St. Louis

We braved our first road trip with Camilla and went to St. Louis for the weekend. Camilla did great in the car (whew!) and we had a great time attending the temple and checking out the City Museum and local cuisine.

Well, let's just say the term "local cuisine" is being used a little loosely. The true winner was a place called Fitz's where they bottle their own root beer and other sodas. We had a great time tasting all of the different sodas they bottle right there. The loser? Imo's St. Louis style pizza. You might ask, what is St. Louis style pizza? Thin crust, sauce that tastes like spaghetti-o's, and provel cheese. Yes, provel cheese. Apparently provel cheese is a blend of swiss, cheddar and mozerella. According to wikipedia it's really only popular in St. Louis. In my family we would refer to Imo's pizza as a Delmonico's (a.k.a. disgusting).

The big event of the trip was to attend the temple. It's was peaceful and so nice to attend there one last time before our temple opens up soon! We stayed an extra day and spent Saturday at City Museum, which really isn't a museum at all. To take Celeste's words, it's more like a pyschedelic jungle gym. It hosts indoor caves, tree houses, gigantic ball pits, acrobats, a 10 story slide and things to climb, crawl through and explore everywhere. Let's just say, we were very sore the next day.

Thanks to Celeste for the photos, my camera is broken on my phone.

Let it snow!

This winter has been pathetic here in Kansas this year. It snowed the night Camilla was born, a dusting really, and since then it hasn't done much. I was so excited to take maternity leave over the winter so I didn't have to worry about getting to work in the slushy mess and we've barely seen a flake. Yesterday we got another dusting of snow and it was enough to inspire this little video.

Okay, stop judging my singing! The whole video I was doing my best not to start laughing, Camilla is getting to be so much fun.

There's not much else to report these days. We aren't doing anything too exciting around here besides just enjoying our time together before I go back to work in only 3 weeks.

Singing and Picnics

Camilla is a morning baby. She is always the most happy and playful early in the day. Every morning I sing to her when as I get my day going. Over the past couple of days I noticed that whenever I sing to her, she has started to sing along. If I stopped singing, then she would stop too. She puts her mouth in a perfect "O" shape and ooohhhs and ahhhs along side me. I'm working on trying to catch this in a little video soon.

Today we enjoyed the unseasonably warm weather and had a picnic with friends at the park. The sun felt so nice beating down on us. Before the picnic, we spent a couple of hours at the library. I love the library...the smell of the books, the quiet, the endless possibilities of reading fun. I hope Camilla loves to read and I love when a carefully selected children's book is given as a gift for birthdays and holidays. I would love to hear your suggestions on your favorite children's books(s) for me to purchase for our collection at home.

Ryan got off early from his internship and was able to meet us at the park. What a treat!