June in a Box!

Got a couple of cute pictures last weekend while my family was in town that I thought I would share. We had an impromptu Thanksgiving dinner since Alex will be out in Colorado for the winter and won't be able to make it back for the real thing. June liked joining in the fun but wasn't crazy about the food. Strangely, she found the mashed potatoes to be the worst. Also have a video of June getting ready to walk, which we think looks pretty funny due to her size! That's all for now.

The Latest and Greatest

Not too much has happened since the last post. June is still happily dancing the days away! In fact, we are starting to wonder if all of her dancing is getting in the way of her progress in other areas?? (After all her Dad has that problem all of the time) No seriously, she has been working on climbing the stairs, with close supervision of course, but after each step she takes a dance break and sometimes forgets what she was doing in the first place. The same thing happens when she is standing holding onto furniture or walking behind her walker. Hilarious!

June and I are very proud of her Dad this week as he has earned a big promotion at work! We know how hard he has been working and think that he couldn't deserve it more. Thanks for everything you do for us. We love you, you are the very best.

As some of you know, June, Keith, Emily and I have been training for a 5K race that took place a couple of weeks ago here in Plainfield. The race was a success! Emily and I improved on our times from last time and Keith was a great motivator for me until the last half mile when I (allegedly) asked him to "stop talking." We also had the best cheering section around- thanks Leslie and June! Here are some post race photos:








Here are a couple pictures of June hanging out in her playroom...







June in a new outfit- size nine months!



Trying out and loving the swings at the park!

June's New Tricks....

Hi Everyone! We are finally back online, which means more blog updates, yea! What's new? Let's see... June had her nine months doctor's appointment this week and everything checked out well. She is up to almost 16 1/2 pounds which seems big to us, but turns out to only be in the 7th percentile for her age. Looks like she is just going to be a little peanut! We have had another busy couple of weeks with two fun trips to Michigan, KEITH'S 30TH BIRTHDAY and the annual "Krawl", and June had a very special visitor for the last week- her Uncle Alex. As is turned out even with all of the action June had an agenda of her own, she was busy mastering a whole slew of new tricks. We thought that the best way to let you all see what she has been up to would be to take some video and put together a montage to show you. Hope you like it!!!

Lots and Lots of Pictures!

FINALLY ANOTHER POST!! Although things are coming along well at the new house, we still do not have the internet which as you can guess makes keeping the blog up-to-date pretty difficult. So, I am going to try to totally redeem myself (what movie Mom?) by posting a ton of pictures! I will narrate as I go, in hopes of painting as complete a picture as possible of what we have been up to for the last month.

First day at the new house! Pulled the old carpet within a couple hours of the closing.

June's hangout for a few days.

Spent lots of time here too.

June and her friend Riley snoozing after a busy day at the pool (should have taken pictures there, oops)

June looking cute in her diaper.

Eating update... doing great with lots of fruits and vegetables now! Some favorites: apples, nectarines and sweet potatoes. Oh yeah and cheerios- are those a fruit or a vegetable?

In a robe from and with her teddy bear from Uncle Joe Green.

Just teddy this time.

Enjoying the new carpet!!

June actually waited for the carpet to be installed and started crawling, that day.

Hanging with her cousins!




Cuddling with Sarah, not sure who looks cuter in yellow!

Learning the facts of life from Dan- UH OH!!!

Out on the town with Mom and Dad.

Check me out!

Celebrating Grandma Yost's Birthday in Plainfield.

This is the park we see out of our front windows.

Proudly wearing her Liverpool jersey (kit), from Joe and Colly.



Finally, hanging out under the crib with Captain?!?! We can't quite figure it out Cap does not want anything to do with her UNLESS they are under the crib then they will just hang out. Pretty weird!

So that, in a nutshell, is what we did in the month of August. Hopefully we will be up and running soon so that I can stay on top of things better. Thanks to all of our wonderful visitors- we never could have gotten so much accomplished without you!

June Crawling!

Sorry it has been SO LONG we have been going non-stop for several weeks now. Lots happening will post more soon. Here is a quick video of June crawling:

Sunrise Lake

Hello Everyone! Sorry it has been so long since the last post. This summer has turned out to be quite busy for us. As most of you know, we are in the final stages of buying a house, which of course has been pretty time consuming. We close on the house this Friday and hope to be completely moved in by the first week in August after getting a few things taken care of. Although there is a lot to do, we have been making a conscious effort not to let the summer pass us by without having some fun! With that in mind we packed up the car on Friday and headed for The Bell's cottage on Sunrise Lake. We had a nice weekend hanging out with friends, spending some time on the lake kayaking and playing on the beach. June got a lot of attention, which she seemed to love from Nik, Kady and Erica. Here are some pictures from the weekend:

















Coming Soon: Video of June Crawling- she is getting really close!!

Playing with Patrick

June loves hanging out with her friend Patrick! Since I starting babysitting a couple months ago the two little ones have been becoming more and more interested in each other. There are always lots of fun toys and baby equipment around for them to play with but lately I have found they are a lot happier just hanging out on the floor with each other. Patrick tries to get to June any way possible and she mostly just smiles and drools, but they think it is great. On Monday this week, we actually managed to get out for part of the day with help from Emily. We went to the Cosley Zoo, which is a little zoo in our area that is really more like a farm. It was nice to get out and even though there weren't a ton of animals, it was just the right size for us. Among the farm animals was a horse that we found out was named June, we got a picture with her.