Life=Crazy!

I cannot believe it is autumn already! I have so much to share! I will do it photo-journal style again. 

 This is the new fluffy hat we got for Timothy: I love how round his head looks in it!

 These Lobster swim trunks are one of my favorite things in the world! I cannot get enough of them! Unfortunately, Timothy couldn't wear them very long: he went from 3 month clothes to 9 month clothes in the matter of a couple months! We started feeding him solid foods to help his diaper rash: which totally worked, but boy did it chunk him up!

 Timothy loves to be in the water. I think that it helps his hips feel better. Plus, he loves getting freed from his braces for a little while. One of our favorite past-times is to take baths together!

 For our family Birthday party (15th anniversary!) we went to Tucanos and the Butterfly Biosphere. It was a really nice time to get out of the house and spoil ourselves a little. Timothy LOVES meat! He can't get enough! What a little munch-mouth!

 Evelyn loved holding the butterflies. She was really good at making friends with the beautiful creatures. I think Timothy would have popped them in his mouth if he could. We made sure he didn't get too close.

 When we were about to leave, a butterfly landed on my chin! It tried to climb into my mouth!

 This is one of my favorite outfits for Timothy. He wore it for Isaac's wedding. During this time we thought Timothy was having mini seizures, but it turned out that he would just tremble as he fell asleep: he will quickly grow out of the tendency.

 At the end of Summer School we had a wonderful Family Counsel about focusing on the positive and minimizing the negative. We had this discussion at the table where I had carefully set up a great center-piece: A bouquet and an open, soiled diaper. Here was Evelyn's reaction when she saw it:

 Below is a closer look at what it looked like. Of course Evelyn could hardly focus on what we were trying to say because she was so distracted with the nasty centerpiece. Perfect object lesson! Pretty quickly into the lesson, Michael leaned forward and put his finger in the diaper, scooped up some of the mess and popped it into his mouth! Evelyn almost freaked! Then she realized we had used chocolate! Now Michael has the nick-name of being Bishop Potty-Mouth!

 Evelyn earned her T-Rex for summer school! We were so proud of her because she had procrastinated so much that we thought she would never get the 90% required to earn it. But she set her sights, and worked hard and surprised all of us by winning it!

 Angelo is starting to get pretty comfortable with Timothy. He still gets a little nervous when Timothy pets him, but that's not surprising, because Timothy is a determined hair puller--as shown by my bald spots.

 This was one of Evelyn's Makerspace projects from 5th grade. We had it all hung in her bedroom when I saw the typo! I thought it was a perfect representation for Evelyn!

We have to watch Timothy very closely when his super-boots are off. Because he has no feeling in his feet, and he has been cutting teeth, he tries to chomp off his toes! He literally bites down and pulls!

I love it when Timothy shows off his Popeye muscles!

 A lot of our summer has been preparing our home to sell, and then in the fall we put our house on the market and started to seriously hunt for houses. After nearly 13 years, we are moving! There are so many memories in our home and we've invested so much into improving our house that it is very bitter/sweet! Evelyn is especially nervous because she has never known any other home. But we are very excited to move on! Here Michael and Timothy are house hunting in a model home.

This last picture is a beautiful expression of Timothy's first experience with a new food. In this case we were letting him taste his laxative. Very quickly he gets very accepting of food textures and tastes and begs for more. I love that Evelyn caught this face!

 Sweet snuggle time on a Sunday afternoon!