Awful

Sooooooo I went back to work today. Lea went back to daycare full time.

It was rough on everyone. I showed my distress by running around school like a chicken with its head cut off. Lea showed her anger by being a super baby in daycare. (not even being sarcastic)

Here we are. Working and daycaring. (sigh)

New wonderful happy fun things to report. Lea had her 6 month check up. She weighed in at 14 pounds 3 ounces (she is in the 0.06 percentile of humans in this house according to weight, her mother is in the 50%. I'm in the 100%. Who ever comes up with the answer of how much Kate and I weigh wins a cookie. You can post your answers below. Or email me. Or facebook me. I'll send the cookie myself. Winners choice.) She, being Lea, was 26 inches long. (If science has taught us anything, it's that no one cares about height percentile rank. It's a fact. Look it up. Stupid tall people)

Lea also had some more visitors this past weekend. Grandma and Grandpa Sand came and visited her. (Oh sure it was also Kate's birthday [29 again!], but really it's all about the baby at this point.) Lea did a fantastic job with her grandparents. Lots of smiles and giggles. Lea became best buds with her Grandpa Sand. They were inseparable most of Saturday...okay all of Saturday. (BTW, I ate two pounds of St. Louie style ribs at the Machine Shed, suffering only a minor case of the meat sweats)

Because I'm dumb, I didn't get any pictures with Grandma and Grandpa. Which means random bonus picture time!

Stanford BABY!!!

Okay, maybe she just likes the clicky sounds of the keys. Interestingly enough she refuses to play with the computer unless it's on and I or Kate are on it.

Lea is only smiling as a means to mock her dad's cartoon grin. And her mother wants another one.


6 months. Cute.

Who needs a professional when you can turn the camera on yourself. This trick always earned a laugh in college. At least for me. I loved when people trusted me with their cameras. I was cool.

Lea's New Talent

Lea has learned a new skill. Please turn the volume up on your computers before you click on the videos. Personally, I believe she's going to get far in life with this new found talent. (sorry, none of these videos include me making a fool of myself.)

One more thing...

You may have noticed there's a background and what have you now at the blog site. The wife figured that out. I would change it but I'm too lazy. It looks like a creamsicle now.

Odds ad Ends

Hello again everyone. I just have some odds and ends to pick up this afternoon.

First off Lea, Kate and I would like to congratulate Jess (girl) and Kelly (boy) Vandewalle on the birth of their first child, Sloane Rae Vandewalle. (I was pushing for them to name her Zelda, fell on deaf ears. Can't believe it.) The Sand'ses are very happy for Kelly and Jess and we can't wait to visit the new arrival. (Lea has another BFF, so exciting. At least of us) If you would like to read about the new Vandewalle, or if you would like to read a blog that is infinitely better written and funnier) than this one, or if you just like cute babies, please stop by and check it out at http://castleofvandewalle.blogspot.com/

On to the pictures!

Lea got the chance to go swimming with Mila (child of Amy and Jens, located at http://blessingtonfamily.blogspot.com/ Loads of cross promotion today) Lea was not overly impressed with the pool. She seem to tolerate being there, kinda like bath time. She (Lea) was constantly trying to grab the water, and fail. I sat her down and explained the three stages of matter (solid, liquid, gas, come on people that's elementary! I should not have to explain that to you) After the lesson she continued to try to grab the water. So much for Stanford.

Mila (cute baby on the left) LOVED the water. Slashed everyone. Lea was not so impressed with getting splashed. Granted she couldn't do anything about it.

This was Lea's reaction to finding out that Sloane Vandewalle was born. Or she was trying to grab my cell phone. She's into grabbing things now. Everything. Walking through Target is much more interesting that it used to be.

Lea and I went over to help Nate Laughlin (http://nblaughlin.blogspot.com/) piece together his basement after a flood scare. Lea sent her afternoon making cute noises at her buddy Trevin (cute guy in the blue). She was trying to grab his hair, prolly to steal it considering she's still bald as Fred Mertz. Regardless, it was cute.

Balloons and Wallaces

Like the rest of the summer I've let a few things I need to post on pass for weeks without posting. God blesses procrastinators. Betcha you didn't know that.

We'll start things off last weekend.

Lea's Grandma and Grandpa Evans and Aunt Rachael were in town to peddle some antiques at the traveling Antique Road Show, which airs on PBS. They may get on TV. While they were in town we (everyone including Lea) took in the Henry(s) Wallace house. (Quick history lesson. Henry Wallace was Sec. of Ag under FDR. Granted there were four Henry Wallace(s), including Henry's dad, Henry, who was Sec. of Ag. for Harding. President Harding is often believed to be our worst president--so that should be that Henry's dad, Henry, was the worst Sec. of Ag. ever? Now FDR is oft believe to be one of the greatest presidents ever--thus making Henry one of the greatest Sec. of Ag's ever. I wonder if Henry's intense rivalry with his father, Henry, helped him be successful. I believe there was a picture of Henry dancing on his father, Henry's, grave. Okay, I made half of that paragraph up. I'll let you guess which half.)

We also took in the Hot Air Balloon festival in Indianola. (BTW, I just picked the kid up out of her napping bed and she yakked on me. Kids are awesome.) The balloons were neat, but the pictures of Lea watching the balloons are far better.

Lea watching the balloons. Or laughing at Grandma Evans.

Lea playing with Grandma Evans' necklace.

Lea laughing at Grandma again.

Lea with Grandparents Evans and Aunt Rachael.

The Godchild

Shifting gears from teething unfunness. Lea recently recieved her baptism gift from her Godparents (Chris and Joy). I believe the pictures will speak for themselves.

Teething Update

Good Morning. The teething is still going on. Process is less fun that a when we were on vacation (that's when they broke through). Poor Lea has been having rough nights. Her days have been fine, but once bed time rolls around the pain seems to set in and she get quiet fussy. Kate and I have had a couple of later nights with the little one, starting to remind me of when she was a new born. Here are some cute pictures.