Twins?

Every week at Story Hour, someone asks if Rock and Adeline are twins. While their mostly-kind-but-occasionally-volatile-relationship is much like I imagine a twins relationship would be, these two are definitely from different families!

Push-ups

Even after careful instruction...

Don't let this picture fool you. Rock cannot do a push-up.

Sunday Finest

Yep, this is the best picture I got of the two cuties in their Sunday Finest.
Most of the group shots looked something like this.

Someone was looking lovely. Someone else was being a goofball.
When she's happy, she's VERY happy!

This face just kills me.

25th Churchiversary!

Our church is 25 years old! The first weekend of October, we all gathered to celebrate!

To kick off the weekend, on Friday night, we had another installment of our running dc2 (that's dessert, coffee, and conversation) series. This time, Dave Coffin spoke.

The dessert options all looked delicious...

But Rock was there to see Becky! And yes, Rock and Louisa were THE ONLY CHILDREN at this event. As we were pulling up to the church, it dawned on us that perhaps this was an adults only event. Oh well. Too late to get a babysitter at that point!

The next morning, Rock found Becky again...

This time in the Moon Bounce.

Louisa wisely stayed outside!

After holding Lou, Tom joined the Bocce ball fun.

There was also volleyball for those who were into sweating (not me!).

While Louisa seemed rather perplexed that she was being held by her grandfather Rocket (of all people!)...

Rock was LOVING the chance to see Clip again...

And I was loving watching them interact! Funny boys.

Then everyone lined up...

And even more people watched...

As the kids all tried to knock Paul Evans into the water!

After Bill (one of the founding members of the church) tried to torture her with a praying mantis...

I got a picture with the famous Beck Merson! We've been friends since 4th grade (or earlier?) and she ROCKS! I was so excited to meet her son Grant that I forgot to take his picture. You'll have to trust me when I say that he is rad.Saturday night we gathered again to share a meal and reflect on God's goodness to our congregation over the past 25 years.

Someone wanted a little less talking and a little more eating.

So I let him take some pictures. See Stefon in the background? We were glad he joined us for the evening!

I love the term Churchiversary! Whatta fun weekend!

Fun and exhausting.

Solid!

Since she's sitting up now and she's over six months, we started Louisa on SOLID FOODS.

Isn't that bib precious? It was a sweet gift from Brenda McIntire. Louisa was interested in all of these little packages...

But we settled on squash for her to try first.

Although she liked the food, she was more interested in grabbing the spoon than in eating.

So we got out the Boon Squirt feeding spoon to finish up her meal. Which is one of the best baby inventions if you ask me. Just fill up the orange spoon handle with baby food, screw on the spoon part and squeeze. The food comes out through a little hole at the top of the spoon part and you never have to wrangle the spoon out of your babies hand to replenish. Genius.

Sitting at Six Months

Just in time for her six-month birthday (same day as Rock's 3 year old birthday!), Louisa mastered sitting up. You go girl!

More Birthday...

Rock got to open his presents from us first thing when he woke up on his birthday. First was a kids Bocce ball set from PBK. It was a big hit after all the games we played at the beach.

Next was a USA floor puzzle. Rock has been loving puzzles these days and I figured if I got it for him while he was still little he wouldn't know that mom was actually learning geography with him. It's about time I learned exactly which of the square states is Colorado.

And of course he had a Birthday Smoothie.

After his party, we treated Rock to the gift he had been begging for for months... the CHICK HICKS TEAM HTB pit crew set from the Disney cars collection. He was overcome.