A Month of Fun and Growing!

This month was a fun one for our family. My sister-in-law, Amy, came down from Washington. It was fun to be able to see her and TJ. When Amy's sisters saw Violet's blessing pictures they asked why we had put TJ in a dress, so we decided it would be fun to get a picture of the two of them together to see just how much they look like each other. We kept trying to get a good picture of Violet and TJ together, but they kept taking turns smiling. This is the best picture we were able to get of the two of the smiling at the same time.

Every year Jenny's brother, Jeff, invites us over to go swimming at his pool. This was only Violet's third time swimming, but she loves the water. She loved splashing around in her little crab-tube.

Jaxson has always loved swimming. Last year at Jeff's pool he tried to jump off the deep end without a life-jacket or any other floatation device on. It was quite an exciting moment in our lives. This year Jaxson didn't want to wear the tube, but we finally convinced him that he would need the tube. We had a great time swimming at Jeff's Pool!

Violet has started to crawl!! It was only a few weeks ago that she figured out how to roll over from her back to her front going both ways. She has been rolling over to her right for quite a while, but hasn't been rolling to her left. Well one day she rolled to her left, and then she took off. When she first started crawling she would move her hands and then do a little hop-like maneuver to move her legs.

With a little practice she has become and pro and is crawling everywhere.

It didn't take her long to figure out that she can pull herself up to things. Jenny and I are keeping our fingers crossed that she keeps it to crawling for a while. We aren't ready for a walking 7 month old.
Violet has also started clapping. She crawls around the house until she finds us and then she will sit down and clap, and then we, being the trained monkeys that we are, always clap back and say Yea . . . She is so proud of herself.

The other recent development at our house is that Jaxson has started Pre-school. This year he is going to joy school with some of his friends around the neighborhood. He went for the first time this last Tuesday!! He loved it. He was so excited to be able to go to school, and to take his backpack. Jaxson loves school!