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same_skyI need to not get behind with my photo uploading again. It has been pretty busy lately and I haven't had time (or the inclination) to fiddle with pictures, which means that it takes ages. I try to keep E's gallery pretty current since M's family gets to watch her grow up mainly in pictures.
New milestone today--she stands! She's acting like she has been doing it all the time. That is, she stands up from the middle of the floor without pulling up on something. It's seemed pretty close for the last few days and she might have done it once or twice, but we weren't quite sure. No question today. She can walk for quite some time, too, though she still prefers to crawl most of the time (it's quicker!) She has been somewhat on the slow side with the whole walking thing, which doesn't bother me at all because she's still well within the range of "normal" and all. I can't imagine thinking of her as an eight-month-old already walking around. My brother was running at seven months. Can you imagine? When she was seven months, she was still a little wobbly with sitting sometimes. ;)
My mom and niece came down yesterday and spent the night, so we have been running all over town and having an excellent time. We ate well and shopped hard (harder than I really wanted to, in truth, since my poor hip is still out of commission.) My niece is awesome. I love it when she comes over. She has been taking mandolin lessons for a while.. if you remember, last year when she was down here, M started teaching her to play, and then she started going to lessons from an actual teacher once a week. Last night was the first time that M and her were able to really play together. It was the first time that M had really played with anyone else at all. It was so neat! They were so cute! And they sounded pretty good, too! It was great. :)
Let's see, what else is going on? I did a bit of freelance-ish work for M's company this week. He says I am too dumb to know a good thing when I see it because I took an easy data entry job, looked at it (taking certain info from a few thousand emails) for a minute and said, "uh, no." I spent an hour or two busting out the mad programming skillz and screwed myself out of making much money from it in the future. ;) Yay fun! I miss being a programmer sometimes. Not enough to want to go back to a full-time job but I do miss it. I did get a call from my previous employer a while back asking if I would be interested in coming back. I had to say no but it was fun to think about for a few minutes. Oh, and speaking of work, M is no longer working two jobs! That's good and bad, of course, but we are thinking mostly good. The money was good but it was pretty hard on him and also on the family, in some ways. He finally has a little bit of time to himself, though, and that is a great thing. Now let's just hope that we are not soon starving in the streets. ;) I jest! I jest! It was always a temporary thing, though, of "up to one year". He got the email on his birthday, though. Nice, huh? Still, as we said, we're pretty glad it's over with.
Funny story. M took Evelyn shopping on Sunday. She harassed him the entire time they were in Lowe's for food. Crack-kuh! Crack-kuh! (Everything is a cracker to Evelyn. Crackers, Cheerios, even her water is a cracker. Usually it's a cracker if it's consumable in any way, but her aunt Kina also seems to be a cracker.) She ate all the snacks that he had with him, so apparently she was hungry. As they headed into Walmart, a young lady was walking out. This young lady was blessed with very generous bosoms. Evelyn's eyes lit upon this innocent bystander and threw her arm out, pointing to her massive rack and said loudly, "NUMMY NUMMY NUMMY!!" Yep, that's my baby, not afraid to say what she wants... ;) (The young lady did much blushing, and scurried off.)
New milestone today--she stands! She's acting like she has been doing it all the time. That is, she stands up from the middle of the floor without pulling up on something. It's seemed pretty close for the last few days and she might have done it once or twice, but we weren't quite sure. No question today. She can walk for quite some time, too, though she still prefers to crawl most of the time (it's quicker!) She has been somewhat on the slow side with the whole walking thing, which doesn't bother me at all because she's still well within the range of "normal" and all. I can't imagine thinking of her as an eight-month-old already walking around. My brother was running at seven months. Can you imagine? When she was seven months, she was still a little wobbly with sitting sometimes. ;)
My mom and niece came down yesterday and spent the night, so we have been running all over town and having an excellent time. We ate well and shopped hard (harder than I really wanted to, in truth, since my poor hip is still out of commission.) My niece is awesome. I love it when she comes over. She has been taking mandolin lessons for a while.. if you remember, last year when she was down here, M started teaching her to play, and then she started going to lessons from an actual teacher once a week. Last night was the first time that M and her were able to really play together. It was the first time that M had really played with anyone else at all. It was so neat! They were so cute! And they sounded pretty good, too! It was great. :)
Let's see, what else is going on? I did a bit of freelance-ish work for M's company this week. He says I am too dumb to know a good thing when I see it because I took an easy data entry job, looked at it (taking certain info from a few thousand emails) for a minute and said, "uh, no." I spent an hour or two busting out the mad programming skillz and screwed myself out of making much money from it in the future. ;) Yay fun! I miss being a programmer sometimes. Not enough to want to go back to a full-time job but I do miss it. I did get a call from my previous employer a while back asking if I would be interested in coming back. I had to say no but it was fun to think about for a few minutes. Oh, and speaking of work, M is no longer working two jobs! That's good and bad, of course, but we are thinking mostly good. The money was good but it was pretty hard on him and also on the family, in some ways. He finally has a little bit of time to himself, though, and that is a great thing. Now let's just hope that we are not soon starving in the streets. ;) I jest! I jest! It was always a temporary thing, though, of "up to one year". He got the email on his birthday, though. Nice, huh? Still, as we said, we're pretty glad it's over with.
Funny story. M took Evelyn shopping on Sunday. She harassed him the entire time they were in Lowe's for food. Crack-kuh! Crack-kuh! (Everything is a cracker to Evelyn. Crackers, Cheerios, even her water is a cracker. Usually it's a cracker if it's consumable in any way, but her aunt Kina also seems to be a cracker.) She ate all the snacks that he had with him, so apparently she was hungry. As they headed into Walmart, a young lady was walking out. This young lady was blessed with very generous bosoms. Evelyn's eyes lit upon this innocent bystander and threw her arm out, pointing to her massive rack and said loudly, "NUMMY NUMMY NUMMY!!" Yep, that's my baby, not afraid to say what she wants... ;) (The young lady did much blushing, and scurried off.)
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Date: 2008-07-24 06:36 am (UTC)