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We haven't been very good at updating our blog like we used to. Mike has been very busy working, having an hour and 15-30 minute commute each way is making for some very long days and too short nights. The Plan has changed again. Sigh, you'd think I'd be used to the plan changing all the damn time, but I'm not. The latest was Mike's branch here in Tucson was going to up and opened yesterday, the 18th. Turns out that really isn't the plan. And we didn't find that out until the 16th. Now the new plan is we have to wait until he gets back from Vegas (Oct. 4th) for some convention thing and then he's suppose to be certified or whatever it's called by the man who owns the whole company and then we're on our own.....maybe, I guess. Keep your fingers crossed that whenever the opening day comes, work comes smoking in off our fax and Mike can quit having to drive way too far to start his work day. Can you tell I'm fed up too? Just a little. Not knowing is starting to take its toll on me as well. Maybe I should be the one in charge of the damn Plan?!

On a good note, we got a package the other day from Jen and the kids. Peanut has some new sandals and they are mighty cute. Bright green thongs. At first he kept scrunching up his toes and trying to eat them, but once he realized they aren't like socks and can't be simply pulled off, he moved on to a different thing to chew on. Big thank you to Jen for the present and the beautiful pictures of Peanut. All of the photographs she takes are photos to treasure. And thank you for the clothes and toy you got Peanut. Between drool, spit up milk, baby food, and rolling around on the floor, he's never able to wear his clothes the next day without a washing.

Some great and exciting news....Peanut's very first tooth popped through last Friday, the 15th (Happy 34 anniversary day for my folks!). The night before was pure torture for all of us. We got about 3 good hours of sleep, the rest of the time, we all were up and down since his poor little gums were so swollen and sore. Tylenol just wasn't kicking in fast enough for us all. I was too exhausted to try to think that sleeping on the couch propped up on me would of given us both a little more sleep. But it's here, and the very brief glimpses I get of it show it to be uber cute. Like I expected anything else out of my child. It's the bottom right tooth, and the bottom left is going to come through in the next couple of days.

Peanut will also sit up all by himself and play. He isn't able to push himself up to a sitting position yet, but if he's placed in one, he's now staying. Before, he could hold himself up but just didn't. Now it's no problem. And he can push himself up to a crawl position, but not strong enough to hold it for any length of time and doesn't know what to do once he's there. Some very slight rocking is going on which ends up into a nice face plant into the carpet or blanket and some screaming and Mommy flying to the rescue.

I've been experimenting with making Peanut's baby food and have had some success. Bananas, sweet potatoes, and avacadoes are easy, quick and some of his favorites. Squash didn't turn out quite like I wanted the first time and neither did my first attempt at sweet potatoes. Did ya know sweet potatoes in the US really aren't sweet potatoes at all, but are yams? No, I didn't either. But being the US, we had to mix things up and confuse poor baby food making moms like me into searching for the "real" sweet potatoes when the yams at the first grocery store were exactly what I needed. Ok, I'm over it now and Peanut has some real sweet potato in the fridge when he gets a little bigger and it's ok to give him that stuff.

Unpacking is *almost* done. Now we have the chore of finding spots to put all our stuff. Or moving it around again because the first spot just isn't good enough. More would be accomplished this week but my back went out again over the weekend so I'm on limited movement for the next week or so. It did force me to find a new chirportactor and she seems nice and can get my back adjusted. I go back on Thursday, and then hopefully once a week after that since it adds up expense wise in a hurry.

Ummm, not much more than that has been going on. Only 7 working days left until Mom and Dad come visit us. Woo hoo. And only a month and half until Peanut and I go home for the quilt retreat and a visit. My poor sewing machine(s) sit lonely and quiet since I don't have much time to organize all my stuff and get going on a new project or one of the many I have started. And school takes up most of my "spare" time. Almost done with this term and then I get a week break from school.

This is all for now. I gotta go jump in the shower. If Mike gets home in time tonight, I'm going to a fellowship meeting with a new friend. It's called After the Boxes and is for women who have recently moved to this area. Three good points about it: I get to meet some potential friends; I get time out of the house without Peanut where I can just be Crystal, I don't have to be Mommy; and it gives Mike good bonding time with Elliot.

Peanut is screaming at me and then smiles his uber cuteness at me when I look at him. I am now deaf. He has a very strong set of lungs and to listen to him now, you'd never think when he was born, his lung development was a worry for us all.

TTFN ~Crystal