Lately Mirabelle has been a bit of a cranky pants and I feel helpless to her aid at times. Mostly she just needs lots of extra snuggles--that I CAN do and I love do snuggle that precious angel so, so what if the laundry piles up!! Turns out my stinker has cut not one but TWO teeth over the course of the last two weeks. She is now the proud owner of her bottom two front teeth. She is even showing them off in the first featured picture below.
This girl travels well!! This past Monday we headed out to Seattle for the Resurgence Conference at Mars Hill Church with took place at their Ballard (main) campus. We had to take 3 planes to get there and she slept the entire way there. Mirabelle and I didn't attend much of the conference but Bill and the Kaleo elders in training got their fill. It was wonderful I've heard and the little I participated it was great. I spent most of my time exploring Seattle for the first time, despite the fact that this was my third trip there. I rode around with Jeanette (our worship art minister's wife) and amazingly we didn't get lost once. I had the joy of showing her from point A to point B where once Bill, Mark Retzloff, and I walked 5 miles uphill thinking it would be an easy stroll to Mars Hill...HA...WHAT A MISTAKE THAT WAS!! She was impressed. We went to Archie McPhee which is this quirky store that literally sells tons of random crap you don't need but want. We drank lots of coffee and window shopped in a bunch of shops downtown that were very unique and excentric.
One night we had the pleasure of traveling into the mountain regions just out of the city to one of the elders parents homes and had a home-cooked meal. It was so good and the neighborhood and scenery was breath taking!
The last day there we hung out at the Public Market by the shore and bought some organic dried fruits, handmade cake donuts, and then had fresh seafood for dinner and a nice restaurant. I actually tried sushi for the second time in my life and acutally liked it. Now I'm on the hunt for a restaurant here in houston to go try it again and see if I TRULY like it or if it was one of those "in the moment" kinda things. I think I would definitely want it cooked though.
Mirabelle was a bit fussier the way home but everyone around us on the plane still commented on how well behaved she was. Then today I noticed her new tooth so that explains it. She is very happy to be home and back in familiar space. I am sure she will be excited to see all the familiar faces at Kaleo tomorrow too.
The day we flew home Mirabelle turned 8 months old!! How quickly time is flying by!
Well, I better get to bed...I will leave you with a few pictures from our trip...I appologize but I have not had time to edit any of them so some of them are a bit blah.
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