3/29/13

throwback thursday

We were busy yesterday and it totally slipped my mind! My apologies! Grandma and Grandpa Lutz are in town and we went to Retiro Park (blog entry coming soon!) to enjoy the beautiful weather! Of course, rain again today. 
Sophie was a day or two old here. I love her little button nose and chubby cheeks. These Daddy-daughter pictures are my favorites.
First meeting

First kisses

Her whole hand fits around his index finger.
Snuggles

3/21/13

Throwback Thursday

I wanted to bring back the weekly posts where I highlight Sophie's babyhood. It's neat to see what she used to look like, and it's especially fun for me to reminisce about how she'll never be that small again. *sniff* And how she'll never be that small again. *woohoo!*
 
36 week (?) ultrasound
Sophie was just a few hours old here.

3/13/13

Trapeze Tots

In London, the girls all signed up for a trapeze/gymnastics class, called Trapeze Tots. Here are a few cute pictures that I snapped. I apologize that they are not the best quality, as the room was a bit dark. Sophie loves the trapeze in the show, so we wanted to give her a chance to try it out and see if it's something we'd like to explore. We think it's a hit! 
Flip overs

Trampoline

Trapeze swing

Trapeze swing

Trapeze swing

Friends

Waiting her turn



3/10/13

Sophie-isms, Part 2

As Sophie is growing up, she sometimes talks like a teenager, but then sometimes she messes things up. Which is adorable. Here are a few examples I wanted to jot down for posterity.

Lately, her favorite movie is 'Cinderella.' To her, the Fairy Godmother is the "Very Godmother."

To her, Old Navy is "Old Maybe."

If she sees someone in a scuba mask, she calls them a "scuba driver."

Sophie loves to rough house with Daddy. These are called "jumping games" usually.

Sometimes Sophie knows what she wants, when she wants it. She is very matter-of-fact sometimes. We try to explain that it not how it works and that it's "incorrect."
"Well, I want it to be out-correct."

She is really creative, and I love how she comes up with some of the most random things. Today we saw a dog limping outside. I asked her what she thought happened to the dog. "He probably was eating his food and bonked his head on the door in the kitchen." So random and so funny!

Sometimes she'll drop a grape or something, and it will land on her dress. She likes to say, "Nice catch, Dress!"

If Sophie does something nice for someone, she likes to think "they'll be so impressed!"

About a month ago in London, Sophie got the chicken pox. And, whenever we went on the tube, we played a game matching rhyming words. "COCKS RHYMES WITH POX!" she shouted. *facepalm*

Mommy likes to eat "beef turkey" instead of beef jerky as a snack.

Garlic bread is "garley bread."

Sorry, a little TMI, but sometimes it takes her a while to go to the bathroom. If that happens, she tells us that her "poop is putting on his shoes."

If we're eating dinner and a blueberry rolls of the table onto the floor, she tells us "he wanted to go to the beach." So do we, Sophie-belle. So do we! 




The Glorious South Bank

Finally on a day off with no snow or rain (and a little bit of sun!) we ventured over to Waterloo Station to The London Eye and then over to Westminster Station, by the Abbey and Big Ben of course. Here are just a few shots of the amazing city of London. I can't wait to go back. These pictures are in no particular order.

Lunchtime

Lunchtime goofiness

The London Eye

The London Eye

The London Eye

Flag from the London Eye


View from the London Eye


View from the London Eye

Sophie's favorite, Big Ben





Statue by the South Bank

Penguin outside the aquarium








The guard photobombed my picture!



Where are we again?!?



The Making of Harry Potter

Ok, I'll admit I may have allowed myself a few fangirl moments when we visited the Warner Brothers Studio Tour in London where we walked through sets and props from all eight of the Harry Potter movies. It was breathtaking and awe-inspiring. The details and the manpower that allowed those films to be made at such a high level was amazing. I seriously want to go back and drool some more (and maybe even have another butterbeer!) Maybe next time we're in London, I can convince Jim to go back. Seeing these pictures makes me want to go back even more! I apologize for the volume of photos here. I just can't get over the fact that all of these things were manufactured by someone for these movies. I am a muggle, but a HP fangirl forever!
   
The outside
Giant chess pieces from The Chamber of Secrets

In the Great Dining Hall, Griffindor's robes

Harry's Year One robes


The Yule Ball costumes from The Goblet of Fire

The Yule Ball costumes from The Goblet of Fire

Dumbledore's costume and podium

Ron's bed from The Prisoner of Azkaban

The entrance to Dumbledore's Office

The Griffindor Common Room with costumes from The Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry and Ron's Christmas sweaters from Mrs. Weasley

The Goblet of Fire

Potions class

Hagrid's Hut

Quidditch robes

A broom from the Quidditch scenes

Harry's Quidditch robes

The kitchen at The Burrow, with Mrs. Weasley's sweater.
(BTW, the dishes cleaned and the carrots chopped themselves.)

The amazing Weasley clock

The Marauder's Map (as seen in The Prisoner of Azkaban)

Harry's official acceptance letter to Hogwarts, delivered by owl of course
Umbridge's Office (Sophie liked this one!)

The (violently purple) Knight Bus, as seen in The Prisoner of Azkaban


The (violently purple) Knight Bus, as seen in The Prisoner of Azkaban

Hagrid's motorcycle

Mr. Weasley's flying Ford Anglia, as seen in The Chamber of Secrets

Privet Drive Number 4

"Harry Potter? Are you in there?"

The bridge

Dobby the House Elf

Fawkes the Phoenix
Buckbeak

Diagon Alley


Huge, huge model of Hogwarts

Wand boxes, one for each and every technician that worked on the movies