early career possibilities?

The owner of the bakery by our house couldn't get enough of sully when we went in there last time. he said that when sully is a little bigger he can have a job stocking the bottom shelves. i told him that if he needed any shelves...UNstocked, then look no further! sully is a pro. he used to exclusively work with books, but he has recently expanded his services to diapers as well.

pool fun!

our neighbor jim gave us his kids' old turtle sandbox, which is the exact sandbox i remember having when i was little. we have been using it as a pool this summer, and it is the perfect way for sully to burn a little energy before his afternoon nap. he loves splashing in the water and will only get out willingly when his little jaw starts to shake.

sullivan and his treasures

lately, sullivan has been finding things he likes and toting them around. it is ALWAYS a non-toy item. today it was the house phone.

the tv remote. he carried this one around for at least an hour and had a small meltdown when i had to take it away for bathtime.

he LOVES the drumsticks, which are of course the items with the highest potential for injury. now he knows where i've hidden them (which i suppose means that they aren't really hidden at all), and tries to get at them every chance he gets.

other items he has toted around that i have yet to photograph: ryan's shoe horn, a bottle of baby lotion, my cell phone (he holds it like a sandwich), and a tube of baby sunscreen. there's a whole box of toys begging for this attention...

colorado trip

after a long illness, my grandmother passed away and so sully and i (and later, ryan) flew out to colorado to be with the family. i had forgotten how much i love colorado in the summer; the heat, the afternoon thunderstorms, the cottonwoods in their full, green splendor.

sully proved to exactly what the doctor ordered to raise everyone's spirits. he is pure joy, packaged in the body of an active, wiggly, chatty 10-month old baby.


my parents bought him some toys, but of course his favorite thing was tupperware.

ryan and i were thinking he wouldn't be as opposed to my parents grass because it is a much softer variety than what we had in our yard, but no, he wanted as little of his body touching it as possible.

we lowered the temperature in the hot tub to 93 degrees and sullivan loved it. he sat in the little turtle innertube and kicked his way around, and loved splashing. he could have stayed in there forever and was MAD when it was time to get out.

all though the purpose for our trip was sad, it turned out to be a really lovely visit. hopefully we can get out to colorado in the summer more often. :)