Basically, he grew up since the last post about him. So I have tons of pictures! I know you missed him.

He sits up so well now. I’m so proud!

He’s grown out of all his clothes…

and out of his carseat. Wow look how handsome!

He has all sorts of fun with Trevor now, who is apparently much more exciting than me!

This is probably because Trevor teaches him about the wind,

and about business,

and lets him stick his hands in the batter when Mom is not looking!

They also read stories together.

Max likes to read on his own too:

As for his life with me, he was really excited about returning to his toys that he missed while we were on vacation!

Sometimes we water the lawn together. The other day I saw this cool moth. When I first saw it, I only saw one wing set and the angle made it look like a paper bird head. I was so confused why one would be in our yard until it started moving and there were TWO bird heads!

Back to Max. We have fun together instead of getting enough sleep,

but he sure has learned how to whine. Today he whined ALL. DAY. LONG.

Except for when I was sitting right next to him catering to his every entertainment need… and he is so cute sitting… but basically he got sent to bed early tonight!!

Maybe tomorrow will be more full of happy times like this:

I think that was what started his whining today. I wouldn’t let him chew on the windowsill in his bedroom. He LOVES to look out the windows!

(Maybe my mother will be appalled that I put a picture of me in the bathtub on the internet, but I also wouldn’t mind if there was some more of this tomorrow…)

I forgot about the pics from our trip to New London! Trevor and I left Max with Grandma and had a little date while we were in Connecticut. It was nice to get out by ourselves, and while we were not sure whether to go to Mystic Seaport or New London, we were glad we chose the latter. It was much less tourist-y and still really cool.

Here’s me near the Fisher’s Island ferry pier:

And Trevor on the boardwalk at Ocean Beach:

We had lunch at a great little Thai place that gave us this appetizer with a personal grill to heat up our chicken! You can’t really see inside it, but there was a blue flame and it made a great sizzling sound. Yum.

This has just been sitting here half finished for almost two months now! I give up waiting on myself to get everything perfect before the switch. I still have a VERY long list of things to add / fix… but I found myself so bored with my old template that I was not writing posts at all, and that’s sad. I hope to remedy that from here on out.

Happy Brighter Higbee Blog day!

PS If I missed your blog link somehow in the transition, let me know! It’s quite probable I missed one or two in there somewhere…

I’d love to put all these pictures directly on here but that kind of formatting is really just not going to get to happen today, and I’m antsy to share - so here you go. Worth looking at!

More pics are here - and some are even cute! :)

It is all I can do not to just giddily laugh out loud to myself right here right now.

I am soooooooo making these the first chance I get!

I am not a big milk chocolate fan and haven’t been for, say, 8-10 years. I will eat it but rarely buy it because it’s too in-your-face sugar. You eat it, and then it’s gone; it’s like you chomp down massive calories all for naught.

Over the years I have enjoyed but become less satisfied with your everyday dark chocolate. Hershey’s “Special Dark” is kind of a joke - what is that, like 45%? (They do brand it as “the dark chocolate for milk chocolate lovers” though so I guess it is what they say it is! And I’ll certainly choose it over milk chocolate.) I tried a Godiva 72% a while back. The sweet taste was still fairly prominent but I enjoyed it.

Two days ago, when we bought our awesome swanky barstools (by the way, we are keeping the red - long live bold), we also got some Lindt 85% dark chocolate. Beautiful. Here is what I love about real dark chocolate: you work for the pleasure. It’s slow. I love searching for its sweetness. Eating chocolate that raw is actually an experience instead of a five-second weakness that is cheap and gone and regrettable by second six, with nothing left to show for itself. The bar lasts me a week instead of one day.

Next up? This. If I can ever find it.

I will be back to the blogosphere… I promise. Once life settles down a little bit. Or a lot bit. But our house is really coming along and vacation is so soon. I have a list of posts to write that is about 20 ideas long and pictures to share!

In the meantime, I am trying to keep my priorities in line considering the lack of disposable time. Not to mention my laptop is semi-out-of-commission.

Something really really fun we bought tonight (actually we bought them in red but are considering exchanging for black). I also got some little bamboo plants. Our house is going to be so very not child-proof.

Stay tuned!