If only there were time!

But time as in "available to me without other demands stealing it away" does not seem to exist. With 3.5 families pulling me every which way needing this that and the other thing, I'm quite content to still be sane. And I attribute that in large measure to the wonderful people who help me so much, firstly my fantastic husband Bryan, and also my grandma, my mom, and others who are there when I need them. As much as family demands, they are worth every bit of it in how much love and help they give back.

My little family of boys has moved on from our less-than-safe home of 4 years. Our things are safely tucked away at my Mimi's house, even if our hearts are not. Bryan and I are still furiously hunting for a job for him. My mom and my brother David have been here this summer, and Christopher has basically moved in with them. He LOVES his uncles! My brother Ben is also visiting here now, and Christopher adores him too. He might even be more fun than David, because Ben not only shares the computer, Ben shows him NEW games! What uncle could possibly be cooler?

Christopher and David did swimming lessons this summer. I'll have to put more up about that later on. It was ..... interesting.

Alexander is 5 months going on 6, and is already "crawling". He's got the whole idea down, and he does it for real once in a while, but more often he goes the easy route and flops and rolls around to anywhere he pleases. He much prefers rolling to crawling. He is also a chewing baby, and everything within reach goes directly into his mouth. You can use your wildest imagination to conjecture how much I look forward to this trait playing out....... He is also very into blowing raspberries. This feature enables him to spit pacifiers long distances, and usually into parentally-inaccessable locations.

He is also a loud and very vocal baby. Obviously he can't use words yet, but by the tone, volume, and modulation he is able to put into his sounds, and by his hand motions that go with the sounds, you can easily understand what he wants. For example, here's a favorite of mine: Open mouth wide and make loud random "AAAAHH" type of sound; grab mom's face and put howling open mouth on chin; blow raspberry; begin to chew. This indicates that he is hungry and I have waited too long to feed him, so he will now chastise me loudly and chew on me until I get the message. If initial message fails to be received, he moves down to my shoulder. He will continue the noise/blowing/chewing routine until my clothes are soaked, or until I feed him. If this too fails, he begins to wave his right arm and hit my face while making the "pay attention to me" noise. On the rare occasions I ignored him this long, he then resorts to outright crying and screaming, which of course never fails. There are, of course, other things that he does daily that are funny like this, and I am usually amused. I probably would always be interested, if I weren't still so sleep-deprived. =)

So there, I waxed a little long-winded over the adorable baby, but at least I gave everyone a brief update so that you know we are all still alive, and surviving moderately well. Hopefully it will not be forever before I can post all my adorable pictures, movies, and more stories. But for now, The Game is on, and the baby is indicating that it's my turn again.