Life is short...

This weekend it was about 45 degrees out (Fahrenheit). Gorgeous. Kalina painted the bathroom. You can see the evolution of colors from where we removed our tiny shelf. It was a long time ago a horrendous pink/peach color. Then they painted it white. Then white with a tint of yellow. Now it is white with a tint of less horrendous pink with designs in a white with a tint of yellow. And if you look closely there is still some white in there, like inside the medicine cabinet. Very exciting. Apollo is wound up even though it's time for bed. He started babbling yesterday. Incessantly. But at least he's not crying. Like when his teeth hurt. We can see the whites of two new ones on top and one new one on bottom. And in a week he'll go in for his 9 month checkup.
On one of our walks today in the snow melting, sun shining spring weather we saw a sweet bumper sticker that said "Life is short, don't be a dick." I liked it. But for now I'm going to bed. Gotta wake up at 3.

thank god for easter

easter is my favorite holiday. by far the best candy. a delicious creamy goodness delicately wrapped in milk chocolate, could you ask for anything more? and easter has the best of colors. sure christmas you get to whip out shiny and sparkly things and i love it, but easter colors just make you feel good. don't mistake me for a big pastel fan, cuz really im not. but i like the patterns on easter socks, and i like bunnies. i hate eggs, but i like plastic eggs filled with candy! so what's not to love about easter.

it also harbors in the spring. which is wonderfully messy with mud and melting snow but cheery and bright. i like spring. i've got mostly waterproof boots, so what do i care if there's puddle after puddle on the sidewalk? in fact i like puddles. love puddles. love puppies. and little chicks. steven took apollo and i to see little baby chicks at murdochs* today. they were so cute! like spring. and they were cheap chicks- 2.99. if i had a yard of my own i'd buy a few chicks and make them into chickens so i could have fresh eggs every day! a lot of people do that here in bozeman. a lot of people also use wood axes to break up ice on the sidewalk/driveway/etc. its a little scary.

*murdochs is a ranch & home supply store.

three chairs and a crown

 

the outside photos are taken with the camera on my phone, so the resolution isn't great. but he looks so goofy i wanted to post them. apollo managed to pee through his regular clothes five minutes after leaving the house. the clothes he is wearing in these photos are all i had with me. he looks like a clown with a crown. steven and i have also been taking some video of apollo, so hopefully we can post that soon. 

so we bought some place mats for our new-to-us table! how sweet - a new table. it has three chairs, which is pretty awesome cuz there's three of us. on a whim i wanted to go to salvation army and it happened to be friday madness (everything is half off). so we got this dining set for less than the price of a new car. cheaper, even, then the watch i wear. and its perfect for our house. four place mats totaled to $2.30 so all-in-all i'd say we are pretty awesome. and now i have a chair to sit in.  

the last photo is an example of how apollo is now crawling. he does this bizarre one foot one knee thing. his left leg is always on the ground like a normal hands-n-knees crawling. but his right let rarely touches the ground. instead he manages to tuck his foot under. like a sprinter before the dash. goofy kid.  

teething blues

teething is the worst thing ever. apollo has been cranky for days. maybe even weeks. we've tried all the possible remedies: teething tablets, frozen teething rings, teething toys, and tylenol. it's starting to make me hate the letter 't.'

lately we've done a few new things. sunday we went to the "wild west winter fest." the wild west fest turns out to be a mini fair at the fairgrounds. they had a petting zoo filled with kids, kids, and bunnies. and pete was there. pete, the ton of a horse.

yesterday we took the bus to a place on campus that has ducks. when we visited bozeman back in september, we were shocked  to find a duck crossing sign in the middle of campus. we were even more shocked when we had to stop for ducks to in-fact cross. apparently there is a little pond fed by a hot spring that keeps all the bozeman duck residents happy. so we took apollo there yesterday and he loved it! he was trying desperately to chase after the ducks. this was quite comical as one of us would hold his hands in order for him to walk. so-imagine a lumbering adult bent over holding the little chubby fingers of a boy that can't yet walk on his own chasing ducks at a very slow, stumbling, but excited pace.

and finally apollo stood unassisted for the first time the other day. it lasted about 5 seconds.

! and ! apollo had his first big tumble today. he fell off the bed. aside from a little rug burn on the face he seems fine. bam! the end.

ive taken so many photos my camera is dead.

the last photo is apollo's valentine portrait for everyone. he knows he's got it going on, with or without pants. merry love day!

dressed to impress

apollo got his first pair of shoes the other day. they are keens and have a lemur on each shoe. we also pulled out some more clothes from storage. most of the shirts are polo shirts. so now my baby is stylin'. no more baby outfits. we're wearing collared shirts with jeans and street shoes. he looks like a toddler, not an eight month old. at this rate he'll look 20 when he is 12.