Y mas crawling

. . . on the baby blog.

It's the final countdown

Who else is excited about Mockingjay?!

I am always pleasantly and excitedly surprised when I hear loads and heaps and oodles of praise about a book, and then I finally read it and it actually lives up to the hype. And then the sequel is even better.

And yes, I am a dork with a countdown on my blog. I also stole the idea from my sister. So I'm an unoriginal dork.

Crawling video

She's crawling! (It should, in theory, be easy to baby-proof an empty house. The dangers just JUMP out at you. Ü)

Nani's celebrity lookalike

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Baaaaaaaack in the saddle again

We have internet at our house! Yippee! It's sad how empty the house feels without internet. Granted, our house IS empty and will be until July 30, but still. Baby steps.

Isn't our empty house gorgeous though?! I adore it.

Since my last post, we moved to Maryland. Nadine did so well on the four separate flights. It probably helped that the Army bought her a seat on all the flights, which was wonderful.

On our way east we stopped in Utah for 36ish hours to visit Todd's family. It was a really fast but fantastic trip. I'm glad Nadine has now met most of her paternal aunts, uncles, and cousins. While there we had a BBQ, and Todd's dad bought the coolest water slide. They so didn't have stuff like this when I was growing up.

Pictures of Nadine are on the baby blog.

The rest of this post is whiny. If you don't want to read my "woe is me, boo hoo" post, stop now and just look at adorableness. But if you don't mind joining my pity party, keep reading.

I doubt I am alone in this, but I have a really hard time moving. I've realized moving gives me a major case of the blues, so I'll admit it: I have had a tough time since we've come to Maryland. It probably doesn't help that we don't have our household goods and won't get them for a couple more weeks. That's a lot of sitting on the floor.

I dread getting to know people again. Not that my cup runnethed over for a social life in Hawaii, but I at least had one person I could call who got me out of the house a few times a week. During our previous move I learned I need to be proactive instead of just sitting in the shadows complaining that no one talks to me. So I was excited to put myself out there. But I went to a church activity last night and left more depressed than when I arrived--that's never a good thing. It totally takes the wind out of my "be assertive, can-do" sails.

I understand people get busy and forget to stop and think of others (I know am guilty of it), but my goodness why don't people remember what it's like to be the new person? Again, I know I need to make the effort and blah blah blah, but sometimes it's nice when someone else is trying too. Hopefully I'll have wind in my sails again in a few days.

What have you guys done to successfully fit into a new area?

OK, waaa waaa waaa I'm done. Sorry this post is so Debbie Downer.