Sick Season & Sophie's Second Birthday

I guess this is something fall babies have to learn to live with, but poor thing was sick all this week, and then I caught it. It's been a loooooong week. She woke up Monday with the runny nose and watery eyes and I was hoping it might just be a 24 hour thing, but didn't seem like it when she kept waking up throughout the night and we ended up having to bring her into our bed that night. I was sad I wouldn't get to go wake her bright and early with sunshine and happy birthday wishes on Tuesday morning, but I think I actually liked waking up seeing her passed out inbetween us in bed, looking so sweet and snoring innocently. It was a better way to start her second birthday.

...but she was sick all Tuesday too which was such a shame, and it was the rainiest, stormiest day of the year so far it seemed, so we never really got to go outside and she was definitely going nuts inside the house being sick. She actually seemed decent enough in the evening that we decided to go out to Dave & Buster's. It's not exactly toddler friendly, but we found a lot of games that she had fun with (especially the carnival type ones where we could stand her on the top and she could throw the balls) and she did the bottom row of lights on Lightning Speed which is one of my favorites.

She was too tired at the end to open her presents, so we made it a point to do the next night on Wednesday. This girl cleaned up with gifts!

We all had so much fun opening her presents, and she wasn't quite understanding it, and it was hard to get her to get excited about another gift after being invested in the one that had just been opened.

This girl and these clogs lol

This Ratatouille from my mom speaks
French and English but it freaks Sophie out haha

She kept going back to the Cocomelon box
(cause that's what a Cocofelon does!)

Playing with the ice cream kit from Auntie Kit Kat

We had a rough week with her being home sick but we were able to venture out a little more this weekend. On Saturday we went to a Sugar Plum Fairy Tea that my dance studio was hosting to raise funds for their rendition of the Nutcracker. It was really cute! And set up deliciously. Sophie was getting restless but once they started dancing she was pretty into it. And when they would stop she would yell "Dance again!" and we had to shush her a lot. After that we went to Target which, after the week we had had, felt like a big deal.

She insisted we move everything to
the seat so she could lay down in the back

Excuse me are you the manager?

Today we made it over to the Long Beach Aquarium and it was annoying how dark it was so early, but we still had some light and Sophie really enjoyed their little play area, which she never really had before. Sadly the penguins weren't out because of the avian flu going around so I missed my favorite part but we got to see the second best part which is the otters.

I'm sad the weekend is over but wow am I looking forward to Sophie going back to daycare tomorrow :)