Summer (or so) Recap

Okay, the baby is older, summer is over, and it's time to get my act together (like that will ever happen). So here are a few things that have happened in the last few months, in whatever order I happen to think of them.

I found a pretty good deal to sign Gabriel up for karate during the summer. He liked it for maybe 3 lessons and then it was always a battle to go. We made him fulfill his commitment to do it until the end of the summer, as it was something he had said he wanted to do. Toward the end of summer, he started to like showing off his cool super hero moves, but we decided it was best for him to stop anyway.

Lily has really started liking princesses and prefers to wear dresses over anything else. She loves to sing and dance, so we started her in dance classes. She didn't like the first one, but she warmed up to it quickly and loves it now.

Gideon started crawling at some point. He's been doing it for a while now and has gotten very good at it. And fast. He has no interest in learning how to walk, though, and will get angry if you try to teach him.

Jeff had to work a decent amount of overtime with all the wildfires, but we usually get to have a lot of fun when he is home and even managed to take a trip to the beach before summer ended.

I started working out really hard to lose the pregnancy weight that I don't think will be going anywhere until I'm done nursing. Then I totally messed up my back. I had a bulging disc and discovered that I have degenerative disc disease. I've been seeing a chiropractor and doing some rehab, and I'm getting close to being good as new, but I'm only slowly getting back into exercise.

Gabriel started preschool!!!! He had absolutely no anxiety about being dropped off. He's in his third week now, and he has a lot of fun, but if you ask how he likes it he'll say it's too long and it's not fair that everyone but the teacher has to sit crisscross applesauce. He's a goober sometimes. He is also SO smart. I already knew that, but it's coming out even more now that he's in more of an environment specifically geared toward education.

I think that's a pretty good nutshell recap. Here's some pictures!