Music, bathtub and teeth

Lola has become aware of the new teeth in her mouth and has made it a regular practice to grind and click them throughout the day. The noise about sends her mom through the roof! She has been loving her music center that she is borrowing from her cousins and finally loves bathtime, so it is becoming an almost daily routine now. She just loves splashing and watching her duck light up.

Brian and Meggans Wedding in La Conner

This past weekend the family took off to the lovely town of La Conner for a friends wedding. Lola was really excited because she was going to see a lot of her friends and would be camping with them in cute cabins near the water. There were some amazing sunsets.




Here are some pictures of Dad, Mom and Lola.





Our friends Tony and Cassandra were very happy to hang with Lola and "Uncle" Tony held Lola throughout the whole wedding vows.



Here is a picture of Michelle and her son Reed and Brian and Meggan at the alter with their son Dylan Duke, who is just about a month or two younger than Lola. He goes by Duke.




Some more pictures of me with the gals, and Chuck with the boys.



Pictures of Lola by herself and a family photo.





And a picture of the lovely table setting and all of our friends.


We all congregated at night by the campfire and even roasted smores, but tried something different this time instead of Hershey's bars. Reese's peanut butter cups, and oh, were they so yummy!




It was fun to be on the beach and Reed and Asa had a blast picking up little crabs in the sand.

Weeks 45 and 46

Lola is almost hitting the 52 week mark where she will be a year old!

Finally fun in the bathtub

Ever since Lola was born, she wasn't a big fan of bathtime. But, we have made a breakthrough and she seems to love splashing and playing now. Here are a couple of videos of her.

Lola at 44 weeks

I can't believe it has been 10 months since our little Lola was born. It is going by so fast, but she is getting more and more fun everyday!

UW walk and friends BBQ on the 4th of July

We got up early the morning of the 4th, and headed to our absolute favorite stroll on the University of Washington campus. Chuck graduated there in 1996, and we have been walking through the campus for quite a few years. They have so many neat buildings, and we love to check out the rose garden, as well as the plant and vegetable gardens that the horticulture students maintain during the year.







In the afternoon we headed to our friends BBQ. There were lots of kids there, including Owen, Amelia, Lily and Willa who you see in the pictures. Lola had a hat on that was way too small but it was the only "Baby's 1st 4th" I could find. Our friend Cyrus loves to climb trees, and it is not unlike him to be found at the top of one at someone's party.

Discovery Park trek

Chuck had a 3 day weekend for the 4th of July so on Friday we headed over to Discovery Park to explore and walk the beach. It was tough finding the right trail to get to the beach but we ended up at South Beach since we had heard it was more sandy than rocky. The weather was gorgeous, even a little hot. Lola did great, but on the way back up the hill to the car, she had a little bit of a meltdown. This is the second time in her hiking pack that she got really tired, and wasn't able to fall asleep due to the jostling from walking. It makes it difficult to hear her cry and especially challenging for daddy, since he is the one having to hear the noise right inside his ear. But, we were glad we got some exercise.