The Times Grill in Jacksonville is becoming our choice for dinner when we are visiting K&T. Friday night was no exception. Their burgers are great but the special treat is their sweet potato fries. They are a favorite Sophie finger food, too.
We were in town to watch Sophie on Saturday evening while K&T went to a party. We use any excuse to go see K&T&S. It works out well for everyone. We get to see Sophie grow at about monthly intervals and we see K&T and C&C on most visits.
K&T planned some recreation for us on this visit. Saturday we got Publix subs and had a picnic in Memorial Park in the Riverside area of J’ville. Sunday we went to Ft Caroline and Jacksonville Beach. We had 3 cameras with us and we all were taking pictures of Sophie. Do you think her life is being well documented? The picnic was fun, Ft Caroline was nice, except it was hot and muggy. The beach is always good. I haven’t been to the beach in my town in over a month so getting to the beach in Jacksonville broke my absent streak. The beach in J’ville reminded me a lot of the beach in Cocoa Beach where I spent a lot of time in the summer of ’69 and ’70. I’m going to have to get back into beach walking!
Sophie was having on and off diarrhea, something that keeps her from going to day-care. We stayed over through Monday eve to watch Sophie so K&T could go to work. We left J’ville about 5:30 PM and got back home around 9:30.
No kitties were around Monday night or Tuesday morning.
Sophie Update—Karen provides excellent reports on Sophie as she develops into Sophie-the-person. But I had some quality one-on-one time with little Miss S and here is my report.
I was wearing my sandals that have Velcro straps on them. I went to take them off and when the Velcro made the tearing sound Sophie noticed. She came over with a very serious look on her face and started to investigate. She had me show her how the Velcro works by moving my hands to close and open the strap. Then she tried it herself several times until she completely understood it. Later, on Sunday when I went to take my sandals off at the beach it also attracted her.
After the initial Velcro incident Sophie reached out and lifted the end of my tee shirt exposing my tummy and my belly button. Tim saw this and said that she loves belly buttons. She does. She takes her index finger and slowly approaches the navel with it as she smiles and watches your face. Then she slowly sticks her finger in as far as she can—her little finger nail poking the deepest tender belly button area—which makes me laugh hysterically—which makes her want to do it again and again giving me a toothy grin each time.
Sophie likes to drink from the end of a straw that you dunk in your drink and hold the liquid in place with your finger. When you empty the straw in her mouth she thinks it is hilarious to clamp down on the end of the straw with her little teeth while you try to pull the straw out of her mouth.
As with most babies Sophie shows no fear of the water. At the beach she fearlessly crawled out into the mighty Atlantic. Tim played the catcher on the shore and kept her safe.
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