Omaha

I can't believe that we have already been in Omaha for almost 4 weeks. I have a feeling this summer is going to fly by. We are happily settled into my parent's basement. It was so nice to pull into a familiar city, with just our suitcases of clothes, and know that we had a nice, furnished house waiting for us. We are SO, SO grateful to my parents (and brother) for letting us crash here for the summer. I think they they are enjoying having us (...at least that is what they claim!)

John is really enjoying his internship at ConAgra Foods, and we have been enjoying the "market research" we have done at home eating up lots of yummy Marie Callender dinners and pies. We are also loving ConAgra's Summer Fridays on which he gets out of work at about 1:00. On his first Friday, we all went to the zoo. It was a hot day, so we spent most of our time visiting the indoor exhibits, the aquarium being our favorite.

Makenna has LOVED being here with Grandma and Grandpa at the lake. Our biggest problem is keeping her inside. With a view like this out the window,


I can't blame her, but it is just a little scary having her be able to just wander outside to the water anytime she wants. We are trying to be very diligent about not letting her down to the beach without a life jacket, and making sure that she is never outside alone, but she has managed to "escape" a few times. Yesterday my dad set up the alarm system so that it now beeps whenever a door opens, so hopefully we won't have any more breakouts!

Hudson is now 7 1/2 months old, and has learned all kinds of new things since we've been here. He can now roll over both ways (which he wasn't really doing before), he can feed himself (his favorites are animal crackers and nilla waffers), and he is starting to wave bye-bye, and get up on his hands and knees. I am sure he will be crawling before the summer is over. He has also fallen asleep in his highchair several times. We were all eating dinner one night, when my mom noticed that Hudson had sucked himself to sleep using a piece of bread. A few days later it happened again this time with an animal cracker. I know food can be comforting sometimes, but using it as a pacifier was a new one for me.