Even though our precious baby August was only with us briefly, he/she sure taught us a lot about life (I’ll expand on this in a later post).

August even helped Abel. I’m sure you are wondering how. Well, when I was pregnant with August I craved chocolate milk ALL DAY LONG! Mind you, I don’t like milk. I never drink it! But for some reason I couldn’t get chocolate milk off my mind and I started drinking it all the time.

One day, Abel ask for a drink of my chocolate milk. I really didn’t want to give him chocolate milk and get him started on a bad habit, but then I had this “idea”. Maybe if I told him that he can only drink chocolate milk from a sippy cup, then I could ween him off the bottle.

Sure enough, he thought that idea was great and immediately fell in love with chocolate milk. (I mean, what kid wouldn’t?) This was about a month ago and he hasn’t had a bottle since. The first 24 hours without the bottle was brutal, but honestly after that it was easy. I let him drink chocolate milk in the morning, but after that he just drinks plain milk and anything else all in the sippy cup!

Thank you God and thank you August!

Now for some Abel funnies…here he is praying for his food & cars. Too bad his mouth was stuffed with food because it makes it hard to understand him, but it is oh so cute!

And this is to show you how our son (aka monkey) never sits still. Even when he eats he is constantly moving.