She's definitely moving - crawling, sitting herself up on her own and pulling up. The sitting herself up and pulling up all happened on the same day. There's no slowing her down. Poor Noah - his railroads have been getting trashed daily - Rachel has discovered they make great teethers. Who could get mad at that face though??? (okay, maybe Noah... ;) She also has this new little game she likes to play where she mimics this sound back and forth with us. She's our cutie! Also:
The kids had a blast in this little pool my mom keeps at her house for them. It has a sprinkler on the dinosaurs tail that sprays them and a canopy that fits over the top of it for when the sun is at it's worst. The kids think it's like a tent. I love watching all of them play together. We're lucky that all of our kids are so close in age. They all have a blast together.
Poor Em- Olivia and Noah kept drenching her with cups full of water. Good thing she liked it. She poured cups of water over her own head when they weren't doing it!
She loves this bunny she got for Easter - Thought this was too sweet to pass up and not take a picture of. We forgot 'Bunny' when we went to Tennessee, but thankfully found another one at Target. We're glad to have a back- up now anyway. ;)
Noah talked about this day for a month before it actually happened and every day since he got to go see and ride on Thomas. Talk about a dream come true. I have never in my life seen a boy that loves trains so much. He likes planes, he likes cars, he likes boats... but he LOVES trains. It rained, we were late, but it was fun. I honestly had tears in my eyes when he first laid eyes on Thomas. He was so excited to see that darn train. There were several things to do besides the train ride. We were joined by Noah & Rachel's Papa & Grammy and also their Uncle Donny, Aunt Dodie, Colin and Eliot for our trip. Good times.
We're home after a 9 day trip to Tennessee. It was a great visit with family and we enjoyed it. It's quite the drive though, so it's good to be back home. LOTS of photos coming...
Rachel is 8 months old today - and she is one busy, busy, busy little bee. She is giving kisses, clapping her hands, 'skooching' all over the place, rocking back and forth on her hands and knees like crazy, saying da-da and will give the occasional wave bye-bye. She adores her brother and wants to do/see everything he does (poor Noah, he's in trouble). She has six teeth and loves to eat. She's still wearing some 3-6 month clothes, 6-9 month clothes and size 2 diapers (hard to believe since she likes to eat so darn much!) and weighs right around 17 pounds.
Those were Noah's words to me this evening as he was riding along on the sidewalk. He was so excited to get this new tricycle. In fact, I had way too much 'help' as I was trying to put this baby together. He has had a tricycle for a long time, but the one we had, he had a lot of trouble riding. This one is no problem! He rode it all the way around the block tonight and enjoyed every minute of it.
