7 months

dear gavin,
you are the light of my life. you have grown, learned, and changed so much since the day we took you home from the hospital; what an awesome privilege that i have to get to be with you every day to watch your little capabilities unfold.

at seven months, you love bananas. LOVE them. to the point of getting a spoon full and leaning forward with your mouth dropped open for the next bite. another thing you just can't get enough of are gerber bites. it's so fun introducing you to new foods! you can also sit up for an extended period -- all by yourself! what a little man! you can roll from front to back and then back again and while you're not crawling just yet, i have a feeling it's not too long before you're well on your way to scooting around the house. you can recognize people and sometimes you don't like it too much when mama or daddy leave the room. (this you let us know by protesting... loudly!) i love that you can reach your hands up when you want to be picked up and i love your wonderful belly laugh. you are such a happy child. we feel so blessed to have been gifted with a child who posses such a cheerful disposition.

you're an easy going baby and mama does not, for a single second, take that for granted. 95% of the time, you go down for naps and bed like a dream. the other 5%? ah well, we're all allowed to have bad days. :) a few weeks ago, you took your first international flight (across the pacific!) to visit grandma and grandpa and you handled it like a champ. such a good baby boy.

my sweet gavin, i love you so much. you're seven months and i feel such pride for you and for the little person you continue to grow to be. i look forward to what the next few months will bring as we close out your first year.

love you forever,
mama

I have no idea where to begin...

So basically, 5 days after I wrote my last post, B and I packed up for our month-ish long trip to my parents' house. My parents, by the way, live on the other side of the world, so this was no ordinary pack job. Throw in two people travelling internationally with a baby for the first time and you get craziness.

So yeah. We've been away from Oregon for quite some time. I have updates about our fab vacation and stuff Gavin's been doing and I have no idea where to start. Since Gavin hits the 7 month (!!!!!!) mark tomorrow, I may start there.

Sounds like a plan. If you can't tell, I'm not feeling to charged to do anything swiftly these days. Spending days on end in the South Pacific (with 24/7 babysitters aka grandparents) will do that for a girl. :)

One week later...

We're all moved in!

::collapses on sofa in exhaustion::

I never want to do that again. We moved without having a baby sitter to watch G. My in-laws were out of town, my sister is back home for the summer, B's sister works like 73 million hours a week, and anyone we tried to get in contact with just couldn't do it. Not that we blame them, people have lives, but let's be real. I'm never moving without a babysitter EVER. AGAIN.

But we did it. What rockstars.

Today I'm home with nothing on the agenda. It's the first slow day of the past week and I'm totally taking advantage of it. As soon as G goes down for the afternoon, I'm curling up next to the fireplace with some tea and a book.

Procrastination at its finest

I've been married for exactly a year and a half and I'm just NOW getting around to putting together my wedding album.

What can I say? We took off from the reception for a two week honeymoon in Hawaii and then I got knocked up 3 months later. Literally, everything (as in, my wedding china is still in its original packaging because I had to put together a nursery!) has taken a backseat to this little person.

So what's got my fire going? The fact that I'm going to be seeing my mother in two weeks. She's told me, in no uncertain terms, that she wants to see an album and so far I've held off because, let's be real, how good can she make on her threats when she's literally halfway around the world from me? But seeing as how we'll be on her side of the globe in two weeks, I've got an album to put together. Better find time to do that in between, oh I don't know, moving to a new HOUSE and being a full time stay at home mom these days because my in-laws are currently spending two weeks at their timeshare in San Diego! As a whole family, our timing could not suck any more than it currently does. Gah!

1,000 other people

Tonight, while I was reading this week's entry on postsecret.com, someone mentioned feeling alone until they looked at the number on the counter. That got me wondering how much that number would change from the time I got to the page, read the entries, then hit refresh.

The number increased by over 1,000. It's mindboggling that that many people were doing the same thing I was, at the same time I that I was doing it from my living room couch.

Huh.

Sabbath shmabbath

So much for restful Sundays.

When you're married to someone who's a pastor, Sundays are anything but.

Try as I might, 'observing the Sabbath' is a commandment I might have to re-negotiate with the Big Guy. You know, just to make sure that He knows it wasn't my idea to blatantly go against it.

I'm just sayin'.

"My how the turn... tables."

That's a quote from a recent episode of "The Office". Gotta have me some Michael Scott!

Anyway.

Today B and I strapped Gavin into his stroller and headed to our local Saturday farmers market for the first time since we've moved here. I loved it! Needless to say, weekly jaunts to the market (especially now that it's summer!) will be in order. Just the sights and smells of all of the fresh vegetables was enough to almost make me want to grow my own garden. Almost. We're all about the baby steps here people. I'm the person Dimitri Martin makes fun of when he talks about killing a cactus ("Damn. I'm less nurturing than a desert."). Thinking I'll start with some herbs: basil (love), cilantro, thyme. Aren't herbs notoriously hard to kill? I'll get check back with you on that one.