Timothy's Big Head Strikes a Balance! sort of

Although Timothy is growing into his head size as he gets older, his last few months in reaching one and a half years of ages has proven difficult. Difficult to explain all of the bruises.. He tumbles onto the floor and smacks his forehead. He independently climbs stairs only to miss his footing and whacks right above where he got too close to a shoe on a swing. This most recent smackaroo was in Hells Canyon at an information booth at the half way point of a fire tower. He didn't even see it and ran right into it... Poor Mister...

He is now 23 lbs and growing very well now that he has been clear of any lung issues for two-three months. He is the apitomy of a little boy playing in the dirt, with trucks, likes to watch bikes whizz by and finds it especially amusing to play games of stop and go! Goooooo and he runs right into your arms and colapses onto your lap! This also helps when close to a road since the concept of danger isn't as cool as stopping for a game..

Grandpa came for a track meet and Timothy clapped for the competitors. We enjoyed the company of Geoff and Marie for entire afternoon and finished with a very nice dinner.

Grandma also made it down for breakfast and some play time and charmed Kathleen into buying him a dump truck! Lucky boy!

I have sent out some wonderful pictures recently to all of the family. Day care had a wonderfull woman come in and not a single picture of Timothy wasn't perfect in capturing peices of his inquisitive nature and simple happiness!

I don't have them in electronic form so if you didn't receive one and would like to, give me a call.

In other news, two of Timothy's family members have passed away. My last remaining grandparent in Pennsylvania and my aunt in Aumsville passed within weeks of each other. We also packed Jesse up to start fire season this year only to visit him over Fourth of July weekend. Beyond the startling deaths and sadness, we took a little time to adjust and then start to have fun again. I floated Timothy down a section of river with the fire crew on the Grand Ronde. Everyone rode and walked their inner tubes, while I navigated in my play boat with Timothy on my lap. He loved it! This was a momentous occassion since this was the very first time Timothy has been on moving water. We were carefull and focused on a great experience for him and I don't know if he has worn himself out more trying to paddle with the paddle himself than any other activity we shared! Such a great time!

Happy Summer and see some more family soon!