Sophie thinking and Max sitting

Things are good here. We've been pretty busy settling back into a routine after our trip to Chicago. Max isn't sleeping through the night yet, which isn't fabulous, I know I need to stop feeding him in the middle of the night, but I'm usually so tired I can't quite wrap my brain around just soothing him and putting him back to sleep.

My gripe of the week: We STILL haven't gotten our orders, or rather Dave is on a work trip and isn't in the office to check and see if they've come in yet. I guess I'm just getting impatient to see what the next phase of our life is going to entail. Plus if we're moving, I have quite a bit to do before then, and if we're not moving then I can laze around eating bon bons all day.

Here's a recent photos of Sophie after she dressed up as a fairy. She also says that she looks like a princess and is going to get married. We were looking at my and Dave's wedding album earlier and she's decided she is going to marry Dave. When I told her she couldn't because I had already married Daddy, she told me that I could marry my friends.



Here's Sophie "thinking". No really I asked her what kind of Popsicle she wanted and she proceeded to scratch her head and say "Hmmm". The bandaid is from an owie that she will not stop scratching. She HATES bandaids.

Max is sitting up. He's been sitting up by himself for a couple weeks now and manages to support himself for quite awhile. He had his six month check up and weighed in at a whopping 21 pounds and change. He's a pretty happy baby as long as he's fed and well rested.
I just love his surprised look.

Chicago 2010 - Sophie at the park

The kids and I loaded up last week and headed off to Chicago... by ourselves. Dave was in Guam for work and for some insane reason I decided it would be the perfect time to get Max baptized. Let me give a little background on my decision, Dave really wanted to be there for Max's baptism, but since Dave will be done at SUBPAC within the next four months or so he really can't afford to take any time off. Added to that he has been traveling a lot lately and always has so much work to catch up on when he is home. Plus (I know you're thinking will this story never end), Emily, the Max and Sophie's godmother and my aunt is due with her first baby at the beginning of October. So it turned out the best time for our trip to Chicago was when Dave was gone. I'll post photos of the baptism later, but during our trip we went to this great park with a ton of toys and climbing walls and, well, it was pretty fabulous. Sophie was in heaven, so here's a couple photos of her enjoying her playtime.

This is one of those rocking horse things. At least when I was a kid they looked like animals, now they're just random shapes welded together. Sophie thought it rocked, ha ha. (Sorry bad pun)