Happy Sunshine Monday Morning

Well, it has been a while, has it not? Last week was Matt's finals week, so I was blessed to have him home all the time after Tuesday. It was a good time of relaxing, getting things done around the house/church, and just being together as a family. We also signed up for a 2 week trial of Netflix and caught some classics. Did you know how GREAT of a movie Gone with the Wind is??? I'd only seen short clips here and there, and Matt never had. Treat yourself...but make the time! We also watched My Fair Lady because Matt had never seen it. We also watched some Star Trek Voyager and 12 Angry Men (the classic version) to keep it balanced. I have to say, 12 Angry Men was a wonderful movie...no action save for one very angry obnoxious loud mouth of a man, but it works the brain!

Judah's doing great. Just this last week it seems like his energy level has eXpLoDeD! Matt has concluded that he will be an energetic child...which scares me knowing what Matt was like as a kid. Whew! He has also gotten very excited about his solid foods. He opens so wide, rocks back and forth, and almost yells between bites! He loves peaches, pears, applesauce, carrots, and I'm pretty sure he just adores the green beans. He's also started eating more of them. We see Dr. Cantor on Thursday for his 6 month check-up (though he's almost 7mo now), so I'm interested to see how tall he is and how much he weighs. We visited friends -- a mom my age with a daughter Judah's age -- and Judah is taller and bigger than Ava who is 9 months. :-) I love my boy! Here's a few pictures to tide you over. He's got a bag of new tricks that will be revealed when I get the videos uploaded. (We still haven't seen the kid roll over...but he's greeted us on his belly in the morning on several occasions.)

One new trick is that he has figured out how to work Lionel, a lion that sings/educates by rolling a cylinder on his belly. As you'll see in a video, he does it over...and over...and over. It's not annoying -- yet. It's so fun and AWEsome to watch him learn the fine details of manipulating his fingers and connecting that motion with the result of a song. Simply fascinating to watch a baby fill his brain! ~~~ He is also getting better and better at "push ups" as you see in the second picture. He is trying so hard to get to his knees. Again, in a video to come, you will see that he can stay on his hands and knees when we help him get there...and today started rocking while on hands and knees!



Major bed head lately because he moves around so much and is getting more hair, but it's adorable. But funny bed head isn't the only reason we took this picture. Can anyone tell me another reason we might have worked hard for this picture? Anyone may guess except for my mother (sorry, not fair to the others, Momma).



Hopefully I'll get the videos and a couple more cute pictures up soon! Hope all of you are well...can you believe this is the LAST week in September? Holy canoli where is the time going??