My sweaty baby

Simone loves the box her new booster seat came in almost as much as she loves the actual chair. Check out how sweaty her hair is from playing! Too funny

Her favorite new food is...

Look at the grip on that spaghetti! You're not getting that back. She looovves her some spaghetti. She is demonstrating her slurping technique on the right.

Hot hot heat

Summer is finally here in Oregon! We have been gardening with Mimi, enjoying the parks and Simone has loved getting to wear not much more than a diaper. She has also started to enjoy food! She is (gasp!) 7 months old now and keeping us busy and laughing. She's so squirmy she's hard to even hold in your lap without doing constant acrobatics with her.

New pics

Wow, we have been TOTAL slackers on updating the blog. That's summer for you. It's also been a result of perfect storm of internet and computer issues. Anyways, Simone is getting sooo big. She is fully sitting up on her own, eating all kinds of fun new solid foods. Went on her first complete family (Edgar and I) vacation to LA only to come home to more grandparents! Yay! The family fun continues. Here are some recent pictures to get you up to date.

Daddy & Simone

Happy Play

Simone and Friends

Simone had a very social past two weeks, we got to see our friend Ellery again, and baby Sasha. Then a fun evening socializing with all the winter Alma babies (the 10 babies born at the same birthing center since December). And finally a very busy moms group. I would post more of the cute pictures I had from meeting Levi, but they were on my phone that got lost/stolen... boo! Unfortunately all this socializing resulted in Simone's second cold (just a stuffy nose) but we've been laying low as a result.

Simone has been getting a lot more vocal in the last week. She has started doing these "talking sessions" where she is looking at you and making all kinds of sounds. If we start to mimic her she gets very excited and starts to kick her legs and wave her arms. She is such a fun baby, she wakes up smiling, rarely fusses or cries unless tired and sleeps well. We are blessed.