Vacation Update

Well it's been a few days since I wrote so I wanted to update you on all the fun things we are doing here with Nana & Papa.

Over the weekend we spent some time with Uncle Mark. He took Lily, Callie and me (Rebekah) to dinner at a really fun restaurant called Casa Bonita. You go for the fun, not the food. The girls loved it. They got to see a "gorilla" get loose, it tricked someone into jumping off a high cliff into the water below. Then they got to see a cliff diver make 3 dives each one higher than the one before. We skipped the sheriff and bad-guy shoot out, but they also got to see some kids take turns with a pinata. Everyone got 2 tootsie rolls. It was a lot of fun.

Sunday night we had gyoza and chocolate surprise to celebrate my birthday. I'm going with 32 again this year... ;) Then on Monday, which was really my birthday we went out to dinner and I discovered that Lily and Ashley really LOVE cornbread. Who knew?! Lily ate all of the leftovers that we brought home with us - with the honey butter too.

We went and had their pictures taken at Kiddie Kandids, went clothes shopping for me for my birthday and bought material so we can make new dolls for Lily and Callie.

So as not to leave Ashley out, she has mastered sitting and is RAPIDLY moving on to standing and walking. She still does the "army man crawl" most of the time but has figured out the hands and knees too. She doesn't want to be left out or left behind and is already trying to pull herself into a standing position. She might be only 7 1/2 months but she is WAY ahead of schedule developmentally. It's funny too, Nana & Papa have a light that is activated by touch and Ashley has figured out how to turn it on and turn it up. She also thinks that all of their floor lamps work the same way. She crawls over to each of them and hits their bases trying to get them to turn on. Quite ingenious and quite alert!

We have lots of things planned in the next several days so check back soon for more updates.