We're doing well up here! Anna is literally moving right along, she's still doing her army crawl, but she's very quick at it. She can rock on her hands and knees but flops back down to pull herself around. She does use one leg and her toes to push herself, so we're getting closer! She's getting closer to big girl food - we're on stage 2 which includes pureed chicken, turkey, and with beef with veggies or rice along with more variety in the veggies, fruit and some even say dessert. They all smell like the food they are supposed to be, but some do not look appetizing at all! She's taking 4 - 7oz bottles now and still sleeping through the night (unless she gets stuck in the slats of her crib). She screams, giggles, and talks to us or small animals and children. She also is starting to give kisses. She's so much fun and we love being parents!
All 3 of us have had some form of sickness for months now - more so drippy noses or coughs - but we're ready for it to go away. Anna absolutely hates her nose/mouth being wiped off and cries like the world is ending right there. So I could do without having to pick crusties or wipe snot away from her nose. :) Both of our jobs are going well, keeping busy with those. We're trying to finish our landscaping and hopefully will next week - that's the goal anyway. Then we can move on to painting some rooms inside. We also still are doing side work - a couple of large websites together and I have some wedding invitations I'll be doing soon. It's fun to do things that allow us to be creative and what we enjoy doing, but it's also time consuming, so we do the work when we can and our clients seem to understand.
We're heading to SoHo this weekend to visit with the fam and help Alex make his room a little more mature with some new paint. So we won't be in town for Sam's grad party although we wish we could make it home more with all that's going on, but as we all know Mr. Gas sucks the well dry each week. Hopefully we can all participate on the blog again this summer and keep in touch. You're all welcome to visit us in Allendale - stay here or at one of the many hotels around here.
To answer Katie's question: We're looking forward to our vacation to Silver Lake in August with the fam - a vacation in general would be lovely since we haven't had one in a couple years. We're also looking forward to seeing Anna go in the water for the first time, play in her little pool we got her and hopefully see her walk!
Have a wonderful and hopefully somewhat dry weekend!
Love,
Gary, Christie and the Booger
