uppity date

I got called out by my sis-in-law Bec for lack of postage so here I am with an update.

But real quick question first...how do you all stay motivated and/or remember to take pictures of everything? I always tell myself I will and bring my camera everywhere but always end up with no pictures. I'm horrible at it but I wish we documented things better that way. Any tips?

Back to the update

August has been a crazy busy month, and was spent almost entirely away from Yakima.

Seth works in Seattle sometimes now too so he was gone at the beginning of the month for a few days leading up to another vacation so me and the kids headed to P-Diddle early. The whole occasional single parent thing is not my favorite. I need to insert here that up until this last week I've still been woken up every 1-2 hours a night by Mr. T and have been so beyond sleep deprived I wanted to kill something. Pity this fool for not letting him cry it out sooner! Anyway the reason I tell you this is the last 7 months have been a total blur and I just do not remember things like a normal person. So I know we've done lots of fun stuff but I'll probably forget to write about a bunch of them and we'll just sound boring. But we're soooo not.

New paragraph. Anyone else struggle with large paragraphs? Moving on...Seth worked Mon-Wed in Seattle and then spent the night in Pendleton and then was off for a week long hike with his brother and uncles. Word on the street is they had a great time while also having a terrible terrible time. Seth came back from the mountains limping but smiling. Boys are weird. While he was gone we took advantage of a Grammy that only has 2 grandchildren to spoil and the Aquatic Center. I was determined to get a tan this year since I haven't acquired one the last few summers and I've been a little bummed about that. Luckily I tan almost instantly and it only took me two times pool side to get nicely browned. Ya Ya was super lucky and got to go almost every day.

*picture break*

(pic by Erica)

"How can you read this, there's no pictures?"

Am I right?

And don't be jealous that I can quote Disney movies on command. Like the entire movie.

Where were we again?

Next came Mister's 6 months check up.

16 lbs 10 oz/ 28 inches

5-15% for weight, 90% for height

We grow them tall and skinny.

Here's a couple of pictures of me and my firstborn son.

I'm going to be annoying and talk about how UN-photogenic I am. I shouldn't care but I do.

Here's another one, I was determined to have a better one of me at the expense of my small child...

Somewhere in there we went to the park.

B had a good time going down slides,

And throwing rocks in the creek

How 'bout that follow through, eh?

Taylor was a good boy and was content to sit in his stroller and put things in his mouth.

We're gonna have to wrap it up here for the night. I had more written but I couldn't find the pictures to go along with it and my baby is sleeping which makes me a cotton-headed-ninny-muggin if I don't go do the same! Stay tuned for more of our summer :)