Not much is going on at the moment. Life is slowly returning to its normal schedule as I get better. I don't have much to report, but I have Sophia pictures to share, and I know that's what many folks come to our blog for!We went to Portland and Battle Ground for Father's Day. On the ride up I took a picture of Sophia sleeping in the car. I think every child does this, but it's still funny to see her contort herself into what appear to be agonizing positions while sleeping soundly.
While in Portland my parents gave us the rocking chair that was my mother's. It was repaired 
and cleaned up by my family's good friend Bob who builds beautiful furniture. (He built the end table behind Sophia in the photo to the right.) Sophia loves her chair and sits and rocks in it quite frequently. She also climbs on it and this frequently results in her being tipped out onto the floor with the chair on top of her. We tell her no, and she does it even though it makes her cry every time. I'm hoping sometime she'll learn from experience and stop doing it, but I think there's a good chance she'll learn from experience and do it better so the chair doesn't 
dump her onto the floor. (Try clicking on the photo of Sophia and Paul so you can better see Sophia's expression. She's giving him quite a look of mischief.)This week has been fairly warm, and one evening I gave Sophia her first Popsicle. She was quite entertained by it and ate about half. She was also quite a sticky mess afterwards, but she's a toddler, she deserves to be a sticky mess from time-to-time.
