The heat and the pollen count is slowly ris­ing in Flo-rizz-da bring­ing along with it my bi-annual sinus flood­ing. (Not to be con­fused with winter’s “so dry your nose bleeds” extrav­a­ganza.) This year I am being proac­tive by swab­bing with Zycam in case a cold wants to try and pig­gy­back in there. But enough about snot…

First of all, a big thank you to those of you who took the time to give some feed­back on my ques­tions. It sounds like Kelly and I will keep on keepin’ on with the blog and try to get more pho­tos and videos online. If any of you ever have a spe­cific request or ques­tion, feel free to let us know.

BRING ON THE NEW SOPHIE PHOTOS!

In baby news, many mile­stones have been occur­ring in this excit­ing fourth month. Sophie has been gain­ing lots of mus­cle strength and can now hold her head up the major­ity of the day. Not only does this allow her to have a neck, it also opens more fun ways for Kelly and I to mess with her. Nothing bad of course, just fun things like stand­ing up when we lift her by her hands. So much fun!
Other mile­stones include her first solid food ever. Taking advice from Sophie’s Great-Grandmother Moore, we decided to start with a veg­etable: pureed car­rots! (Which she seems to enjoy.) From her weeks of watch­ing us eat, Sophie under­stood the con­cept of food-goes-in-mouth very quickly. We are still work­ing on the more dif­fi­cult con­cept of actu­ally swal­low­ing the car­rots and not squish­ing them in and out of her mouth with her tongue. Unfortunately for Kelly, Sophie fig­ured out how to squir­rel away a good vol­ume of car­rots just in time for a big sneeze. Result: new outfits!