Not only can I stand - I can FLOAT!

All you mothers will understand the feeling I have about this - but boy does it make my two men happy to play this game!

I found my toys!

Mom had said there were toys in my room if I wanted to play with them - today I found them! Whoa, is it fun to be in here!!

Messy

I am a messy eater. Look what I did to this outfit today. I wasn't even in it all that long. Mom says that's the last time she puts me in white for a while. At least while I'm eating spinach!

Standing and Cruising

So that didn't take too long - last night after standing up on his own, he pulled himself up on the couch, then cruised over a couple of steps. He stood for close to half an hour before bed - and boy did he sleep well last night.



So this morning I step outside to turn on the sprinkler and come back in and there is the boy standing up by the coffee table! He looked all proud like "look what I did without you, Ma, and look at this cool magazine I want to eat!" After a massive photo session Mike came home for lunch and William repeated the new skill for him. :)

STANDING!

William stood up today without any help by grabbing the stroller and pulling himself up!



He thinks it's pretty cool to do that. Although I've never seen a boy try so hard not to crawl while crawling! He's hilarious - he's crawling as if he'd prefer to walk - toes up and he can move so fast now! We were eating dinner last night and all of a sudden he sprint-crawled across the room; our eyes got so big watching him go so determinedly. Looks like I'm in for a long couple of years running after him! :) It's my pleasure to do it!

Cigar Anyone?

My Dad in the Philippines!

Oh my gosh, you guys, my dad is SO cool! He went to the Philippines with a group of guys and they built building for some people over there who needed them. I missed him a lot - but I'm glad he got to go. This is a picture of him with the guys he was building with. I think they look like they had fun!

DOG??!!??

Mack the dog and I - he hadn't learned yet not to lick my face! Yuck!



Here I am petting Mack for that lovely kiss he gave me.

Grandpa Murphy and William

Grandpa and William got along just dandy!

Dad and I

We're having fun, Dad and I!

Peas

Mushy peas are wonderful!

Boring Information

Sorry guys,

I want to post this for my own edification later - our current schedule as of 6 mo. and the 4th week.

7- wake BF
8- cereal (never more than a bite or two)
9-11- nap
11- wake BF
12- cereal and a veggie
1-3- nap
3- wake BF
4:30- ceral and 2 veggies
4:45-5:30- catnap or quiet time
5:30- up BF
7- BF, bedtime
9- dream feed (cutting this back)

Ignore this boring information. :) Shannon

Beer Anyone?

I'm very much into drinking anything anyone else is drinking. Anything.
Mom didn't let me actually have this, but Dad was laughing so hard as he took this picture.
Anyone want to explain why?

Still Love the Exersaucer

Seriously. It's my favorite right now. :)

Update, Update!

Hello all,

Since we've been housesitting at various places this summer, I've fallen drastically behind on posting updates to the blog. But, in an unprecedented move, I am back-posting the various goings-ons of this summer. So pretty much anything after August 10th is new, and even though it might say August 18th, and you think - "gee, August 18th was a long time ago!" you should check it out, because it's new to you!

Love you all!
Shannon, Michael and William