Standing

10 Months! 10 months, and this little guy is walking holding on to only 1 hand and that is only for security.

He stands on his own and gets into every cabinet.

He loves playing in the dishwasher and chewing on that silcone basting brush.

Labor Day

Some people have the day off today...but we started cutting beans.

June, July, and August

Wow, where has time gone? I can't believe it has been 2 and a half months since I posted anything. We have been awfully busy around here. The end of June was filled with baling. We baled straw and hay, and were running around everywhere trying to get it all done before the rain came. In between that, I was busy with green beans and peas from the garden, at least I think so, I kinda forget the exact time line of these past few months. But anyway here is a picture of some of the straw bales stacked in the barn.

What a cutie pie. Looking back at pictures he has changed so much.

We took a weekend and went to visit Sam's parents. Abraham had his first time in the pool and he loved it.

Look at those cute little feet. Abraham is now crawling, pulling himself up, and getting into everything. He likes to sit at his toy basket and get everything out. There are quite a few pictures of him in the same outfit here, but I guess I just take pictures those days, he is pretty cute in it! (I have no idea why this is underlined, and I can't figure out how to undo it)

This is what happens when I don't put cloths away right away. This is also a good shot of his teeth, there are 4 on top 3 on bottom and 1 more almost through on the bottom. We had a miserable couple weeks awhile ago, 5 teeth came through at 1 time. A week was spent doing peaches, and we are now in the midst of tomatoes. Our garden has done pretty well for us this year, our sweet corn came up and put ears on, but before it was ever ready something ate it. We are blessed to have a pretty full freezer for the coming winter. We are looking forward to harvest, which is fast approaching.

Food

This is Abraham's first taste of solid food, rice cereal. He liked it pretty well the first time, and loves it now. I now mix it with banana and that makes him like the banana better!

Butternut squash

This was avacado, this is the first food that he tried and didn't go well. Im not sure what it was about it but it didn't sit right with him. We will try it again in a month or so.

Abraham has also had banana, and sweet potatoe. He likes the sweet potatoe really well. We failed to get pictures of his first bites with these food.

He is now sitting up on his own.

He isn't quite sure what to think of the grass, its pretty prickly!

God's Promise

God promised to never flood the earth again.

We have been having a lot of rain these last few weeks. This rainbow showed up after one of the many rains, and just reminded me that he is everpresent. He is always watching over us and will always take care of us. No matter how much rain we continue to get, and no matter if we don't get any when we think we need it He will provide for us and protect our occupation.

HOT

Abraham is a little like his mom...When we are hot we get a little whiney and crabby! The only difference is I will sleep.

Happenings

This is Abraham's first time in his high chair...It really wasn't that long ago, but he is growing so fast, neither that shirt nor those socks fit him anymore!

Sam and I were eating supper and Abraham kept trying to eat everything we were so I gave him a cucumber to knaw on, and he sure did. Below is the before and after.

Sam loves that Abraham is getting big enough to play with tractors, Sam is just a little protective of the tractors :)

And finally Abraham is a rolling machine! He started out on the edge of the blanket, I was in the kitchen getting supper ready and just talking to him, and so he started rolling to me. That little round about was fun to watch. He was looking at me and I told him to come over to me, and so he spun himself around and started that way! (And as you can see, we still don't have baseboards back up!)

In other news, Abraham started rice cereal this morning, a tooth cut through the other day, and he will be 6 months on Saturday!