Milestone: Sitting up!

This entry now brings me current as I catch up with blogging.

Andy has been sitting up on and off for a couple of weeks now. Today I snapped this photo of him. Yes, he fell over right after, but one of my neighbors was there and she agreed that this definitely counts as sitting up!









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Ben's bench

A couple of weeks ago I got a case of the "buildies." Ever since Jonathan and I started building together, I've periodically had the overwhelming urge to make something... Usually when we're broke and don't have supplies handy.

So when Andy went down for a nap I went to the garage to check out our pile of scrap wood. We also had a pallet so I started thinking about building Ben a little adirondack chair for the front yard. Well, the chair became a bench.




I built it in just 2.5 hours, rushing each step as I assumed Andy would surely wake up any minute.

Last weekend Ben and I sat under the tree in the front yard and painted it.




It was one of those fantastic moments. He kept saying, "Mommy, we're working together. C'mon, let's get started!" It was cute, especially since he said it again and again over the course of a couple of hours.




I liked the bench when I first finished it. But now I really love it!



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Neighborhood Fun!

As most of you know, we love our neighborhood and our neighbors. The kids all play (as do the grownups!) and we're pretty much a big extended family.

Here are some recent pictures of our adventures...

Ben riding the plasma car:




Attack of the muddy toddler!

Typical scene of kids on bikes...

The dynamic duo:



Mommy and Andy hanging out under a tree.



Look at my big boy!




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Lots of photos

Here are photos of the past couple of months... I promise to be better at writing *real* posts from now on!

Ben napping...





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Let's try this again...

So that obviously didn't work. Let's try this again with a different app.

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We're baaaaack!

I'm testing blogging apps for my phone. Since Ben "hupped" clean my laptop and destroyed it, I haven't had time to get photos off our back up drive to post. But I have tons on my phone so I figure it will be fun to see if I can just update the blog from the phone anyway.

So here goes...

I'm going to add a photo and a video and see what happens.

Catching up...

I've been terrible about updating the blog recently, but I blame having the new task of juggling two boys! The transition from a family of 3 to a family of 4 has been great, if very busy. But so far, we're doing well, and Andy is fitting right into the groove of life on *the outside.*

Ben has taken on his role of big brother with the gusto we expected... he loves holding and helping with Andy, and we're very happy to report that there have been no accidental injuries from over-enthusiastic hugging!

We were lucky to have Coco come stay with us for a whole month!! She really helped with the transition, and had lots of bonding time with Andy.

I really love seeing my crew of boys hanging out together...