Allergies, Change, and Growth

Strangely enough, after 2 years of living in Arizona, Dane has developed allergies. We don't know what he's allergic too, but whatever is blooming in September seems to attack his eyes and sinuses. See he cranky eyes below:


Tara has been busy re-inventing things by employing her faithful pack-mule husband to re-arrange the furniture in the house, and by coming up with a new hair-do.


Little Zade is now 6 months old, and has just mastered sitting up by himself, and he's loving it.


He's also big enough now to wear this sweet hat we were given. Check out the grin on his face:


And for our weekly installment of Aria's funny sayings, another kid was over at our place running around like a chicken with its head cut off and Aria scolded him by saying "No running until your feet hit the street! (i.e. no running in the house, only outside)". This is a little phrase she picked up from a book we checked out from the library this week.