Hello friends! I have thought about blogging for a few days now, but we have been so busy catching our breath from the crazy past couple of weeks, that I haven't had a chance. Here are some pictures I just took. This scenery has been right outside my apartment the whole time we've lived here, and I just discovered it yesterday! Can you believe that? Oh well. Christa is much more interested in eating things on the ground than posing for pictures right now, so we did the best we could squeezing these in before it started thundering.
Quit eating those sticks!! (I can't get her to enjoy chopped fruit or fruit snacks, but paper, lint, and grass are IT! This morning, Cline caught her trying to eat the hair I'd pulled out of my hairbrush and thrown in the trashcan. Gross!)
This is her latest face. She makes it all the time.
I just thought she looked sweet in this picture.
Not sure what she's looking at. Notice how she's un-velcro-ed the tops of her sandals. That's how she likes to wear them.
I can't believe we are only one month away from her first birthday! (I also can't believe how little hair she still has. Cline and I both have mops on our heads!). This year has gone by so fast. We are officially going to party here on June 28th and move the 29th. We are excited to begin our new lives back home. But at the same time, I'm savoring these last weeks of measuring Christa's age in months. This whole year has been such a mix of emotions - looking forward to the end of residency, yet not wanting to rush through Christa's babyhood. It's truly been the best year of my life, so far. I'm excited to have a house, live close to our family, and revive some old friendships, but I am quietly dreading the end of my first year as a mom and the changes that this new phase will bring to our friendships here. I have a friend who is also a resident's wife and who is also packing up her house to move back to her hometown. She mentioned a great quote on her blog (http://www.theiveyleague.com/) that perfectly describes our family right now:
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you begin to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.
Thoroughly enjoying the moment just before the honey... stacked boxes, doubled housing payments, and all!
As requested, I will post some new indoor pictures once we get good and organized. It's coming together, but we still have a long way to go. It has to be presentable by next week, because my sister and her husband are coming to town from Texas, and we plan to host a cookout for them. I'll try my best to remember to snap some pictures while it's clean, so you can see how we have chosen to decorate (although it's a work in progress, and we're missing lots of furniture!)
