8 months so soon

Josiah is 8 months old! WHAT?! How has that happened? Our little man is absolutely incredible. We can't believe he is growing up this fast. Month 7 was probably a great one for Josiah but it was a little crazy for his parents. Caleb and I had a whirl wind month of work which made our home life a little crazy too. The biggest thing we lacked was time together as a family (and sleep, but who's counting), I am sure there are others that can relate. We love that we don't have to use regular childcare, but we have felt a little more like "two ships passing in the night" that we envisioned in our initial "plan" for life after our child entered our world.

Well, we at least saw this season coming and we coped; I guess that is about as accurately as I can put it. We are at the end of 6 weeks of a lot of overtime, or as I like to think of it as a salaried employee; volunteerism. WE MADE IT and finally got a whole day as a family without so much as a work phone call to interrupt our time. We went to the zoo, hung out at home on the grass in the warm sunshine and just enjoyed being a family. I think it solidified the fact, for Josiah, that he does in fact have two parents.

Josiah thinks his dad is hilarious! Which is great for Caleb who doesn't always have the most generous audience for his jokes at our house!

We hadn't seen this guy yet. He seems to hide out whenever we come to the zoo; giving us a beautiful landscape of grass and dirt to view..Got you this time, Tiger.

Bananas are definitely one of Josiah's favorites, unfortunately we usually have to counter balance them with prunes which is not one of his favorites; not even close.

Within days of our beautiful, sunny zoo day, we had one of the most powerful rain storms I have seen. Our family had a blast bundling up and watching it from the porch. We don't see too much rain anymore, but this one was a doosy! Not like Oregon and Washington that just drip constantly, this was the real deal. Thankfully it only lasted 20 minutes and then we were right back to status quo; a status quo that I have come to love in my nearly four years so far in the desert.