Oh Milah, You Make Us Laugh!

Packing Up!

Milah is my great little packing buddy :) Who wouldn't want to look at those dang cute smiles while packing! 

Last day at our Boston apartment!

Splash Pad

There are fun splash pads like this one all around Boston. With my church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints there are a group of women who get together and do something fun and social. Last week we went to Walden Pond, this week to a fun splash pad in Boston.

We went by the splash pad on a 3.5 mile run, where we did 5 errands! Luckily I didn't take time to get us both in bathing suits, since Milah cried when I even touched her toes in the cold water (though it felt really nice to me!). 

Milah waking up from her nap -- by Dan

She is so cute, and I am in awe if her growth. I love how she stretches and moves her hands and arms erratically. When her arm brushes by her mouth she will start sucking on it and put her hand in her mouth. She still brings her legs up past vertical, so it took her about 20 seconds to completely kick the sheet off her body.

Milah's New Tricks

 Milah loves being an airplane!

She can stand like this only holding onto Dan's thumbs for a minute or so!

She grabbed her crab toy and put it in her mouth to get to know it better!

Bugs

Dan and I both commented if you told us we would live with bedbugs we wouldn't have believed you. When I was little Eden and I would sometimes say "Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite" and I'd shudder at the thought. I thought that was only in Africa or some third world country. Nope! We've had them all summer. I wasn't sure they were really bedbugs but I had all these mosquito looking bites that were super itchy. I just held out, but we've found a few of the actual bugs and they are definitely bed bugs. But we know that we'd just have to find somewhere else to live for 5 weeks or however long so it's not worth it.

Bug count: 1 large, dead budbug on sheets; 1 tiny, alive bedbug on blanket; 1 largest-I've-seen-yet cockroach overturned in the middle of our hallway after finding the bedbugs (luckily I nudged him with my sandal before trying to pick him up! He flipped over and almost ran under the bookcase before I stepped on him! I grabbed him with toilet paper and threw him in the toilet bowl and came back a minute later to see him trying to crawl up the side of the bowl with his entrails in dragging in the water). Then, to finish the day, after biking home in the rain I took off my soaked shirt and found a huge, soaking wet, gray spider flattened to the inside of my shirt over the right shoulder. He too came back to life after a minute and I had to quickly smash him in my shirt. :) Weird day, huh?

Milah Mornings

Hi Grandma Lala! Thanks for the darling sleeper :)

Hi Grandma Missy (I haven't heard your official name yet...I just know you're not Grandma Holbrook :)) thanks for the fun crab! 

She can grab the beads on the front and makes him rock back and forth -- and she loves talking to herself in the mirror. It makes her positively giddy and she blows bubbles like crazy!