Retaining walls

Today we made a trip down to Lewiston/Clarkston. We stopped by Costco and returned the battery charger that we bought so we could find the one we lost. We picked up some food, apples, bananas, kiwis, crackers, 2 lbs of Gouda. We stopped by a wholesaler place that was supposed to have cheap concrete blocks, not so. We stopped at a building supply place in Moscow (also in Colfax) and it was cheaper and they deliver. So it looks like tomorrow we will start building a retaining wall for our front yard. We (by we I mean mostly Oli) used the truck to the stumps out of our front yard. They finally marked the location of the gas line after pointing out that there was no phone line in the ground, the location of our water meter, and writing "no TV" on our yard. Sadly we managed to bend the tow hitch in the process. The rocks that are currently piled against our yard as a sorry excuse for a retaining wall will go to make some very attractive raised beds.
We talked with our neighbor, Joe, about working on a retaining wall in between our two houses. Right now we have a mudslide topped with slippery flag stones. We will probably wait a bit on that. It will be a lot of digging and right now the soil is a bit heavy. More exciting for me to tell that for you to read about I am sure.
Layden had his 15 Month check up today. He is 21 lbs 14 oz, 15th percentile weight, 75th height. The doctor was a little concerned by him not being on solids yet but she figures since he is energetic and doesn't have any anemia it probably isn't a problem now, we will wait and see how it goes, basically what we had decided. He is developing well in all other ways. He enjoyed the light she used for looking in his ears and eyes. He did not like the nurse, not at all. He didn't like her at all. He only had one shot though and he got over it pretty quick.