Just keep going and going and going and going.

We took advantage of the nice fall weather today with a walk hoping to catch a glimpse of Peaches, a lost beagle in our neighborhood.  Unfortunately, we didn't see her, but enjoyed our time anyway.  Lucy is very interested in taking dance so I'm going to try to find her some beginner classes in the area to start and see if she likes it.  She also got a Blue Dragon Award!  These are given out to the very best spellers in the class.  I don't think there is any doubt I'm going to be seeing a lot of these from my Little Miss Spelling Bee.

She also has a fundraiser going on at school.  This is going to cause a bit of a rant from me.  Now I can't say I think it's great that the kids usually go around selling insanely overpriced items and giving a small fraction of that to the school.  Apparently that is no more at her school.  Now they cut right to the chase and just make the kids go around asking for money (cash, check, credit card.  Any will do) and actually encourage going door to door asking strangers.  (This is something they frowned upon in the past and suggested just selling to family and friends for safety concerns.  Now it's stated, stop home regularly and drop off the money so you don't walk around with a bunch of cash).   Granted, they state it's for a "Walk-a-thon", but it doesn't matter if you give or not, nor does it matter how much you give.  Either way, all the kids are going to walk around the track like 10 times as the school cashes the checks.  Are you honestly telling me that all these yuppie parents can't be a bit more creative in ways to raise money?  Right off the top of my head I can come up with several.  This is just a joke and an embarrassment.  However, hey richie rich parents, get your heads out of your asses.  Ok, I'll leave it at that.

Still no movement on the crawling front.  I guess I jumped the gun there.  Eli can push himself up to sitting from his tummy and pull himself up on me so he's mostly standing, but can't move those marshmallow legs to crawl.  I know it's coming.  I think I should go get some baby gates to be prepared.

Eli also had his 6 month check up last week and all looks good. His weight has plateaued.  Which is nice for me because that little bugger is heavy and has a big head...why do all my kids have such big heads? My head is so tiny.  I shop for hats in the kids section and Lucy has to buy the adult hats.  At least they both have my eyes.

Did I mention the new Band of Horses album is out.  Go get it.  So good.