Six Months!

You know how it is kind of annoying when people are all, "I don't know where the time goes, I can't believe s/he's already XX months old!" And you secretly think, "Dude, time is a constant. It's no freaking mystery." And then you look at the cute pictures and make a nice remark and go on with your day?

Well, DUDE, I CAN'T BELIEVE HE'S ALREADY SIX MONTHS! WHERE DOES THE FREAKING TIME GO???? The boy is amazing. I can hardly get over it. He has two teeth, can get from lying to sitting, from sitting to crawling and from crawling to just about anywhere. He's still a little bald pinhead, but long and lean-- 27.5 inches and 16.5 lbs.-- with luscious green-grey eyes and a smile that he makes you work for. But when he smiles the whole world lights up, especially if he crinkles his nose. He is eating everything we put before him: grilled salmon, fruit salad, broccoli, pasta, even baguette.

He still nurses all night long, so I have got to find a way to change that if I ever want to be fertile again for Speetus 2.0. He has outgrown his corner crib now that he can go from lying to sitting to standing in 6 seconds, and threatens to topple over the rail reaching after a cat or a fallen toy. I think he may have spent a total of 2 hours in it actually sleeping if you add up all the 15-minute naps he's taken there for the last six months. It's super cute, though and I hope to pass it on to someone who will make better use of it....

Because....that is one of the things we're gonna have to get rid of for the move!!

We are thisclose to being in contract, and we have every reason to believe that this deal will go through quickly and easily. So very soon-- within a couple of months-- we should be packing and moving our collective butts to Western Mass! It's not ideal-- we would have liked to get more money-- but we can't control the market and we suspect that things will get worse before they get better, so selling now seemed like the most prudent path. This will enable us to pay off all our personal debt, my goddamn student loans (I was on the $500 a month FOREVER plan) AND have a nice cushion for when we buy again (or to invest if we decide to rent for an indeterminant period while the market does its thing.) I have to convince my boss- once we are fully in contract-- that it would be great for him if I continued to work from a distance, maybe travelling in every couple of weeks. That way I could keep my salary and the family insurance, and Speedy could take care of the boy and take her time finding work in the area.

I can't tell you what a load off this is, and how excited I am at the prospect of living somewhere green and spacious, without this looming mountain of bills to pay each and every month.

Now this is what you have been waiting for. It is from May 8, and I think it was one of the last official baby pictures we got of him. Now he looks like a toddler. I am obviously very behind in updating photos on my computer, but I love this one.