Many Updates

I have been a bad blogger lately. As all Michiganders know, in our few short months of summer we all try to cram as many outdoor activities in as possible. It makes for a busy few months. In the first picture you can see some progress is being made on the deck. Actually, the whole floor is in now and this weekend the railings will be started. We didn't use Trex for those so I had the fun job of painting them all this week so they would match the floor. In the second picture you can see our new perennial garden, now we have two! Next year I'll start a vegetable garden. I have one puny tomato plant now with one puny tomato, very pathetic. It was really hard work for Ben to dig up all of the sod around the air conditioner and move it to our patio area. We couldn't believe how rooted the sod was after one year. I'd recommend hiring some cheap labor for moving sod.

Sawyer turned 9 months this week. I think he weighs 20 or 21 lbs. He doesn't go to the doc for a couple weeks. His new tricks include - walking around the furniture, clapping, doing SO BIG (a cheesy baby trick seen in the video), growing more hair that is getting redder by the day, popping out new teeth left and right, crawling around the house and trying to pull out my heat vents (pictured above), and throwing things out of his crib. This really upsets him since we wants to get them back but doesn't understand that once he throws them out of his crib they are gone for good.

Also, for your viewing pleasure, is a video of Audrey singing one of her new favorite songs, "Cat Scratch Fever". She also loves "Dance, Too Much Booty in the Pants". Next time we will get her singing that one. In the video, notice how she says airplane, "hairplane". For some reason she says airport the correct way but not airplane. We think it's cute.

Finally, today is our 5 year anniversary! We are shipping the kids off to grandma's for the night and we are going to Ann Arbor. I am looking forward to a dinner where I only have to cut my food, don't have to bribe anyone to eat their veggies (well, that's questionable with Ben), and won't get any baby squash spit at me! It's been a fast and fun 5 years and it will be exciting to see what the next 5 bring!