Weekend Fun

We are so blessed to live in west Michigan. Bryan and I have said so many times over the last couple weeks how nice it is to live where people come to vacation. One of the best parts of the weekend was taking Elise to the beach for the very first time. She just loves being outside, and so we were pretty confident that an evening at the beach would be a lot of fun. We picked up a $5 pizza and made our way to the Holland State Park. Watching boats, listening to the waves, dodging poorly thrown footballs, and a walk on the pier and up the shoreline made for a great night...hopefully the first of many over the summer.

Eight Months!

It's hard to believe that our baby girl is already eight months old! Elise has changed a lot in the last month.

The biggest change is that she is very very mobile. Poor Indy gets "chased" around all day by our little mover. As soon as Elise gets close to Indy, he gets up and goes to the opposite side of the room, and so Elise just turns herself around and heads toward him all over again. It's entertaining and exhausting all at the same time.

Elise has decided that she really prefers to feed herself. She has pretty much abandoned being spoon-fed and throws a fit if we try it. She is basically surviving on formula, cheerios, bananas, and frozen waffles. I'm trying to get a little more creative, and introduce things like peaches, avocados, peas and carrots. So far she has just one front tooth, and we're hoping for more to follow soon.

Some new favorites of Elise's include her swimming pool, the wipes wrapper, standing up her crib to look outside, saying "dadadadadada!", playing with her friend, Leyton, and feeding Indy from her highchair....a battle I will not win.

We are so thankful for our happy, healthy little girl. Here are a few pictures from the last couple of weeks....

Seriously?!

I went garage saling last weekend to get a few new toys for Elise. She was gone for the weekend with Bryan's parents, and it just felt good to shop for a few fun things for her. I found some great additions to our already overflowing toy basket.

So, tonight I introduced her to my exciting finds. She humored me for maybe 10 seconds and then headed straight for....

....the dog's bone: Indy's chewed-up, sometimes left outside dirty old dog bone.

Go figure!