Birthday Celebrations for our Blog's First Contributor

Many Happy Returns (a couple weeks late) to our beloved 6 year old!

Whose birthday wish last year was for this baby sister. Which sister is behaving in a manner unfitting for her age.

Our Three Little Pigs

The Travel Journal of a 6-Month-Old

This month, Lara experienced Camping/Dune-climbing:

Apple-picking:

Spicy-hummus-eating:

Swimming:

. . . and Flying. For an only-child-wannabe, traveling with just Mama was a dream come true. This girl basked in the attention of everyone from airport cashiers to Mediterranean waitresses.

And, for the diehards:

Five Months

This girl is determined to crawl soon!

The big kids were busy this month painting the office for:

 The First Day of School!

Four Months and Five Firsts

First Encounter with a Sunflower

First Diaper Change Entirely Administered by Lysbeth

First Nap in a Playpen, Outside, and Guarded by a Dog

 First Back-to-Front Roll  

 She is now unstoppable and has even combined it with her previously learned skill, front-to-back rolling, to flip across the living room floor.

First Separation from Daddy (and she was already 3 months old and it was only for a week! Life has changed at our house...we're thankful for our time in the Marine Corps, but relieved that deployments/AT are over.)

Giggles for Your Thursday

(I have no explanation for this one except that it's Caleb and he's a ham)

Celebrating Three Months with Lara

In which she starts cooing, rolling over, and using those hands:

(Disclaimer: Beans were organically homegrown, and she was, as usual, vigilantly supervised by older siblings)