Morgan is 6 months old!

I can't believe Morgan is already 6 months old. Where oh where has the time gone. It seems like yesterday I was still pregnant. Morgan is all over the place now. He is trying so hard to perfect crawling. He doesn't do a standard crawl, but he manages to get around. He usually hikes his leg forward, then an arm, then faceplants. He is getting better and has fewer and fewer faceplants. If he sees something he wants, he goes for it and can get to it in no time at all. Mason likes him more and more each day, which is nice. I feel better as a Mom knowing that Mason accepts Morgan and that he doesn't feel left out or any resentment losing all of his one on one time with us.

Both of the boys are doing wonderfully and I am loving this time in their lives much more than any we have had.

We experienced a little bit of Ike ourselves

Okay, so we are not affected anywhere near the magnitude that Texas or Louisiana was but we did get a TON of rain and wind. The news stations had been saying we would receive the remnants of Ike and that in a short amount of time we would get from 3-6 inches and possible more in some areas. I heard the rain start last night. I heard the rain this morning when Morgan got up. I didn't look outside though until Mike got up for the day. After Morgan had gone back to bed I fell asleep on the couch and woke up to Mike asking if I wanted anything from the store. (To which my answer was, "No, I want to keep sleeping.") When he opened the door he said, "Our street is flooded." So I got up to look and sure enough there was water up to/a little past the sidewalk. Great. Our next move was to the basement. Luckily our basement is fine. I instantly started thinking of our neighbors who I know have had bad luck before. After talking to neighbors they have anywhere from just a little wet to inches reaching up into her dryer. Next I called Jamie and Steven and they had a bit in their basement but the bigger problem was Mike's grandma's house was pretty much taking on some water. She lives on a little lake and it was rapidly approaching the house. Mike went up with his two brothers and they sandbagged it so it would not create more damage. As it stands right now, I just heard from Mike and the water was all the way to her basement but I didn't find out if it was indeed in the house or if they had managed to get it taken care of in time. I will just have to wait until he gets home.

That has been our Sunday so far and it's just barely 1:30pm.

Another problem is GAS!!! Gas stations are running out of gas and only have Premium available....hmmm I think that's pretty convenient for the companies. It kind of pisses me off, but hey what can you do? I'm not going anywhere today, saving the gas I do have and hoping that I will NOT have to purchase gas at an insane price. Hopefully by the time I need gas the price will have went back down. And that's about all I can do.

Morgan's updates

I haven't been very good at writing Morgan's new achievements down, so I thought I would update here and document his new things while I am at it. He is almost 6 months old and just in this fifth month he has started doing so much more. He is eating baby food twice a day now. He started with green beans (after cereal) and then we did peas, sweet potatoes, squash, applesauce, pears, peaches and carrots. The only one he hasn't seemed to like is carrots. We are finding out that he is so different from Mason. He is HUGE compared to where Mason was at this age, he moves around a lot more, although this may be because we have carpet and put him on the ground and with Mason we had hardwood floors and didn't. Another difference is food. When I first started giving Mason solids (which was about the same age), Mason would only eat half of a stage 1 container. Morgan started off eating the entire thing. I think we are going to have to move to Stage 2 sooner rather than later. Morgan is rolling all over the place. He is now an expert roller and can get from point A to B in no time at all! He is also trying to crawl. He gets up on all fours and kind of sits there like he knows what he wants to do, but just hasn't put it together yet. It's amazing at how fast time has gone. It's been almost six months and he is getting so big and doing so much. I think that's all I have for now.

House stuff and our camping trip

A few weeks ago we had a realtor come over and tell us what we needed to do to make the house better for selling. Mike has gotten most of it done (it was surprisingly not that much) and now only has to get some stuff out of the basement and paint it. Hopefully this will all be done this week and we can list it next week! Woo-hoo!!! I am super excited about this!

We took a break from house stuff to go camping over Labor Day weekend. Jamie, Steven and Logan went with us. Mike, myself, the kids and Scout got down there Friday night. Our campsite was extremely small and very rocky. We were not very impressed, but we set up camp and were settling in. I had to get some stuff, so Mason and I headed to the store once camp was set up. While I was gone Mike called saying that the camp sites were filling up and that he didn't think Jamie and Steven would get a site next to us and that I should call them. So I called Jamie and she called the place to reserve it and told them we wanted to be by each other if at all possible. Well they had to move some stuff around and were able to get us in neighboring camp sites. So, when I got back from the store we took down camp and relocated. Man am I happy we did. Our new campsite was HUGE compared to the last one...at least three times the size and there weren't nearly as many rocks (pretty much none). Mike got a fire started and we roasted some hot dogs on a stick over the fire for dinner. The next day about mid-morning Jamie, Steven and Logan arrived. Mike helped them get their camp set up and we had lunch and just enjoyed the camping. Overall, it was a good trip. We basically hung out at our sites, the kids ran free, Scout was amazingly good and we only headed into town once to venture around. The only thing I can complain about it the SPIDERS! I HATE spiders and they were EVERYWHERE. I have been camping numerous times in my life and I have NEVER seen this many. They were daddy long legs, but they were, with legs and all, sometimes the size of a softball. And at any given time there were at least five on our tent. They would crawl up your legs, drop from the trees onto you and were in general all over EVERYTHING. It was gross. But I obviously made it through okay, but really they were bad. I almost forgot,Sunday night four different resorts set off fireworks over the lake and we went up to a lookout where we could see all four at once! It was awesome.

Monday morning we got up and packed up and left. We got home gave kids and dog a bath. Mike and Morgan took naps while Mason played with his toys and I got my much needed shower. When I was ready I woke up Mike and we headed to his Dad's for a Labor Day BBQ. The food was amazing as usual and it was nice to hang out in the house! Then we came home, did NOTHING and then went to BED!

That's all for now. Just thought I needed to update before my next post ended up being twice as long!!!