We have been spending some time helping Luke's parents, Dale and Reita move! This is a big step, since they are leaving their home of 34 years that was the place where Luke and his siblings grew up. It is full of memories, but as most older homes go, full of projects and repairs that are hard and a hassle to keep up with in retirement years.
They moved a town over to a newer and more spacious home that will be very suitable for them as they move into older years (rambler main-floor living) but with space for family to come and get together without being on top of each other. I think it's a hard but good change. We are happy for them and happy we are so close we can help!Jane turned 7 months old. This is the only picture from that day, and she was not really in the mood. (This means we have been cloth diapering for 1 month and still LOVE it...)
Jane showed no interest in solid foods from months 4-6, and I started regularly feeding her just before six months. She started slowly, with little interest, only eating a couple bites, raspberrying peas across her tray and mom, gagging on pureed fruits, getting full-body rashes from bananas, and all-day crankiness= bad sleeping from rice cereal. Then, without warning, she turned 7 months old, and the skies cleared. She is an EATER. She can down 6-8 ounces of food 4-5 times every day, with the same amount of nursing. She just exploded into eating and loves everything (including peas now, as long as I mix them with carrots). She still thinks occasionally thinks she is dying from anything with texture, you know, like watery applesauce, but she loves fruits or vegetables of the pureed variety, so far. She also has now exploded past her 0-3 month clothes (she still fit at 6 months old) and past her 3-6 months clothes, and is wearing 9 month and 9-12 month clothes. I guess it makes since.Luke had, as he put it, his twenty-eleventh birthday. Wow. We recently went back off sugar (I was off for years and decided to live it up with pregnancy and then didn't get back until now. He's doing it now, with the caveat that we could have 2 pieces of pie, or 4 half-pieces for Thanksgiving.). With that new no-sugar commitment, Barb and Matt came over for dinner and a movie for his birthday and provided a pina colada smoothie as a tasty birthday dessert. It was a fun, low-key night, as Luke requested.
I am so happy to have Luke in my life. He loves being a dad and he is so careful to speak positively with her and to take care of her. He enjoys it (practically pushes me out the door) when I go to yoga and "girly activities" like RS Activities and MBA spouse association events. Since his birthday is the week of Thanksgiving, Jane got a lot of Daddy time. She is a mommy's girl because we are home together all day long and really I'm just a food supply... She learns quickly that her daddy is very fun, and she gets excited when he gets home from school to play with her.He has been working so hard at his MBA classes, and even though we would like to request more time, we are happy he is doing well in school. I think it would be hard for me to go back to school after 6 years off! He's stellar.
We had a great Thanksgiving. We spent Thursday with my family. My mom reserved her church, which was really nice. The gym was great for kids to run around in and adult to shoot hoops, etc. while everyone else visited. We ate, played games, talked, had a white elephants, and a give-and-take table. It was good to have my mom and siblings around, but it still felt a little small without small Spencer and Kim, Sarah and Jake, their kids, and Becca. I'm glad Katie and Gordon made it up and we got to meet their newest BOY, Grant. He is HUGE. Same size as Jane, but only 2 months old. Hah!
(I stole this picture from their blog.)Then we went to Luke's parents, did some moving help, and had a late-Thanksgiving dinner together on Saturday with Tiffany and her boys and Melissa and David, in the new house. It was nice. I got to organize the kitchen with the ladies (I LOVE that kind of project) and the men-folk carried heavy things (like the piano). It was a good and productive visit.
We also had a little baby shower for Barbara and Matt. I believe but still can't believe that she's having a baby. I made her a breastfeeding cover and a baby sling, and while I was making it I pictured her using them and it hit me that my younger sister is having a baby in a couple weeks. I'm so happy for them and know she will do great and their little boy is lucky to have them as parents.
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