July

July, in pictures and video:

4th of July and Scott's birthday. Scott's family joined us for a visit and lunch earlier in the day and then Scott's Dad stayed overnight at our house, so he could catch a flight out of Orlando in the morning. He also came with us to see the fireworks show at lake Apopka.

Trillian stayed up wayyy past her bedtime, but was surprisingly calm and fascinated most of the evening by all the new sights and sounds.

Atom

Atom and Daddy

Trillian and Mommy

Dancing

At lunch with Greg, Tina and Gwyn. Atom gives his friend Gwyn a hug!

Atom relearned to swim again this month! He is now able to swim without the life jacket again, though he still needs a little help.

Kelly stops by for a visit. Trillian is very happy to see her!

We spent several Saturdays this month at the splash pad and farmers market in Downtown Winter Garden.

Trillian explores with Daddy

Sharing

Toward the end of the month we went to the beach. We only spent 2-3 hours there, but it was relatively fun. Expectations for going to the beach have to be reworked somewhat when you have a cranky 7 month old who just wants to eat sand and a 3 year old who just wants to be in the water, even when he's really cold and shivering. We also had some unexpected trouble with Scott's car battery on the way there and the way back and we ended up having to jump it each time.

Playing in the sand

Happy 

Trillian learned to crawl this month. Here she is crawling on the beach.

Trillian tries out the new stroller that I won in an art contest this month. We both like it!

Atom gets his hand stuck in a subwoofer.

Mommy trying to sneak computer time...

Bike ride

I thought all these pictures of them in the shopping cart were so cute and I couldn't choose which ones to include, so here are all of them.

Cute little Trillian

3 years old!! We went to my parent's house on Atom's birthday and he had a great day of swimming and playing and a yummy birthday dinner!

This was taken at his pre-birthday celebration at the T-Rex cafe in Downtown Disney with Papa, Pippa, Kelly and Travis. He had a great time there too! He's looking at his ice cream volcano cake desert!

This was taken on July 30th and it's Atom on his first day of preschool. He's going to West Orange Montessori School 5 days a week from 8:30am-12:00. He's been experiencing a little separation anxiety over these first few days since he started, but he seems to be doing well and having fun too. I'm feeling pretty good about it and I really think it's going to be a great experience for him.

He loves the playground at the school

Painting!

Trillian has started vocalizing a lot more, and she's particularly fond of screeching when she's uncomfortable or not getting what she wants. Here's a little sample of that...

And now, a more pleasant sound!