Has it been a month already since my last post?? Sheesh, time flies when you have a baby!
Gwen is 4 months old today! I can't believe how fast she's growing up, yet sometimes it seems like she was born years ago (probably because she's had years' worth of milk from her poor mother!). Needless to say, she's growing like a weed (a cute, drooling weed). She's leaping in and out of clothing sizes, she fits a few of her 3-month old things, but has no problem wearing 6-month old sizes!
This past week Gwen's started to explore things with her hands, her favorite being a little cloth toy filled with crunching, crinkling cellophane. She's also been captivated by her hands and feet. When I'm doing the dishes and she's in her swing, and I notice it's been quiet for a little while, I come over to see what she's doing, which ends up to either be staring intently at her slowly moving fingers or toes :)
And no, the hat didn't pop clear off her head, though it probably would have if I hadn't taken it off!
I think Gwenivere also noticed our dog Pippin for the first time. I was sitting on the couch with Gwen, and Pippin, our little chihuahua, decided to join us. Gwen, being attracted to eyes, immediately homed in on him, and Pippin, being attracted to faces, homed in on her. So there was born a staring contest between the two, though Pippin quickly found his place at the bottom of the family totem pole, He turned away and would only look at Gwen sideways :)
Other than Gwen's weekly milestones, it's been one busy month here at the Vaughan homestead. Back in September Aaron and I made the decision to move... somewhere. Anywhere but here. But we wanted to move fairly soon to avoid paying another month's exorbitant rent. We had been making a list of places that interested us; places that #1 had a church with the denomination we currently attend, and #2 had a school where Aaron would eventually do his PhD work. We narrowed it down to Eugene, Oregon for those reasons as well as way cheaper housing, getting away from the hustle of So Cal, greener land and mild, rainy weather-- perfect for gardening. And not sweating.
Aaron had gone up to visit Eugene with his dad and came back with raving reviews of the place, the people, et al. To make a long story short (which kinda defeats the purpose of a blog), Gwen and I flew back up with Aaron two weeks later for me to scope out the place and decide on housing, and to make a short story even shorter, decided that Eugene, and all of Oregon (and Washington-- Aaron scoped there, too), wouldn't be the wisest move for us right now, mostly because we would be uprooting so quickly from friends and family, and a baby in the picture makes that even tougher. So back to So Cal we went, a bit out of spirits, and stressed out from all our scurrying across the Pacific Northwest (which really was beautiful).
Our hunt continued locally, and to make a shorter story fit on a car license plate, we found a great little home 50 miles north of where we're currently living. It's in a town called Pine Mountain Club with a pop. of 2,000 (25% of which are bears, raccoons and snowmen). We're so excited at the possibility of living in the mountains! It will almost be like being on vacation all the time (and it actually was a vacation home, so...). Aaron and I are also equally excited that we actually agree on where to move to. Now we're just hoping the home owners will agree with us :)
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