Karsten turns 6 months

Somehow Karsten keeps getting bigger and older even though we have had many heart to hearts about this subject and he just seems to be defiant about it. It really does seem like yesterday when I was pregnant and waddling around the house waiting to go into labor and now somehow it's 6 months later and I have a boy who eats like a pig, sits up by himself and has started to scooch around the house (he'll probably figure out how to crawl any day now). Seriously, where does the time go?

In celebration of this milestone I will entertain you with pictures as usual.

Hanging out after church. I wish you could see it in this picture but he slept through church in his carseat and ended up with an alfalfa hairdo.


Reading the newspaper.


Picking up chicks with his new shades.


Ready for the beach in his new sunhat.


Who needs toys when we have placemats

and shoes to play with.


We are trying patiently to wait for the weather to clear up so we can spend some more time outside. Karsten loves going for walks in his stroller and I like it too because I get to teach him about all of the wildlife we have in our neighborhood. It's even easier when the ducks decide to take up residence in our bushes to nest.

We ended up deciding to put Karsten in a different daycare and he will start at the end of the month. It's going to save us a lot of money and I can't believe we were spending more than $300 for 4 days a month. I talked a little before about the new position that I interviewed for at work; I ended up not getting that one but they are moving me up into something else which I don't know if I'm too thrilled about. They want me to do this new thing half time and what I'm doing now half time.....without anything in return. Who in their right mind would even think that people would even be remotely happy with their job when there is no reward for getting a promotion? I like my job and who I work with and what I do but I think there are things where you need to draw a line in the sand and this is one of those. There have been a lot of telecommuting positions posted lately for other business segments and I decided to apply for a couple of them. If I can work from home not only will it save us daycare money but gas money and an hour of commute time for me each day which I can then spend with Karsten instead of in the car. We'll see how everything turns out.