Toothy Surprise!

Look what I came home to this weekend!!!!

Johnny B. has some chompers!!!

Priceless

Bumming a ride from an acquaintance on a Friday night to Arlington, VA...

Staying the night with a friend...

Asking same friend to bring me to the airport at 4am Saturday morning...

Spending 2 1/2 hours on a plane...

$400 round trip ticket from DC to Houston...

Begging a friend to pick me up at the airport Sunday and bring me back to work...

19 hours spent with these guys (and you too Billy :)) before heading back to DC...

PRICELESS

John at EIGHT Months Old!

I cannot believe how fast time is flying...John is officially EIGHT months old already!  (Yes, this post is a day late, but hey, I'm a bit busy right now!).

What has he been up to?

He is extremely mobile, crawling EVERYWHERE...

He is not satisfied unless he is rummaging through Will's toys and in the middle of any and all action at the house...

He can get to standing without support and then "surfs" for 10-20 seconds before sitting down...

He is definitely teething and one has just about popped through already so stand by!

His personality continues to get more and more fabulous with each passing day...

--and I miss him--a lot--

Here's Johnny B. at EIGHT months old :)

And for the comparison (and in this instance, extremely relevant timing)...

Snippets

Just a simple post to share some of my favorite pictures from this past weekend...

Will eating cheese (no, I do not (necessarily) condone this behavior) :)

My little butterball...and the best dad in the world that is holding down the fort for the next 8 weeks (1 week down, yeah!)...

John's "explore the tupperware cabinet" right of passage...

And the two cutest bathers ever...

Science Experiment

A few weeks ago, Will and I were doing, yes, another science experiment.  We made our very own swamp.  It started out fine, he added some mud, leaves, grass, rocks, then got some of his swamp animals and placed them inside a nice little tupperware container.  Then of course, his imagination went wild and he dumped the entire swamp into one of his (eating) trays.  But he didn't stop there...he just had to put his 500 Super Friend action figures in it.  It was a little crazy, a lot of fun, and he even helped  clean up afterwards :)

Happy Birthday Billy!

We love you!!!

Teething Much?

I know what your thinking, I'm traveling, certainly I have more important things to focus on...but I just HAD to get this video posted.  

You see, John is starting to really really really teeth...

and he has grown to love the end of our rubber spatula.  

The other night he was chewing on it and it was making apparently the most hysterical noise in the world (listen closely) and Will (complete with food on his face) just about lost it at the supper table.  

Have a listen!

Leaving on a jet plane

I'm at the airport getting ready to depart Houston to go to DC for nine weeks.
If I can survive this, I can survive anything.
Wish me luck ( and wish Billy luck too with the boys )!

Lunch Lady

So this was my next to last day in town for a WHILE...so I of course took a vaca day to spend time with John and meet Will at his new school for lunch!  Let's just say, I don't remember school lunches being so fabulous (mostly because I always brought my own lunch).

It is quite likely this was the yummiest pizza of all time, but it is more likely the pizza tasted so yummy because I was in great company, with my cute little lunch date.

Movin Movin Movin...

Johnny B. is movin!

And by moving, I mean he is all over the place.

He does sit ups.

He crawls (quickly).

He stands WITHOUT support.

Here are a few miscellaneous shots of him around the house.

And if you are wondering what all that clutter (boxes of clothes) is doing in the background...those are Will's 18 month - 2T size clothes we had to get out of storage for John!

These thighs are marvelous!

Here is one of his new faces...I call it...the 'ming face' or 'denture face'.

 And John couldn't despise his baby toys any more...it simply isn't possible.

We actually had to move all of Will's toys upstairs...he is only allowed to keep a small box of toys in his room downstairs.  All other toys must stay up in the man cave...because John can't keep from putting anything and everything in his mouth.  

Tonight John discovered Will's closet, and in the closet he found Will's light sabers which I had forgotten to move.  And he man-handled them as if they weighed as much as a paperclip!