This morning I took Sophia to the mall to play in the play area. There were a lot more people there than I thought would be at the mall at 9:30 in the morning and I’m not just talking about the seniors doing their mall laps. Sophia had fun butt scooting through the hard foam Washington ferry replica that Kurt and I watched her play on Saturday. Yep, we went on Saturday too. I took some pictures this time though.
After I put my camera away, I chased the butt scooter around a few other Washington replicas in the play area. At one point, I moved her away from some stuff that belonged to another family and stood the butt scooter on the floor. She just stood there and rubbed her eyes. “Awww are you sleepy?” I asked. Another mom was watching Sophia and commented that she (Sophia) wasn’t sure about taking steps. I smiled. I didn’t say anything, but thought, “yeah my kid doesn’t walk yet.” Just as I completed that thought, she did it. Sophia right there, right in front of me, without my camera, took three steps. THREE STEPS! I guess I can officially call her a toddler now, and maybe soon she’ll stop scooting around like a dog with worms.
She was definitely sleepy though so I scooped her up to go change her diaper before leaving, and that’s when I noticed the chickenpox. She has a perfectly round red dot on her inner left thigh. Her shot was on the left arm, so it’s not on injection spot.
October 13th, 2008 at 12:32pm
Just one spot? Nothing on her trunk? Chicken pox usually starts on the trunk and spreads out from there. Are you sure she wasn’t just bit by something? (If she has a fever, we’ll go ahead and call it chicken pox, I guess.)
But she’s toddling! Awwwww! And isn’t it just like Sophia to wait ’til you put your camera away to do it? Stubborn thing.
October 13th, 2008 at 1:20pm
*crosses index fingers from each hand and waves them about* Ahh stay away from me! I never had them. Even though my mom exposed me to every chickenpox party she could find.
But on the bright side…she walked! Yay! And I have to agree with smarmoofus. Honestly I think I would be dissappointed if she made it easy on you
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October 13th, 2008 at 8:11pm
Smarmoofus, I got them at 18 and it started with one red mark on my neck. Aww, poor Sophia
Yay, she walked 
! Love the pictures.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:28am
Hi! Your little girl is so cute!
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