"We May Not Have It All Together But Together We Have It All"

Ladies, I must confess! I am divorcing my Remington and saying Heeelllooo to Braun! Braun my new best friend, oh how did I ever get along with out you before, my long lost love? Oh, the pain you cause but the freedom you give is worth it (the pain is not bad by the way if you use the starter head)!

Lucas is 7 months old now! Crazy how time flies when you have three boys. We were getting ready for the day and looked up to see Lucas standing in his crib. I figured I better get a few pictures that very day before he changed (which they do overnight). By 7/18/08 when I took the pics he was standing up to things and crawling on his hands and knees a few feet then giving up and doing the army crawl which was faster. He was also following me around the house. Ten days later he is on all fours and pretty fast. He loves his new found freedom. He is now pulling himself up standing at the couch, loving the door stoppers and playing with all of brothers toys. He is also biting on everything, my shoulder, the couch, any toy he can get his hands on. He doesn’t really like solids; he prefers milk so that has been a slow start. He looks at us when we call his name. He is handsome, has red hair that I wish would stay and is healthy. We are blessed!

We got a bunch of good books this month from the library but these two are the most enlightening for very different reasons.

When Evan pick out the left book, The Gas We Pass The Story of Farts at the library he came to me and said Mom can we get this one its about farts. I rolled my eyes of course and asked how he knew that (he can’t read yet)? He opened up to a page which had a kid in the bath tub showing bubbles in the water coming from his bum. Now I had a decision to make; be a kind and open minded mom and allow him to be educated on what his body does or be the mean mom and just say no way that’s gross. Well since Ryan seems to be getting after me lately about being an overly precautions mom I figured what the heck. Evan was so excited to show Dad his new book and when he did Ryan said to me “I can’t believe you let him get that book”. It was worth it, the first time we read it I just had to enjoy it because Evan laughed, and laughed, you know the laugh that you can’t breathe. He hasn’t done that in a long time and I enjoyed hearing it! Did you know that “A healthy person releases almost half a cup of gas in a single fart…..and….. In one day, just over 2 cups of gas are released in farts.” The boys in my house are heeaalltthhyy!

The book on the right, Sidney & Norman a tale of two pigs is a book about a pig (Norman) who is neat and organized, always goes to church and every thing seems to come easily for him but he is always looking down at others that are not like him and yet he thinks he is a good pig and his neighbor (Sidney) who is always a mess, always late and things just are always hard for him and does not think that he is such a good pig. Well they get a chance to meet God; God told Norman three things; “First of all, I love you…., Secondly, your goodness is not the reason I love you……, third you’re not as good as you have led yourself to believe. You are prideful. You’re selfish. You look down on others….” Then it was Sidney’s turn. God told him three things; “First of all, I love you. Secondly, I love you. And thirdly, I love you”. It was a good reminder and a good story for the boys to hear. I might have to buy this one!