Current Music: She adores Laurie Berkner, and her greatest hits CD is probably Sophie's favorite. But lately we've been listening a lot to a Christmas mix I made, and her favorites are Glee's version of "Jingle Bells," "Jingle Bell Rock" by Rascall Flatts, and "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas." Another favorite CD is the soundtrack from "Jack's Big Music Show." For contemporary music, her two favorites remain Beyonce's "All The Single Ladies" and Rihanna's "Please Don't Stop The Music."
Current TV/Film: She's all over the map with movies. She just told me her current favorites are "Cinderella, Snow White and Elmo." She also loves Strawberry Shortcake anything, Toy Story 3, and (still, but not as obsessively as she used to) Thumbelina. Right now the girls are watching "Frosty The Snowman" on TV, which is a holiday favorite along with The Grinch. Sophie's favorite TV shows are "Wow Wow Wubbsy" and "Max and Ruby," but she also really likes "Kai Lan," "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse," and "Powerpuff Girls" like Emma.
Current Shame-Inducing Guilty Pleasure: As disgusting as it is to say, she really loves picking her nose. And, sometimes, even eating the boogers, which I've caught her doing gleefully more than once. She also likes to lick things like windows and walls. Her favorite window to lick is the one at the gym that encloses the pool. She'll put her face right up against the glass, wave to all the swimmers, and lick away. I cannot express how much this grosses me out. I'd rather watch her eat boogers, frankly. Another guilty pleasure is drooling. She sleeps in the same corner of her crib every night, face down with her butt in the air, and in the morning I find her laying in a pool of her own drool. She sometimes puts her hands underneath her mouth and then wakes up with red, cracked, bleeding hands. I have no idea why she does this. I've asked her several times, and the only answer I get is, "Because I want to."
Current Color: She doesn't have a particular color she likes over others, at least not an obvious one. Although whenever she plays "Guess Who?" with Emma and has to ask which color Em's character is, she always starts with blue. Clothes-wise, I think she looks really good in dark purples and browns.
Current Links: She still asks for "monster funny" once in awhile, which was what she dubbed the Muppets' "Bohemian Rhapsody" video on You Tube. But other than that, she is really never on the computer.
Current Fetish: Hmmm, this is a tough one. She's 3, so she's very particular about things, which can often come off as fixations. ("Fixation" is a synonym for "fetish" according to my Microsoft Word thesaurus - aren't I resourceful?) She won't go on the potty unless she is stripped completely naked from the waist down; she has to be the one to hit the start button on a movie or she won't watch it; she insists on reading every page of a book, including title/dedication/copywright pages; she is incapable of being away from the house more than five minutes without a snack; etc. As for an object of obsession? Well, she adores her favorite snuggle, Little Bat. (See pic.) And she's definitely crazy about orange juice and cheese - she can't get through the day without either. But in the last couple of days, her favorite thing in the world is the dollar bill she got at the grocery store the other day.
Current Outfit: Brown footed pajamas with red, pink and white polka dots.
Current Fragrance: Honestly? Sophie pretty much always smells vaguely of pee. Even right after the bath, when I've lathered her with lotion, I swear I still catch a lingering whiff of it. But if anyone can pull off the whole urine-odor-thing, I suppose it is Sophie.
Current Drink: Half water, half orange juice. Water on bottom, juice on top. Shake and serve. Do not EVER vary from this concoction or severe tantrums will ensue. If no orange juice is around, she will sometimes drink apple juice or fruit punch. Occasionally she will deign to drink water, but only if it is from Mommy's water bottle. Milk is 100% off limits and will never pass her precious lips.
Current Wish List: Sophie doesn't really wish for things. She wishes for events: to go to Indiana, to go to Florida, to go to St. Louis - basically, to see a grandparent stat; to have someone read a book to her; to have Mommy or Daddy "come sit in the living woom wif me"; for Emma to come home from school and be with her; for Sophie to be able to go to school and be with Emma; to go see Daddy at his work; to go where Mommy talks in the microphone so she can see Debby and Beckham and get a treat; to go see friends at the gym; to go swimming in the pool. (This last one she asks for every day, and every day I explain that the pool is not open in the winter and we'll go when it is warm again but it will not be warm again for many many many days. And she nods her head and says okay and then asks me the exact same question the very next morning.)
Current Triumph: Putting on her mittens and boots by herself; brushing her own teeth (and by "brushing" I mean sucking off all the remaining toothpaste from the brush after Mommy or Daddy has gotten every tooth clean); being big enough to grab onto the handle above the window in the back seat of the car; learning all the words to "Jingle Bells"; counting to 20 (although always forgetting the number 16); washing her own face in the bath; writing her own name with my hand guiding hers.
Current Bane Of Her Existence: Naps. Love/hate relationship, definitely. Sometimes she comes to me before 10am and says she is tired and ready to go to bed. Other times, she screams in her crib for two hours and refuses to go to sleep. She also hates darkness when she sleeps. She insists we keep her bedroom door "big open" at naps and bedtime, and if for some reason we ease it partway closed during the night, she wakes in the morning hysterical about how the mean monsters and dinosaurs are trying to eat her.
Current Celebrity Crush: Strawberry Shortcake. Snow White. Powerpuff Girls. Laurie Berkner. The usual.
Current Indulgence: Other than orange juice and cheese? "Cheese from the deli," a regular grocery store request. Chili cheese fritos or barbeque potato chips. Tangerine or blue raspberry dum-dum pops. York peppermint patties. Plain m&ms. Strawberries. (I include this because it's the only fruit she regularly asks for, but they are out of season and so expensive that I can't justify buying them right now. So, for this time of year, an indulgence.)
Current Excitement: Well, Christmas...of course. This is the first year she really gets it, so she's asking a lot of questions about Santa and presents and all that stuff. She's also very excited to go to Florida over the holidays. She is looking forward to seeing Grandma and Grandpa Kitty, but the two things she can't stop talking about are the airplane ride and going swimming. Every time we see a plane flying in the sky she points and asks, "Mommy, is that the airplane that takens us to Florida?"
Current Mood: Happy. It's Saturday morning, her beloved big sister is home and playing games with her, and life is good. Sophie is a pretty happy kid. She definitely has a temper, and she has her share of bad days, but for the most part Sophie is full of joy...and it's infectious.
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