This is a busy birthday month in the Binns household. We had Sophie’s 7 month birthday on the 3rd, Daddy’s 29th birthday on the 4, and Mommy’s 32nd birthday is coming up on the 20th! Well, we planned to go to the museum today but good ole NY state tax ppl foiled those plans. Mommy had to inform them that she hasn’t been living in NY since 2005 and collecting sales tax without reporting it. What a headache! As I am writing this it just sounds so crazy that we haven’t lived in NYC since 2005! Anyway, we still managed to have a fun day at home, and we’re doing “Daddy’s bday take 2” next Tuesday so we’ll make up for it then. We made daddy brownies and a card, lit a fire, watched some Arkansas football, and drank some beer…not you of course. All in all, we still had a fun day and daddy lucked out because he gets to have his bday all over again next week…take that NY state tax ppl!! Happy birthday to you my soul mate. You are truly the most incredible person I have ever met. You are perfectly imperfect. I love you and all your whackadilly quirks. Sophie is the luckiest girl on earth to have you as her daddy. I am so proud of you and grateful that I get to spend every single day with you. You make our world go round. Like a record baby- right round- round round. Looove you!!

Unfortunately the “I” was later eaten by that little white fuzzy hell bucket in the photo below. Her puzzle now says SOPHE. Oh well, I’m sure this is the first of many toys to be chewed, stolen, or destroyed by her furry brother or sister. She’ll get them back with some good ole ear and tail pulling for the next few years.

Me: I think i’m going to try and put Sophie in her crib tonight.

Husband: But what if she sleeps through the night in there?

Oh lord, looks like someone has her daddy wrapped around that little fat sausage pinky. For those of you who don’t know, Iggs has been sleeping in our room every night since she was born. She starts off in the pack-n-play and then usually wakes up after a couple of hours and comes into our bed. She is now 7 months and from her daddy’s response, it looks like none of that is changing. lol. They’re lucky i love them so much.

When Soph is waking up hourly from 1am on, and I’m running on sleepless nights, Will always is there to remind me that before I know it I’m going to be wishing that she wanted to come into our bed and cuddle. Tonight I laughed with him as So-So had her leg across my stomach and her arm across my chest basically pinning me down while she snored away to ensure that I wouldn’t try and move her to her pack and play while she was sleeping. He said remember “You’re Gonna Miss This”, and it always brings me back to this video that I watched and balled my eyes out to while I was pregnant with Soph. Sometimes it is important to just put things in check and live in the moment just embracing it all.

Well it is Sophie’s first New Year and she was ready to party NYE! She took a late nap in the afternoon and we knew we were setting ourselves up for a late bedtime but the trade off was worth it. Will and I were able to sit down and have a NYE dinner and drink without picking up a giraffe 5 times, playing Yo Gabba Gabba, singing, dancing, etc. We then got the best of both worlds because after our dinner together the little iggs woke up and was ready to play. She had her bath and then came out and practiced trying to crawl, sat in my lap while I read a book, giggled and just straight up partied until about 11:40pm-lol. She tried Mangos for the first time and absolutely loves them! She was looking for more and chowing on it spoon after spoon. We ordered a new food from a line called Plum Organics and it def. tastes better than what she had from Earth’s Best or Gerber. Next up is peaches- hopefully we’ll have just as much luck. Here’s to much health, happiness, fun, success, love and laughter in 2011. Happy New Year Iggy- we had the perfect NYE with you.

There has been snow on the ground since Thanksgiving but it was finally a bit warmer so we decided to take Sophie down to the park and have a little fun. Here are some pics of her sitting in the snow all bundled up in her little snowsuit – presh!! She was blah, blah, blahing to anyone who would listen. She rode down to the park on her daddy’s shoulders and was just talking to the air. She just loves being outdoors…not very conducive in this weather but we’re trying. Oh we didn’t build this snowman, he was just there waiting.