It's Summer Time!

Summer has officially started- Let the fun begin! This week was pretty much taken up by me taking finals. Rachel got to work out every morning, and Evelyn smiled and pooped a lot. Here's a funny story (well, at least it was funny after it happened):

So we were at church today and Eva was being a perfect smiley little baby. Then she started squirming and fussing a little bit. Being the good father that I am, I picked her up out of her car seat and held her just in time for her diaper to blow out and splatter poop all over my suit! It was everywhere! I guess that's what a father's love gets you. I spent the next 15 minutes in the bathroom trying rather unsuccessfully to scrub poop off of me, and Rachel spent that same 15 minutes in the bathroom trying to change Evelyn.

Besides pooping, Evelyn has learned another trick- she can now roll over. She doesn't like it very much when we make her do it though so she does this little distress call thing that is way cute and makes it even more fun to watch. Here are some videos. In the first one, she just makes worried noises. After a rousing pep-talk from Dad she was finally able to roll over.




Evelyn is very sturdy on her feet. You can't see in the picture very well, but the only part of her that I am holding is her hand (well, sort of her forearm). She can stay up like this for a long time before toppling over. Sometimes we joke that she will learn how to walk before she learns how to sit up.

When I finished up with finals, Rachel wanted to celebrate the completion of my first year of dental school, so she took me to a very "hip" restaurant known as Hot Sauce Williams. This restaurant is on the way to church so we drive by it every week and wonder what kind of food comes from such a "unique" place. As it turns out, they have awesome fried chicken and ribs with an excellent sauce over the top of everything. I think the retro colors make the food taste better.
The highlight of the week is when we got a piano! Rachel found a killer deal on Craigslist; it took some work to get it to our house, but now we have it and we are excited to become piano maestros (or whatever you call good piano players). It is a nice piano and will serve us well.