May has been a busy month. The mosaic above is only a small sample of what we were doing between the 2nd and 11th. That doesn’t even cover the time we spent at my sister- and brother-in-law’s farm with Troy’s mom and stepdad, or having dinner with Jenn and her boys, or Annalie’s zoo birthday party or painting pottery or toasting marshmallows with Katrina & her family and Joe & Kassie.

Or the fact that Sonja and Noah are here now for a two-week visit!

I have tons I want to tell you about. I have photos that I need to edit and Flickr, and blog posts I want to write. I am kind of resigned about the fact that mostly I won’t get to write them, though. I’ll be too busy feeding the baby and teaching Annalie and doing laundry and entertaining our guests and meeting up with friends and taking a quick trip to New York to meet Sarah and Suzy. I’ll do my best though, because I want to be able to read those posts in a year or two and remember this jam-packed, crazy fun month.

How’s your May going so far?

Elliora has been talking in this weird guttural voice lately. It’s pretty funny. My mom took this video of her, with my brother in the background growling back at her.

Elliora is sitting up pretty well now. In just a day or two she went from being able to balance in a sitting position for a second or two, kinda, to being able to sit for 15-20 seconds at a time. I expect by the time we leave Omaha she’ll be walking and reciting her ABCs.

(Sorry for the lazy blogging. I have a half-dozen other posts in my head, but you’re getting videos of my kid sitting instead. I meant to post a photo yesterday for Wordless Wednesday, just a photo, and didn’t even manage that. You’re lucky you’re getting videos.)