House of Organized Chaos: Happy Birthday Sophia Anne!

Sophia turns 2 today! I liked to say the time has flown by but I swear she has been the craziest of the 4 and it seems like she has been "almost 2" for like a year now. She was supposed to be a he. I swore all my crazy signs were there but turns out I was wrong. It's OK we decided to keep her anyway. I told Steve recently she is my bonus baby. See Steve was "done" but I persuaded him to have just 1 more. It's always 1 more isn't it....lol. I think of her as the bonus cause funny enough, as you all know, I end up getting just one more after Sophia and as it turns out now we get the 2nd boy. So my thing is if Sophia was the boy I probably would have really meant it when I said we're done. Luckily she was a she and I got one more being a he. So she's the bonus! Get it ?!?!

She had a bit of a rough start. It's not really clear on what happened. Either she swallowed too much fluid during delivery or her lungs just weren't developed yet. Needless to say shortly after this picture was taken they put her in the NICU for a week. I was in recovery by then but completely unaware of what was going on. Dealing with my own issues in recovery Steve was left in complete control. I am to much of a control freak to not have any but during these few days I was completely incapable of comprehending anything that was going on. Steve was a trooper and handle EVERYTHING. He made sure he told me everything that was going on before any Dr. could and he explained everything to me in a way that Samantha would have understood. When we would sit with her in the NICU he knew what every machine did and what every # meant. When he left me at night to go home an sleep he stayed up and devoured any info he could find on the internet as to what was going on so when he came back in the morning it seemed like he was 1 step ahead of everyone else. He kept me calm and never let me freak out even though I wanted to.

This was the first time I got to hold her. It was almost 2 days after she was born. I remember Steve telling the nurses that they needed to do something because I was going nuts with not getting to hold her. She was a feisty one and had the prime real estate location in the NICU. Because she was the biggest baby there she got to be in the front window. So whenever anyone visited they got to see her. She kept pulling all her tubes out and making the nurses crazy! We were so proud of her for being so bad!

Almost ready to go home now. She still was a bit jaundice and because her future was so bright she needed to wear shades :)

YEAH -After a week we finally got to take her home! This was how she was met for the first time by her siblings. This picture speaks 1000 words!

The motley crew standing outside with the stork sign

Trying to get an announcement picture:

1st bath! No there isn't too much water Virginia - she learned to swim early :)

One of my favorite pictures. It's her toes and I took this for her baptism invite. Steve still makes fun of it and doesn't get it. Look at those teeny tiny toes -

Sophia and Yogi - this is a special picture because it is the only one we have of her and Yogi. He passed away later this night

I always wonder what she is thinking in this one:

Sophia's first christmas

Ready for VT:

goofing around:

I need to get better pictures of her with her"pillars" This is her pillars. She never goes anywhere without one or two. It's the Caterpillar from Disney's "A bug Life". She has never seen the movie and my good friend Amanda just sent it to her for her birthday so she is gonna freak when she see's her "pillar" come to life.

Sharing a moment with her big sister at field day - YES I put shoes on her before we left the house she choose not to wear them after we got to the field. Believe me no one tells this kid what to do:

I don't even need to hear her to know she is telling me to push her or else - look at that look she is giving me

"Come on Daddy hurry up!!!"

She had the first of her birthday parties last weekend. She was the best at opening the presents. Everything down to the wrapping paper made her excited!