Goals...

A couple of my personal goals were accomplished this month that I'm pretty excited about. I made the first promotion level in Arbonne, District Manager. It's been fun so far and I am really enjoying myself. I also got to my goal weight at Weight Watchers this week! Yea! This means my Christmas list will be full of clothing requests. =)

Luke has made some accomplishments this month also. He is reaching and grasping anything and everything he can get his little hands on. This includes hair, food, clothes, etc. Today he almost pulled Kate right over onto himself. He is also sitting up more and more every day. It's more balancing in an upright position than sitting but today he stayed up for about 30 seconds. The little booger refuses to put his hands down in front of him to "tripod" so when he loses balance he just topples over. It's still so amazing to me how fast they develop at this age. He had his 5 month doctors appointment this week. (Our new doctor sees his patients every month rather than every three months since he does an alternate schedule with vaccines.) He was 14 lbs. 3 oz. and 26 3/4 inches long. That put him in the 20% for weight and 80% for height! So, as the doctor put it, he is getting longer and leaner. No shots this month since Luke is still recovering from his mild bout with croup. He is feeling much better now. The doctor told us to go ahead and start introducing rice cereal and then some fruits and veggies. I'm not rushing out to the store, though, since that means I'll have just one more thing to do. =) Luke is going to love it though. He does not appreciate it when we don't share what we are eating. =)

Kate is, as usual, keeping us quite entertained. Her new favorite terms are, "That's amazing!", "Oh, she's beautiful!" (said anytime she sees someone wearing a dress, especially a wedding dress), "I need to run errands.", and "I love you guys!". She's so funny and we get a kick out of watching her pretend. Here she is with her new favorite hair style: the ponytail. Doesn't she look like such a big girl?!