I'm Gonna Get You

Jared's mom, Patty, came to visit one day last week. Brenna had a lot of fun playing with her grandma all day. She loved it when Patty was chasing her (see video).

Saturday at the Park

I love parks. I love having picnics in parks. I love walking in parks. I love playing boccie in parks. Did I mention that I love parks? :) So Jared, Brenna & I decided to take a picnic lunch to Moore Memorial Park on Saturday afternoon. We had a great time and the weather was great. Brenna enjoyed playing on a blanket while Jared and I ate our sub sandwiches, which seems to be our standard Saturday lunch. (Side note: We use day old bread from Jimmy John's and it's cheap and tastes great. It's less than $0.50 per loaf and makes at least 3 sandwiches...if anyone is interested.) Brenna enjoyed the swings too. One new thing she likes to do is reach up and touch the leaves on trees. She gets so excited when she actually touches one. After the swings, we enjoyed a walk together. It was a fun afternoon!

Brenna is Crawling!

Brenna turns 9 months on Wednesday and she is getting very mobile!!! About two weeks ago she started to go from the "laying down belly position" to sitting up on her own. A couple times this week when I got her up from her nap, she was standing in her crib with a big smile on her face. And to top off the week, she started crawling. She hasn't perfected it yet, but she's getting close. It's amazing what babies learn in such a short amount of time. Our baby girl is growing up so fast!!! We are trying to enjoy every minute of it.

Below is a video of her crawling and a few other cute pictures.

Brenna in a jumper. She loves it!

Brenna's 1st Swimming Lesson

Brenna had her first swim lesson yesterday. It was more like a playtime in the pool with a bunch of other babies and their parents.....I'm not exactly sure what they will teach a 9 month old :) Either way, it was a lot of fun and Brenna did great. She even let me hold her on her belly in the water (see picture below). I think she enjoyed watching the people more than swimming. Brenna's friend Audrey is in the swimming class as well (Tim & Christy McCollough's daughter), which is fun. We have the lessons two times a week for the month of July. I'll write another post when we are done with the lessons and share all the things Brenna learned. :)

Thank you Christy for taking the pictures!

Ozarks for the 4th

We celebrated the 4th of July at the Lake of the Ozarks with our friends Dylan & Jen and Heath & Shaylyn. We had a great time boating, hanging out at the pool, talking, grilling out, eating at Outback (one of my faves) and watching fire works. Josiah, Heath & Shaylyn's 2 year old, made up his own word for firework....."wawa". After every firework he'd point and say, "Big wawa!" It was so cute. Besides being a little crabby on the car ride, Brenna was a trooper and seemed to enjoy the boat rides and the different scenery. She got in the pool for the first time and seemed to enjoy it......she had her perplexed look on most of the time.

Brenna taking a snooze on the boat with her daddy.