O.K. You People Need to Chill

Sophie will not be substituted by a blog about a house. We will continue to post insanely cute photos of Sophie. Perhaps we'll start a "PaynesinOakPark" someday but we still haven't grown accustomed to being suburbanites. Until then, enjoy:

Another Saga Begins

Today it became official. We have a signed contract for a home. We will be leaving Chicago and starting a new chapter of our life in Oak Park. Follow our adventures with the new home at the link below. Warning, this new site will ahve fewer photos of Sophie and will be geared toward the restoration and architecturally minded. Hope you enjoy it.

http://www.tinybungalow.blogspot.com/

The Children's Museum

This weekend, we took Sophie to the Kohl's Children's Museum where we met some friends we traveled with in China. Contrary to my initial thought that this was a glorified "germ factory", the place was pretty clean and the presence of drool, mucus, and other bodily fluids seemed to be at a minimum.

Sophie had a ball. She explored the "car wash" played with blocks and computers, and had fun with musical instruments. By far the most exciting portion of the museum was the water room. Her level of enjoyment can probably be equated with the amount of time I had to spend with her clothes at the blow drier just outside this room. Sophie seemed to be very interested with catching various items in her fishing net - can't wait to get her fishing where she catches the real thing.

Our day was capped off with lunch at my favorite restaurant, the Yard House. Any place that is kid friendly AND serves 110 beers on tap can't be bad.