OK... catching up again! It's been a busy, busy couple weeks here in the Kumquat Garden! Here are some highlights...Baby K is now 7 Months Old!
She has really been keeping her mama on her toes! It's amazing what a difference 4 weeks make in a baby's development. Here's a little video I took of her 6-month photo shoot:
And here's another one from her 7-month shoot:
One reason she's been keeping me so busy is that she started crawling this week! (I know this video is long and I totally understand if no one but my family wants to watch all of it! Family - you'd better watch.) ;)
We're also continuing on with the solid foods. Her favorites seem to be the orange & white foods (sweet potatoes, carrots, pears, applesauce, bananas, etc.). She's also doing really well drinking from a cup. We've been working on some signs and she started signing "milk" to us very quickly. I really didn't expect to get any signs back from her for a couple more months, but she started doing "milk" within the week. (And she really is doing it - I promise! It's not just a mama's wishful thinking & over-interpretation. You can ask my previously-skeptical brother!) :) She's starting to do something that seems like "more" although it's really not consistent yet. Her favorite activities now are chasing a certain Big Kitty, singing to the ceiling fan, skyping with Lola & Lolo every week and hanging out with our sweet neighbors, Miss Sharon & Nana Blanche.
Poor Baby K has had a cold for about the past week, so we decided to postponed a trip to Denver we'd planned to take this week. I'm pretty thankful for that! We've actually canceled a couple travel plans this month. We also were going to Dallas next week (Ian has a conference), but we were invited to a very exciting event this coming weekend... The 22nd Annual Grand Ball of the Greater Wichita Association of Filipinos. Pretty fancy, huh? Naturally, we couldn't pass that up! So, we are no longer going to Dallas over the weekend; Ian has a conference, so he'll leave on Sunday (alone) instead. We'll miss him, but I have to say that I'm quite happy to be able to stay home for a little while!
Two big downers of the Baby Kold (well, other than the sick baby) are that we have not yet been able to go to the pool AND we have not really been able to take advantage of our shiny new membership at the YMCA. I'm totally psyched about the Y. We just got a brand new facility that is really beautiful! I'm so impressed by how nice it is. It's really not the image I've had of Y's... especially not after the ones I saw in Chicago. I can't, can't wait to be able to go there often!
One other thing that HAS been going on lately is one of our new favorite activities, Fire Pit Friday! We ♥ our neighbors! Have I mentioned that already? :) We've decided to spend Friday evenings this summer hanging out in our driveway, around our fire pit with whatever neighbors feel like stopping by. We just did our second one this week and they've both been great! We've met some new neighbors & other neighbors we've known have gotten to know each other. I'm so very thankful to live where we do. That actually leads me to the very most important thing that has been going on in our Kumquat Garden...
Happy Birthday to Ian!!
Today is Ian's birthday! I surprised him with a fabulous (turtle, ice cream) birthday cake (from this fine establishment) during our Fire Pit Friday visit. Then last night, I surprised him with a babysitter so we could go out to dinner and a movie. (You're jealous. I know) It was such a nice evening!
Speaking of which, I should probably get back to the birthday boy and quit writing this very long post!
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