Skiing on her own - Vail

On several days during our trip to Vail, I took Sophia out for 3 or 4 ski runs, mostly so she could start to get the feel for it. On this, the third such day, I decided to let go on the run prior to this video, to see what happened. Sophia "skied" down about 40 yards until I stopped her at the bottom. It was pretty amazing.

This is the subsequent run, where I again let her go for a bit on her own at the very end. You can tell at the end of the video that she's still not totally sold on skiing (but does like looking at pictures and videos of herself). However, when our plane took off from Denver several days later, she turned to me and said, "I want to go skiing again!" And she's asked about a half dozen times since, including this morning when she announced that she's going skiing tomorrow. Hope she has fun with whoever is taking her.

We start out very small in this video, but eventually you can make us out.

Sledding in Vail

Posting like crazy today! There's another video below this post, from Christmas.

Also, two new albums posted on picasa, linked at the right.

This was sledding on our 2d day at Vail, in late December. Opa (Herman) gave a push at the top to get them started.

Christmas: NanNan's morning routine

Sophia is obsessed with NanNan (Nancy). First words out of her mouth when she wakes up in the morning? "What's NanNan doing?" If told NanNan is still sleeping, Sophia says, "I go check."

Sophia usually follows NanNan around throughout her pre-work morning routine. For Christmas, Santa brought Sophia all the stuff she needs to recreate NanNan's routine. This was Christmas at the VB's.