new digs

Yesterday I took Travis into my office building with me to make my official move from cube to office. The batteries were almost dead in my camera, so the flash didn't work, but, pictures of the new digs:

On Friday, my team surprised me with some flowers and a congratulatory card, and then we headed out for an impromptu group lunch. It was very nice.

Noah's slowly moving out of his clingy phase, I think. He still wants me to pick him up an awful lot, but he's doing much better when babysitters come over and all. We went out to dinner Friday night with one of Ben's co-workers, her daughter watched the kids, and Noah just trotted over to me, gave me a kiss and a hug, and said "g'bye mom" without a second thought. Today at church he scampered into the play room and never looked back. Afterwards he said "I had fun in the play room at church! I'm so happy to see you!" A far cry from the death grip I got last week.

Sophie, meanwhile, is picking up any clinginess that Noah's leaving behind. Most days, she crawls around the house following me, crying, tears streaming down her face, until I pick her up. Case in point, this is Sophie after finally catching up with me the other day:

Finally, victory: