Sitting Duck

I propped T up on the couch yesterday and took a picture. I figure it's about time to start working on his sitting more. He did okay. :-)

Tonight after the kids finished dinner, I got out the ladder and got the walker off the shelf out in the garage. I put T in and stuffed a blanket around him so that he wouldn't flop over and smack his face. He seemed to enjoy it. Of course, he immediately had a lot of company! It was at this point we had "the talk" about space bubbles and not popping T's bubble. His bubble was pretty much immediately popped by that thumb-sucking little one on the right. She is definitely in awe of her baby brother... and has been since day one. Speaking of that little one, I'm surprised her eyes and swollen nose aren't black and blue for this picture... she walked in front of the swings this afternoon (of course it was in front of M who was swinging mighty high and hard), and there was the very unfortunate accidental meeting of foot and face. Many tears (from the hurting S and a very sorry M) and a whole lot of blood later, everything seems okay. S's nose does not appear to have been broken, though we really thought it might have been...

N is working a graveyard sort of shift right now... it's technically a 10-hour shift, but he's on the clock for at least 12. He works about 4:30pm to 4:30am. Quite an adjustment, but we all seem to be adapting fairly well. The biggest thing is trying to keep the house a little quieter during the mornings since N's sleeping when we're up and at 'em. He has started on the house painting. We're going with the slow and steady do-it-yourself method. The paneling was in need of a paint job, so we decided to get going on it. N plans on doing what parts he can and then hiring someone to just do the (scary) second-story parts he can't reach... (even on his humongously tall ladder!) So while we were freshening up the paint, we decided to freshen up the color a bit, too. We affectionately call the house "calamine lotion pink," but it's not really that pink... but, it is a little pink. You can't really see the original color in this picture because N had already put the primer on. The new color is the darker one around the light. He's going at it one little section at a time. This is in the back yard on the back side of the garage.

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