Shh, shh, shh, baby sound asleep.

It's the only time I get a chance to write these days, when the baby is sleeping. Quick updates. Ethan will be five months old come Monday. He's been eating solids now for about three weeks; we started with brown rice cereal, then bananas (his favorite), sweet potatoes and most recently, avocado. He'll eat just about anything as long as it's mixed with bananas. I know I say it (write it?) all the time, but it's amazing how fast the time has gone by. I look at pictures of him when he was brand new and cry now; I barely recognize that baby. Don't get me wrong; who he is now is fabulous. The smiles, the giggles, the way he holds onto me, or lights up when he sees his dad or brother-- his personality shines through more and more every day. Every day I find myself wanting to savor every minute, wishing I could remember it forever. And now I'm tearing up, so moving on.

We're doing some crafty housework these days. We tore up the gawd-awful carpet in the living room to find the original pine floors underneath. After briefly considering putting down bamboo floors, we decided instead to just sand and seal what we had. So last night, our was filled with the fumes of polyurethane and much to our dismay, it made the floors look horrific. Jason will be sanding again tomorrow, in hopes to bring it back to how it looked before. Next week, we'll paint the walls and he'll build shelves for all of my books! Also next week, before the shelf-building, we're taking a mini-vacation to Richmond. We're taking the boys to King's Dominion for two days and then to the Children's Museum one day. It will be nice to spend that time together and I'll be able to ride some roller coasters. Really, that's what I'm most excited about.

And now I'm going to try again to post some pictures from this past weekend in Winston Salem. My friend Kelley got married, and because Jason had a gig, Whitney came along to help out with Ethan. Thank goodness she was there; I'm not sure I could ever be a single parent.

One from last week; Ethan snuggled up in his favorite blanket:


Sweet potato 'stache:


Lily Tomlin Chair:


Ethan, Max and me!




Okay; I officially suck at uploading pictures onto this blog. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. But anyway, there are a ton more on my webshots page, so check that out. And if you're in or near Winston-Salem anytime soon, I highly recommend the Children's Museum. Of course, you should take a kid with you. I mean, we took an almost five month old, and looked a little funny, but whatever works. And then you should walk around the corner to Mary's, Of Course, a delicious little restaurant that serves local goods and makes the most awesome oatmeal brownies.