Eric is getting ready for his business partner (my brother) to come back to the business this month, and it's exciting. I think having more than one person who can do everything that needs to be done is going to be really beneficial, and I think it will also be more fun for him. They have a big job coming up at the end of this month in Wisconsin, so they get to start off with a business trip together. Meanwhile, he fixed our dishwasher last week like a boss, and now he's trying to figure out why the lawn mower won't start. Such is the never-ending stream of excitement that is our life.
I have started putting in more regular hours for Mustache Power, and have started working on some more regular blogging, some website tweaks (we put up a new website recently, but it isn't quite finished yet, partially because it went up and then everything got put on the back burner while all efforts went to InstructureCon). CB is taking more regular naps now and being generally more independent in her play, so it seemed like a good time to get back to a regular schedule, even if it's only an hour or two a day right now.
My parents will be back from their mission sometime in the next month and a half (!) so we've started thinking about our plans when they get back (or rather, we have been thinking about them but now have a better idea of what we're doing, sort of). We've decided we'll probably stick around here until the end of the year, and then we'll move into an apartment a little closer to the business partner brother. Of course, this plan has changed several times in the last few months, so we'll see if we stick to this one. For a few weeks we toyed with the idea of buying, but we decided we aren't quite ready for that level of responsibility yet. We'll give it a year or so. Meanwhile, I'm having fun thinking about furnishing our own place again, contemplating how well I could refinish furniture on KSL, making plans for organizing CB's room, realizing that it might finally be time to throw away some of my socks. (Seriously. I have a whole (not small) drawer packed full of socks. I'm not sure how this happened.)
CB is walking! It's so crazy to see her stand up and toddle across the room. Crawling is still her preferred mode of transportation, but she's walking more and more and seems tickled with herself when she makes it a long way without falling. I love that she makes herself laugh now.
Last night we were playing in her room, and she was just thrilled with Eric. She was giggling and stealing his glasses (and gloating about it) and just generally being delighted with him. I said, "CB, give Daddy a kiss!" which is something she has kind of been doing lately, but not consistently. She walked right over to him, leaned over and gave him a big, open mouth kiss on the cheek. Eric was so pleased he kept chuckling to himself for a couple of minutes after. It was a very sweet moment.
Church is getting harder with CB again. This week, it went like this: Arrive at church. Realize CB needs a diaper change. Change diaper. Go to class. Repeatedly try to keep CB from distracting the Relief Society by talking to the baby behind her ("Hi bebe!") and making him giggle. Finally give up when she crawls around to play with his toys. Smell a suspicious smell. Head to the diaper changing station again. Come back for Sunday School. Five minutes in, take CB to the mother's room to chill. Head back into class. Let CB walk down the row until two minutes later she falls down and bites her lip. Leave class holding a shrieking baby. Calm baby. Notice blood flow. Go back in a panic for husband. Calm baby and mama. Walk the halls with baby to calm her down and distract her. Go to Sacrament. Fight to keep baby on bench. After sacrament is passed, smell another suspicious smell. Diaper change. (Seriously, I don't know what she ate.) Finish meeting with lots of snacks, books, jabbering to the back row. Come home and collapse. Wonder if they'll take her into nursery 5 months early.
Luckily, this weekend also included a trip to Park City (we had an awesome coupon for a $20 gift card and a sheet of 20% off coupons) where Eric and CB both got new pants, and I bought myself a shirt and a pair of shoes, plus we bought some raspberry salsa. Didn't know such a thing existed, but it was tasty. On Friday night we went to dinner at City Creek and then let CB play on the splash pad, which brought her great joy.
Finally, we recently got our pictures from our Houston trip. We had one year pictures taken of CB and her cousin, and they are so adorable. Observe a few of my favorites:
