These are a few of my favorite things....

So... it has been a crazy couple of weeks! We love our apartment (even though I know we'll love it more when we get the rest of our stuff put away and our piano moved in!), and we have loved living downtown. Some highlights:

-swimming in the pool... we had it all to ourselves and William was in heaven.

-sitting on our balcony, or under a tree right on South Temple watching the cars go by. Once again, William was in heaven!

-Took trax to Gateway and visited the planetarium and the fountain. Heaven.

-Danny can come home for lunch somedays. Heaven.

-Going for walks around Temple Square and the construction. Heaven.

There is so much to do with this little guy. He loves all the noises and things to see. He is mesmerized by traffic, flowers, big trucks, the ceiling of the planetarium, and who knows what else. He is such a good kid!

However, this good kid is battling a cold, so he's had a harder time being pleased. But he is being so great with all the change around him as we unpack.

So...enough of the update. On to the point of the blog. With occassional exceptions, William is a pretty good sleeper. A lot of the time we'll lay him down for the night or for a nap and he'll either 1- roll onto his side holding his blanket between his hands and zonk out like so:

or 2- He'll play quietly for 5 minutes and drift off. Of course this isn't always the case, but it's sure nice when it is!

So William really loves soft things as he's going to bed. Two of the most common are his soft blankie and his elephant. They really help soothe him to sleep!

The other night I went in and he had his arm around the elephants leg and another hand on the blanket. I ran to get the camera, and when I got back he was relaxed. So it wasn't as good of a picture as it could have been, but close enough.
I don't know what just happened, because I can't get it to stop being underlined. So I apologize. But I also love his hair in the picture. Half the time it seems like no matter how much we wet it down in the back, it sticks right back up! So funny.

Okay! Underlining gone. So the soft things are Williams favorite things, and this is one of mine: The parade! We took him to see the twenty fourth of July parade. There were some great floats. He especially loved watching the marching bands. Like so:
We lucked out and kind of eased our way under someone's tent top thing. They didn't mind one bit, which was lucky for us. It was HOT.