A real post, finally

I do have a reason for my drought. First, I was in Minnesota with my family for a week and a half (This picture is of Cora enjoying the flowers at the Como Zoo's Conservatory in St. Paul with her Grandpa Watts). Josh came just for President's Day weekend, and Cora and I stayed another week. When I got back I was offered a job. There's a used bookstore a block away from our house, and I've been walking there a lot to visit with the owners and read books. When I came back from Minnesota and went to visit the bookstore, and they offered me a job. The only time I'm scheduled to work is Thursday nights from 6-8; other than that, I go in whenever Cora's schedule permits, and I can bring her with me. That is really nice! I usually go for about an hour a day in between her morning and afternoon naps. So that's been keeping me busy.

(Cora playing with Poppy, my sister's rabbit, on my parents' bed)

Then we had Josh's parents and younger sister here for a couple days. It was a lot of fun to spend time with them. I got to know them even better, because Josh was away at school the whole day and it was just Cora and me with them. I'm lucky to have great in-laws. And that Josh fits in well with my family. We're just blessed all around.

Other exciting news: we bought a printer and Josh's parents brought me back my guitar. And my mom sent me a bunch of new music (including lots of Finnish music!). So that's pretty much everything that's been going on for the last month.

Cora is crawling now! She can also get back to sitting after she crawls, which means she can entertain herself for a long time. She loves to come visit me in the kitchen and slap the floor. She has discovered the joys of banging, too. And not long after she started crawling, she figured out how to pull herself to standing. My baby's growing up! She'll be 8 months on April 6.

So now that she's mobile, she can keep herself awake much longer. One day I put her down for a nap, and she played for an hour before finally going to sleep. And this is how she went to sleep! She's flopped over her legs.





I couldn't resist putting this picture in, because she's just so CUTE!! She already has Mommy and Daddy wrapped around both her little fingers.