Well, it has taken a while to arrive here in Portland, but just when you think that summer should be on its way out, it arrives! Yay! Clear mornings! Yay! Warm days! Yay! Fresh veggies and tons of berries!
Maya and Ben are loving it. Our summer has been packed with fun places to go and lots of fun visitors. We spent much of the month of May in Cleveland and had a wonderful time! Lots of thunderstorms and plenty of nice days. Great times with cousins, aunts, uncles, grama and papa too.... but that goes without saying. Maya wasn't to keen on the thunderstorms but loved her morning walk with Grama and Papa.
After returning home, Nana arrived and stayed for about a week. That was fun and then she was off to Pendleton. Grandpa Cal arrived shortly after Nana and so he got to see everyone too.
Ben is growing so fast and has two great big front teeth with a marvelous gap in between. Room enough for another tooth! He has been crawling for a little while (since June) and has it perfected now. He is getting really fast and is ready to walk. He is pulling himself up and trying to cruise along the furniture. He is going to be pretty mischevious, he jsut has that glint in his eye. If you catch him doing something you don't want him to do, he will give a little jump, and either come right at you with a big grin on his face, or high-tail it the other way with the same big grin on his face. He has been eating some things but seems to like blueberries the best.
Maya is super. She is interested in everything and loves all things fairy and princess. She loves to run and climb and is good at both. Lately she has been making up our blessing before dinner and they are the best. She writes them out on paper and then reads them out loud. It is too bad that I can't read them too!
