Crawling
Well, Tyler is now crawling! He started in earnest this past weekend. It is so fun to watch him explore. Of course, he scans all his toys and immediately goes to the electrical socket because he has never seen that before! We are doing a little babyproofing which mainly entails placing items that we don’t want him to touch out of his reach.

Clapping
Tyler also started clapping this weekend. It is so cute!! He will sit there and play and then look at us and start clapping. This morning was waking up, still half asleep with eyes closed and started clapping. Too fun!

Waving - almost
He is getting close to waving - still figuring out what, where and when to do it. Now he is experimenting with both hands. Also very cute!

Talking
I think he is - of couse, I want him to. I don’t mind that all the other milestones have come later, I would love for the talking to come early. Parents with older kids have told me to be careful what I wish for! :-p We think he says cat and book and we are working on dog, ball, fish, toy and a few others.

ACLFest Rainout?
Well, we have been looking forward to this weekend for ACL Fest and it looks like it may be rained out - Saturday might anyway. We will just have to play it by ear. I don’t think we will know for sure until like Friday morning, so we will see. We have a dear friend and family in town, so if we can’t do ACL, we will probably visit with them. We can also continue packing up for our new floors….

New Floors!
Yes, we are getting all new flooring in the house. Wood floors on the first floor and new carpet in the downstairs bedrooms and upstairs. Very exciting, but because we are doing the whole house, we pretty much have to pack up all our crap and act like we are moving. The work is going to be done while we are in Cloudcroft so the house will be empty and we don’t have to worry about all the dust. The animals will all be gone as well.

Busy
Life has been busy lately. Lots of GOOD stuff going on. I am having fun and happy. Don’t know if I am going to be able to stay home as I had orginally planned in March. I dont’t think it is in the financial cards for us. I am actually okay with that. I might mix up my work schedule so that I am off at 1pm and that still leaves time for Tyler and I to have our adventures and a good bit of quality time each day. I think that in the meantime, we will save up so that I can stay home with #2. A little unfairness between the babies there, but what can you do?

Well, Tyler is napping and I have plenty to do, so I am going to sign off for now. Take care!