EXCITING NEWS

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SOPHIE CAN ARMY CRAWL!!! She digs her itty bitty toes into the ground, pushes her bum up into the air, reaches those hands out, and pulls herself forward. She can rotate her body to face different directions too! Although she has her own toys to crawl to, she is most eager to get to Lucy's toys. Josh and I were just wondering when she would reach this mile stone and thought that she was going to decide to skip crawling and start walking. However, she fooled us both and has decided that she will do things in her own time. We are so proud of our daughter!!

8 Months

Here are some fun facts about Sophie these days...

*On Sophie's 8 Month Birthday she decided that her mommy and daddy deserved a great night of sleep and slept from 8:30- 5:30am! It was such a treat!
* Sophie learned to army crawl on the 25th of January.
* Sophie loves to repeat us when we say Da-da. She is trying other sounds but that is the most clear.
* My friend told me about these rice crackers called, Mum Mum. So we went out and bought them for Sophie and she absolutely LOVES them. She also likes Cheerios, rice puffs, noodles, and bread.
* When Soph gets happy or excited about something her feet move in circles! We call them her "Happy Feet!"
* Erin, Sophie's babysitter, is AMAZING! Sophie loves going to her every morning and enjoys playing with her buddies! She even comes home with art projects! We are working on putting her art work on display at home!
* We are a bit biased but we think Soph is the cutest little girl on the planet!!!

New Year, New Beginnings

New House- We were busting at the seems at our townhouse and had to find something BIGGER! After months of searching we found a great home in Gilbert. Josh and I have always loved the area where we have settled in and wanted to live around here. We feel so blessed to have found this house and absolutely love all of the space we have. It is so nice to be living in a nice neighborhood and so close to the park that Josh purposed to me at. :)


New Daycare Provider- A week and a half before school got out for winter break, Sophie's daycare provider handed Josh a refund check and said that she could no longer provide care for Sophie. Apparently it was to much work to have a baby along with 3 toddlers. I have never been so angry and hurt. Immediately, we decided that we would never take her back and began the search for someone else. It was so difficult not to quit my job (which I love) and just stay home with our baby. But after a lot of prayer and support from friends, we found someone! This lady is AMAZING and she has made this transition so smooth. She and her family love Sophie to pieces and Soph loves them too. When she gets to her house she is so excited to see her friends and dives into her babysitters arms. There haven't been any rough days at her new sitters. She is sleeping well, waking up happy, playing with kids, participating during circle time, and even making art projects! Although we would love to be home with Sophie, we feel like this is a great place for her to be during the day.



God has given us so many things to be thankful for in 2011 already. We are looking forward to see what else He has in store for us this year.

First ZOO Trip

We love the Wildlife World Zoo and were so excited to take Sophie for the first time. While we were there she enjoyed hanging out with the Lory birds, watching her daddy and pops go down the slide, admiring the fishies, riding in her cousins wagon, taking a train ride, and seeing the animals.

Gingerbread Houses

We met up with my parents to check out these awesome gingerbread houses at the Marriott at Desert Ridge. Josh and I got some great ideas for the Henderson/Pinch gingerbread house "contest" next year. Don't they look great!!!??!!!







After, we walked around the resort and took some family pictures!!

Sophie's First Christmas

Christmas Eve, our little family opened presents, went for a walk around the park with Lucy, and had a delicious breakfast. It was so nice to take some time and just enjoy being together. Sophie loved opening her presents and had a BLAST playing with the wrapping paper.






That afternoon we went to Josh's parents house to celebrate Christmas with his side of the family. We started out by opening gifts. Each year we pick a person to be a Secret Santa (which is never a secret for long) and buy a small gift for them and then do something big for a family /organization in need of some Henderson/Pinch TLC. It is such a fun tradition that we have done since Josh and I have been married. This year we started a new tradition. After opening gifts us "kids" made gingerbread houses. Janae and Andrew's sleigh was quite CREATIVE and blew our little house design out of the water!!! Seriously, it was so CUTE! Once we all got fun prizes for our gingerbread houses we went to dinner. To wrap up our family fun evening we went to check out some Christmas lights, which is another tradition that we have together. Our holidays with them are always so much fun and a great reminder of how blessed I am to have such wonderful in-laws.







On the 25th, we packed up and headed over to my parents house. We had a delicious breakfast together, opened presents and then relaxed for awhile. With everyone's hectic schedules we aren't all together often so it was such a treat to be spending the whole day with each other. When my mom's cousin and his fiance came over we competed in some Minute to Win It Games and Josh dominated!!! That evening my parents made us dinner and we played a few more games together. It was a great way to end a perfect day!






Sophie had such a special first Christmas!! We had so much fun creating memories and new traditions together with our families! We are so blessed and thankful for all that God provides us.

bLiNg! bLiNg!

One of the things on our "To Do List" during break was to get Sophie's ears pierced. We were tired of hearing people say, "Hi Little Buddy!" when they saw Sophie (without a bow) so now there should be no mistaking her for a boy/buddy. She cried for about a minute after everything was done but calmed down quite quickly. She hasn't even played with them so her ears are healing very well.
Daddy and Sophie