Kearney trip

There is an event that happens every year called the Kearney trip. My husband gets together with his college buddies, and they have a blast. I am rounding out my last few hours of the Kearney weekend, Matt is on his way back as we speak. I have enjoyed this time with Ruby - I tried to take pictures of her crawling and standing to share, but she is pretty much on the move most of the time, and it's a little difficult to get a non-blurry picture. So I posted these instead. I am pretty excited for her to see her daddy and vice versa. Because as you can tell from these pictures, they have an awfully good time together. He is pretty gifted when it comes to entertaining her. And me. We sometimes get to meet him for lunch at Chick-fil-a, and it is a highlight of everyone's day. I asked Matt to be serious for one picture, but it just kept getting less so:) I told him that Ruby will not have a "normal" picture of them together when she gets older. He does not seemed too concerned. And I think she will love the pictures just the same, maybe even more.

Summer so far....

I have been procrastinating blogging. Because the longer I go between posts, the more it overwhelms me to think about what to say. Do I summarize the last month? Or just say what is most relevant to me today? Do I include pictures? Since when did blogging become something to which feelings of obligation, or guilt, or duty were attached? So, since I have a little time while the Rubster sleeps, I felt like what I could handle today was bulleting....

• Ruby's occupational therapy appointment went well. We are on the right track from that standpoint. Still continue to work on figuring out this whole solid food thing for my daughter. And feel pretty clueless at times. But I thank God that Ruby likes Stonyfield Organic Vanilla Whole Fat yogurt. It is the little victories..... Also, her favorite activity right now is cruising around on the furniture, albeit a little unsteadily, and it's pretty darn cute.
• My husband is a treasure. Or a rock star. Or many other nice things I should say about him. He spent 11 hours outside on a Saturday two weeks ago to paint our house. In 90+ degree weather. And did not complain to me. And last night when my snoring (I only snore infrequently, when I am very very tired:) kept him from sleeping, he did not poke me until I woke up (which is what I do to him). I think he tried to wake me, and was unsuccessful because I was sleeping so hard. He simply moved out to the couch to try to get some sleep, poor guy. He allowed me to spend much time and energy preparing for a friend's baby shower this weekend, while he watched the little one. And my favorite thing about him these days, is that he helps me along - by this I mean, that when the comments I am making, or the things I am dwelling on, or the spinning in place starts happening, he gives me that little boost to move on. Sometimes I do not welcome it at the time. But I am so very thankful he loves me enough to do it.
• And lastly, for today, wanted to share about our friends' new adventure: our friends are adopting from Ethiopia and need to raise another $625 in the next week to reach their first goal. They're doing a fundraiser here - http://babykautzi.blogspot.com/2011/07/puzzle-fundraiser-because-were-cool.html - sponsor a puzzle piece for $10 and help bring their small one home!" We love them, and we love their hearts, and we love that once a week Ruby gets to spend the day with Kelsey and Lila while I work, we are so very thankful for the Kautzis.