Lilah is just over 6 months old now, she is sitting upright by herself (and only falling over occasionally) and she is also crawling forward. She started crawling backward around 5 months. She has also started on some jar food and enjoys bananas, pears & carrots so far. We’ve tried Cheerios, but Lilah really doesn’t know what to think about them yet and pushes them back out of her mouth with her tongue every time, all the while glaring at you.

McKenna has been doing much better with her potty training. She now goes #1 almost every time in the toilet, she’s got a little more to work on with the #2 however. Thank goodness we haven’t transitioned into actual panties yet! We’re trying to bribe her with trips to the Pacific Science Center if she goes poop in the potty chair, so far it hasn’t worked. She has been playing almost every other day with her friend Andrea (5) from across the street. It usually go goes something like this…McKenna whines to play with Andrea, we ask Andrea to come over, she comes over, after about 2.2 minute of playing together they go off in different sections of the yard and play by themselves, after about an hour I tell them we to walk Andrea home because we have to eat, we walk Andrea home, we go inside to fix dinner, McKenna whines to play with Andrea some more. It seems like they have a lot of fun, and considering the age difference at their age (over 2 years), they seem to enjoy each other’s company. It certainly is nice to have a friend so near that McKenna likes, and vice versa. Andrea’s dad, Mike, sometimes comes over as well and it’s nice to hear some other views from somebody who has been through a lot of when we are going through,(He’s got 5 girls ages 5-17).

On other fronts we’ve finally got some grass growing in the front yard that we re-landscaped. It’s looking pretty good, certainly better than before, and when all of the grass comes in it should be stupendous. J It seems through the front yard project, we’ve met nearly everyone in the neighborhood on once occasion or another as they’ve stopped by to say hello and comment on the yard.

Work is going ok. Jaime was going in for a full day on Monday as well as the nights 5-9, but she had to stop the Mondays because of childcare issues. The lumber/house building market in general has really slowed down in this area, it doesn’t look good for bonuses this year. We are finally catching up to the rest of the nation in that regard I guess. Things always seem to slow down during an election year, but it’s been especially slow with all of the things happening in the mortgage & oil crisis(s), and the job market. Hopefully the housing market will get kick started again soon, and we’ll be back to full swing.

Well, until next time, we hope this finds you happy and healthy.