Summertime
First, I must say that thanks to Steve and Steve, our friendly neighborhood air conditioning guys, we are now living in 72 degree heaven.
Second, Addison's growth is out of control. He's seven months old today, and yesterday he sprouted his two front teeth. He also gave his Dad a little surprise. Nate laid him on the floor to roll around while he was working in the kitchen, turned his back, and next time he looked over Addison was sitting up! We're expecting him to start crawling any day now. He's so close. Here are some highlights from his big day:
A happy camper
Corn on the cob, minus the corn
Whooping up on Daddy on our new soft carpet!
A crawling lesson
Flying
Third, congratulations to my Dad! He recently found out that he'll be running unopposed, so as of January 2009, he'll be a superior court judge.
Fourth, we do not have green thumbs. More like brown or yellow thumbs. We've been so excited to have a yard, and so far we are killing everything but the wasps off. On Saturday I tackled our way-overgrown front flowerbed with high hopes, and about three hours later had only cleared away roughly a 2' x 2' square of weeds. In that square I found about 20 snail shells, some occupied, some not, a lot of roley poleys, and a poor little plant of some sort that was not a weed that we hadn't even been able to see before.
Nate is doing his manly duty and being in charge of the sprinklers. Every evening he goes out and sets the timer, and then fiddles with the ones that don't want to spray the right way, and every evening he comes back looking like this:
And despite all his efforts, our lawn is still crunchy.
Even though we haven't had loads of success so far, we are having the time of our lives getting wet and dirty and making battle plans so that we can begin to win the war with our stubborn yard and maybe even learn something in the process.
Second, Addison's growth is out of control. He's seven months old today, and yesterday he sprouted his two front teeth. He also gave his Dad a little surprise. Nate laid him on the floor to roll around while he was working in the kitchen, turned his back, and next time he looked over Addison was sitting up! We're expecting him to start crawling any day now. He's so close. Here are some highlights from his big day:
A happy camper
Corn on the cob, minus the corn
Whooping up on Daddy on our new soft carpet!A crawling lesson
Flying
Third, congratulations to my Dad! He recently found out that he'll be running unopposed, so as of January 2009, he'll be a superior court judge.
Fourth, we do not have green thumbs. More like brown or yellow thumbs. We've been so excited to have a yard, and so far we are killing everything but the wasps off. On Saturday I tackled our way-overgrown front flowerbed with high hopes, and about three hours later had only cleared away roughly a 2' x 2' square of weeds. In that square I found about 20 snail shells, some occupied, some not, a lot of roley poleys, and a poor little plant of some sort that was not a weed that we hadn't even been able to see before.
Nate is doing his manly duty and being in charge of the sprinklers. Every evening he goes out and sets the timer, and then fiddles with the ones that don't want to spray the right way, and every evening he comes back looking like this:
And despite all his efforts, our lawn is still crunchy.Even though we haven't had loads of success so far, we are having the time of our lives getting wet and dirty and making battle plans so that we can begin to win the war with our stubborn yard and maybe even learn something in the process.
I heard about your air conditioning - makes a difference, eh? :) Obviously in Vegas, we can't live without it!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Michelle, I LOVE your hair - I don't know how long ago you cut it, but I saw in a picture a few posts down. SO cute!
I don't know. That picture looks more like Nate was running through the sprinklers instead of fixing them. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI think he was in a water balloon fight, and only says that he was fixing the sprinklers.
ReplyDeleteyay! I'm glad that life is good! hehe, Jon was excited about your carpet :-). Hope you are staying cool! It's HUMID here!! I'm missing Utah- never thought I'd say that.
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