Baby Steps

It's official!! Our little Silas is a toddler!! At 13 months and 4 weeks old, he took his first big steps last night across the living room floor. WE ARE SO PROUD!!
It was so exciting, and Jason and I are thrilled that we were both home to see the action. If you can imagine for yourself...

Scene: Living Room, early afternoon.
Characters: Silas, Daddy, Mama and a stuffed Giraffe

We are getting ready for Silas to race Stuffed Giraffe across the living room. He holds on to my hand, and he and Giraffe get ready to go. And - They're off!

"Dum-da-ta Dum-da-ta- Dum Dum Dum..." (Do the Lone Ranger Hi-O-Silver song).

Jason and I sing this as Silas holds on to my hand and laughs and races Giraffe across the carpet. All the way to the rocking chair they go...Oh! Giraffe is down with a sprained ankle! YAY - Silas is the winner!!

This must have been very exciting to him, because he plopped down on the floor and clapped. YAY! Good race. Then...

Silas pushed himself back up into a standing position and paused for a moment, as if gathering his thoughts about what to do next. One foot out...
"AAHH!! Oh my god!" we scream
...two steps.....three....
...ooh, a wobble, oh no! okay, he caught himself...
..four...five....
"Yaaaayyyyyy" we are screaming, wanting to look at each other but we don't want to take our eyes off of Silas either...
...six, seven, eight....landing against the couch cushion!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

We felt like dancing and singing and crying, scooping our little walker up and hugging him tight!! He was very proud of himself but had no idea what we were going on and on about. Oh, the excitement that is about to begin...FUN!

life updates

Hello, hello.
Well, we've had a particularly busy and productive month, so we though we'd update everyone one on our recent activities. Over the past month, as we've mentioned, Jason was promoted to Zone Manager and is doing wonderfully with that new position. Graduate school is interesting and my brain is expanding more and more every day. And even more exciting news: we sold our house, bought another house, and found a wonderful home for our dog Owen!

Owie is spending this week with his potential new mom, and if everything goes well, he will stay there permanently. We think that this will give him a home that can provide him with more attention and someone that can focus all their energy on scratching his belly, playing soccer with him and enjoying his goofy self. We'll miss him a lot.

We'll be moving into our new house in Athens during the weekend of October 7th and 8th and will hand over the keys to our gingerbread-house-in-the-country to the new owners on October 9th. It's a bittersweet transition, but one that we are ready to make for our family. The gingerbread house is really more "us" but the new one is so convenient to everything and has lots more room, and it will literally take Jason 4 minutes to get to work. Family time together is waayyy more important than any house. We can't wait for you to come see us in our new digs!

Pictures: Old House, New House.

Celebrations for Jason!

Jason has had some celebrating to do recently...

September 4th was his 33rd birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON!!

And...another reason to celebrate is:
You're looking at the newest Zone Manager at Lowe's! Jason was promoted! Yay!!! He's done such a great job and we are SO proud of him. He's over 5 departments now and manages about 50 people. Wow.