8 months

as if we didn't already have our hands full with this wiggle worm, henry's decided recently that asleep or awake doesn't matter anymore. he's kicked his way off the bed in the middle of the night (luckily the bed is only about a foot off the ground), and he's rolled off his changing mat (again, only a few inches, thank goodness). if we leave him for more that 5 seconds he's across the room. and he's not even crawling yet! he rolls, he wriggles, he scoots, and if he's within arms reach of anything sturdy you better believe he's standing up. he has no downtime. no off button. no quiet reflections. just GO GO GO.

his teeth finally quit bothering him (until next time), and with that the fevers and snot fests disappeared.

we've been trying to take the kids on hikes every weekend, but the weather hasn't been cooperating lately. we did have great weather on mother's day and got some good exploring in.

sean and i also attended his last army prom a few weeks ago. the last time he gets to dress up in his fancy pants and drink too much with his army pals. being my first such event, i was a little shocked at how seriously all the army wives take this sort of thing. it really was like prom. big puffy dresses and crazy hair and me in my little black dress that i can still breastfeed in. i was really only there for the cheesecake (god, the cheesecake...). sean tried to steal someone's sword. it didn't work out, unfortunately. oh, army hi-jinks :) only 18 days left!!

easter and things.

things have been hectic lately. just last night we went to see David Sedaris, and made it home in time for Sean to go back out for a concert. and the weekend before we saw Justin Townes Earle and The Decemberists. on top of that i'm back working full time, which is pretty miserable. the job itself is fine, just being away from home so much is driving me crazy. i feel like i don't have time to do anything.

Sean got a job at a guitar store (Colorado Guitar Emporium...it sounds so fancy!), and is enrolled at UCCS for the summer semester. only 6 more weeks of army! yay!

yesterday we had a pretty good time explaining Easter to Logan (if you're good- easter bunny, if you're bad-zombie jesus eats your brains), and coloring eggs. it was amazing watching him come upstairs this morning with a handful of eggs he'd found in his room. he was SO excited.

Henry is pretty oblivious to the whole thing, and is probably tired of me putting bunny ears on him and taking pictures. he's been sniffly and snotty for a few weeks and has 2 brand new teeth, so he's been pretty crabby lately. we love him just the same :)

6 months!

making things

so i got a pretty good deal on some prints this week... trouble was picking out pictures to get printed! our walls are already mostly covered, and we have hard copies of the good shots already, so i decided to do something a little different:

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sean got home last week, finally! yay! it's been great having him back. he got a new Vonnegut tattoo yesterday. it's so pretty!



henry has been eating like a little piglet. right now it's mostly peas and bananas, and last night we successfully introduced sweet potatoes! i have a lot of fun watching him try things. someone let him try cream cheese last week and it blew his mind.

peas!

updates

well, i seem to be seriously falling behind on keeping up here... and there really isn't anything too terribly exciting to mention. work has been great. henry and i managed to get away for a few days and he took his first two airplane rides (one good, one not so good). sean should be home in the next 7-14 days (thank you, army, for killing me with anticipation).

henry is now a whopping 5 months old. he's become VERY interested in real food, and sean was awesome and ordered us a food processor and these little doohickey's to get the ball rolling. i've been reading Feeding Baby Green, and i got a little baby recipe book, and we're going to just go ahead and skip the whole rice cereal/jarred baby food hoopla and get down to business with some good old fashioned organic green veggies! yay! i'm pretty excited about the whole thing, not to mention the money we'll save by just feeding him what we're eating anyway. but i'll stop there before i get preachy...


he's got two tiny teeth that want to come in, but have yet to break through. and he's painfully close to sitting up on his own, though he seems more eager to stand and that frightens me. time to break out the baby gate. he's still not sleeping through the night (and it irritates me to no end that it's the first thing people ask, and look at me like i'm a horrible mother when i have to say "no, he's not"), but he's finally got a more pleasant personality and he's constantly doted on by strangers at the store who comment that he's such a good and/or happy baby! i agree! he likes to try to eat the books when i'm reading to him, and he still likes to give me hickeys (one on the neck the other day... didn't even notice it until i got to work), loves taking baths and just yesterday he graduated to the medium sized gdiapers! woo-hoo! he sings and talks and makes little noises. sometimes big noises too.

in a nutshell, things will be perfect just as soon as sean sets his ridiculously mustachioed face back on colorado soil.

4 months.

it's been a quiet few weeks around here, but henry and i have been holding down the fort. he turned 4 months old last week, and when we went to the doctor today for his checkup he was officially diagnosed as "perfect and petite." i laughed out loud.

it's cold today. and not, like, colorado cold. it's COLD. the high temp today is still a negative number. the windchill right now is -32˚. in the time it took to walk from my car to the house, my snot froze. COLD.


next week henry and i are heading to oklahoma so he can get better acquainted with his grandparents, aunties, cousins, visiting friends, and perhaps i can spend some time using both hands for a change. i'm anxious for his first airplane ride... i don't want him to be the baby that everyone complains about. maybe he'll sleep through it... fingers crossed.

he cracks me up.

today is the day. or, rather, tomorrow is the day. but today is the last day we're all together before sean deploys.

thank goodness it's only for a few months, and then just a short time beyond that and he'll be army-free for good! we're all looking forward to that day, but for now henry and i are on our own for a bit.