Adventures in La La Land

I'm feeling pretty emotional about my baby being half way to a year! This is such a fun age, and it's slipping away so quickly! He is usually a happy, laid back baby. He loves people, loves attention, will smile at anyone, and gives giggles freely. I feel like he's chunked out a lot this month. When I weighed him a couple weeks ago on our scale, he was 15 lbs. We have a WIC appointment on Wednesday, so I'll update with the official weight then. He's still not doing much. Haha. He doesn't roll. He doesn't sit. He doesn't scooch. He does  jump and kick and flail his arms all day long. And he's getting better at putting weight on his legs and holding himself up if you stand him up. It's interesting that he seems to be the opposite of what's expected for boys. He's a little behind with the gross motor, but I think he's more social/gregarious than the girls were at this age. I looked up Lena's 6 month update, and she was alr...

I have to write this up quickly because I need to get in bed. School starts tomorrow, and I'm not ready for my early wake-up call! This is late because yesterday was the big wedding!! More on that later. We have some other stuff to catch up on first. 1. Last Saturday after writing my Saturday 7, I took the girls to the nail salon in Meijer to get our wedding pedicures. They were swamped, so we had to wait forever. Finally, Lucy got in the chair and they got started on her nails while Lena and I waited for another tech to open up. All of a sudden, the radio broke in with an announcement for a tornado warning in our county. It wasn't storming, though, so I figured it was just in a different part of our county. Sure enough, it was south of us, but moving in our direction. At first I wasn't too worried. Historically, Michigan hasn't seen much tornadic activity - and when we do, it's just a little swirling in the clouds. But then, the sirens started going off outs...

1. It's wedding week!! My nephew is getting married one week from today! Lena is supposed to be the flower girl, but that's looking pretty unlikely. Until recently, she at least said  she was excited. Now she's saying she doesn't even want to do it. Ha. Lucy's going to be the back-up flower girl. But of course, I don't have a dress for her. Or shoes for either of the girls. Or an outfit for Levi. I borrowed a dress for myself and am planning on borrowing some shoes. Good news, though. I bought my own spanx. Haha. Although I ordered it online and it still hasn't arrived . . . Check back next week for the update! (Not on the spanx, on the wedding, and Lena's participation.) Attempting to put an outfit together for Levi. 2. Levi has finally discovered the joy of the jumperoo. Until this week, he just kind of swayed in it and got bored after about 2 minutes. But all of a sudden, he figured out how to jump and is loving it! He'll jump in that thing f...