Forts and things...

I remember playing in/with forts back in the day...but I remember being older than Sophia.  I think.  In a surprise turn of events, Sophia wanted to make a 'pillow fort'...and that she did.  She has been sleeping in her fort for the past several hours.  Even after she woke up from a dream crying...she snuggled right back into that fort of hers...with Frederick keeping a watchful eye of course...

Such a fun age I see evolving...our little girl is exploring so much more...she is watching...she is learning.  Of course she has been all along but now it seems as though there is more of an intent to learn.  I see and hear her trying so hard to understand letters and their sounds...she is trying so hard to draw something more than a line or a circle...she WANTS to draw 'something'.  And she is...and she is so proud.  I love it...  This pumpkin is one of the first 'things' that we have seen Sophia draw...I have countless post-it notes of these little pumpkins that are so cute.  But, the best part is seeing her face light up when she knows she drew something that she intended to draw :)

This is a bit 'off topic' but so cute I had to keep record...we are throwing Cecil's 40th birthday bash tomorrow night here at our house.  I was explaining this to Sophia and Henry and she asked if the party was going to be outside. I explained that, no, it was going to be inside due to the weather, etc.  She said, "...well Mooooom, if it is inside than we will be upstairs awake because everyone will be downstairs yelling, 'Hooray!!  Hooray!!'  Well Boph, we will see...we will see...