ten months of milo!

our new normal

recently, there have been changes to both our living space, and the people who live there.

- penny now sleeps in a loft bed (she cannot remember the word "loft" and keeps calling it a "draft" bed.  she knows it's not right, and makes the most adorable face while she's saying it).  it is huge, it took hours to put together, and she LOVES it.  she asked to go home because she missed it so much.
- milo now eats as much food at each meal as i do.  he ate a hamburger for lunch.  he ate a hot dog for dinner.we have to tear everything into super tiny pieces, so it takes FOREVER for him to eat, but the speed and ferocity he puts into each bite is impressive.  also, he loves waffles

- milo crawls for real now.  he is superfast and unerringly heads for the most dangerous thing in the room.  yesterday, he entertained himself for a good 15 minutes by throwing a ball, laughing hysterically, racing over to it and throwing it again.  he was playing fetch with himself.  whatever, i got the laundry folded.
- penny has me drop her off for school right inside the main entrance.  i hardly know what to do with myself.  she's doing a great job of easing me into next year when i won't even go into the school with her at all, but i feel like i should be easing her into this stuff, not the other way around?  she's so proud, and is having so much fun being big.
- penny's got style.  she spent quite a while shopping for a dress that "goes like this" (diagonal line across her body from one shoulder to her hip).  i didn't know what that meant, she assured me it had short sleeves, and every dress i held up was wrong.  she has really amazing taste in clothes and shoes, and she TURNED DOWN TWO PAIRS OF SPARKLY PURPLE SHOES YESTERDAY.  i can't even believe this.  the ones she selected were really nice, but who is this child?

they're growing up, both of them!

Happy Mother's Day!

Besides being Mother's Day, today was Milo's Inside Out Day - the day he's been on the outside as long as he was on the inside; in his case 40 weeks and 5 days. I lifted some heavy things, drank some wine, and ate some sushi and soft cheeses, all things prohibited while pregnant, but downright encouraged on Mother's Day.
I was lucky enough to spend the day with my parents, my parents in law, and my brother in law and his family. It was a gorgeous day, and I made an effort to sit and relax.

Happy Mother's Day to me!

nine months of milo!

milo is now nine months old!

nine months = three quarters of a year!  GET IT?

he can now crawl for real, has one and a half teeth with another on the way, can clap on cue, eats everything that is put in front of him, and hopes to be walking as soon as possible.  he is beginning to say "da da" and "ma ma" at appropriate times, and an untranscribable yell that almost definitely means "penny".  folks are constantly commenting on his huge eyes and wide smile.  he's quite a charmer, this one!

first big girl haircut! and she's a toughie!

all three of us large enough to get our hairs cut did so this weekend, and penny got hers done in the salon where alex & i get our hair cut.  it was her first time getting her hair washed, her first time sitting in a big chair, and her first time not being distracted by a television.  she was awesome!

also this weekend, penny demonstrated that she can get herself across the monkey bars.  this was her second attempt - the first time she made it all the way across!

Pizza makers!