Watch Out World!

We are entering a whole new phase around here! Huck is on the verge of crawling! He rolls all over the place, is doing the inchworm scoot on his tummy and pushes himself backwards with his feet while on his back. He is pushing up onto his knees and pushes up on his hands, but has not coordinated doing them both at the same time. The plan is to place a gate across the entrance to the playroom to keep him away from the big kids toys. He can also sit up like a champ!





So far we have given him bananas, sweet potatoes and cereal. Sweet potatoes is by far his favorite.





When we sit down to eat a meal he starts hollering to join us. He loves things that make crinkly noises, especially paper. Which is challenging since Duch goes through approximately 75,000 pieces of paper a day writing "cards" and "books" and leaves them all over the house. AH! As I type this he has found a piece of paper and will scream when I take it away from him... Yup, can you hear the screams from where you are now?
A sweet, not screaming baby...





We are about to turn our whole house upside down to add an addition. Probably not the best timing to tear apart our house just as Huck is about to start adventuring, but is there ever really a good time to tear apart your house? We will be deciding soon just exactly what we are going to do but mostly likely it will be adding a master suite to the back of the house. I'm excited but not looking forward to being without a bedroom and the playroom for 3 months. The Hubby and I are going to move our bed into the living/dining room area. But having a nice big closet and brand new bathroom will make it all worth it!
We took a tree down from in front of our house. It makes our house look so different! I was sad to see the tree go, but the drought this summer was just too much for it to take. It was a Bradford Pear tree that had grown much bigger than they are supposed to. It was losing limbs left and right. The final straw was when a limb fell into our neighbors driveway and almost made her late for an appointment before we could get it out of the way. We are hoping to redo all the landscaping next Spring anyway...





I saw a baby squirrel the other day. I'm pretty sure I have seen thousands of squirrels in my life, but don't ever remember seeing a baby squirrel. I was walking home from dropping Bubba off at school and heard a rustling in the grass. A baby squirrel jumped onto the tree trunk, trembling so badly it could hardly crawl up the tree. It climbed around the back and let out a big squeak. His mom heard him and popped out of a hallow in the tree, jumped over to him, picked him up in her mouth, carried him back and dropped him in the hallow. Then she popped her head back out and gave me the evil eye. I almost started crying. It was so beautiful.

6 months!

Huck is 6 months-old tomorrow! He is so fun these days and is settling into more of a routine. He has learned a lot lately. He rolls all over the place and does not stay where you put him anymore. While I was putting away laundry this morning he rolled himself under the bed! He reaches and grabs for toys, transfers them from hand to hand, and puts everything straight into his mouth. He is starting to sit unsupported but still falls over pretty quickly. He is growing great- he is probably 18 pounds by now. He had some mashed bananas for the first time last week. He didn't hate them but didn't love them either. We'll try some cereal or sweet potatoes this week and see what he thinks about that. He is enjoying his "only child" time while the big kids are both in school...

Duchess is enjoying school. She is loving writing letters, meaning both letters like A,B,C and actual letters like "Dear Mom" type letters. I think it is mostly because big brother is doing it, but they also have a handwriting program at school. One of the teachers spends about 30 minutes a day doing a program called Handwriting Without Tears. I went to a meeting about it today and it sounds interesting. She is always asking us how to spell things. We've had to talk about where she can practice her letters, like NOT in library books and NOT on the furniture...

Bubba is thinking about joining Cub Scouts. There is a meeting tomorrow to learn more about it. He is doing great at school. He has his first test, a math one, tomorrow. He is reading so well. He seems to really enjoy school.

We are thinking about putting an addition on to our house. Most likely we will add a master suite but it is possible that instead we will enlarge our current bathroom and closet instead. The idea is exciting and scary all at the same time. We have found a contractor that we feel like we can trust. He lives in the neighborhood and his kids go to the same school. We are meeting with him today to get the low down on what to really expect with the process.

Football season has begun so that means our time with the Hubby is greatly reduced. It's tough on Bubba, especially, because Daddy is not home much on the weekends. I'm going to the Lamaze conference next weekend. It is just in Fort Worth so I'll be driving back and forth each day.