Welcome Summer!

Summer is here and we are enjoying every minute of it here at the Adams' home. Ryan nd I are so blessed to have jobs where we can both be home in the summer. We have gotten ourselves into a pretty nice routine most days. I take Elyse to the pool when it opens at 11. Ryan stays at home with Lily until she awakes from her morning nap. He brings her to the pool where we "tag" back and forth between kids. Then after about an hour or so, he takes Lily home to give her lunch and lay her down for her afternoon nap. I stay at the pool with Elyse for a few more hours before bringing her home to nap. This works perfect because I get pool time with friends and Ryan gets quiet time at home while Lily naps. Sounds like a perfect summer day to me! Elyse has become quite the little fish this summer. She is no longer content in the little pool (:( bummer), but insists on swimming in the big pool. She was so excited to find that she could stand on her "tippeys," as she calls them and touch the bottom in the shallow. I'm so proud of her fearlessness and determination to swim! She has decided to take naps this summer so she can stay up late and play outside with the neighbor girls, who she just loves. We are totally guilty of letting her stay up til 10 p.m., catching lightning bugs, playing with flashlights outside with the girls, and making smokes with us. This is what summer nights are made of though, right?! Lily does not agree. She prefers to be in her bed sound asleep by 8:30 at the latest.We hate that she misses out on the fun but she is such a happy baby that we must give her that good sleep she prefers. Our little nine month old is on the move, crawling everywhere! She is pulling up and sometimes even letting go of our fingers so she can "stand" by herself. She has two bottom teeth and loves eating real table food so much that she barely touches her baby food anymore. I'd forgotten what a fun age this really is... we're loving every minute! Elyse is enjoying that she can play more with Lily now. Lily still just looks at Elyse like she hung the moon and Elyse is smitten with her in return. This summer is too much fun and will go by way too fast. In the meantime, we enjoy each day with these little blessings.