Going Boling: July 2012

Can we say busy spring, busy start to summer, blogging was gone but not forgotten. We wrapped up preschool in late May, and spent Memorial Day week in San Antonio (piggybacking on a work trip for BJ), came back to illness for the two weeks before we hopped on a jet plane and headed back to SC for 2 weeks at the beach. Now that we're back and settled in for the rest of the long hot TX summer, I have lots of time on my hands (haha) to blog.

Gus is keeping us busy, he is smart (too smart for his own good at times), and has a great sense of humor and a vivid imagination. We finally gave our pacifiers a big send off this week. Gus loves the garbage man and he waits for him on Mondays, so before we went to the beach we started talking about how we were going to give them to the garbage man when we got home, and two weeks later we bagged them up and did it! We went on a walk on Monday morning and caught up with the garbage man, Gus got out of the stroller, walked over and handed him the bag of pacies and the garbage man gave him a big hi five and told him great job - it was perfect. He moped for a minute or two, but was fine to the let go, he was long overdue to give them up - he handled it very well.

Carson turned 8 months on July 9th, she is so much busier than Gus was at this age. She is on the verge of crawling, has found her voice and shrieks and screams with delight all the time. She worships her big brother and wants to keep up with him. She started sitting up on her own, which makes life a lot easier for all of us because she is very mommy focused and wants to keep her eyes on me, so now that I can plop her down wherever, she is much happier. We're in the process of finding a new pediatrician to better address her neverending projectile issues, we think they are related to any kind of ear ache, infection, or drainage, but we'd like a second opinion. She was a slow starter to solids, but has become quite the little eater since we got back from SC.