One More Raspberry

Raspberries with Dad

The Park

On Sunday Paul and I took Casey to the park for the first time. Although she is too small for most of the jungle gym equipment we put her in the swing and she loved it, at one point it even seemed like she was trying to pump her legs to get the swing to go higher.

Plums

I thought the plums would be a nice summer treat for Casey however I didn't realized that they are quite tart.

Casey Crawling Part 2

Casey's New Trick

Yesterday Casey hit a big milestone, she started crawling:

Paul's Birthday Present

This year for Paul's birthday his mom and I got him a helicopter tour over the San Diego coast. The tour was amazing, San Diego looks very different from the sky.

The 52 and 5 freeways:

Torrey Pines Golf Course:

La Jolla Pier:

Concert in La Jolla:

Crystal Pier in PB:

Mission Bay (where Paul and I got married):

The Mission Bay Rollercoaster:

The Lighthouse in Point Loma:

The Hotel Del Coronado:

The Convention Center

The Downtown Skyline:

Petco Park:

7 Months Old

Casey turned 7 months old yesterday, she is growing up so fast. She has become quite the active baby...as if she wasn't already...but yes she is mobile now. Although she has still not quite figured out how to crawl she is very close getting up on her knees and rocking. As of today she only knows reverse but I feel like like is going to change any minute. However even without crawling she is able to scoot, roll, and drag herself all over the place which make baby proofing top on my to do list now. Casey's hand-eye coordination is also becoming very strong and along with that she loves new toys, any new toy I introduce she loves even older toys she showed no interest in previously...but her Pooh book is still her favorite. She puts everything in her mouth and has recently shown great interest in cold things which make me wonder if she is teething. We have started to develop a little more of a schedule for sleeping which has been very difficult...lots of tears shed by both Casey and me but I think it is paying off. And I can finally see some of me in her instead of all Paul.

This is a Karey face:

Taking a picture with her and Midgey mouse is next to impossble now.

We bought her a jumper since she was growing tired of her swing (gasp the horror) and she loves it.

And in addition to trying to crawl she figure out how to get into sit position all by herself...maybe this will help her sitting skills improve as she is still very unstable.

She is getting better with her baby food, we have introduced more things this past month and her favorite so far has been pears. We have also introduced a sippy cup with water which she doesn't quite understand but she is having fun with it.

I can already tell 7 months is going to be a lot of fun.

Swimming on the 4th

Sequoia National Park - Day 2: The Congress Trial and Morro Rock

On day 2 of our trip we got an early start and headed up into the Park to the Giant Forest. The Sequoia's were amazing.




This is a cross section of a fallen tree.

The General Sherman is the largest living tree by volume on Earth.

This is a branch that fell off the General Sherman.

After seeing the General Sherman we went for a hike on the Congress Trail and shortly into the hike we had our first bear sighting. The bear was pretty far away and had no interest in us.

Below is a group of Giant Sequoia called the Senate, Cheyne and Nick are in the picture too.

At one point Casey got fussy in her backpack so Cheyne carried her...she ended up carrying her for probably about a mile.

This group of trees was called the house, there was also one tree by itself called the president but we didn't get a picture of that.

Casey ended up falling alseep while Cheyne was carrying her, she loves her big sister.

After the Congress trail we headed the Morro Rock.

And had yet another bear sighting, this time we were in the car.


Morro Rock.

We hiked all the way to the top almost 7000 ft above sea level.

Casey wasn't tired at all.

From the top you could see a prescribed fire that is burning under control in the park. They set this fire on purpose to help rejuvenate the soil.

After our hike up the rock we took a guided drive through the fire.

Quite an eventful day.