Lydia is 7 months!
She is such a delight! Latest highlights include sitting up, pulling up to a stand, eating soft table food and lots of cheerios, turning off light switches, saying "Mama", loving anything her sister seems to like, taking two naps a day and sleeping 10 hours with one feeding in the night, loving little people, patting, drumming, playing in water and being tickled!
Standing up by herself!
Hard to believe summer is nearly 1/4th over!
Summer days have included a Memorial Day trip to the beach
Lydi's first dip in the water!
Playing in the pool on the beach - Nad has declared, "I don't like the ocean waves" this year. We aren't sure why, but she had a ball in the sand and pool.
Building a sand turtle with Daddy
Playing with Nana and Granddaddy
Beyond beach days, Nadia is growing up so quickly - gaining more independence every day as she is now choosing her own clothes, mastering potty use, taking responsibility for her toys/bag/stuff, singing 100 different songs a day, helping fold the laundry, helping cook, brushing her own teeth, washing herself in the tub.,. it kind of all makes me a little sad at how big she's getting!
The past month included a horrid rash with high fever, just days before VBS (my biggest week of the year). After a 5 day quarrentine from other kids, Lyd seemed to be fine and made it to the last of the week of VBS.
Poor baby.
Nadia had her first "real" VBS experience, getting to particiate with the Twos at Operation Overboard. She loves to tell us about the worship rally and sing the theme song with motions.
Lots of trips to the duck pond with new baby geese to see
Painting with "big girl paint"
Dress up
Summer Olympics at church
Putting our family flag in the Parade of Families
Swimming in the backyard
Bountiful Baskets - I highly recommend! It's a co-op for fresh produce. It's just our first basket, but we've already eaten more healthily than we have been in the past several weeks (mostly b/c VBS is over and I have more than 2 minutes left in the day to think about food prep), but it really is great! 6 fruits, 6 veggies - 4 servings of each for $15.
I made roasted radishes (a first!), carrots and sweet potatoes for lunch.
We also had kiwi, watermelon and squash. Nad tried and ate everything except the radish.
We've been berry picking (more berries were eaten than wound up in our basket).
At another less healthy meal, Nad took her curly fries and announced, "I made a word - C-I-L-O!"
Lyd likes cucumber and watermelon spears! Yum!
Now that we've made it through Vacation Bible School and the start of the Olympics (it's been beyond hectic with a sort of hang-on and just survive mentality), I'm determined for this summer to be filled with lots of special summer fun!
