I hadn't meant to ignore this blog for so long.  I've been busy (surprise?).  In addition to spending 23 hours a day playing mom, I picked up a freelance writing job a couple weeks ago.  So now I spend 23 hours a day being mom, and my free hour writing articles. This has cut down significantly on my blogging-and-forums time, but it's good for the ol' bank account.

I'm way behind in posting photos, so this batch are from much earlier this summer -- May, June, July. I'm not going to let myself get all excited and post my August pictures until I've caught up!

First, in honor of ballet class started up again next week: pictures from Vivian's dance recital. She's the tiny one on the far left, looking confused. I'll have to post the video Grandpa made: it's hilarious. I almost died laughing watching it the other day.

And here she is, all decked out in her recital tutu and sequins. She was pretty proud of herself -- and she should be! She made a lot of improvement over the year.

Sleeping baby Tristan! We gave up nursing in the rocker ages ago because he was always trying to fling himself off my lap. Now we lay down on the bed and nurse until he falls asleep, and then I attempt to sneak away, pick him up, and put him into his crib. Which works about 10% of the time.

And bathtub Tristan. He really enjoys a bath now and then, but lately he won't stop trying to crawl out of his baby tub. We bought a new, slightly larger baby tub at Ikea but that only solved the problem for about a day.

We had a garage sale at the end of June. Vivian enjoyed talking the ears off of everyone who came, and also running around labeling items.