The Simpson Family: August 2009

Once again, I have not kept up my end of the bargain and posted regularly! I'll be honest...some days I can't remember that I need to get milk...speaking of which there is a milk jug in the fridge with about a swig left in it. I would say...I forgot to get milk tonight. So, how could I remember to keep my blog going? Well, I don't really...I have to be reminded by my followers that they need some updates from time to time.

Let's Catch Up...

Where should I begin? How about with the main attraction...Zach of course. Well he is now pushing 5 months old. That will happen on 9/4/09 of course. He's turning out to be quite an amazing little creature. He is now rolling over...ALL over that is, and trying like crazy to figure out how to crawl. He's got the knees up idea down but can't quite figure out how to get his arms up. He has a great big belly laugh now and if you get him going to much he actually snorts!! Yeah...like a little piggy. Of course he is cute as ever, although I do feel that I am partial. He isn't eating anything but milk these days, and those pesky teeth still haven't broken through the gum...but they are surely on the way. Last visit to the doctors little Z was 14lbs and 25.5 inches long!! That is quite the change in size from our pint sized 6lb newborn!! I've already forgotten how tiny he was...that is until I see another newborn. Every time he does something new I cry and naturally have to go look at all the pictures from the day he was born. I am really already playing the "remember when" game? Oh, how motherhood changes a woman!!

Elsewhere in the Simpson Universe we just celebrated LD's 17th birthday! 17 - how the heck does that happen? School starts tomorrow!! Junior year. A short rainy summer. A few days in the pool. Now, what I am sure to him seems like an inevitably long school year ahead! If anyone is interested in LD's stats...at his last Dr. appointment he was 5' 8" tall!! He has grown more than 8 inches in 2 years! He hasn't given up the long hair just yet...he might be entertaining the idea. But for now it is the shaggy curly look that he still has going. Here's to a quick and painless Junior year...with out summer school in 2010! Wish us all luck there!!

What else? Well the only other big news is that I will be starting a new job after Labor Day! WOOO HOOO!! Yes after 11 years wi th my company I am leaving. Beginning a new journey. Hopefully to great places. A bit odd, but will be going to a hotel that I used to manage, that my current company sold a few years back. I will be going full circle...almost back to were it all began! Yup...so that leaves the Beetles song as my theme song for the next few weeks. I'm excited and nervous! Mostly excited. Ready for a new adventure!! As per the usually I never spend too long in one hotel. I like to keep things mixed up. Courtyard...here I come...get read y!!

That's the gist of it. Seems as though I should have even more to say given the time between updates. I'm sure there have been several I Love Lucy moments around here that I will have to save for posts of their own. Dave is still grinding concrete everyday...and living on the road....out of a travel bag...and in a hotel room. (Ugh) We never did take a summer vacation or go camping this year. Big BUMMER! But we did have some great parties at home this summer...and of course one more big one to end the summer season is fast approaching.

Here are some new pics! I'll post again soon...you know how soon my soon is these days! As soon as I have a gallon of milk in the fridge with more than a swig left in it...we'll be catching up!