Six Months!

Our little buddy made it to six months!  I think it's gone a lot faster the second time around.  He's a pretty happy guy most of the time.  He's a snuggly little fella and he's got a great laugh.

No crawling yet but it's planks and push-ups and mountain climbers all day long over here!

He just started food this week and has been catching on pretty quick.  So far we've done sweet potatoes and peas and while it's yay on the potatoes, the peas have been dubbed as just tolerable.  But he did eat them!

And Daddy stopped by a garage sale and found some cute shoes for him.  They won't fit for awhile yet but it was fun to try them on anyway:)

We love you, buddy!

Easter On The Homefront

Got to go to Illinois for Easter this year!  It was a full weekend, with lots of good quality family time.  Time with my immediate family AND both my mom and dad's sides.  I almost said there was plenty of time, but plenty means more than enough and I could always go for a little more!

Summer experienced her first Easter egg hunt and was pretty pleased with the results.  (Candy!)  But now this morning she was playing with the plastic eggs and took them to the kitchen and said "Eggs! breakfast?".  Guess she'll need to eventually learn the difference between real eggs and candy eggs:)

My nephew- what a dude.  We got to sit out and enjoy the awesome weather while we watched his sister's first soccer game.  She scored three goals!  

A quick egg coloring session was held on Saturday afternoon.

These two.  My dad and an uncle who has always been like my 2nd dad.  So thankful for them!!

Girl picture!  Well, and Sawyer.

Another night, another family get together.

This girl loooooooves to be outside and looooooooves to swing.  It's going to be a fun summer!  Well, fun until it's time to go inside.  Then it's not so pretty:)

Grateful for a great weekend with beautiful weather celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus!!

Summer-isms

Summer is starting to say some pretty funny stuff these days.  She was an early talker so we've heard lots and lots of words come out of her mouth, but she's starting to be able to have simple conversations now.

This past Sunday evening when it was so nice out we went on a walk around our neighborhood.  When we got home, she was trying to tell Danny something about her jacket, but he was having a hard time figuring out what she was trying to tell him.  Everything was just all wrong for her!  The conversation went something like this.

D: You want your jacket unzipped?

S: No

D: You want your jacket to stay on?

S: No

D: You want your jacket zipped?

S: No

D: You want your jacket off?

S: No

(All of this with a little intermittent whining of course.)

D: Well I don't know what you're trying to say.  What do you want?
S (without missing a beat): I want candy!

Of course you do, Summer.  Of course you do:)  We got a good laugh out of that one!

That picture, by the way, is still from Florida.  Fresh out of the bath with a little leftover sand and sunscreen in the hair makes for some great hair gel!

Florida 2017

Ah, Florida.  You came and you went.  Much too quickly!!  We've been back since Saturday now and I think I'm still in denial that it's over.  It just flew by this year!  But it was a great trip, nonetheless.

Summer was great on the way down- until it was time to go to sleep.  And then?  Well, it was like she just didn't believe in sleeping in the van.  It was awful.  But at least she looks happy here at 4:00 in the morning!

And that first night upon arriving, all four of us slept amazing.  Even Sawyer.  Me and Danny are late nighters, typically going to bed at 11:30 or 12.  But that night we were all asleep by 9 and slept until 7 the next morning.  It was glorious!!

Sunday after church we got to spend some time with my cousins who moved down to work with The New Beginnings and then hang out with some of TNB crew for supper.

The rest of the week consisted mostly of fun in the sun.  Summer was a little leery of swimming, which I guess isn't all that bad when you don't know how.  But man she had a death grip for most of her time in the water!

But she didn't mind soaking up some rays with daddy:)

One night we went out for supper with just us and Aaron and Cassie, and then to a fun playground afterwards.  There was also a neat little musical playground close by that the kids really liked.

The little kids AND the big kids:)

Summer did love the beach!  She was always a little sad when it was time to be all done playing in the sand.  It was so fun to watch her enjoy it!

So you know how sometimes you see a beautiful family picture and it was the only good one out of a lot of attempts?  Well, we made all the attempts but we never got the really good one!  So I guess we'll just work with what we have.  But I sure do love the people in this picture!

By the end of the week Summer was getting a little braver.  At one point she even came and sat on this ledge all by herself with no prompting.  Baby steps!

As for this guy, he pretty much hung out in the shade all week long.  I realized when I got home that he really only made it into about two pictures.  Whoops, sorry buddy.  But he did great the whole week and while we were there he started rolling back to front.  The first time he did it he got a huge smile on his face like he was all proud of himself.  So cute!

Usually at the end of a trip I'm ready to be back home.  I can't really say that this time around though!  Guess I'll start counting down the days til next year...