June

Life has been pretty basic and boring at our house lately.  June was a good month.  I guess we really were busy just with regular life type stuff.  June was HOT!!!!!!!!!! so we spent most of the time inside attempting to stay cool.  We pulled out the swimming pool and slip and slide a couple times but it was almost too hot even for those.   I think pictures are kind of random and out of order but I'm just going to go with it.  It's too hard to rearrange them and nap time isn't that long.
Ellie is growing like a weed.  Last week she was 19 lbs 3 oz.  She'll be 5 month old tomorrow!  She's huge!  She's so happy and always full of giggles.  She has outgrown all her 9 month clothes and even some of the 12 month ones.

 Mia loves her little sister and can't wait to teach her so many things.

 She's also a big helper.

 Check out that budda belly :-)

 I thought it was so cute to see Mia looking at her books under her lamp.  She was supposed to be going to bed but I decided to let her read a little longer.

 Sisterly Love.

 Pool Time.

 Mia had her first tumbling show in June.  She did great!

 It was really fun watching their performance.

 We also dug out the corner of our yard and leveled it off so we can put in a jungle gym.  The whole is dug, leveled, and the retaining wall is done so now it's time to start building the gym.

 Mia liked watching the tractors work.

 And playing in the pit...as we've since named the big hole

 Mia and her friends taking a nap.

 We started cereal with Ellie when she was just a little over 4 month old because she is huge and was eating so much.  I forgot what a struggle it is to teach babies how to eat.

 Mia got to go to the Syracuse Days parade again this year.

 It's always lots of fun and really close.

 First veggies.  Sweet potatoes.

 It's taken awhile but Ellie likes eating now.  She's had rice cereal, sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans, apples, and bananas.  So far she has liked everything.

 An out of order picture.  This is Mia's tumbling class.

 Attempting to stay cool.  Ellie loves playing out in the pool. Surprising with how young she is and how cold the water is.

 Mia got to go up to Idaho and spend a whole week with Grandma and Grandpa all by herself.  After that Ellie and I went to get her and spent another 5 days to waste some time while Monty was in New Orleans for work.  Mia had a blast at Grandma's and was so good for her.

 Shooting pool in Grandma's basment

 Uncle Shawn came over to play lots which always made Mia's day.

 The people down the path from my parents have horses.  Mia went down to feed them apples and carrots multiple times.

 This one liked to lick Mia.

 Grandpa has great trees for climbing.

 Mia will climb anything she can.

 I see you!

 She helped Grandpa mow the lawn on his tractor.

 They made bunny ears for Mia.

 Mia was more excited to see Ellie than she was me after the week away.

 More feeding the horses.

 Snuggle up.

 Grandma's was the first time we put Ellie in the pool.  We didn't think she'd like it but she did.  She didn't even mind getting splashed by Mia.

 I sat with my back to the sun and made shade for Ellie and we stayed in the pool for a good half hour until my legs hurt from sitting on them and I was getting too burnt.

We also got to see Mia's birth mom in June for the first time in a year and got to see Ellie's birth mom as well.  We are really enjoying being a family of 4 and so grateful for those who sacrificed so much to make us a family!