Port Discovery

The Mellors invited us to the giant children's museum in Baltimore, Port Discovery. Beckett had a fabulous time, and Felix was along for the ride.

Speaking of rides, Beckett and Candace enjoyed this car.

Beckett's favorite part of the museum (surprise, surprise) was the train. Here he is with Candace and Jackson.

Nick and Beckett fit the shapes into their spaces in the factory.

Beckett really loved painting the rocks with water. It's such an easy art project that I might have to replicate it at home some time soon.

At the gas station Beckett put air in the tires.

Then he piled into the car with Candace and Nick.

All the kids dry off after playing in the water room.

What a fun trip. Thanks Staci and the gang for bringing us along.

Eating Stuff

Beckett eats blueberries with chopsticks.

Beckett eats applesauce. He requested that I take these pictures.

Felix eats Sophie.

June

Here are some pictures of the stuff we've been doing around the house.

Felix sits in the bumbo.

Nate and Felix make a Beckett sandwich.

Felix can grab his toys and roll over.

Felix loves, loves, loves Sophie the Giraffe.

Felix's face when Beckett and I sing to him.

Singing with Beckett on my back.

Beckett wearing his engineer costume.

Beckett paints a picture.

This is one way that Felix can play cars--set the race track up so that the cars zoom over him.

Ocean City

I love reunions with old friends, so we had to make the trek down to Ocean City to see my old roommate Jamie when she was in town. Jamie and I met in the dorms when we were freshman at BYU. We lived together the next two years. I really wanted to do a whole post with old pictures of me and Jamie, but my photo album is buried in one of the unpacked boxes int he basement. Beware. It's coming. In the meantime, this is the only picture old picture of the two of us that I have scanned. Here we are back in 1999 (or thereabouts) at the Hawaiian themed ward party sneaking a second piece some really tasty cake.

And here we are at the beach in 2011. Jamie and I hadn't seen each other for about 7 years. It had been way too long.

I also got to see Bethany. And Jamie's whole family. It was such a fun party, and they were so good to us.

Here's Jamie's dad with Felix. That little baby made a lot of friends.

Both of my boys really loved the beach. I knew that Beckett would, but I was worried that Felix would be miserable. He wasn't at all. He loved all the people smiling at him. He loved the breeze. He loved that someone was holding him for almost the entire day. He loved that he got to sleep in my arms outside. But he didn't love the water. I stuck his feet in and he curled his legs up. Isn't Felix's rash guard awesome? It has a zipper so I can actually get it over his enormous head. The hood is genius, and the little frog eyes are super cute.

Beckett could not get enough of the ocean. He played for so long in the surf with Nate and every time Nate asked him if we wanted to come up onto the beach to see Mom and baby Felix he replied, "No, no. More Ocean, Dad." That's probably what he's saying in this picture.

Another awesome thing about our beach trip was that it made us feel really spontaneous. Nate came home on Friday night, and after we ate dinner he said, "how fast could we get ready for this beach trip?" We packed up and were on the road in an hour.

I'm really excited that we live relatively close to the beach. It's a great little trip for my family. On our way home from the beach we got a bunch of calls from friends asking us how we were doing and informing us that church was cancelled on Sunday. Come to find out we were among the millions in the DC area who had lost their power due to high winds during a thunderstorm. We didn't have power for three days. We were glad we were in Ocean City for the first 24 hours. The next couple days were quite the adventure. We slept in the basement and spent all afternoon at friends' houses with power. We ate a lot of peanut butter sandwiches. We got our power back at 5:30 on my birthday. Although I would have preferred no power outage, it was a pretty good present.

Happy 4th