my little fishies…

To make going around in circles in the driveway more interesting… Simon gave the boys their own race track… they had fun for hours!

wow…. I am about a week late on this post…

Khéna is now 6 months old (as of last Monday)… It is amazing how time can pass so fast…

At six months he is becoming such a little person… he is curious, sensitive, outgoing and shy… he makes us laugh and is just the sweetest little thing…

Though both Colin and Xavier were crawling and starting to pull themselves up by this age, Khéna is taking his time… I think it mostly comes from his weight…
He can sit for indefinite amounts of time and can get from sitting to his tummy deliberately… and when on his tummy he can push himself backwards… so the first steps of learning how to crawl…

He can roll but mostly chooses not to… mostly because it is very rare that we put him down on the floor to do so…

He puts his arms up for us to pick him up…

He says Mama (just started 2 days ago) and is saying more and more sounds…

He loves the water and loved going in the pool for the first time last week (we had a weird heat wave)

He gets upset when he drops a toy or we take it away…

He not only eyes our food but has started to get upset that we don’t share… (I am not sure when we will be starting Solids with him though… I would rather wait another few months… we’ll see)

It is amazing how he has come from this

to this…

I thought I had shared these… oh well…

we had really warm weather last weekend… it was in the 30’s and humid…

So we actually got to use the pool and the boys loved it! By the end the boys had blue lips… except for Khéna… he was finally comfortable and not cold at all…

Yesterday I ran into a nurse that I know at the grocery store… we talked a bit about my UC, birth, breastfeeding and babywearing which led to weight…. when I told her that we hadn’t had him weighed because we don’t agree with Well-baby visits she offered to weigh Khéna if I wanted (she had a free time this afternoon) and I thought it would be fun even to just show him off to a few of the nurses that I know… so I went in today, put him down on the scale and got the numbers…

At a few days shy of 6 months (6 months on Monday) he is now 29 pounds and is about 29 1/2 inches long…!!!!!

He is wearing 24 months (in the pic he has a 24 month romper) and mostly 2 years clothes and is just a big boy overall…

Such a frustrating day!

Our city allows garage sales 4 weekends a year… 3 are in May and one at the end of August… though the August one is free the others need a license and not only can they only be valid for one weekend, you cannot even get another one if things don’t go well, rain etc…

Anyway…

I saw that it would be nice this weekend so I decided that it was a good day for a garage sale… On friday I went and got change, got the license etc and then came home to get everything together with Simon… Early on Sat morning we got everything set up and then started the wait… Well… another thing about garage sales here is that you are not allowed to advertise… neither before or during the sale.. and of course, we live on a small side street… so we practically had no one come by… finally at the end of the day we made our first sale… then a second… paying at least our license.. then a third sale made our grand total of profit…

1$

I am never having another garage sale here… the laws really suck!!!

The only good thing was that it was a gorgeous day and I got some cute pics…

Khéna

Xavier and Khéna sharing a moment…

Colin…

Little Froggy…

Xavier…

Arrrrr…..

and a few more pics…

Hawi Potta!

some mirror pics… he is infatuated by the baby in the mirror that plays patta-cake with him!