Finally got the camera battery charged!

So Max is back. And life here is better. Sawyer really did miss him and so did I. It has been interesting to think about life over the past few weeks. We are reevaluating our feeding situations. And we are thinking about what it means to be two full time working parents of three kids. This is tough stuff. But it is good too! Blessings to us include that my job is so flexible. I can work when it is convenient for the family and for childcare. That is huge. It is a money saver.

We are moving. That is fun. And setting up all new stuff. That is interesting too.

And on the Sawyer front. This kid eats like it is his job. No joke. He has like 5-6oz of food each mean plus more each time as well. His most recent love is for the grape. He would eat each piece that I put in front of him and he freaks when he sees the container.

He has tried bread, and that was a favorite too.

I took a few pics the last few days and I wanted to share. Here they are...

I'm a single mom...

For four days. Max is on a work trip. And it has been a weird two days so far.

We went to Monterey to visit Auntie Abby for the night. Quick trip. Got there Monday afternoon and left Tuesday morning. Auntie Abby doesn't have babies over very often so Sawyer revealed to her the art of baby-proofing. It was fun and a bit of a challenge as a single mom but he was a total trooper on the road. He slept for about 4 hours of the 5 hour total road trip. And if you knew his inability to be a happy baby in the car back in February you would be as amazed as I am.

All in all it was fun! Sawyer had his first run in with a large dog. Patsy made sure to bathe him with her tongue. It was cute.

The weird part was the separation anxiety that Sawyer displayed for the first time ever. He would freak if I put him down. He wouldn't sleep in the porta-crib. He woke up quite a few times. And it was just strange.

Then we got home and there was more of the same. The only happy times were either while I was holding him, showering him, taking him for a walk, or feeding him. Oh, and he bit me. WTH? The kid has got to learn that you don't bite the hand (or boob!) that feeds you. LOL!

So the point to all of this is that I am pretty certain that he misses daddy. I think he gets that something is different and this is making him insecure. And if daddy being gone for 4 days makes him a little insecure what is mommy being gone for 9 days going to do to him.

And after all is said and done at the end of the day I just can't help but think that he is just so amazing!

not at all related to anything i would normally blog about

So as I have become more and more interested in photography there is a forum I look at sometimes. It is called, www.ilovephotography.com. Well there is this so called photographer who made a website, http://www.hoffman-photography.com, she is based in St. Louis.

NEVER HIRE HER. Her name is Ashley Karandjeff. She is a fraud. She took other people's professional photos off of the forum and off of their blogs and put them on her own.

Beyond that she posted some camera lenses and other equipment for sale and took multiple payments but never actually delivered the stuff.

So I wanted to post this here so if someone was going to google her they might get a link to mine.

Thanks.

An update.

Can you believe that he is going to be 8 months tomorrow?

So whats new with us? There are currently a lot of challenges for us but lots of good stuff too. Challenges include broken cell phones, rising gas costs, six people in a smaller house, sick babies with 103.4 fevers, moving, getting ready for two of us to head to Mexico. The good stuff includes, and is not limited to, Kristy leading a mission trip to Mexico, an adorable baby with an amazing personality showing through, Max getting to go on a work trip to Wisconsin (his first ever business trip like this), we get to move into an awesome house, and a really fun garden.

Speaking of my garden here are a few pictures...



And here is a picture of the little man. He LOVES being outside. On numerous occasions when he has been less than thrilled with playing inside we have taken him outside to hang out in his walker. The little guy is thrilled with being outside so much that he just hangs out and pushes himself around and has a blast being outside. I see an outdoorsy type of son in our future.




And in further news, little man is now crawling like a maniac, he pulls himself up on everything, he is very close to fully cruising, he puts himself to sleep most of the time, he loves to play with anything that is not considered a real toy (remotes, phones, keys, the cat's tail), he has four teeth, he goes to bed at 7pm and wakes up at about 6am (God bless us), he eats meat and tons of veggies and fruit (he also eats tofu!), and he has an adoring family. Thank God for babies!

This video is hilarious, it has to be on the blog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20PItBH__Mk