Hello! It seems like time has flown by. (I am a few days late on posting this, but that's OK). I feel like I have been with my son forever. It's crazy to think it was only four months ago that we arrived home from Uganda!
Thankfully July has been a pretty down month for us. We stayed at home and didn't stress about going out too much. It has been really hot here (so excuse photos of my baby dressed only in a diaper. I would normally dress him, but we are all sweating over here).
So, if I could pick three themes for this last month it would be:
Walking, Plums, and Music!
Gambo really started taking off on his walking. He is so confident in walking now that he does it most of the time. He is even starting to run a bit.
Here he's happy to be walking:
So if June was the Grape Harvest (by the way we picked 37 POUNDS of grapes from our backyard)... then July is the Plum Harvest!
Our plum tree out back has been loaded down with plums that we were just waiting to ripen. It's a good thing we started picking, because the tree was starting to sag
and was growing over our wall into the neighbor's yard.
First picking yielded 15 POUNDS of plums!
We probably have about 85 more pounds left on the tree. Yikes!
Gambo's helping to wash the plums
I was never a plum fan before, but it turns out that these are pretty sweet! And it makes a huge difference in the taste that they are homegrown.
Gambo's version of "helping":
If you have any good plum recipes, send them my way!
Lastly, Gambo really increased his music time and his proficiency. He LOVES to play the guitar (and asks for it every day). He LOVES to play the piano.
And he LOVES to drum.
We love watching him dance (and clap) along to music too.
Time for FIRSTS...
-This month Gambo got his first haircut, done by Mark! He had a section of his hair that was not coming in well (or could have had a lot of breakage do to rubbing his head on the highchair or something), so he ended up with like a weird stripe around the back. You can kind of see it in the plum washing picture:
So Mark decided to trim the bottom section that had grown, to match the middle, but he left the hair on top untouched.
-I worked on doing his first style with the little hair on top. Not much of anything but a little twists up top. (it doesn't hold very well though)
-He got 3 more teeth in the last month! So, I guess this would be the first time to have four teeth? (had to fit it in with the theme!)
We are so thankful for how much he has grown. He fits right in with our family, laughs with us, is silly like us, and loves us so much. He has started sleeping through the night, so we are finally catching up on some sleep. He's a great eater and has enjoyed pretty much everything we give him.
We are approaching having had Gambo with us for 6 months (this is counting the time we spent with him in Uganda). It's so exciting! I'll post more when the big date is here.
We are looking forward to what is in store for us next month!
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