Uncle Joe, Aunt Meg, & Cousin Addy Visit

Joey, Meg, and Addy were able to come stay with us for two nights on their way home from VA beach. It wasn't a long visit, but we had so much fun with them! Chase and Addy had a great time together. It makes us sad that we don't live closer.

I had to squeeze in some time with my sweet Addy before I left for work. Of course I pushed Duke ;-)

First Chase and Addy had breakfast together:

Afterwards they played in the playroom. Everything was fine until Chase realized that Addy was in HIS chair.

"Get out of my chair, cuz!"

Luckily Uncle Joey intervened.

How adorable is Addy? Her personality is just as chill as she looks.

Instead Chase played with his Daddy

Then he gave Addy a cooking lesson.

How sweet is this face?

After lunch, everyone took a trip to the park.

(How'd I get in here?)

After watching Uncle Joe's ship get beached on video, Chase practiced steering the ship himself.

After all the fun at the park, the kids took naps and then we went out to dinner in dowtown Bethesda. Both kids were very well behaved and so cute. They had lots of admirers in and around the restaurant. We took them home for bathtime together!

It was a great visit but too short. We can't wait to see them again soon!



June Round-Up

Clearly we are  behind on the  posts. I wish there was a good excuse, but we have just been busy working, getting the house together, and enjoying time together and with family and friends. Much of June has already been captured in posts, but here's a miscellaneous round up of June.

Chase's best friend Harley turned 2 and we went to her fabulous birthday party. Stephen was away so I didn't get the greatest pictures, but everything was so pretty and the weather was great and the kids were
really cute. Even though they hadn't seen each other in a few weeks, Chase and Harley were quickly back to their old roles of brother and sister.

The next weekend I was away, so Stephen and Chase hung out with Nasya (and her dad, Okera). They had such a good time playing together and were very silly.

The weekend after that was Caleb's 2nd birthday party at the Cabin John Train station. Boy, was that fun! They have a full miniature train that goes around the park. You can see more pictures here.

Then we had Father's Day. I did a terrible job of taking pictures--exclusively on my phone.

We also finally set up Chase's kiddie pool (and opened our pool, but that's a different post) and did some swimming (sorta). It was kind  of cold....

Afterwards, Chase played in just his diaper.



And some randoms:

Chase at 13 months!

We've run out of month stickers, and clearly this is very late, but I'm going to continue to update on Chase's development on a monthly basis  and post monthly pictures. Consider this his online baby book.

At 13 months, Chase is:

A pretty good walker! He's not walking exclusively yet, but he can walk pretty well. He's learning how to navigate his forward momentum and distractions to stay steady on his feet.

Saying lots of words: Yeah, bird or birdie, book, ball, duck, dog, hat, head, hop, dada, and baba. They are at varying levels of enunciation (you can usually use context clues to figure out if it's a bird or a book or a ball that he wants), but he's really trying to communicate. "Yeah" is probably the most hilarious- he responds to every question with "yeah!" so we'll ask if he's pooped and he'll say "yeah yeah" and low and behold, no poop.  It's better than him saying "no no!"

Eating pretty much anything we eat-- and doing much better with his eating. His favorite foods are macaroni and cheese, cheese, peas, and any leftover meat that we have (chicken, ground beef from burgers or tacos, etc). He's been loving yogurt lately too and will put down an entire yogurt during his afternoon snack. 

Funny: he does stuff to make us laugh, like making a silly face or doing something funny with his toys/books or running towards something we don't want him to go to so we have to catch him. His favorite thing to do is to jump on Mueller's bed, which is a big fluffy dog bed. As you can imagine, it's covered in dog hair and Chase picks up a lot of it on his clothes and his face and in his mouth when he dives into it. So we have to catch him before he does it, which inevitably make him (and us) giggle and try it again.

Tough to capture on camera-- he doesn't sit still!