Oh, hey there.

Umm, May? Where did you go?

I can't believe how long I've dropped the blogging ball this month, but man, it's felt kind of nice to not worry about. I go through my days thinking of things to update on...like our upcoming trips, getting my hair did, house news, pupdates, you know, really important things like that, and then I just don't write about them at night.

See how easy it is to do?!

I've made some promises and received some threats in the past few weeks that have gotten more frequent, so here I am. Back at it. :)

First things, first. The lovebug:


If it's not obvious, she's been doing just fine. She's growing like a weed, and at 8 months she...

• Weighs 20 lbs
• Is 30 inches tall
• Wears a size 3 diaper
• Wears size 12-18 month clothes! Ahh!
  
• Has 6 teeth (4 top, 2 bottom)
• Crawls...or more like scootches, but she's SO close
• Can go from laying down to sitting up to crawling to back down...and on and on
• Points at things
• Waves "hi" and "bye" to everyone. Even random strangers
  
• Bites...and LAUGHS when you tell her "no"
  
• Loves to chat. Da-da and ba-ba are two new faves
• Is the best snuggler you've ever met
• Takes "big girl" baths...and splashing is her new favorite hobby
  
• Jumps and bounces like its going out of style
• Adores looking at pictures hanging in the house and will point at them so that we will take her over to check 'em out
• Still hates naps
• Sleeps from about 7:30pm - 6:30am
• Has her first ear infection...is one tough cookie about it
  
• Has enough hair to use bows!
• Has officially moved on up to a big kid carseat
  

As usual, I'm sure I'm forgetting things. Maybe if I update regularly I'll remember to fill you all in on all the exciting milestones we've been hitting...

In less important update news, here are our other two "kids":

Molly on the left, looking obese, and Major on the right looking like he just ate tampons

Everyone gets along pretty well in these parts, huh? Major is a licking fiend and tries to give everyone love at all times. My theory is that he is trying to make up for being the royal pain in the ass that he is the other 99% of the time. In just the past 3 days he has successfully ran into the street to make friends with a jogger while I was in pjs with a baby on my hip, eaten approximately 5 tampons out of the trash AND needed assistance removing one while relieving himself (gag), pulled his food bowl into our bedroom to cuddle with, attacked all of our recycled grocery bags and tore them to pieces, and discovered that he can jump up onto our bed and literally rolls on his back and refuses when told to "get down"...I could go on.

Holy hell. He literally just walked into the office to puke on the floor as I typed the previous paragraph. He's a menace, I tell you.

In more exciting news than tampon extractions, the dogs will be going off to the kennel this weekend while the rest of us road trip to Killeen, TX! We leave tomorrow, bright and early and will be visiting Dan's brother and sister-in-law, his cousin and her little family, and his parents are even coming into town. We are so looking forward to seeing everyone, checking out their neck of the woods, and rumor has it we'll be taking a day trip to Austin during the weekend too! Camera is packed and ready to rock and roll. (Now I just need to use it...)

Old carseat, but ready to road trip!

Hope everyone has a fab Memorial Day weekend! I'll be back with pics from G and my trip to VA earlier this month, exercise updates, some news on an upcoming daddy-mommy vaca, and other random happenings from these parts. :)

xo,
H