Our friend Elizabeth Baltus came to visit for a whole week! What a joy it was to pull up to the airport curb and see a dear friend there. It was so nice to have her around and just do life with her here for a few days. We showed her around base and Peter gave an excellent tour of the planes and training building. And she was able to meet a lot of our friends who ended up just stopping by throughout the week. We went to the pool and on several walks since the weather cooled down to the 80s and 90s. And on the weekend nights we were introduced to the new Hawaii 50, kind of intense but with hilarious interaction between the characters, and popcorn tends to lessen the intensity in things...maybe because it brings me out of the TV world back to my safe living room. Ah, friends bring a richness and a sweetness to life. I have to say it was sad to have her go and I so missed her company in the days after she left.
The last couple of weeks we've taken Josh to some Friday night events with the guys from Peter's class. He usually sleeps from about 6pm to 9 or 10pm. We were hoping he would sleep even though we were around a lot of people, noise and lights at these events, but he was wide awake and looking at everything from Daddy's shoulder. We could tell he was so sleepy, but he couldn't help but look at everything and never made a peep. We were so amazed at him and proud of him. And it was fun to take him somewhere and feel like we are now going about life as a family.
