about a kitten who mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk and tries to chases it down. After much travail, the kitten returns home to find what he was looking for all along was on his front porch. Very sweet book. Every time Sophie sees the full moon she says, “Milk!”