A trip to the Children's Museum

So, changes are abound in the Miller household as of late. I was offered a full-time teaching position at a middle school in Seattle, so we're going to be getting into the swing of the daycare thing. She'll mainly be going part-time, after December, since Al will only have to go into UW on M/W/F, but still a big change for all of us. It makes me a bit sad, I've had to fight off crying a few times, realizing that we're on our last few days together at home, in the routine we've had since she was born. But it's exciting, and it will be good for Rhia to be around other kids and learn some structure. This also means that we'll probably be trying to move into the city and thus closer to both of our jobs in the near future, which is, again, exciting and scary.

In honor of our last full week of Mom-and-Daughter-At-Home-Time, I took her to the Children's Museum at the Seattle Center today. They have a special Sesame Street exhibit about the body this fall, so I figured she'd love it. She did. It was great fun, and she fell asleep as soon as I put her in the car on the way home, didn't really wake up when I moved her to her crib, and is still napping, two hours later. So, some pictures, since who knows when I'll have time to update again after I head back to the grind (the first two are just for fun, the rest are of the museum):

Rhia loves to color. This picture, I realized, is misleading, because it looks like she's colored in Cookie Monster very well. It was a picture I'd started, and she "finished." Although I'd love to say she can already color that well. :) Regardless, she's really good at holding writing utensils correctly.

Touchdown Colts!! We are avidly Anti-Tom Brady. It's never too early to teach the kiddo how to cheer correctly, and in the correct attire.

Baking at the Children's Museum.

In the African Village exhibit--this is really on here for Teresa, if she ever gets back to the internet and checks this from her actual African Village.

Driving a mini-Metro bus. She also took a pot lid this morning (before we left) and was running around the house going "beep! beep!" and pretending it was a steering wheel. And so it starts...luckily she hasn't asked for the car keys. Yet.

Hanging out at 123 Sesame Street. She wouldn't sit on the steps, but preferred to stroll around the landing.

This was probably the coolest part for her--they have a life-sized "Elmo's World" replication (which means nothing to people that don't have small children that watch Sesame Street. Trust me, it's like the mecca of toddlerdom). Elmo is her absolute favorite, and she was just in seventh heaven being in Elmo's house. The thing I didn't get a picture of (because it required too much of my help) that she may have loved more was this Super-Grover jumping thing--she also loves Grover and asks for him by name.