All part of the plan

The real reason I wait so long between posts is that then I have exciting impressive news to report when I come back. Such as:

--We're potty trained. For real, I think. All I can really say about it is that Harrison has proven to me how very intelligent he is, and it was really easy once he was ready.
--Tru is army crawling and sittying up! In that order. The sitting up "for real" just happened a couple of days ago, after he was 7 months old, but that kid has been doing an impressive army crawl for a while now. I've had to get the baby gate back out, but that's a fair trade because I caught him spit-shining my floor today. I train 'em early.
--Truman is also eating a ton. His favorites to date are unmashed banana, peas, raw ground pear, and um, whole french fries. I know, the mom I used to be just shuddered, but the new hey-I'm-doing-good-to-remember-both-their-names mom that I am now thinks it makes eating out SO much easier.

Here are a few of my favorites that have popped out of H-man's mouth lately:

"The sun is happy today!" (Spoken on our first sunny warm day after a cold snap.)
"My hand is lonely." (Said when he wants Dan or I to hold his hand in the car.)
"You're the best mommy EVER!" (I swear, I don't know where that one came from, but it wasn't coached. I'll also admit that I was a total sucker for it, and he says it a lot now, just to butter me up. I'll take what I can get.)
"I fall in my pee, Mommy." (Okay, maybe that one's not as cute as the others, but if you had the mental image of what he looked like when he was saying it like I do, then you'd be laughing pretty hard.)

Anyway, we're filling our days with parks and picnics, walks and sunshine. Life is good.