Daycare, Work, and a Baptism

Not happy about having her picture taken before school

Playing with Elizabeth and Taylan

Great Grandma and Garrett - trying to get into Jude's Bumpy chair

The Godparents (me and my brother with Jude) Group Photo (brother in law, Jude, my brother, my sister, and me)
So we survived the first week back to work, starting daycare, and a road trip to Chicago for my nephew, Jude's, baptism. It has been crazy and I am so fortunate that Malia is a wonderful little girl. She is starting to really like daycare (or school as we call it). There were some tears the first couple days but Friday and today there were no tears when I left. She even walked in saying "yea, yea, school" today when we got to the parking ramp at work. I love having the daycare right there. I was able to spy on her via cameras in the room the first couple days at lunch to see how she was doing. The teacher said she is acting like she has always been here. I tried to get a picture of her ready for her first day but she wasn't in the mood.

Then on top of adjusting to being back to work and starting daycare, we did a road trip to Chicago this weekend with most of my immediate family. Me, Malia, my parents, my grandma, and my brother's family (with the two kids) all headed to Chicago on Saturday and returned on Monday. Luckily the kids were really good considering naps we missed and that much time in the car will drive an adult crazy. The baptism went well and the kids basically behaved during it. It was fun to see how Garrett and Malia got along, except for fighting over the baby. We even squeezed in Malia's first trip to American Girl, downtown Chicago.