The Sunshine State

Before I begin the heart of this post, let me make a comment for the "Christopher of Christmas Future." When our little boy is about 21 years old, away at college and looking back at this blog to recount his infancy, I would like him to wonder why he would struggle so before taking a nap. Little boy, why do you fight sleep? I guarantee you will have many days in college when you just wish you could take a two hour afternoon nap but can't because of class or studying or practice... Anyway, it is a gorgeous day here in Kansas and I am changing the state nickname from the "Sunflower" to the "Sunshine" state. After CJ's morning nap, we took a stroll over to Scooter's for Mommy to get some coffee and biscotti. Christopher was quite content playing with his keys on the floor and watching the repairmen using manly tools like hammers and drills to fix the door near where we were sitting. We visited with our barista, Helen (one of the folks who was there the day we got stuck inside Scooter's due to the manhunt going on). Chris was all smiles for her. On our way back we dropped by to pick up Daddy's dry cleaning and visited with the lady who works there too who always oogles over CJ. You will also notice from our picture that we tried out a new seated position in our everyday stroller and Chris was quite comfortable. Since I didn't believe any running was going to break out on our trip, we left the jogger at home. This stroller was fine, but I have to say, its shock system is basically non-existent, especially compared to the jogger! Anyway, Chris has been a teething maniac for the past three days and it has been quite challenging at times. This is really the worst I've seen it so I don't know if there is a new tooth breaking through or if the top ones are just making their way throughj even more. Jaime mentioned that if you peel a full-size carrot and give it to him cold to chew on, it helps to ease the pain. We tried that today and I have to say it was quite helpful! Definitely more fun than the Elmo teething blanket we spent $5 for at Babies R Us. Maybe I'll start a garden in the back and grow carrots to help CJ with his teeth and attract bunnies for Kasey. Hmmmmmm...