Sitting

By way of baby update, the boy is now sitting up like a champ, including sitting in the buggy at the supermarket. He's starting to get a little more daring - bending over further to reach things, bouncing up and down on his little butt, etc. All of this is making him more likely to fall over than he was at the beginning. Strategy: clench teeth, grin, exclaim, "Hey, you're fine!" Seems to keep tears to a minimum.

Here we are headin downy oshun:

I took this pic while we were pulled off on the side of the road near a creepy clearing with part of a rusted tractor in the middle of it. Eerily, someone had been mowing around it. There was a path leading into the woods. Nearby, a middle-aged black lady took an awful long time getting her mail; she seemed to be watching us. I decided I would use this as a scene in my first horror novel.

Dave was laughing as he told the story to my parents. He said, "All of a sudden, Ann goes scampering off toward the damn thing, just like they do in the horror movies right before the thing jumps out of the bushes and eats them!" He's right, you know.

There are too many wonderful shots from the beach and a little before. You'll just have to go here to see them.

Meanwhile, Sam has started daycare full time. This is good timing as I am now totally broke from barely working for 6 months. His teacher, Maria, is totally in love with him. She emailed me in the middle of the day yesterday to tell me so. Then, when we went to pick him up, Maria's husband said (in his spanish accent), "Can I tell you something? Your boy is amazing! He is so beautiful!" To which Dave (politely) replied, "All the kids here are adorable." Maria's husband said, "Well yes, but some are more beautiful than others." lol