Busy Busy Busy

The last few weeks we have been hanging around home, enjoying our time together as a family and enjoying the summer. We spend our days working and at night we spend a lot of time outside, or "sigh, sigh" as Matney would say.
(First popsicle-June 6, 2011)

Matney has had several firsts in the last few weeks. She loves to eat and have "naks" so we introduced her to her first popsicle. She didn't like it has much as I was expecting because she couldn't figure out how to hold it and she had a meltdown, no pun intended, because she couldn't eat it faster than it was melting.
(First ponytail - June 13, 2011)

Matney's hair has finally gotten long enough to sport a minipony every once in a while. If you don't make a big deal about it, she will actually leave it in. If you point out that it is there, she rips it out in no time; thus, the reason why she never has bows in her hair. However, her Auntie Ab is pretty happy she is started to rock the pony (and so is her Momma)!

(First time in lifejacket - June 19, 2011)

Before heading to the lake for the 4th of July, we decided we better let M try out her life jacket. She rolled around like a beached whale for a while and then found her sea legs and ran all over the place in her jacket. She liked it while she was in the water as well, so hopefully she won't mind it while on the boat.

Hanging out on the table isn't a first in this picture - only just about the 100th time that I have had to get her out of the chair and off the table because she thinks it is so fun to crawl up there and just hang out. This however is the first time I was able to catch her in the act.

She has also learned how to get out of the bathtub this week and come down the hall. I left her for maybe 5 seconds to get something out of another room and the next thing I knew, she was toddling down the hall just laughing and was ohhh so proud of herself!