The park, archer and carrots

We had the rare and wonderful treat of being OUTSIDE at the park with Archer and Amy, EATING. Archer has just begun the fabulous road of solid food and today seemed to love carrots. I'm sure the surroundings helped. Dalia was eating apple chunks, uncooked for the first time. I'm sure we'll look back and laugh at what we found so remarkable today. Amy and I had a great time hanging out, pretending to blend with the sellwood moms.

bah bah

Dalia loves round objects. They are all balls - peas, balloons, balls, lights, O's - all of which she calls "bah". But last week, Grammy got her this rad grocery store ball, you remember the kind. She has since learned how to bounce the ball and move it all over the house. Here are a couple of cool videos. Be sure to turn up the sound if you have it.

Violet is 1

Here are some of our photos from Violet's birthday party. You can check out others, I'm sure, on Violet and Jen & Amelia's blogs too. Many months ago, when Dalia was only 2 months old, we went to Violet's for a mom's brunch and took some funny photos. You can look back to the beginning of this blog to see. Anyway, all the same babies were there only older now, so we set them up on the couch again for a repeat. Sadly, Henry made Violet cry again. Poor Violet. I guess it was her party and she could cry if she wanted to.

Some photos from 4th of July with Thom, Steph, Grammy and Pops (as usual).

NEW TOY

While Dad was out getting Dalia a new, very cool toy, I took this video documenting how much she loves music (we call it the booty dance)...


And this is what she did when he got home with it (an electric piano)

BEACH

Mark took a few days off and we took the opportunity to go to Manzanita together. What fun we had! For those of you who don't remember, she hated the beach just a couple of months ago when we went with Rachel and Adele. But she (as you can see) had a TOTAL blast this time. She also had a great time in the car, which gives us great hope for our road trip to camp in the fall.

evening

We've started taking Dalia outside for a bit in the evening before bed. The other night the light was beautiful so we took these shots. The shot of her looking down laughing is because Mark was tickling Casey the cat and it was for some reason making her giggle.