oh yeah, i have a blog.

hello, friends. there is so much to catch up on in the five minutes liam is allotting me, i don't think this will end up being a successful blog. *sigh* but i will do my best!

the weekend of the last post, i went out for the first time since liam's birth. i went to the gay bar downtown (the tool shed - not kidding!) and got my dance on with mandy, rocky and tammy. dancing is apparently like riding a bike. it had been about 2 years since i had been out, but my feet and hips cooperated, and i actually got hit on by some straight (albeit weird) dude. he asked how he could get to know me better. i laughed and said he could come to my baby's playgroup. he didn't laugh, but i thought it was funny. that sunday we got to see heather and jay. i sure love those guys, and like always, wish they lived closer. i know they feel the same way. but we all like where we live and have good jobs and such, so that's that.

sad news hit our fellowship (again) with the passing of one of our youngest members, 4 month old avery. i had the opportunity to meet and hold baby avery one tuesday evening before a building meeting. she was very sweet and alert and strong. he daddy was there, holding and doting on her. apparently the family was blessed with a high needs/colicky baby. but she was blessed with loving and patient parents who just held her for the hours she cried every evening. we went to the memorial services that saturday, and today i'm making dinner for the family. it seems so insignificant, the sharing of food, but i don't know what else to do. putting myself in their shoes, i think the food would make me feel loved and less alone. i'm glad they found our community, and like the shooting tragedy, there is no reason for this to have happened to them and not us. so it moves me to do what i can, no matter how small.

colin and liam were on the news, along with the marables, for attending the LLL ice cream social. of course, none of us have TVs, so we didn't see it. but it cracks us up how often we've hit the local media since the birth of liam.

liam and i have been spending a lot of time with my friend missy and her 18month daughter, marie. we bike around together to the library and the grocery store and such. our kids wake at compatible times and go down in the afternoons, so mornings are good times to hang together. our kids are crazy about each other. marie calls liam 'liamy' and says this numerous times in a high pitched squeal when he shows up at her house. it's one of the cutest things i've ever seen. she's also pretty enamored with colin, and says his name often as well. apparently marie will wake and utter one or both names before falling back into her slumber. my guys are pretty sweet. she calls me 'gace'. but not with the zest and enthusiasm reserved for 'liamy' and colin.

liam got his first tooth on august 2nd. or rather, that's when colin found said tooth. it wasn't where we had been looking for it, so we may have missed it for a day or two. it's his second incisor on the left. he nearly has his two bottom teeth cut, too. he's pretty cute with his little random snaggle tooth.

mandy spent tuesday - thursday with us while stephen played with chris and tom at the great wolf lodge. we took liam swimsuit shopping for two days. mandy and i are built very similar and were having a hard time finding one-pieces that fit. after trying target, we exhausted all options at the mall on tuesday (this took nearly 3 hours) then hit kohl's on wednesday. no luck there either. desperate to swim at the GWL with the kids, we decided to try k-mart since it was on the way home. there we both found exactly what we had been looking for. actually, mandy found two!

that's all the squeak will let me do for now. :)