Pismo Beach - Labor Day

Steve, Sonora, Suesse & I went to Pismo Beach for Labor Day weekend and enjoyed the cooler weather and our little family get-away. We took Sonora to the beach and walked right along the water for the first time. She'd been to the beach before but only on the pier. You can see her intense stare at the loud waves below.

We also took Sonora to the Avila Farm for the first time and she loved seeing and petting the animals up close and personal! She's definitely a lover of animals!

The mobile home where we stay in Pismo is right down the street from the beach so we would take a walk down to the water every night around sunset and enjoy the sights and sounds. Steve wanted to let Sonora see the water from the beach walk so he lifted her up!

Besides this being a beautiful close-up of Sonora, we were actually trying to take a picture of Sonora's first big bump on her head (right above her left eye). She pulled the wooden chair down on top of her. It was quite sad, but she recovered and still looked beautiful!

Aw, they are so cute!

Sonora at 10 months - Aug/Sept

Here are a couple of pictures of Sonora when she was 10 months old. I just love her in blue which make her blue eyes POP even more than usual.

Sonora loved it when we got a "new" (to us) TV and we had it on the ground for about a week while we were waiting for the TV cabinet to come. Her Wiggle friends were life-size to her and she was in heaven!

Sonora went through a phase when she would scrunch her nose and blow causing her to make such funny faces (we like to blame this on our friend, Jill, who taught Sonora to do it). It's actually closer to a smile for a picture than we usually get!

IT'S A BOY!!

It is official...we are expecting a boy in about 19 weeks! Sonora is very excited to see her new little brother as you can see in the second picture where her hand is raised in celebration! She is so happy to not have to share a room, her dresses, or any of her pink accessories! Here comes the blue!!

Yes, Sonora, your baby brother looks a lot like you! I have a feeling they will soon look like twins if he gains weight at a much faster rate than Sonora. What fun (and craziness) the Farris household will soon become!

Sonora at 8 & 9 months

I'm a bit behind on posting pictures of Sonora at her month stages. So I've combined her 8 & 9 month pictures in this post.

Here is Sonora at 8 months. She stands all the time with anything, even if it isn't sturdy!

Sonora looking at us in her crib standing up. Her blue eyes are just so strikingly beautiful!

Sonora & the present she made her Daddy for Father's Day!

Sonora enjoying her sweet potato puffs!

Sonora sucking on the super sweet donut peach.

Sonora loves her "lovey" and prefers to have it over her face to fall asleep. I found her like this after she fell asleep one afternoon. I like to call it, "death by lovey".

Sonora at 9 months old in her fancy black dress from Theresa.

She's giving the "what you looking at" pose.

Pretty princess and her dog Penelope. She looks like she's showing off her toys.

Sonora sitting quite casual for this meal. She doesn't quite have her table manners yet!

Sonora with 2 of her dogs. This is where she likes to be most of the time, hanging with her posse. They look like trouble, don't they?

At 9 months now, Sonora crawls everywhere (fast!) and can stand herself up on practically anything. She also tries to climb whenever possible. She's a go-go get 'em kind of girl who LOVES her dogs and wishes she could be outside with them even when it's 105 degrees outside and Mommy would prefer to be inside with the A/C. She still loves her Wiggles and Baby Einstein videos and tries to play with anything she can find. Sonora teased us with sleeping through the night 3 nights in a row and then abruptly stopped again and usually wakes up about once a night to eat. We definitely wish she would grow out of that soon! She has 5 teeth now and loves to eat "people" food, she'll open her mouth for anything! Sonora is a joy and we are so thankful for her!

4th of July 2009

We drove down to San Diego for 4th of July this year to see Team Kess. We hadn't been down there since Christmas so we knew it was time to try the 6 hours trek with Sonora again. It was a quick trip for the weekend so we didn't have time to see a lot of people other than Team Kess unfortunately. We had a lot of fun on the 4th...yummy BBQ, campfire smores, watched the fireworks from the backyard, and sat out under the stars and watched Sandlot on the patio. Great memories!!