Eaten out of house and home

I had planned on making a nice meal last night while Brett was on his way home, but I found that the majority of my ingredients had little mouse bite marks through the packaging. So gross. I went to make breakfast this morning and found an entire loaf of bread completely ruined. It's like the little sucker tunneled a hole straight through the middle of it. So this afternoon, we spent a good amount of time taking food out of the pantry, salvaging what we could and throwing away what we had to. Hopefully, the mouse will not find its way in to a nearby cabinet. I can't see a way that it could climb in to that cabinet, but I might be surprised in the morning. The Orkin man comes at 1 pm tomorrow, which is not soon enough.

We all got dressed up this rainy morning and went to our new church. We went to the 11 am mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Quite a departure from the Life Teen mass we used to go to in NY. Sophia got a kick out of the bell choir that they had at this mass. We had to deal with her severely drippy nose all morning, so church was actually a break from her nose. After church, we all headed to Sears to get the car fixed (we had a bulging tire that was under warranty), get Brett a new pair of tennis shoes (the mouse had made his home in Brett's sneakers while our clothes were in storage), and look at lawn mowers. If it would ever stop raining, we could actually mow the yard. It was a busy day.

On a good note, Sophia has slept through the night pretty much since we moved in to our new house. I've also been laying her down awake for naps and bedtime, and though she may yell for a bit, she eventually calms down and puts herself to sleep. It's glorious to be able to sleep through the night and not hear poor Sophia struggling to sleep. Yes, I'm pregnant and still wake up at least once at night to go to the bathroom, but the whole fact that I can pretty much sleep for 8 hours of sleep is blissfully refreshing. I'm soaking it in while I can because in a few months, I'll be up MUCH more often in the middle of the night.

Also, happy first anniversary to Sophia's godparents and our good friends, Chris and Sarah Sansone! I hope your first year of marriage was a blessed one and that you have many more happy years in the future!

Now, on to pictures.


Sophia loves to play on this little table at my parents, and she digs out all of the play kitchen ware also. It's fun to watch her "cook." She also walks around and feeds everyone or gives them sips out of her cups.


I bought a new rug for the kitchen. When I brought it to the house, I asked Sophia to sit on it so I could take her picture. That was her pose.


We truly have a girl. She played in my heals the entire time I unpacked clothes and organized our closet.


We got cable on Monday. Self-explanatory.


It's amazing how she can entertain herself when I unpack old toys.