End of August?!

Time for an update.  A is asleep, Chris is watching a video that I've tried desperately to watch, and so now I'm going to blog a bit and add a few pictures from this past week.  Since it was the first week back at school Chris had a difficult week.  I dressed A up for him (since he always says that she is his daughter and needs to be dressed up) when I picked him up from the train one day.  She was "so stinkin' cute" that it made his day much better.  Yay, mission accomplished.  I think she looks like she was born in a different time, but that's just me.

Just hanging out on the floor

This weekend we had Chris's father in town.  We hung out and took pictures.  Since all of us like photography on some level it was nice.  It was nice getting to see family too.

After we dropped my father-in-law at the airport we went to the MSI.  We didn't see Body Worlds, but did check out the new Smart Home exhibit.  They redo the inside with new furniture and stuff each year.  The cool thing from this year is them re-using the University of Chicago lab cabinets in the kitchen. The parallel between laboratories and kitchens is not missed, so it couldn't have been more perfect.  Plus since they have glass doors, everyone can see inside!  We got to look in the gardens which were gorgeous today.  The weather was perfect, so that helped for sure.  There were butterflies everywhere so it was fun to try and catch them on camera.  I also managed to get some honeybees on camera.  :)  Here are a couple of pictures from the Smart Home gardens.

Besides for the Smart Home, we also saw the temporary exhibit, "Suiting up for Space" which is on loan from the Smithsonian.  One interesting thing I learned was about the suits, with how delicate they are! You would think that to keep a person alive in space they couldn't be delicate, but they only ever made on trip out of the atmosphere and the different layers of the space suit tend to react and deteriorate them.  Now, they can take x-rays of the suits so it is pretty neat to see the different suits x-rayed. Here is one such picture. 

This week holds work and playing with A for me.  We're definitely getting close to sitting up alone.  She has the turning over down -- both directions really.  She is frustrated about the not crawling, but to be honest, we aren't exactly encouraging her to be mobile quite yet.  She still likes to sleep on her side, so that takes a lot of balance and stuff.  Today she also started grabbing toys and putting them in her mouth.  This is fun since before she would only hold onto toys if you put them in her hand, now she will grab them.  It is a big step that is encouraging.