Advanced Moves

Wow this weekend! Saturday we hosted the Moms Club charity garage sale at our house. I've never actually had a garage sale before. You know what...it's alot of work! I would equate it with moving, and I hate moving, so that must mean I hate garage sales! Many moms donated items to be sold, but many moms also dropped off their "junk" which just cleared out their garages. Anyway, the day was successful, we got to meet many of our neighbors, it was for a good cause & all remaining items got donated to charity (minus the bag of toys I shopped for while I was working). All in all the garage sale was a good thing.

Sunday we had a BBQ at Dana's house. Jim's daughter, Jamie, came to visit from Iowa. Jamie hasn't been here in 8 years so seeing Cuyler, Natalie and Megan was a big shock to her I think. We had a good time at the BBQ, Rooney showed off all afternoon his advanced cool walking moves. He also got to play with alot of kids! Renae's 4 nieces were also over visiting, 2 of whom are 5 or younger. Rooney really seems to like being around other kids and hanging out.

Today, Roonster and I went to Newcastle Beach and Park with the Moms Club. It was a nice day and Rooney just walked all over. He didn't really want to play with the other kids; just wanted to walk. All this walking tuckers him out though so we left after an hour or so. Rooney is also advancing on what he will eat now. The trick for me is to stay ahead of him creatively. The new food I am getting him to eat is bread. This is great because it kind of opens up a whole new can of worms with how I can feed him. I've been trying to get Roonster to eat avocado for quite awhile. I was able to make him avocado-hummus little sandwiches today. He seemed to like that so I made him avocado-tahini sauce sammies a little later. I also found these single serve organic soups so tonight he also had butternut squash soup for dinner. He was really cute because when I was trying to feed him, he was tired, and as I got the spoon to his lips he tried to bat it away. However, I got a little soup on his lips, which he tasted, must have liked it, because he pulled my hand (with the spoon) back and took a bite. He also self-fed himself watermelon. That was unusual because it seems he does not like to self-feed himself soft foods. One day I'll figure this kid out.

Here are some pictures of Rooney walking and playing with his new maraca.






Finally, I have received a few more pictures from Dan & Kim's wedding. To view them click here