Well, we are headed out tomorrow, back to NY. We have to get up at 4 AM again, but I think that will be the hardest on me--the kids seemed to handle it just fine on the way here.

Carter is really growing up--not only is he almost crawling, he had his first finger foods the other day. We went to Chuy's, an Austin institution (it is a Mexican place), and had lunch. Carter was antsy, so I gave him some shredded cheese. WOW was basically his reaction. He was thrilled, and he managed to get a good bit of it into his belly. Today he tried Cheerios, another huge hit.

The crawling is so cute--he wriggles to get where he wants to go when he needs to actually move, but when he has no destination, he just practices getting on hands and knees, lifting his belly off the floor and rocking back and forth, making it look like he is revving himself up for the actual crawl. So far he has not done a face plant, leading me to what is, I am sure, a false sense of security.

Today we went to the Children's Museum, spent HOURS there, went home for lunch, and then went back. This is a really cool place with lots of different exhibits--this time there was a whole room about wind and air, with all sorts of things showing the power of moving air (ie wind), and there was a 'kitchen,' a 'store' (where Ava appropriated the cash register), a doctor's office, a display about milk and cows, a water table room, an art room--really a collage room, a quiet room, a big digger thingamajig, lots of blocks, and lots of other toy type things. Ava got a lot out of it, and did not want to leave.

She fell asleep instantaneously this evening.