August is almost over. Lauren is now 4 months and school is just a week and a half away. I am very much looking forward to it. Canon needs to be busy. We bought him some new Lego knock-offs this week. I thought it would keep Canon busy for the next two weeks. WRONG. They are keeping ME busy. He is not quite ready to follow the directions, so I have now built a cement truck and half of a garbage truck. Seth did the other half. I guess all those summers of building with Legos has paid off. The other thing from my youth that is now coming in handy is the soccer. Canon's team didn't have a soccer coach and so I finally volunteered. I was reluctant, but now I'm getting excited. It will be fun to see what we can do. This is Canon's first time playing soccer so it should be fun. Wixom seems to have a good program. They've given me plenty of material to help me out and have someone who will come to some of our practices to help me learn what I am doing.
Now for Lauren. She is growing and changing. Does NOT sleep through the night anymore. In fact she gets up twice during the night. We also have to wrap her super tight so she can fall asleep. Those little arms and hands of hers are just so busy that they pull out her binky and move so much that they wake her up. She still eventually wiggles her arms free when she wakes up but at least we get some sleeping done. She is also starting to tolerate her tummy more. The other morning she watch me blow dry my hair while on her tummy. She was trying to see me, so instead of trying to look up, she had her head turned completely side ways. It was cute. She is still fairly easy going while she is awake - she just doesn't like to be left alone. She is fine just sitting and watching as long as she can see people. When I leave the room for more than a brief moment, she let's me know she is lonely. She is also slowly giving up her binky. Canon did at this age too. They are very similar babies in a lot of little ways like that.
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| A Bicycle Built for 3! |
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| A little guitar lesson. |
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And finally, I'll end with the biking picture. Seth has been taking Canon out on the tag-a-long bike and decided that Savana needed to come to. So with a little Seth-rigging, he made it work. Our friends were storing their tandem bike in our garage and he really wanted to hook all this up to that, but we never got to it. Wouldn't have that been quite the bike. I think it would have looked like something from Dr. Seuss.
