For Luke

A few weeks ago a fire started in a house down the street from us. When the firemen came they cut the roof off and the fire exploded out the top. No one was hurt so it was kind of fun to watch. I know it wasn't fun for the owner, but he was able to save the house. I hear them fixing it up every day.

I told my nephew Luke about it and he wanted to see it so I borrowed some pictures that my neighbor took that night.

It's Hot

83.7 degrees to be exact. Inside our house. And like last year we don't have air conditioning. I'm actually much more comfortable than last year because I was 7 months pregnant then. I'm not complaining though, I don't mind the heat all that much because with it comes ripe peaches. We have to eat them plain because it's too hot to use the oven to make a pie or a cobbler or can them. Which is probably a good thing because it's healthier that way.

I wanted to share Lane's new talents. The first is Lane shaking his head. This video shows the beginning stages, but he has mastered the head shake now. The second video is of Lane dancing! I'm so glad he's a dancer. Tony is too, at least for now. Now Avery has a dancing buddy! Although Avery is way better. Lane has not mastered dancing yet. He does a good booty roll though.

This picture is of a toy at the park we go to every day. It's a bowl that spins on its own once you get it going. Lane surprisingly likes it.

Getting to know you...Again!

We had Lane's 9 month check up today. He went down for a nap about 15 minutes before his appointment. I hate waking him up but it doesn't matter when I schedule it, he will inevitably be asleep when it's time to go. Maybe when he's ten he'll finally be on a schedule. Despite the nap interruption it all worked out and now he's back asleep.

He's doing well. He's 90th percentile for height and weight. He's sleeping through the night now. Being a parent is way better when you don't dread nights. He's cruising around with his army crawl. He's been doing that for two months and I think he may skip the normal crawling phase. He's still loud and his voice is deep so he seems tough, but he's not. He's afraid of swings, the vacuum, and the mechanical horse at the outlet mall. Although, he did pretty well when they got a blood sample at the doctor, he wanted to watch and he didn't even cry. He's like Tony in that way, he wanted to watch his root canal and he did watch as he had a toenail removed. Have you ever seen a toenail being removed?!!! It's gross, like a torture scene in a movie, but he watched and said, "that's awesome." Anyways, I was going to put up a bunch of pictures, but I decided to just put up a video instead. Nothing really happens in the video, but it shows him at 9 months which was what I was trying to do.