Temporarily Home

Technically this post is less than two weeks late, so I am calling that caught up. We are loving life with our clever ten-month-old.

Loves: Walking! He walks! Most of the time he is content walking while holding someone's finger, but he often he will let go and just take off. The majority of our current apartment is wood floor though, so a few mishaps have occurred. He has not yet figured out cruising along furniture and cannot turn around from holding onto furniture to walk across the room on his own. However, he walks, stops, stands, and starts again all by himself.

--there was supposed to be a video of him walking here...but Blogger is being dumb--

Witten is a finger food guy. He will only eat meat that's been pureed by the Gerber company, but all else must be bite-size pieces. He is into zucchini and corn especially, but will also eat apple, sweet potato, peas, rice, potatoes, bread, pasta, green beans, yellow squash, etc.

He also loves his hippo. After a summer of travel and getting used to blankets and pillows from sleeping in mom and dad's bed, he needs something soft to go to sleep with. It melts my heart.

You know how the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time before the age of two? Yeah. My kid knows how to access Siri and take a selfie. Mother of the Year.

But first, let me take a selfie

Hates: Not being able to communicate. He does a lot of grunting and moaning and doesn't understand why mom and dad don't speak his language yet. I mean, they've been listening to it for 10 months! How have they not picked up on any of it yet? Come on.

Witten is in full-blown separation anxiety mode. When dad leaves for work, his world pretty much ends. Especially because Will was home all summer long. What changed?! The struggle of being a teacher's kid...

But what if Dad doesn't come back from school this time?

New Tricks: He is doing well using people to pull himself up, but won't do it with nearby furniture. He is also more interested in books these days--especially if they have fun textures to touch and scratch. The man loves sensory play.

Flour and water. Nothing has ever been more fun.

He is also a total sweetie. Chubby cheeks and thumb sucking. Ugh.

Do you see these cheeks?!? Do you!?!

Babies being together is also the best. Witten's friend Cam came over for a visit and they were adorable. I didn't get a picture of it, but at one point Cam was in the walker, with Witten hanging on to the back and they walked all over the living room.

In other news, we have ended our summer of "homelessness." ...sort of... We found a new basement apartment and moved in, and then found out two days later that we have to move again. Hah! So we have unpacked the bare necessities and are a little over a month from moving again. The plan at this point is another year of apartment living before we buy a town home. And then never move again!!!!!!! Or at least stay in the same place for more than a year. A girl can dream.

This beautiful place is home for one quick minute...

Do you see how cute this is?! We thought about buying this to put next to Will's recliner, but that would just be one more piece of furniture to move several times

At least we now live in South Riding. Being so much closer to Will's school means we could become a one car family.

The goodbye photo after the sale closed

Our Honda has been a good car, but I have destroyed the transmission twice and the poor vehicle couldn't take it anymore. So now we just have to cross our fingers that I don't figure out a way to kill the jeep...

Theme Song: Drive My Car, the Beatles