Snapshots of Summer

Amidst our travels this summer, things have settled into an easy routine of work days and evening walks, play time and bath time, weekend family outings and Sunday afternoon naps. This past week, we fit in a visit to Daddy's school. Emerson loved sitting in his big desk chair. She is all over the place now, not quite crawling but getting around by other means. She can get up on all fours and can move from a seated position to down on her belly. If you turn your back for just one minute, you may even find her rolling under the furniture! This weekend, with Daddy's encouragement (and Mommy's disapproval!), we discovered that she can stand by holding on to her crib. Luckily she isn't able to pull up on things quite yet, so hopefully we have a few more weeks before she really takes off. I am a little nervous for the day that she officially starts crawling...we may never sit down again!

 Another fun 'first' this week was trying out the swings at our neighborhood park. Em held on tightly to the seat and liked kicking her legs into the air. It seems we may be adding a short detour to our evening walks!

This past weekend, our friends JR and Becki came down from Baltimore. Unfortunately we didn't take too many photos to document their visit, but it was so great catching up with them. We last saw them in October for Wake's Homecoming, and needless to say, a few things have changed since then! We loved introducing Emerson to them. Becki kept her entertained with games of peek-a-boo, and JR got his arm workout from bouncing her up and down. The weekend passed quickly: we grilled out on Friday night, and then on Saturday, we had a picnic on the Quad (the one picture we have from the weekend!) Matt, Virginia, their daughter Elle, and Meesh came from Charlotte, and it turned in to a mini-reunion. The guys threw around a baseball and had fun reliving their college days. There was already talk of getting together next year for their 10-year class reunion. Although we may be spread out in different states, it is always fun to see everyone and raise future Deacons together! :)