The Good Life

Summer life is the good life - can I get an amen?!?  Don't get me wrong fall is totally still my favorite season, but there is something about summer that is sweet and relaxed and wonderful.  We have been busy with a lot of home selling/buying and packing type activities this summer, but we have been also been doing much more fun things life going to the pool and listening the country music :)  So here is an update of what we have been up via the pictures from my phone!

We are an ice cream loving family!  Amaia particularly loves ice cream and knows just where we are when we pull into the orange leaf parking lot.  The night that we bought our new home we went out for an ice cream celebration.  Haddon was there too, though he did not get to partake in the ice cream.  Next summer buddy!

We have been loving the zoo this spring and summer!  Amaia is ALL about the zoo right now.  Seriously, if it is getting close to a week since we have been she starts asking me over and over again if we can go to the zoo, so we have been going most Sundays as a family.  She also loves to talk about the sounds that different animals make or runs around the house acting like different animals.  Her current favorite animal is the flamingo and of course she has inherited a love for lemurs from her daddy.

Is it strange that Mexican food makes me feel like summer??  Well it does.  We took Amaia out for her first mexican food experience last weekend and she was so cute!  I could tell she was observing us eating our chips and salsa and then she just took a chip and slid a bowl of salsa close to her and started dipping.  She just kept eating the salsa though and not the chip.  She was double dipping over and over :)  It was the cutest thing!  Also, as you can see from this picture, Amaia is starting to really enjoy accessorizing.

Haddon has been being his cute, cute self this summer.  Here we are hanging out at the splash park together.  We have been going the pool/splash park a lot this summer.  Amaia loves it SO much! She, however doesn't have a lot of fear so I must have my eyes on her and hands available at all times while we are at the pool...thus I don't really have any good pictures of her in the pool.

Haddon has also been entering the wonderful world of solid food this summer.  So far he has had rice cereal, which was not really a hit and peas, which are going much better.  Next up - carrots!!  He has also been lengthening out his eating schedule, which is exciting for me!  We still have a lot of work to do on his spoon/swallowing skills, but I can confidently say that he has actually ingested some peas.  Amaia is slightly confused about why Haddon is sitting in "her" chair now :)

Just a little bit of what we have been up to so far this summer!