But, oh, those summer nights

Anabelle is 8 months old today! Hard to believe it's been 8 months already - people warned us the time flies by, and indeed, it does! We've had some fun these past few weeks and so thought we'd share some of it...

Justin left the big city to enjoy a picnic with us downtown :-)

Anabelle loved the head bonk with J-Lo

She's figuring out her world... which means we quickly are seeing safety hazards we haven't noticed before! We put her in her bumbo and moments later she'd found these fun rope pulls. Now one of her favorite things to do is to sit in the bumbo and 'take the reigns'

She's lovin' it

Belle loves riding in shopping carts too.... about 5 mins into the trip, she kicks into 'relax & lounge' mode and we ride around the store like this just giving nonchalant looks to all those who pass by.



Apparently, she likes to expand her boundaries... I put her foot back in the crib and a few mins. later it's always out again

We've been waiting for this pic! Cousin Timmy returned from his world adventures and the two meet

She loves glasses -- she even tries to take them off the teacher in the "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" book!

Classic. Good inspiration Aunt Alden :-)

GG, Great Auntie Alden & Miss Anabelle D

Cousin Jenny Clare is so good at sharing

All smiles with GG

And kisses for GGpa

Pic #1 mastering the art of crawling

Pic #2 tippy toes are necessary inbetween each crawl... momma hasn't figured out the point of it, but it sure is cute and works those calves!

Pic #3 figuring out how to get from crawling to sitting

Pic #4 Sitting again! And the cycle continues...

Guess who got some teeth this week? (see the teeth buds coming up on the 2 bottom front)

Not so sure about this teething thing

Nope, definitely do not like these teeth coming in!!!!

Anabelle has TWO new playmates that arrived this past month.
Little Katherine Clare was born on July 16th to cuz Jesse & William. Precious!

And Doug, Deeann & Ben welcomed Natalie Elena on August 18th! What little blessings these girls are to the growing clan!