swimming at dodds

We are really lucky that Chris works with some wonderful people. We went for a swim at Dr. Dodd's house last Friday night. We had a great time catching up with Dr. Dodd, Suzanne, and Lori (plus the dogs Hannah, Fred, Grady, and Lily). The water was great, which helped us get Todd to swim in his float too! Somehow we didn't get any pics of that. Elle decided to try the float out too, and Hannah, Dr. Dodd's older Jack Russell, kept trying to steal the pool toys. It was such a fun evening and we can't wait to do it again.

todd @ 7 months

A year ago this was us.

Now look at him!

Todd loves books, but we're still working on him not eating them.

Such a cutie in the tub!

 He's moved on to some bigger toys and likes to pull up on the toy box. He's so grabby!

fun for the 4th

July 1st we attended our first Star Spangled Fried Chicken Dinner at church. Elle had so much fun running around with her friends. Love these silly girls!

 They also have a tradition of a kids parade. We scrounged around the house for anything patriotic looking and decorated the wagon. Todd was having a little trouble with his hat! You can see some better pics of the evening on Katie's blog.

I found this fun idea to do a patriotic shaving cream/finger paint activity. I can't find the link now, but you squirt the shaving cream in a pan, then draw fireworks with red and blue fingerpaint, add some glitter and let them go at mixing it up. Elle thought this was awesome! It was easy to set up and quick to clean up too. I think we might do this for each holiday with different colors.

We went to Tulsa for the holiday. We played with cousins, went to the Bixby splashpad, ate lunch at Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's, dinner, movies and fireworks at Nana and Aunt Casey's.

prebed water play

It never fails the evenings we want to play in the sprinklers here they aren't on. So we pulled out the baby pool and squirt bottles!

You can't get them both looking at the camera most of the time!

"Why isn't this blown up, Mom?"

"Thank you!"

"Mops you want some of this action?"

up

down

squirt bottle tag

Elle flashback!

RV's visit

Not a lot of pictures from this visit, but we had some good times! We went to the Myriad Gardens for a picnic and played in the fountain on the east side. RV makes the best chicken salad and I love that he graciously fixes it for us whenever he visits. We also ran into the Mitchells and Andersons for extra fun! Saturday night we attended Mayfair Live for the first time. The cakes were awesome! Next year I'll know not to eat dinner because there's too many choices to limit yourself. RV got to have special movie night with us and learn how to train his dragon, and then we introduced him to Tucker's.

todd @ 6 months

Time is slipping away from me! Someone recently told me the days are long, but the moments are fleeting. This really rings true as I see Toddy changing daily. I'm trying to soak up every ounce of babyness I can because I know he'll be running after Elle soon.

His 6 month birthday was the same day we left for our trip, which is one reason I'm delayed in getting his stats up here. He is currently 18 lbs and 23.25 in!

He sits up by himself!

His first flight!

He loves looking at himself in the mirror!

He's gone to physical therapy a couple of times and is doing so well they'll probably discharge him after the next time. His flat head is a result of infant torticollis (tight neck muscles). We've been doing stretches at home that Ms. Ashley showed us and he's really improved on his range of motion. The flatness has improved itself as well.

Likes water, but not too cold!

He's been working on getting those toes in his mouth, which for a chunky guy it hasn't been easy!