Fun Week

My sister came to help last week and it was so helpful. Our floors were damaged beyond repair when our whole apartment flooded in the middle of the night 10 days after Natalia was born. (I didn't blog about it because I felt my blog was getting too Debbie Downer. Luckily no permanent damage and no one got electrocuted!) On the bright side, our crappy floor which was my least favorite thing about the apartment got replaced with gorgeous hardwood. So my sister helped get us out of the apartment every day for a week while the guys worked. Here are some pics of our topsy-turvy week with furniture everywhere:


Andrea gets a taste of parenting. Thanks babe for coming!


We got to spend some girly time watching the new Sense and Sensibility (better than the previous, in my opinion) and going out to breakfast with the babes.

So after Andrea left, Scott had a day off (yay!), so we went to Navy Pier and the Children's Museum. I had no idea how fun Navy Pier was. Ferris Wheels, Dippin' Dots, boat tours, gorgeous Lake Michigan, etc. Anyway, the library has free passes to different museums and our friend just happened to have the Children's Museum pass and handed it over to me to check out. Here is Sonja admiring the view, getting soaking wet, Natalia chilling, and other cute things. Notice Sonja's rat tail is gone. I just chopped it off when she was in the bath and it turned out all cute!:







Then it was our friend Jeff's birthday and they had a little party. We are so glad our NY friends moved to Chicago, even if it was just for a year. In a testament to their awesome sociableness, they've only been here a few weeks and already had a bunch of people over. I played Dance Dance Revolution for the first time there and loved it. Sonja was dancing all over the place and clapping, so I think we're going to get a generic version to get me back in shape and entertain Sonja during the dreary winter. It's cheaper and more fun than a treadmill and I seriously think it was an answer to my prayers about Sonja and I going stir-crazy.