A few funny things Sophie did today:
-wanted Mommy to hold her in pouring rain so she could freak out and make Sophie face (she flails her arms in excitement and makes a silent scream face)
-she’s eaten 5 or 6 bananas in the last two days and was a little constipated today so she was walking around the bedroom and then intermittently lying on the floor in different places sticking her butt in the air and grunting while trying to push a poo out
-we went out to lunch and there was a Christmas tree in the cafe (a place called Cafe Aroma) and she kept trying to make a break for it so she could grab the ornaments off of it
-outside the cafe a girl walked by with an jce cream cone and Sophie reached up to her in passing hoping she would hand it to her
-Sophie ate her own pistachio ice cream cone by herself (at an ice cream place called Pop) – she doesn’t understand how to angle it when eating it though so everytime she takes a bite she smashes the whole cone into her face and gets ice cream all over herself
-when Sophie pooped today and Mommy showed her the diaper she said DOO DOO
-Sophie learned how to hang queso palmito (the Costa Rican equivalent of string cheese) from her mouth and then shake her head so that a long string of cheese flies all around – she then walked around the kitchen swinging her head around like a crazy person doing her new cheese swinging trick

Every time Sophie wears her “I Love Dad” pajamas it makes me feel like the luckiest person in the world.

She does so much more for me than I can ever do for her.

Mommy had to work to put the Sophie monster down tonight but they’re both out cold now and I’m about to join them! Michelle watched Sophie a bunch today so I could work.

I am so lucky to get to be alive with these two girls.

Maritza (our housekeeper) and her husband Alexis (our guard and gardener) are just the sweetest couple. They both love Sophie so much and are just such great people. We will def. miss them when we move from this house. I wish they could come with us. Alexis is constantly bringing Sophie little gifts and odd things he finds in nature, and Maritza can def. throw down in the kitchen! Sophie will lean in for both of them to hold her and it is just so cute to watch. We are getting better with our Spanish so communicating is getting easier by the day. Below are some things that Alexis brought for Sophie today and some dishes Maritza cooked/prepared for us. I will have to get a pic of her breakfast she makes in the morning. She even warms up the milk for my coffee…love…wondering why i never thought to do that! Alexis will go into the trails and chop off flowers for Sophie. His presents aren’t Target or Babies r Us style but Sophie just loves them…lol.

Fresh Pico de Gallo with limes from the lime tree!

Fresh veggie soup - Sophie inhaled this!

Homemade Papaya Frostie

An old wasp nest (vacant obviously) that Alexis found for Sophie

Another close up of the wasp nest...boys boys.

A trinket made by Indians that Alexis brought over as a gift for Sophie

Today we all went to breakfast at Villa Blanca. It was a dreary day weather wise but we ended up having a lot of fun. Villa Blanca is a beautiful resort close to us that we will def. be visiting weekly while here in San Ramon. The breakfast was awesome and we met the manager who offered us the private movie theater whenever we want to come watch a movie and told us we are always welcome to just come use the facilities. The movie theater is part of the resort and we can just call and schedule a movie to watch after our meal and take Soph to her own private movie! After breakfast today we went to the “game room” and Soph played around with some Jenga blocks and sat on the pool table putting the balls in the pockets. Once she was worn out we got back in the car and she was asleep before we even turned off the road from Villa Blanca. Unfortunately she missed out on the herd of cows blocking the road to leave b/c she would have loved to show off her new trick when we saw them. She just learned “Moooo”. We say, Sophie what does the cow say, and then the lil nugget says “Moo”. We’re working on “tweet tweet” for the bird. Anyway, after she zonked we drove to a town called Grecia to just look around and then headed back to San Ramon and stopped at her fave cafe (Cafe Delicias) for a “sticky treat” that she absolutely loves. Fun for her, not so fun for the sticky mess mommy always has to clean up-lol. Some pics from the day are below :).

Eating breakfast at Villa Blanca

Playing on the pool table

Just the girls

Some pool table Yoga

Goodnight Irene

traffic here is much diff than Chicago...moooo (ps- note the top of our Costa Rican flag on our windshield- fml)

Sticky treat!

Yes mommy has to clean the goo from each almond sliver that falls off this sticky treat and onto the car seat, sosi's clothes, her hair, her hands...everything! Why can't my daughter like something normal like a cookie?

…so I installed a program on my phone that lets me update the blog. Here goes!

We’ve been here a couple of weeks now and are settling in. Michelle made our fav. spaghetti recipe last night and it was really nice to have a meal like we used to have back home in Chicago.

We went to a new grocery store in a place called Bajo Zuniga yesterday and got tons of veggies and some fruit for less than $20. It was also fresh and came from some local organic farmers.

The weather was pretty crappy when we first got here but there have been some awesome days full of sunshine since then. The rainy season is coming to an end – they say it usually lasts until the middle of November.

It makes us really happy seeing Sophie outside playing in the sun. She has a bunch of toys (we packed an entire suitcase) yet she loves going outside, examining plants and playing with the cats and dogs we are renting along with her house (they came with it).

Sophie had so much fun today that she tried to zonk out a 6:30PM. We gave her a shower early and she and Michelle watched Sesame Street in YouTube for a bit.

Now she’s out like a light…