Canton always makes sure Liberty has plenty surrounding toys/household items to entertain her. He even showed he what the Bumbo is all about!

Liberty being her happy, sweet self. She’s been smiling for a while, but I almost love the little smirks more 🙂

We heard a laugh today! Beautiful sound! Can’t wait to get one on video!

Well, actually less than that. As most of you know Canton is rarely in bed before 10pm and doesn’t nap…so, this was quite a surprise to see at 7:30! He had a dinner of cucumbers and applesauce then asked for some pasta while watching football and passed out! It also marks the first time both kids have been asleep at the same time, minus overnight! Guess all it took was soccer, playing with Elias, yard sale, and slip and sliding with Heidi! Aww, cute thing he said to Mr. Evans who asked about purchasing Liberty during the neighborhood yard sale: “Liberty would be infinity dollars!”

What’s this thing?

Wow! Liberty May is 2 months today!

Liberty had a doctor’s appointment today and she had to get some shots 🙁 She had five shots actually, way too many for anyone, especially such a sweet little girl. Dr. A was quite impressed with Liberty, she’s gone from the 5th percentile in weight to 50%, little more in height. Besides some dermatitis and perhaps an umbilical hernia not too much to complain about. Not the best pictures though, she feels pretty rough for her shots, she slept most of the afternoon and evening 🙁

She’s been getting big so quickly, I already put all her newborn stuff away 🙁

Liberty is staying awake more during the daytime now, she usually wakes around 7 but doesn’t nap until after lunch. This does make the mornings hard, especially fitting in some Canton time on top of household chores, but I’ll take her 9pm – 4:30 am sleeping (for now at least). She still loves to be held, which again makes doing anything pretty difficult, but she’s so sweet and cuddly I can’t complain.

Her favorite thing to do lately is propped sitting, a welcome respite from laying around all the time I’m sure, and a great perspective for learning new material. With all Canton’s space talk Rhonda is pretty sure Jupiter is going to be her first word. She’s been smiling for awhile but has gotten very smiley over the last week, she’s sooooo close to laughing! Liberty LOVES to watch Canton and offers him loads of smiles, which he just eats up!

Weight: 12 lbs 3 oz

Length: 23.5 inches

Canton is going to miss Ben and Becky SOOOOO much!  Not only are they super fun outside people, but they also do CRAZY stuff like this:

Watch out Robin Thicke! 😉

Who has two thumbs and LOVES Aunt Becky and Uncle Ben?

THIS GUY!

Here to tell you about Canton’s day hiking Massanutten Mountain, special guest blogger:  BECKY!

The three muskateers completed the 6 mile Massanutten Rim Trail with Canton giving us a big surprise with how well he hiked. He only needed piggy back rides for about a mile total on the trip. Multiple hikers along the way stopped to comment on Canton’s rugged camo hat and he soon told them all about his new Camelbak which helped keep him hydrated along the way. Throughout the adventure Canton learned about how trails are marked by spotting “blue clues” and making good choices in steps such as large, flat rocks and dirt instead of wobbly, pointy rocks. Canton enjoyed the view from the top and thought it was pretty funny that we were higher than the birds and that semi trucks looked so tiny from up high. The highlight of the trip was probably holding a millipede and feeling all the tiny legs. In Canton’s words “climbing up the mountain was pretty fantastic because I learned about trail markers in the mysterious forest.”

It has been one whole month since our sweet girl came into the world.

Liberty is a GREAT baby, we really are quite lucky.  She is doing well on her milestones, she loves to focus on a face, roll partway from her stomach to back, (even though Mike has seen it multiple times the whole way) she brings her hands together well, bats at objects, but our favorite is her smile.

She’s sleeping about five hours at her longest stretch, which is quite a welcome from those every two hours days.  She’s weighing in at about 9lbs 10oz and 21.25 inches.

Liberty is pretty lucky, to celebrate her month (and to ease the pain of mom going back to work) Becky and Ben are here for the week!!

Here’s to all the amazing months to come! 🙂