Day at the park...

Rarely do we get this nice of weather during the month of February in Oregon, so I had to take advantage of it. Yesterday, Sophia and I met my mother-in-law, Barbara, at a park about five minutes form our house in Milwaukie. It was so nice out and there were many kids playing at the park. First, we started Sophia out on the swing. She loved it! She was grinning from ear to ear and had a blast swinging! I also took her down the slide and up on the big jungle gym. Sophia also loved watching all the other little kids running around playing, and got so excited every time a dog would walk by. She must have pointed at every single dog she saw, lol. She now has her own way to say "hi dog" and will point and say, "hi-dah". She says this all the time at home when she sees Hurley or Shakespeare.
Sophia is also WALKING now! She was able to take up to 6 steps before,and she kind of ran and then would do a nose dive. But now she can walk from one side of the room to the other. And she does it in a controlled and balanced manner. When she gets tired, she just bends down and goes to crawling. She still prefers crawling, but I'm sure as soon as she figures out that walking will get her to where she wants to go faster, she'll choose walking over crawling. She did the same thing when she first learned to crawl. She would roll all over to get where she wanted to go, until she realized crawling was faster. It's so cute to see her toddling back and fourth between me and Jeff. She's still a bit wobbly, but she's getting the hang of it and is doing great! Pretty soon she'll be toddling all over the house:)