It's been a while since my last entry. Sorry about that. Well, I can hardly believe I've been home for almost a month. I still feel like I'm catching up from my trip.
Very shortly after arriving home (about 3 days), Archie's parents drove up to visit us and see the new house. During their week-long visit here, we went to the Detroit Zoo, planted our garden, visited Archie's jobsite, and just spent some all-around quality time with each other.
A couple of days after they left, we hosted a Cinco de Mayo party/bbq at our house for Archie's co-workers. Archie smoked ribs for the occasion and a great time was had by all. There was certainly NO shortage of 7-layer dip (ha).
Since then, I've been recovering from all the activity, and trying to readjust to 'normal' life... whatever that is.
Rachel is doing wonderfully. She is growing and changing every day. Her new thing over the past few weeks is temperature. Everything is "hot" until proven otherwise. She puts her hand on it to feel it when she says "hot". Obviously we don't give her anything that actually IS hot, so we have to reassure her that it is not hot. Now she's learning about things that are cold, not just the snow and winter that she learned over the winter.
She is also calling us Mommy and Daddy all the time now. She even looks out at the driveway and says "Daddy" "work" and "Jeep", usually all together, in some combination. And she just says/shouts "Mommy" over and over, (almost) all the time, usually in combination with wanting Mommy also.
Oh, one thing I did over the past few weeks is put away all of Rachel's "baby" stuff that she doesn't need any more - soft blocks, rattles, bouncer, recieving blankets, all of that good stuff. Rachel had a lot of fun trying to keep playing with them as I was collecting and washing them before they got into a storage bin and into the basement.
For Mother's Day, Archie got tickets to the Redwing's playoff game against the Anaheim Ducks from one of his subcontractors. It turned out they were only third row up from the ice, and right next to the home team's box. Very cool, and a fun time was had by all. Rachel particularly liked the Zamboni, had a great time waving to the people that rode around on them. Unfortunately, the Redwings lost, but it didn't effect our enjoyment in the slightest.