We're still here... really.

It's Gilda here (under Ian's name) finally dropping a line. Wow has it been busy these last few weeks. After the whole constipation thing, we had a week of crazy night wakings which just totally wore us out, then we had did some traveling over the weekend. Now we're finally home and hopefully back on our normal routine, which means more sleep for E and us finding time to actually work and update you all.

So, what have we been up to? Well we just came back from a long weekend visiting both sides of the family for Father's Day. Happy First Father's Day Ian. No we didn't really do anything special, sort of like we didn't do anything special for Mother's Day, unless you count giving Ian a couple more hours of interrupted sleep and time to sleep in. The traveling wasn't too bad, either. Actually it isn't much more work to do that than it is just to visit one side. Especially if the traveling ends while we're in Stockton. (I think it's because there seems to be more people around just wanting to hang out and subsequently wanting to play-watch E . Oh and we tend to not have to drive around the whole Bay Area to see people as everyone is located in Stockton.) So we went down on Sunday after church to see my family, which involved a two-leg trip where we finally ended up in Santa Clara for a barbecue dinner. Then back to Dublin for the night. Then on Monday afternoon, we were off to Stockton to celebrate Ian's Mom's birthday. We stayed the night there. We meant to head home on Tuesday, but just sat around enjoying not having to do much and getting fed by G&G (Grandma LaVeda and Grandpa Jim) and hanging out with Ian's siblings. So we ended up staying until Wednesday. Then we got back midday and ran a bunch of errands because E was still sleeping when we drove into Davis.

Other new developments is that E is starting to do the infinitely slow scooting (on her rear). It's funny because she's not really crawling, but if you look away and aren't paying attention, sometimes you'll look back and she's moved on her butt a few feet from where she was. Usually it's in trying to get a toy that rolled out of reach or get something she shouldn't get into. She has also been doing the infinitely slow scoot or even pulling herself forward with on her belly with her arms while on the bed (I know, we need to get the bed rail up... so many safety gadgets). Once or twice I watcher her as she was "exploring" on her stomach, pulling herself to the edge of the bed and then promptly starting to reach over to see what was on the floor. A couple times she also got quite close to falling off (well once she actually did, but I was spotting her and letting her know she'd fall and letting her bonk her head very lightly on the floor before picking her up). I think this might have been the reason for her not sleeping well last week. She's in a growth and developmental spurt. We think by the end of July, she might be crawling everyone (and also getting into everything... watch out!).

E also rocks back and forth with her hands out in front of her like she is going to get into a crawling position. Sometimes she evens gets almost on to her hands and knees, just before her legs swing behind her and she plops down on her stomach. Of course, she hasn't quite learned how to get from her stomach back to a sitting position. Once she does that, I doubt crawling all over the place will be far off. Not to mention she'll probably be able to pull herself up on things (into a standing position, which she also likes to do now too). We have to get one of the safety gates up (to keep her out of the CDs and the plastic bags in our hallway), drop her crib down and finish safety latching all those off limit drawers very soon !!