September!

Today is Bill’s Birthday!!! It is kind of neat having back to back birthdays. We are the same age on my birthday only, since he is a year older. Now, back to September..

Shaun has continued trying new foods. He has tried a bunch more foods and likes them all! He gobbles food right up. He has a good appetite!

Shaun has started exhibiting signs of separation anxiety. For the past several weeks he has not lasted in the nursery at church. We started putting him in the nursery when he was 3 months old and we never got called until the beginning of this month when he was just about 7 months. Anybody have any suggestions on how to get through this quickly???

Shaun also got his first major cold. He had a small one back in May/June, but this one was probably the real thing. Luckily there was no fever, just a lot of sneezing and some coughing. He sure doesn’t like his nose wiped! Bill caught it too, but was over it fairly quickly, and I somehow only got a scratchy throat for a couple of days! But everyone has been healthy now for a couple of weeks.

Bill went to Rhode Island for their annual legal conference for 4 days for his navy weekend. It was a long 4 days for him. He left home at 3am on Thursday morning and got home at 12:30am Monday morning!

Shaun isn’t crawling yet, but he is getting really mobile! When he is sitting, he goes forward like he would start crawling, but instead kind of rolls to the side. He then starts rolling and rolling to move across the room. I think we need to shop for some gates! He also puts his arms up to get picked up and smiles and giggles a lot! Bill especially loves the big smile he gets when Shaun gets up in the morning. Shaun also loves playing with Abby. Bill holds Shaun and they chase Abby around playing with a ball and Shaun laughs extremely hard! It is hilarious! We haven’t heard him laugh so hard ever or about anything else except Abby! Shaun & Abby even started playing with each other by themselves. Abby will try and egg Shaun on by bringing a toy to him and acting excited like she does and Shaun reaches out and they both have fun! They are buds!

Shaun also has a third tooth! We noticed it on the 24th. It is on the bottom also, next to his two front ones. So far he has 3 bottom teeth! The days after we noticed the third tooth was tough on Shaun. I think the teeth were bothering him, so he wasn’t feeling all that well. He had a couple of rough nights.

Bill started fall quarter last week. He goes to class for a couple of hours on Monday and Wednesdays. Two more classes to go and he has his Bachelor’s degree (one class this quarter and one class winter quarter)!