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Thanks to my lack of interest in blogging regularly I never posted a birthday greeting for my baby brother's birthday....   How terrible am I??  Well tonight, after playing about a hundred rounds of Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook I'm feeling inspired... So this is my birthday shout-out to my brother Spencer who turned 26 on August 8.... In my earlier blog for Nelson's birthday I quoted from "Guitarzan" which was one of our favorite songs when we were kids.  Being the youngest, Spencer had the most unfortunate role however.  Nelson was always Guitarzan, and I always played the "girl named Jane with no last name."  Spencer got stuck with the part of the "pet monkey who likes to get drunky and sing boogie woogie and it sounds real funky."  He was pretty good at it really, doing the monkey solo performance during the song... He's even better at the "Drunky" part now (just kidding Mom!)... One of our other favorite songs on that fabulous...

LP is exactly nine months old today.  It seems as though he's changed so much just in the last few weeks! Some things to remember: 1.  At 9 months LP is talking a lot- he says dada quite frequently but not with any meaning to it quite yet... Paul likes to say that I'll cry when LP says Dada with meaning before he says Mama and he's probably right.. Even though I know that most babies say Dada first as it's easier for them to say... LP trying out his fancy new car seat as he's about to outgrow his infant seat. 2.  LP sticks his tongue out a lot- he loves to stick it out and make little snake noises, hissing and spitting at everything... 3.  He's getting much better with finger foods lately- he's started picking cheerios up with his thumb and forefinger which results in more food actually making it into his mouth and less food just getting smooshed up in his sweaty little palms.... 4.  LP wants to stand up ALL THE TIME.  If you try to sit hi...

When we bought our house one of the things that sold us on it was that there was room for both of us to have our own workspaces...  Paul was thrilled to finally have a garage and to have one that's oversized and even has heat has been great for when he wants to work on his car in the middle of a New England winter.  My space is going to be a room in our partially finished basement that's just off the family room.  It's going to be great when LP is old enough to play in the family room while I work on projects in my sewing room- I'll still be able to keep an eye on him! When we first saw the house the room looked like this: The stairs come down from the hallway off the kitchen into the family room.  We've stripped the lovely wallpaper and painted everything a light buttery yellow.  The carpet is the next thing to tackle as it desperately needs to be replaced!  There's now a huge t.v. in that corner where the armchair is and our sectional is against the back wall....

Here's some video of LP steamrolling his way across the floor:

Little Paul is 8 months + 11 days old.. So almost 8.5 months I guess!  I've been slacking off on our monthly photo shoots.  I want to keep doing them but it seems like every time I have a day off it's raining and there isn't enough light in our house to get any good photos...  Soon though I hope! A few things to remember about Little Paul at 8+ months: 1.  The teeth!  In a VERY short span of time he's gone from no teeth to 3 on the bottom and 4 up top.  And he is so good about it too- no fussing at all... Plus he opens his mouth right up for the toothbrush! 2.  He's getting much better with finger foods.  A lot of food still ends up all over his face but he's figured out that when he puts something in his mouth he then needs to let go of it if he actually wants to eat it... So that's good! Hanging in his buddy's wading pool... 3.  Steamrolling. This started over the past few days.  If we sit him down on his blanket with h...

This weeks I ♥ Faces contest is "Feet Week."  I've taken a lot of pictures of Little Paul's feet as I think they're adorable but I knew immediately which picture I wanted to enter. These are the feet of both of my babies.  Little Paul's tiny toes and Gabby's (the dachshund)feet too.  Be sure to go to I ♥ Faces to check out the other entries!