Weekend in St. Louis

Lots of pictures and a couple videos from Grandma & Grandpa Smith's house:

Both girls are semi-crawling/scooting, but only in the Reverse direction! Here's Caroline demonstrating:

And Olivia learned a new trick this weekend - she can wave hello!

Memorial Day Weekend

Better late than never! We took the girls to The Lodge (Grandma & Grandpa's Michigan house) for Memorial Day weekend. The whole family was there! The weather was great so we were able to spend a lot of time outdoors. In other news, Olivia has her first two teeth poking through! We noticed them on Saturday morning, haven't yet caught a picture.

A picture from right when we arrived. The girls had been sleeping in the car for the last hour, so they were grumpy since we woke them up.

Fussy Caroline, Aunt Kari, Cousin Katie, Pouty Olivia, & Uncle Jay

The girls sitting in the "tree" in the kitchen

Caroline, "why do you think they have us sitting in this tree?"

Olivia, "I dunno, just go with it."

Miss Caroline

Miss Olivia

Liv's first time swinging

The girls - too cool for school at the parade

Katie trying to break into the Rice Cereal

Always with the hands in the mouth these days

And here's a couple videos of the girls from yesterday -

munching on their first Baby Mum Mum's.

We've got a tooth!

Yep, our little Caroline cut her first tooth. We noticed it Sunday evening - bottom right little toofer sticking out. We knew it was coming because both of them have all the signs - excessive drooling, sucking/gnawing on anything they can get their little hands on, fussy a lot, etc. I'm guessing Liv will get her first one too any day now.

Okay, so you can't see anything in this picture, but it is there! Getting a clear picture of this is no easy feat. Attempting to make a 7 month old hold still and keep her mouth open and lip pulled down for more than 2 seconds?? Forget it. I'll try again when the tooth is all the way out.

And the girls tonight before bedtime bottles

And since we're on the subject of the Bears, here's a little flashback fun from the late 80's of Rob.

Go Bears!

Today the girls made their first trip to Soldier's Field, home of the Chicago Bears - their daddy's all time favorite sports team - for the Bears Expo. Rob didn't think they were ready for tail-gating until next season, so this would have to do for the time being. It was nice to get out and do something as a family and the girls behaved pretty well. Of course we had to have at least one little anecdote to make the trip memorable... Liners poo'd her pants 3 times while we were there. 3 times! And so today I officially became one of those moms who just whips their kid's pants off right there in public and changes their pooey diaper for all to see. Oh well.

Some pictures from the day: