catch up chat

So I'm having a hard time keeping up with my blog. I feel like by the time I have time to sit and write about an event, it's so far past that I feel like it's irrelevant. Like my birthday, that totally passed in blog silence. Garrett's birthday also passed with hardly a mention.. he had a great BBQ blowout at our new little casa and all his faves showed up-- thanks Katie and Sara! We went camping- that got mentioned, at least in pictures, and in between all sorts of little Jack adventures happened that, because of my failure to blog, none of you know about. How sad.

katie flew in for G's bday!

Well here's what's on the "current events" calendar for the Cooper/Esary household (god, can't wait til I can just leave out that Cooper part...) :

Jack crawls like a freakin' pro. He can really book it and it's so funny to watch. He stands up on anything like he knows what he's doing and he's going to just walk away.. as long as at least a fingertip is touching something stable he can stand. So far no free-standing yet. He'll be walking in no time, I'm sure. And he's huge. 25lbs 9oz. Almost 30 inches tall. He's recently graduated to size 5 diapers (that will probably only mean something to those of you with children) and his feet are freakin' HUGE! He has four teeth on top and four on bottom and he likes to use them to BITE. He bites our shoulders, like he just needs a snack while we're holding him or something. And at all costs, do NOT put your fingers in his mouth. Trust me.

Also, we've been working on the house, little by little. Getting it all cute and stuff. And trying to keep it clean. Big news: we now have BLINDS on our windows (yay i can walk to the kitchen in my underwear without flashing the neighborhood!) and we now have DOORS!!!!! I'm so thrilled that we don't have to hang a blanket ghetto-style in our doorway to keep the room cool. And with a door on our entryway closet our entry looks very spectacularly neat and tidy now! News on the street is that we'll be getting a working dishwasher soon, too. Life is sweet.

our landlords!!

And the very LATEST news is that this last weekend we went up to the Gorge to see Tom Petty!!! It was AMAZING. Paul Tostberg, Garrett's boss, took us up for Garrett's birthday. It was very cool, we stayed in an appropriately trashy motel room (jacked actually pooped on the bed- sucks for them- and the gorge was beautiful and Tom is just BRILLIANT in concert.. and Steve Winwood opened and it was lovely and wonderful, the only thing that could have made it better is if I wasn't so exhausted. By the end of the concert I could barely keep my eyes open. So now we're just catching up with laundry from two weekends in a row of absolute fun.

us having fun:

Oh and then last night we went over to my sister Becca's house for a fabulous thai dinner which is always a blast because a) she's an amazing cook and b) it's super fun to go hang out with them. and Garrett would say c) because Steven has a rad horseshoe pit.