Strawberry love! Both of them love strawberries and Leo especially! Loves to maw them with his 2 new bottom teeth.
Leo is moving everywhere! Belly crawling, scooting rolling and reaching and pushing. Needs some kneepads :) He loves to check out what Elsie is doing, which she either is ok with or absolutely hates because he will put things in his mouth and "suck on them". Barbies are especially a no-no, though Elsie will happily hand over Ken for Leo to play/suck on, poor Ken.
Elsie loves being able to play and move him around, but now she sees that he could take her toys and she reeeealy hates when he sucks on the toys. So she stakes a claim to her area from the get go, which usually includes the best toys. Leo doesn't care yet, he just loves playing and bouncing.
Both kids love splash parks and swimming. Leo went in lake at cabin for a good couple of minutes before staying no thanks. It's been a hot summer, pretty much everyday in the 80s or more so we've been doing lots of swimming, back yard pool parties, love our new back yard!
Elsie can swim about 10 feet all by herself! She could probably go further if she tried but she gets too nervous. She LOVES jumping off the dock to someone and then swimming back to the steps.
Children's museum finally reopened! Both kiddos love running around and rolling around.
Bottom teeth! After months of speculation and drooling and knawing on things it was bound to happen!
Elsie knows how to pump! Pushing on the swings only sometimes now, a nice relief for us parents.
Still looking for a vacation rental property, if you know of any then let us know!
Leo is still growing, still super tall, and I can't believe how big he is for a 8 month old! He's got to be almost 25 pounds at this point, SO STRONG, and so chatty! He'll def tell you what's on his mind, and is almost always making noises!
Car rides are pretty rough these days with the Honda CRV (Yes, yes I told you so! I told you we should just get a mini van, yes I remember you telling me that....). THere's no room for all of our crap, with the two car seats in the back there's no room for anyone to sit between them and entertain/help them out. WHen Leo is not sleeping he's almost always annoyed and ready to be out of the car, and he lets us know the WHOLE time! If I could sit in back and entertain him it would be easier. So we're def in the market for a mini-van.
My running partner fell asleep on me.
Elsie last day of 3k
Day at the new splash park in Cottage Grove
Elsie runs pretty much the whole time, like over an hour. She takes a water break every so often but not a long break. When we get back to the car to go home she says, "I'm hungry" and will proceed to down like an entire bag of goldfish or some other snack.
Leo crawling around
Sits up pretty great in the stroller and the wagon so hes much more mobile. And he likes to sleep on the go just like Elsie.
Elsie, Leo and I enjoying the "3D" playground. Elsie named it that since there are at least 3 separate playgrounds at this elementary school, its insanely amazingly huge!
I pulled his hair back in a man-bun.
Leo in his man-bun helping us finish the bathroom off teh master bedroom by playing with his toys and being chill.
Why doesn't she like to smile for pictures anymore? I ask her to an this is waht I get....anyhow we were having fun with suds in the bath.
Leo new favorite toy, he's pretty great at walking with it once you set him up.
My office is in the bedroom and once a day these two will come up to ask something or whatever, and usually I get a pretty good smile from Leo and an exasperated smile/comment from Spencer who has been dealing with Leo whining at him for the past hour or so.
We met up with Leah, Jeremy, Desi, Eric, Miles, charles, Jolene, and Landon and the kids had a blast at the beach.
Father's Day sleuthing - I set up a "escape room" type scavenger hunt in the downstairs and these two did a great job working together to unlock the freezer with our ice cream treats. Will def ahve to do again soon!
Happy Father's Day Spence, you're an amazing dad and we're lucky to have you!
Elsie is a great big sister, super helpful and pretty careful with him, though he's a big lad and pretty robust at this point.
Showing off the new shoes she picked out.
After bathtime Leo is usually ready for sleeping and almost always letting us know it by whining, chatting, lots of noises, so anytime he get's too fussy Spencer makes him laugh to get a happy noise out of him for a second or 2.
We went strawberry picking, but they were so dinky and small :( We got a bucketful and had a great time running around the field, but I think the crop suffered from our drought-like conditions. They were so small that when you cut the tops off there was half of the strawberry gone! :( Better luck next year.
Another quilt finished! This was a pattern by Angela Walters (midnight quilt show) and I used her quilting diagrams to practice free motion quilting. Pretty happy with the result!
These two LOVE strawberries. I think Leo will be a lefty?
I let Elsie lick the bowl but Leo wanted some of that action and Elsie's face says it all.
Elsie completed a kid's run on the 4th of July! Great job kiddo! It was a run around the bases before the adults headed out for their 5K walk/run. It was only 2 kids but both those girls ran their heart out and did great!
