August 1

Will is doing great, talking much better. He's combining words sometimes now, yesterday he said 'bye-bye Mommy, bye-bye sissy.' He gave Lyn a kiss goodnight without us asking, aww. He's also becoming more interested in helping, and he says 'helper.' He's starting to tell me when his diaper is wet or dirty, not when he needs to go yet but we're getting there. He's started eating better using a fork of his own. He also is starting to recognize shapes, he knows square, circle and triangle well. He's started stuffing things in his clothes, goofy.

Lyn had her first cereal feeding yesterday! I gave her rice cereal mixed with pumped milk. She seemed to like it well enough but is still figuring out how eating works so didn't actually eat much. Justin gave her a cookie a few weeks ago so it's not her first food. She can roll front to back and back to front now, scoots around on her belly, does push-ups lifting her chest, and if we hold her up she sometimes takes steps.

I discovered a magic trick, if I put clothes with baby poo on them in the sun it takes the stain out! She has days when she seems to save it up so when she goes no diaper can contain that much, YUCK. Nothing seems to get the stains out but I found that tip browsing online and it really works, like magic!

I'm still losing weight, down about 82 lbs total now, I still have about 35 lbs to go. I've been taking the kids out in the double stroller for a walk almost every morning. We're still waiting to hear back about the condo we put an offer in on over a month ago. We're hopeful to hear any day. Apparently the appraisal is done, the bank needs to decide which offer is best and if it's high enough compared to the appraisal to decide if they'll sell it. Several other bidders have walked away they're taking so long to decide, which is good for us, less competition.