Edie-9 months

Our sweet Edie-girl is nine months old!  She is such a joy in our lives.  Her mellow, content personality is a tender mercy from the Lord when she has 4 older siblings who can be quite demanding.  She weighs 15 lbs 15 oz. and is 27.5 inches long.  She now eats 3 meals a day as long as I don't get too busy and forget to feed her solids at breakfast.  She is so good that she doesn't cry when hungry unless she is tired.  She has 3 teeth now.  Two of those popped out this month.  All of them are on the bottom, but I see a top tooth ready to poke through any day.

Edie is starting to move a little more.  She pivots on her stomach and pushes herself with her feet when she is on her back.  She is always ready with a smile to anyone who smiles at her.  She loves her mom and I'm happy that I'm her favorite.

Here are a few pictures from the last month.

Riding a horse while visiting someone from church.  She still loves to be swaddled and I just wrap her up and lay her down and she falls asleep.  Isn't she beautiful?

 I love her toothy grin in this picture.

A little dainty miss!

I love how Edie rested her head on Joseph's head when he was carrying her.  

June Events

We had a very busy month with a lot of "end of year" school activities.

Orchestra Concert

Kimball really enjoyed participating in Orchestra this year and playing the cello.  I was surprised how well he did with the cello.  Kimball's orchestra teacher heard him playing a song during warm ups that they hadn't practiced in class and he asked Kimball if he wanted to play the song as a solo during the concert.  Kimball agreed and was a little nervous but refused to practice the song extra at home!  He did a great job on his song and I thought the Orchestra (violins, viola, cellos) sounded really good.

Orchestra Concert, June 5

Father/Son Camp out

Joseph took Kimball and Lincoln on the Fathers' and Sons' camp out this year.  It was Lincoln's first official camping trip and he had SO much fun.  He was so excited about everything.  Joseph said he slept great because he was so tired.  Lincoln spent 90% of his time throwing rocks into the stream that ran through the camp.

Ready to roll!

Swamp Rat Race

The big kids participated in the Runner's Club again this year.  The kids are always encouraged to participate in the Swamp Rat Race which is a fund raiser for a local hospital.  Our elementary school always has the highest participation of the local elementary schools.  It was a fun day.  I really liked the atmosphere and excitement that the morning held.  The girls mile run was first and Rebecah ran her mile in 10 minutes and 32 seconds.  She was 105 out of 195 participants.  Kimball ran his mile in 8 minutes 52 seconds.  Kimball was 79 out of 207 participants.  Both kids had fun and want to participate next year.

The girls ready to run.

Boys ready to run.  

Before the race when the kids were still fresh and excited.

These are just some cute pictures of the little ones.  I love the pictures of Annika with her "make-up".  Her poses perfectly show her spicy personality.

Sometimes I let the little ones take a book to bed just to ease the bedtime routine.  I thought Annika looked so cute sleeping with her book across her belly.

Here Annika is practicing her tree climbing skills and Edie is just so sweet and happy most of the time.

These two pictures are from Rebecah's First Grade Fun Day.  Joseph worked in the afternoon so I was able to help at Rebecah's activity.  She loved hanging out with me and it made me feel special to have her run over and hug me between the different activities. 

Here are the kids on the last day of school.  They had a great year.  Kimball received the Perfect Attendance award and an award for Excellence in Orchestra, and a Visual Arts award from the Art teacher.  It was his last year in elementary school because 5th grade is part of the Middle School here.

On the first day of Summer Vacation Kimball wanted to make homemade blueberry jam.  I told him if he helped we could make the jam.  He wasn't prepared for all of the stirring, but he was a good sport about it.

Lincoln loves life.  He loves to be outside.  Here he is with an ice cream cone in one hand and a fruit smoothie in the other.  

Our summer is off to a good start.

Eden--8 Months

Edie is 8 months old!!  I can't believe what a big girl she is getting to be.  She is so fun and such a happy girl.  She decided that she was ready for solids shortly after she turned 7 months old.  Once she decided she was interested in eating she seemed to get the hang of it quickly.  She has liked all of the fruits and vegetables that I have given her.  The only thing she didn't like was rice cereal mixed with formula, and who can really blame her?  Formula just smells terrible so it probably tastes just as terrible!

She still loves to sleep wrapped in a blanket or in her snowsuit so we are having to slowly transition her to sleeping without the snowsuit.  It warmed up last week and I just couldn't bring myself to put her in the snowsuit since it was so hot, but she started crying a few hours later so Joseph put her in it and she slept the rest of the night.  Now she just needs her right arm in the snowsuit so she can bring her sleeve to her face and she is content.  I love the little things babies do to find comfort.  

Edie still isn't moving much, but that's perfect.  She pivots on her tummy and she is content. 

Here are some pictures from the last month:

Lincoln wanted to pose with Edie.

Edie loved the wrapping paper we used for Joseph's birthday.  She played with it a long time.

My friend lent me this fun toy and Edie loves it.  It's huge so I'm glad I can borrow it for a few months and then give it back.  Lincoln and Annika like sitting in it, too so I have to keep an eye on them.

Lincoln and Annika both wanted to hold Edie recently.  She is a lot bigger than when they last wanted to hold her.

These two have such fun together!

Lincoln and Annika beat me in to Edie's room and they didn't want her lonely so they threw all of the stuffed animals into her bed!

She is a perfect gem.  I hate it when I have to share her.  I'm glad she will be my little buddy the next 5 years until she starts school.