Milestones

Today, Gabriel reached two new milestones. That fourth tooth finally broke through! Maybe now we can stop pumping him full of Tylenol and he won't be so out of sorts. He's already used it to bite his mother's finger, but that's what she gets for feeling around in there.

He also, while playing on the bed with Mommy, pulled up to a standing position using her legs as leverage! It wasn't too surprising, since he's been acting like a little monkey lately. We'll be holding him, and he'll squirm around so that he's behind us. We don't know how he does it, but he's good at it.

In more serious news, we received a phone call on Monday while we were on vacation that Matt had to reserve all of his vacation time for the next few months because the union may be striking beginning next week. Given the fact that the government wants to cut back on funding for the F/A-22 and C-130 programs, a slowdown in production could possibly put the jobs of everyone at LMAS at risk. Even the union leaders advised the workers to accept Lockheed's offer, but they still voted to strike. The strike is expected to begin, if at all, next Monday or Tuesday.