dear little son,

ten month old. you’ve officially reached double digits. double digit months. like, you’re only two months away from turning a year old.
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there are a lot of pictures in this album. i really couldn’t choose but that’s not such a bad thing. they’re all great!

here ya’ go, jeremy! you were my motivation to finally get them up!
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dear august,

what a fun month this has been. you seem like such a different baby.
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took august to get some blood drawn today.

he was SUCH A TROOPER.

he smiled at both nurses right up until the needle went in his arm. cried a lot, of course. i’m sure that there are some adults that cry just as much. and, as soon as the needle was out and he was bandaged, he was all smiles. and with a red, tear soaked face. he even gave the nurse that stuck him a huge smile before we left.

it is so hard to see your child in pain and not be able to console him right away. at one point, i looked down and saw the needle in his arm and had to look away just as soon as i had looked…singing “the wheels on the bus” in his ear to comfort him.

don’t know if it was more comforting to him or me.

he was so brave, though.

so much so that i couldn’t help but buy him a toy while at the store. his first toy car. teaching him that it goes, “vroooom!” he finds that most amusing.

yes, i am well aware of the fact that i am doing a poor, poor job at keeping up this little blog here. the fact that i haven’t updated and have so much to update plagues my thoughts daily.
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the past couple of months have been such crazy, busy, and fun months. thankfully, i have been able to take lots of pictures so i have a couple hefty picture posts. it is also why the period that i am posting is less than a full month. the picture that i did have from the 11th was a picture that i didn’t want to separate from the easter pictures so i will be posting it with those.

there are a lot from last month, though. i don’t usually like to post more than one picture from any certain day to keep a pretty decently modest picture summary but i had way too many favorites to pick just one or two so, in effect– PICTURE OVERLOAD!
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dear august,

there have been the months (every month) that i have written that time has flown. this month really has. and not in just all of the ways in which you’ve grown but in all of the things that have happened in just a matter of 30 days. or at least all of the things that seem to have happened.
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as you can see, august is not at all impressed. oh well. wishing you and your loved ones a HAPPY EASTER! hoping that not just today, but every day, you are reminded of how AWESOME our God is.

eat lots of chocolate and marshmallows.

with lots of love,
mark, sarah, and august

seven month pictures! sadly, i was surprised to find that i hadn’t taken a whole lot of pictures this month as we were pretty busy with guests. still some good ones, though! his eight month picture post is definitely going to be a hefty one!
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mark was late to work this morning. i believe we woke up at eleven.

yes, ELEVEN. we were slackers.

but, darn it, we were going to watch a movie last night. if it was the last thing we were going to do. and it was. (har har)
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