Happy Belated New Year!

Life has changed drastically since we've been home from Virginia. As you have noticed, it has become a challenge for me to blog. Adam is home and we are loving being a family again! Since the New Year, we have incorporated a few good changes into our life. I took an after school job, which offers a nice balance to home life. We've enrolled in Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey, started coupon collecting and rebating, process homemade baby food, and even signed up for and have been using a gym membership! 

Atticus had his late six month appointment in January and weighed in at 23 pounds and 2 and 1/2 feet! He is eight months old now and is always a happy boy... as long as his momma is close. :) He smiles at anything and everyone and belly laughs when you least expect him to. He sits up well, scoots backwards, will balance himself while leaning over the couch, and will put his own binky in his mouth (though usually backwards). He isn't crawling and hasn't broken any teeth yet, but he certainly is making progress. One of his favorite games now is mimicking us when we shake our head back and forth, we're afraid he's going to learn "no" too early. Also, he gets a good giggle when we pretend like we're going to eat his little fingers. 

Bonnie and Leo miss him terribly and hope for the day will come when we relocate again back east. We don't know what the future in the Coast Guard will hold. Luckily we've discovered oovoo.com which is a live video where grandma and grandpa can see Atticus on a weekly basis! I highly recommend this site to all of you with close, long distant relatives. That's all I've got for now. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to post pictures in these posts.