crawling smiling

Ahhhh.... she makes me so proud!! Look at her working so hard to crawl across the floor in her ultra slippery sleeper! The little sleepers are my absolute favorite. :)

crawling to dad!

Here's a video I took a couple days ago of the little girl crawling. She's all over the place these days, and one of her favorite things to do is crawl down the hallway towards the bedroom and explore by her lonesome in a room all to herself. Actually, mom and dad don't notice what she's doing in other rooms, so she probably gets away with a lot more. We're also probably a little on the lazy side, not feeling like following her everywhere she goes.

We haven't done much "baby proofing", though we've done a few things. Eva seems to be a fast learner when we tell her "no", and for the most part, steers clear of those things we tell her not to touch. I'd like to attribute this to our excellent parenting skills, but i don't really think that has much to do with it. :)

More videos to come... hopefully without the whine at the end that comes with this one!

California coast- Highway 101

Here are a few pictures from our drive down the coast of CA. Funny, now that I look at them, they all look similar...
"rock in the water with waves"
"many rocks in water by cliff"
"looking down on large rock in water"
I guess I found the rocks were the most dramatic part of the shoreline, and they really were impressive. Lots of cliffs and crashing waves too. And lots of fog. Just beautiful.

Indiana

From santa barbara, Eva and I flew back to indy (with a layover in houston, just to take us completely out of the way). Both flights were long, but the first was the worst as Jan's stomach decided it wasn't very happy, and she found herself puking into the barf bag while holding Eva in her lap. I have issues with the seat belt sign being on when there isn't even turbulence; it makes the hours drag by when there's a baby confined to a lap for hours on end. Anyhow, since time marches on, the flights eventually came to an end, and we crawled off the plane promising myself the whole way that this was the LAST flight i take alone with Eva!! haha! That is, until we got on the flight again a few days later to fly back. :)

We were only in Indy a very short time; I took my re-certification test for my PA license, and hooray! I passed! Eva also learned some new skills while at grandma and grandpa's house, her biggest one being that she began crawling. She'd been doing an army crawl for a while, but by the time we left, she was crawling all over the place. Again, pictures to come... haven't yet found my cable for transferring pictures.

End of August

Wow, has it been THREE weeks since the last blog entry?? Huge apologies to our readership!! I don't know where the time goes! The past three weeks have been full, as always there has been lots of travel, and Eva has many new things to show you, but for once we'll wait a bit for a post on Eva. :)

We spent the last week of August traveling in California. We drove down to Davis where Nathan went to grad school, and spent great time with some of his old friends in Sacramento and the bay area. The drive down the coast was spectacular, and we took our time and stopped whenever Eva needed a break. And let's face it, we were always more than willing to stop. We probably took a hundred or so pictures of the coastal cliffs and ocean, but we wanted to remember for the days when we're back in landlocked Laos! Eva was a trooper as we drove about four days down the length of CA. We ended in Santa Barbara, where we got to spend a few days with Joel and Marie. They had met Nathan maybe two days before our wedding, and that was all, so we really valued the time with them.

From there, Nathan and I split ways; he drove all the way back to Portland by his lonesome (which I think he secretly appreciated) and Eva and I flew on to the next destination... Pictures to come as soon as i get them off the camera!