June 23-July 10

So, I have decided that I am not going to do weekly posts during the summer.  I honestly don't have enough to post about!  I am sure you are all sick of hearing about the pool and story time... am I right??  Please keep reading, just don't expect an update every week for the next few moths :)

 Lets talk about Beckett for a moment...

Beckett has accomplished a lot over the past few weeks.  He is a super fast army crawler.  Still has no desire to crawl on his knees, although he gets up on them constantly.

 He loves to crawl back and forth through his bouncer toy.

 He has mastered pulling up on furniture and will slowly walk around them.

 He loves popsicles.  Probably feels really good on his sore gums.

He has four teeth total.  Two lower and two upper.  Only the upper are his laterals, not the centrals!  Looks really funny!  Lets hope those front teeth come through really soon!

 I decided to stop nursing.  I was starting to slow down naturally, so I figured it was a good time.  I still nurse about once a day, but will completely stop by the end of the week :)  I am loving my freedom!  Now that he is getting mostly formula, he has been sleeping much better. He was waking up 1-2 times! He even slept through the night for the first time ever last night!! Makes me think I should have done this sooner!

Avery is really into music lately.  She loves singing in the car and dancing around the living room.  Her current favorite is a remake of the "kiss the girl" song from The Little Mermaid movie by Ashley Tisdale.

We started celebrating Independence Day on the 3rd.   We headed up to Concordia where Rand works to hang out with family and have our own firework show!  We ate hot dogs and s'mores while we watched the fireworks.  It was abnormally cool that day and the kids and I were cold once the sun went down.  Good thing I found one small blanket in the car.  Everyone else was prepared and shared jackets!  I hardly took any pictures, probably because Beckett was crying for half of it :)

On the 4th, We went to a BBQ at a friends house.  It is always fun to get together with friends, let the kids run wild, and eat lots of yummy food!  

 I made patriotic muddy buddies and flag cake pops

 We played baseball

 

 We watched fireworks.  Beckett wasn't so sure about all the noise, but he did good

 

 More sparklers for Avery

 Rand decided to take Friday off work and he was able to come to the pool with us!  Avery loves when dad comes because she can jump in the deep pool and sit in the lazy river.  Normally Beckett doesn't do very good at the pool, but he was loving it that day!  Of course he is good the one time Dad is around!  Go figure...

We took some fun videos

I hope everyone had a great holiday!