For starters, yay me getting this out on time!!! Today is Baby Munkey's 11 month birthday. That's right, TODAY. Not a day from now, or a week, or two. TODAY. *grin*

You'll notice that the blog comes to you on a new page, now. I think this will be the permanent page, so feel free to bookmark it. It has comments again (yay comments!!!), comes with its own email address (sowels@zoomshare.com for the record), and has a spot for 50 or so pictures. Shout-out to Patsy for this find. She has her own update blog on Zoomshare, and I copied the idea from her. Thanks, doll.

One of the major downfalls to the Upsaid crash and burn was that I seemed to have lost the 2 earliest entries to the update blog. If someone happens to be OCD enough to be saving these all, let me know if you have them, please. I DID repost all of the ones I still did have, so that you don't have to refer back to previous links.

I've also begun the process of migrating the photo album over from Snapfish to OFoto. The pictures seem to be of a better quality (they print out on Kodak paper), and you get Upromise money for them if you follow the right links. It obviously will take some time to get everything moved over and re- captioned, so in the meantime, feel free to keep viewing on Snapfish. I'll provide an update when I'm done.

As for new Baby Munkey stuff this month:

-- he has two new teeth coming in on the bottom. When these come in completely, that will bring the total to 8. Dada likes to tell him that with more teeth come more McDonalds opportunities.

-- He's copying far more things that he sees and hears now. He has sounds, looks, facial expressions, etc down pat.

-- He just today started almost completely mastering the art of the walker. For the past week he's figured out how to go backwards on it, but finally today decided going forward was more interesting.

-- Sumo Baby is eating a far bigger variety than he was previously. And really, in all fairness, I should stop calling him Sumo Baby or Goliath. I found my baby book the other day, and according to the notes from Georgia in it, I weighed 27 lbs when I was Mikey's age. He's only somewhere between 22 and 23 now.

-- Sitter #4, Stacy, is working out fabulously. If you happen to live in the area and are in need of child care, let me know. She is still looking for kids. He got to paint for the first time at her place for Mother's Day. She helped him make my first Mom's Day presents: a bookmark, a card, and a sun visor, all custom-painted Munkey-style.

-- We got a new family car. Instead of the 2-door Blazer (now in the possession of Chris), we have a 4-door '04 Grand Am. My back is most pleased. Our budget, not so much. But what I don't spend in chiropractor bills gets to go towards the extra expense.

-- He's picked up a new favorite word. And of course, that word would be "no". He prefers to say it with a stern look on his face, while pointing at you if you try to get him to do something he doesn't want to do (like get dressed, for example).

This is going to be the month of family visits, it would appear. While he gets to see his MeMaw and PaPaw Sowels every 6 weeks or so, he hasn't seen anyone on my side of the family in ages, if at all. Jill and her husband Larry are driving through town tomorrow, and will get to meet Munkey for the first time. Then next month for his birthday, LaVern will be in town for a week.

Speaking of his birthday, e-vites went out today for his birthday party. If you didn't get one, let me know, and I'll have it resent out. The oversight certainly wasn't intentional.

As usual, there are many other things he's doing, I'm sure. But it's so hard to pinpoint things that we see every day, and someone else might not. Regardless of how often he might do something, it hardly makes it any less special.

Anyway, if you would like access to the Ofoto album, email me at alisowels@1scom.net, or sowels@zoomshare.com. And now that we get comments again, make sure to use em!!! I am quite the comment junkie.

Coming next month, the birthday extravaganza!

Ali