about the boys in the fam

AJ crawled for the first time this week!!!! Yes, he IS almost 11 months old, but in his defense we have very slippery wood floors that have, until now, thwarted his best efforts.  He has just been sliding around in reverse and spending the better part of the past month stuck under the furniture as a result.

(& how 'bout these chairs I found at a 2nd hand store here.  They rock, yes both in the sense that I think they are really retro cool and in the sense that you can rock back and forth in a relaxing way in them.)

The other 2 kids learned to crawl in a carpeted one-story apartment with a dearth of electrical outlets. The very first place AJ crawled was straight to the stairs. The original owner/builder of our house was a professor of electrical engineering at the same school in which M teaches now. The man had a passion for electrical outlets. Let’s just say M has put in over 50 of those little plastic outlet covers even after we have everything we own plugged in and it looks like we may need another boxful. It appears our little crawling outlet magnet shares that man’s passion for voltage.  This is going to be a lot more exciting this time around!!

M has been working on the stairs  and it’s looking so good. I think we are going to be painting soon! Then I'll post some before and after pics.  And although it is blowing to beat the band out there tonight, he has enjoyed a couple of the awesome bike trails around our place this week.

(this is a very very muddy bike in case you can't see that from the pic.)

J can be quite a ham, especially when it’s just him and me together, but you will have to come and live with us for a week (which I whole heartedly encourage all of you to do, but maybe not all of you on the exact same week.) before he’ll come out of his shell. I think it’s perfect that his favorite stuffed animal and alter ego is a turtle.

So I’m curious, if you hypothetically had an animal to represent your alter ego, or for you Harry Potter fans an animagus, what would it be?