Basement, Big Firsts, Babies

Grandpa and William have fun after a hard day of work!

We continue to work on the basement. John and Grandpa Kevin have spent all day downstairs working with the exception of a lunch break. We have all of the ceiling drywalled with the exception of a closet. The bedroom is completely done as well. We are so happy to be moving forward with this project we started almost a year ago. The Grandparents McGarry will be here for one more day to help us make a dent in our drywalling and John has tomorrow off as well to work. Some vacation, huh?

The last piece of drywall on the ceiling in the family room

The last piece of drywall to go up in the bedroom


The first bathroom drywall pieces go up

In William's world, we found his 3rd tooth poked through yesterday and the 4th tooth today. The new teeth are the two upper front teeth. If you put your fingers in William's mouth, he'll be happy to show you how new and sharp they are. It even looks like he bit his tongue for the first time by the looks of the big red mark across it. Here are some picture - please ignore the chunks of rice cereal in his nose.

All of William's teeth


The new ones!

Even though he is getting teeth, it doesn't mean we are slowing things down on the solid food front. Today we introduced our first fruit : Bananas. William ate them without any problems and even said "Mmmmmm..." after one of his bites.

The first bananas

The first bites. He sure loves Diet Coke!

Bananas about bananas!

Another big first for William happened today. William successfully pushed himself up to sitting from his tummy without any help at all! He is a picture of him after he did it for the first time. Doesn't look like anything special, but it is to us! After that first time, he did it again 6-7 more times throughout the day! What a big boy!

Sitting up by myself if pretty neat!

And last, here is a picture of William's newest cousins! Alexander is on the left and Elena is on the right. Aren't they beautiful? We think so!