fall=beginning of coldness

i grew up in south carolina, and africa...warm places

i like warm places

in fact, i rarely turn on the air conditioning...i don't like humidity that much but i love being warm or even hot

i've lived in indiana for over 9 years now and i still don't like the cold

sure the first snow is pretty, but that's about it

then they plow it and it turns grey from mixing with dirt, and it's in huge piles and gross looking

then there's the stain of salt on your shoes and the bottom of your pants and in the house

and the million and one layers you have to wear just to walk outside

now i will stop complaining about the cold...some people just aren't meant for it

i always feel for john's dad who wears his long sleeve shirt and moccasins year round (no joke)

i do love the changing of colors for fall but then it just gets colder and colder

i wonder if there's a place that you get to see the changing of the colors and then it goes back to warmness? hmm, maybe i'll try to find that place

on to sophia-she was 11 weeks old yesterday...craziness i tell you

she is really starting to hold her own head up

she is making lots of noises, more than just screeches now (thankfully)

she is almost 12 whole pounds

she is sleeping through the night most nights (she has cried a few times but i have allowed her to cry it out and we've both slept better)

now we are working on moving up her last feeding so that we can both be in bed earlier...tonight she will eat for the last time at 9pm...then hopefully sleep until 5am, her first feeding of the day

she is grabbing things like crazy and really focusing on stuff

she smiles appropriately now (so much fun)

still doesn't poop more than every 4-5 days (kind of nice with cloth diapers though, i won't lie)

she is starting to like baths and tummy time...a little bit

she is doing much better with the bottle, i'm just hoping she'll start to take more at a time...but when she realizes that is the only way when i'm at work, i think she might :)

now that i have rambled a ton, time to go play with my little girl