Happy Half Birthday and a BIG first!!

I should heed the optimistic, glass-half-full spirit of the blog title and not let the bad things of yesterday weigh too much. In fact, today Karma said "snap out of it!!" and threw some nice stuff our way.

The biggest great thing... Audrey cut her first tooth! We saw it tonight when getting her jammies on. It's her bottom left central incisor (I just downloaded a tooth chart). Sure, she's miserable righ now trying to go to sleep, but now I know why she was attacking the frozen banana I gave her last night! Yay Audrey! We gave her a little tylenol to hopefully help her (and us!) get some sleep.

Have you ever clicked on the "goodyblog" button down on the sidebar of the blog? It's a blog by the Parents magazine editors about all things kid. They run a variety of give-away contests and I won! I won the Back-to-School gear, too bad none of us are officially in school. But it will still be a lot of fun stuff to play with. And Miles will get the backpack he's been asking for all year! Hopefully we don't get the one with hearts and flowers all over it.

"They" now have Hanna going a bit north of us, which still means rain for the start of our vacation, but hopefully not a full on evacuation. But on the bad side, it would be hitting closer to OBX where dad & Brenda are sailing right now and where some friends' parents live. Not so good. Maybe Hanna will just stay at sea!! Oh but then there's Ike, bearing down a similar path... DUM DUM DA DUUUUM.

And what a difference a week makes. Today at the pool Miles was telling me to go "way over there" when he was going to jump in and swim to me. Such confidence. But he was all about it, smiling and laughing the whole time. We're working on him being able to kick and paddle with his arms, but he's still not calming down enough to float. Hates the back float! But has NO problem getting his head under at all. Yay Miles!!