Mia is sporting her new pink hat. Mia had a well baby check last week. At 5 1/2 months old, she weighs 19 1/2 pounds. That's in the 97% for weight for girls her age. At least we know she is eating well. 

When Mia is napping, Daniel and I go out to the balcony and play. He is on his truck, one of his favorite "outside"toys. His right hand is on his sippy cup. The other cup sitting beside the sippy has in it a stick, a dead bug, some dirt... you know, the usual boy stuff. 

We've been working on potty training a little. Daniel's progressed from refusing to sit on the potty at all, to occasionally using the potty. To make it more fun, I will read to him or play games while sitting on the potty. This particular day, Daniel was having lots of fun "hiding" under his playschool mat from Mom. 

This was one of the FEW pictures I got of Daniel. He is so busy and active, I can't get him to sit still long enough to take a picture. 

More and more people ask if our kids are twins. Although Daniel is 19 1/2 months old and Mia is 5 1/2 months old, there is only a 5 pound weight difference between the two. 

Mia is wearing her new sunhat. 

We go to a church service that meets on Saturday nights. After we change clothes and get ready to go, it makes for great "photo sessions". 

Mia is 5 1/2 months old, so we are starting on a little cereal. She doesn't seem to like rice cereal, even with a little banana smashed in it. So we tried oatmeal cereal and that went a little better. I let her suck on a steamed zucchini the other day and she LOVED it. She ate a saltine cracker last night and liked that too. I guess I'll be getting out the food processor soon and begin making her food. 

Mia practicing drinking from a sippy cup. 

Mia is rolling both ways now, front to back and back to front. She is also scooting around quite a bit. Shane keeps telling me that she will probably be crawling soon. She can also sit for several minutes unassisted. My litte girl is growing up! 

Daniel is loving on his Sissy. He always wants to hold her hand or just put his arm on her. 

I am so happy to have captured this picture. I see this kind of closeness with them every day. Even though Daniel is only 19 months old and Mia is 5 months old, they know who each other are. They are always looking into each others eyes as if to say, "I love you too." 

I have a basket that I keep some kitchen things in. Daniel likes to empty the basket, then sit and play in it. (Please do not look at the huge pile of mess and toys in the background of this picture.) 

Shane is speding some quiet time with Mia. She sat in his lap and played with his face for a long time. It was very sweet. 

Daniel is smiling so big that his cheeks expand past his face. 

Mia is nearly 5 months old and is wearing her new, pretty green dress while sitting in her rocking chair from great-grandma Laura Emily. 

Grandma, Grandpa, and Aunt Sarah came to visit. Daniel is sitting on Grandpa's lap with a book. 

Grandpa and Daniel reading together. Daniel loves his books and knows all of his favorites. I can ask Daniel to get any of his favorite books by title and he will pick it out of a stack of books and bring it to you to read. 

Daniel and Grandpa had so much fun playing together. Grandpa felt rather adventurous and climbed into Daniel's school bus. 

Who do you think is having more fun? Grandpa sitting in the bus or Daniel? 

Grandma and baby Mia having fun. 

Grandma and Mia playing together. Mia has a small boo boo on her nose from an accident a few days earlier. Oh, the memories! 

Grandma from Kansas and baby Mia. The picture was a little grainy, but I love it any way. Isn't neat how Grandma and Mia were wearing the same colored shirt? We could not have planned better coordinating outfits any better! 

Aunt Sarah snuggles with Daniel. 

We decided to take the kids to the park for a picnic and a little 4th of July fun.