Big Month for Charlie

Untitled from Kate K. on Vimeo.

In the last month, and really more like the last week, Charlie has learned to crawl (not in perfect form, but he gets the job done) AND finally gotten two teeth. So there have been a lot of new developments.

It's cool to see him scooting all over the place, but it's also a little stressful that he can get into places that are unsafe and he's constantly scouring the floor looking for the most disgusting and dangerous items to put in his mouth. It was kind of cool when he just sat there and smiled. Now he's kind of possessed with an inexhaustible need to explore and see things. He's also really into standing, so he's not quite as chill as usual. But hopefully this will get old quickly and he'll start being a lazy blob again. Haha. Just kidding...but part of me does feel that way.

The other upside of him crawling is that maybe he'll start to lose some weight!! It's cute that he's so plump, but it can also be hard to lug him around. Gosh, pretty soon he'll start walking and we won't have to worry about that!

Skip Turns Two Years Old

I'm really far behind on my blogging -- it's been a very eventful month, not the least of which because Skip just celebrated his second birthday. Many thanks to Aunt Katie for taking these photos.

As part of our annual 4th of July tradition, we went to Tori's dad's house in a small town in the Central Valley and we had a really great long weekend of rafting on the river, jumping on the trampoline, and doing the slip 'n slide down into the river. It was a physically exhausting and joyful vacation and we enjoyed every minute of it. We thought we had a long drive at 3.5 hours, but Tori's brothers drove from 17 to 22 hours, so we should be counting our blessings.

We got back home on the actual 4th of July and had previously arranged to have a big party at our house. I was thinking that was pretty poor planning to return from a long vacation at 1pm and have a bunch of guests arrive at 4pm. Oh well. We had a really nice group of people come over for the fireworks show and some gourmet burgers.

Skip got a cool scooter from my parents (see photo below) and a big donation towards a new kid bike seat from his Grandma Linda and a little bathrobe from me and Tori.

Skip is doing really great with regards to his talking. He speaks in pretty whole sentences and is way far ahead of where Tori was at the same age. He's not big for his age, but he's extremely athletic and coordinated. Tori hopes he'll be an Olympic gymnast. I can see him starring on the high school wrestling group in one of the lower weight groups, though Tori says wrestling is weird and she doesn't want to watch it!