My 4 Teddy Lions

Sophie has 4 "teddy lions" as we call them. She started out with 1 which we bought before she was born, when she was around 5 months she started loving her teddy, she curls up with it at night and at nap time, she loves to bury her face in the furry mane and drool all over it. She is quite attached to it. The cat even likes it as I catch her dragging it around in her mouth like it was her kitten.




In December we decided Teddy Lion was starting to smell like a homeless man and I threw it in the wash, well his hair didn't survive the wash much, it balled up like dreadlocks and now looks like Danny Bonaduce and Sophie didn't have his fun mane to bury her face in anymore.



While we were in CA over Christmas, we came upon a store selling a larger version of Teddy Lion that is almost as big as Sophie so we had to buy it for her. Then last week I was in Anthropology and they had a whole basket of them that were on sale and clearing them out so I had to buy her 2 more. So we are at 4 Teddy Lions and lets hope they last a while.

Sophie's not spoiled or anything...

Sleepy Sophie

This weeks happenings

These are the days when we love living up here, were high above the inversion/smog of the valley, it's been smoggy for over a week, you can't even see the Salt Lake valley but it was blue skys and sunshine up at home and balmy 45 degrees so Soph and I went for a walk one afternoon, she loves going for walks, it's been a while because of winter, the stroller always puts her to sleep.



View of Salt Lake valley smog, there's really a city down under there


Sophie likes to ride her little trike around the house, with us pushing her of course, she is really good at holding on tight.

Jumping Bean

Sophie loves her bouncy chair, she goes crazy in it:



no hands:


sometimes I think it wears her out:

Christmas Vacation

This year instead of doing Christmas presents we took a few days and went to California (LA) to enjoy some warmth and sunshine. We left the day after Christmas and right as a big storm was moving out that dumped 2 feet of snow at the house.

We took Sophie to "Beverly Hills" and Rodeo Drive



Took in the sunset at Santa Monica Pier





Visited the Ronald Reagan Library where they had his Air Force One plane that we could tour, as well as a section of the Berlin Wall that he was part of bringing down. They also had lots of cool memorabilia/archive stuff and personal items of President and Nancy Reagan.



Soaking up the sun on the library patio


Air Force One


The Reagan Library is located in the Santa Monica Mountains, we were close to the Paramount Ranch where they filmed Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (Yes I like Dr Quinn) so I had to stop by, much of the town sets are still there and they use them now for western movies.

If you've seen the show you will recognize the areas filmed in my pictures.












We spent a day at the Getty Center seeing art and soaking up the sun again.













Our last day we went to Laguna Beach the clouds started rolling in and it was cooler out, so we timed the nice weather perfectly. Back to our snow and 20 degree weather.