Hot Days

Lately we have had some seriously hot weather! It's been in the 90s for the past couple of days. When it's this hot, it's hard to go out after 10 in the morning! Especially with both of our cars having broken air conditioning, we are sweating it up here. My car's air is getting fixed this week, hopefully. That will make life a little easier! Both Andrew and I have had to switch to exercising in the exercise room now because it's just too hot to run outside! We're thankful we have it--we can still take care of our hearts, even in the hot summer. :)

Elena is doing great--she learned to crawl on her hands and knees this week! She's practicing a lot and getting better every day. At first she was really wobbly and slow, and she was faster at the army crawl, but now she doesn't really crawl on her belly anymore. She's getting better every day! And she's sitting up really well now. She crawls and sits, and now sometimes she'll fuss if she falls over on her back! What a big girl.





When we went to visit the fam in Lakeland last week I got my candle thing from Kelly's candle party. I just got around to putting it up, and I wanted to show it off, haha!


Elena is starting to eat more food and drink from a sippy cup. She's liking the rice cereal mixed with water, but the one time I've tried oatmeal so far she didn't like it too much! We'll try it a few more times before we give up on it. She also likes to lick our bananas, haha. She's drinking water from a sippy cup a little bit now, especially when she's hot. She'll still blow on it, but then she'll swallow some water. One time she even grabbed the handle and drank it herself! I was amazed.

She's also getting into a lot more things--below I took some pictures after she'd shredded a tissue and dumped the entire contents of her sippy cup onto the carpet. Then she moved on to play with a toy and a blanket. silly girl!





Poor baby had her shots this week. Tuesday. She had three again. Initially she did better than last time, but it seems to me she's been fussier this time around. I didn't give her as much Tylenol or rub the shots as much--she's more expressive now and she hates the Tylenol and the massages. Maybe it's the heat, maybe she's getting some teeth, maybe she's just more expressive of the fact that she doesn't feel too hot. Who knows!

She's sleeping really well now--about ten hours. Yay for us! That's really nice, but her bedtime is around 7, so that cramps our style a little bit. It's hard to do anything in the evening. But I'm just happy that she's such a good sleeper now.

We got her a big girl bathtub. Well, a big little girl bathtub. This one is inflatable. She can sit up too well for the infant tub now, but I wasn't ready to put her in the big tub. There's more room to splash, and it's much easier to wash her hair in this one; we get less water in her eyes. The duck's beak makes this horrible sound--it scared me the first time I played it, haha! Here she is in her new tub. :)