Outside Time!

We've been spending lots of time outdoors and loving it! We pull out the water table, kiddie pool, and trike on almost a daily basis :-) Ryan loves to splash at the water table or baby pool and he also just enjoys playing in the pack n play with toys outdoors! Megan rides her bike around the culdesac, and likes to water the plants by taking cups full of water out of the pool / water table.



Ryan is already 7 months!

• He's starting pulling up and his scooting has turned into a sorta-crawl :-) He sometimes crawls a bit on all fours before dropping back to scooting, or he'll crawl with one knee and walk with the other!
  
• He's sitting and goes from crawling to sit with no problem
• His swing broke a couple weeks ago, at first we thought it was a sign that he needed to nap in the crib but after a week of not napping well we tried to fix the swing. After spending too much time trying fix it (I thought I could just replace the motor... but something else was also broken) we've abandoned it again. Now he just naps in the swing with no swinging... sigh. At least he's napping better :-) And maybe this will help transition him to napping in the crib
• He's making sounds like ba ba ba ba
• He's been swimming in the pool and seems to like it! He loves splashing in the water and sprinklers too!
  

Megan is doing great with her leg. She still has a very slight limp (like her one leg is longer than the other) but you almost can't tell. She's runs, jumps, rides her bike, climbs... We had her follow-up appt on Friday and the Dr. said her leg looks great and cleared us for all activity! Yay! Megan was very excited to jump again! We go back in 6 months to make sure the growth plates weren't effected (very unlikely).

Megan is also quite the talker and singer lately, her current fav is the Barney song. But it goes "We love me, We love me, We're a happy family" haha!

She's counting up to 13/14 sometimes but after 10, numbers go very out of order. She kinda grasps the concept of counting objects but often just keeps counting. Like if there are 3 dogs, she'd count, 1-2-3 -4-5-6-7-8-9 -10 dogs :-)

She's also been playing around with sounding out the first letter of a word, like B-B-Balloon. I'm guessing this is from watching Word World :-)

We're still working on Please but she says Thank you all on her own and it's really cute! It sound like "tank ou"

We took some photos with Lyndsay of Life in Motion Photography last weekend! She posted a sneak peek on her blog of Ryan! Can't wait to see the rest!!!