come out, come out, wherever you are.

this will probably be short. i see it's been over two weeks since my last post and it makes me so sad! i was doing so well at documenting jude's day to day... but then the last few weeks of school came out of nowhere. suddenly i have an assignment due nearly everyday. don't get me wrong... i am SOOOOOOO ridiculously glad for the end of this semester. but i do not like how little time i've been able to spend playing with jude. not to mention the wonderful weather has got me feeling a little caged in. i am almost thankful for the grey days we've seen at the beginning of this week. but i feel oh so sorry for baby jude. all he wants to do is play. and he wants to play with ME. i'll listen longingly to him and my mom downstairs playing and when she brings him upstairs to me to nurse he literally jumps up and down on her hip and lunges at me giggling wildly. i know he misses mommy. mommy misses him, too. but thankfully i only have about two weeks left of school. by the end of next week i think i will be done with all but maybe one or two finals. YAY!

and then we will be busy bees moving. yes, moving! after a long and tiresome search we have found the PERFECT apartment. the original plan was to move into a 3-4BR house with my cousin tiffany and her bf justin (they are expecting on aug 7th!)... well, after much consideration on both parts we kind of realized that it wouldn't work. zach and i need to be close to UK and downtown and they need to be close to the interstate. opposite ends of lexington. so we did some separate searching and they decided on berea (to be close to family, which when you have a new baby is totally understandable) and we simultaneously stumbled on our perfect, new downtown home. it definitely seems like a Divine gift. i mean, this place literally fell into our laps. here we are wasting oodles of gas driving around town day after day, searching every available website, calling and calling and calling... ... ... and TA DA! we find this place by way of none of the above. oh, irony. so, my old roommate/best friend and his girlfriend just moved into this swanky downtown apartment that zach and i were suuuper jealous of. i mean, this place is HUGE. it's an entire upstairs of an old house plus a full attic. and the house/everything is in perfect condition. plus they have this awesome downstairs neighbor, melissa, who does henna and has a 4yr old daughter. out of the blue melissa decides to move in with her boyfriend. and we inherit an absolutely fantabulous apartment. i promise to post pics as soon as we start moving in! so anyway, i may not update for another couple of weeks depending upon how hectic this move is.

and now for jude's updates... not sure what i last posted but jude is now officially cruising all over the place. proficiently! he can squat, stand, squat, pick up a toy, stand, etc... he hasn't fallen in quite some time, either. his babbling has reached new heights as well. ans he understands so much! i can definitely tell that he understands more than he is capable of expressing. his range of emotions gives that away! he now has tantrums (not often... yet) when he doesn't get his way, acts shy and buries his face in my shoulder when he meets new people, laughs in a really humored way when i do something silly, does his best to make ME laugh whenever he can, and a whole variety of things i am forgetting about due to exhaustion. hmm... what else? he can "dunk" his basketball on his toy bball goal. he will hand things to me. for instance, tonight i was emptying the dishwasher and he was handing me spoons and lids. and he loves to pull clothes out of the dryer for me to fold. he is just getting to be so much fun! he is opening cabinets and drawers, trying to reach doorknobs, and pretty much standing against anything he can in order to attempt to reach out-of-the-way things. i emptied the bottom two shelves of my bookcase only for him to start pulling things down from the third. at least he's started taking three hour naps from 10ish-1ish so we both get some rest.

and now apparently my pecking on the keyboard has woken up my tiny bed fellow. goodnight, all.