Random Ramblings

• A month after we got our family pictures taken, we FINALLY got the cd in the mail.   Now to pick out pictures for printing, posting, etc.
• We have a very ambitious squirrel at our house.  One day the squirrel woke me up from a nap by climbing up the screen door on our sliding glass door in order to get to the bird feeder.  Later, I had Ken take the screen door off, since we never used it anyway, and it was about to fall off.  A week or so later, I saw the squirrel climbing up the edge of our sliding glass door to get to the bird feeder.  I can't even imagine what he was hanging onto.
• The other day, Amelia told me that I wasn't being nice.  She was right - I wasn't being nice.  I giggled and then apologized.
• Our next door neighbors shot off very large and loud fireworks (like what you'd see at a city firework show) on July 4th, until almost midnight.  Amazingly, Sophia slept through most of it, but it woke up Amelia and then she wouldn't/ couldn't go to sleep for an hour after they stopped.  Since then Amelia's napping and bedtime have been a battle.  I'm not sure if she's afraid to go to sleep now or what, but I hope it gets better soon.
• Sophia is becoming mobile.  She has figured out how to crawl . . . backwards . . . but gets frustrated when she gets stuck backing into a wall.  She also loves to stand and has almost figured out how to pull herself from sitting to standing.