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.