So, as my last written post would imply, things have been busy this past month! We spent much of our day outdoors, Amelia and Jacob riding their bikes, and Rebecca playing in the grass. We even stayed up late so we could do things like catch lighting bugs!
On the 14th we took everyone to the Canon Kids Carnival that Justin's work ran for their employees families, and everyone had a great time! I have a bunch of pictures of that, all ready to put up, just have to take the time to actually upload them. Rebecca even got a little toy out of going, since really she pretty much was too little to do any of the other stuff, though she did manage to participate (and win) in the little rubber duck fishing thing. She loves to pick up anything that is floating in the water!
For Father's Day weekend we went up to historic Jamestown, again I have many, many, many pictures of this... but those are definitely NOT ready to put up! Historic Jamestown is where the actual first settlement was. Unfortunately the Jamestown Settlement was not free along with everything else that WAS free that day, so we didn't get to go into the "authentic" village, but it was interesting to spend the day there anyway. We took the ferry across the water and took a slightly round-about way home, by driving through the country a little bit, and all in all had a very pleasant time!
Rebecca has made many developments in the past few weeks, the biggest, I guess, being her two teeth. They're both on the bottom, but we're pretty sure she's teething again, so we suspect top teeth are not far behind. She's crawling on her hands and knees, self feeding (sometimes feeding on things she shouldn't be, like paper!!), and standing easily... to the point that she even forgets sometimes to hold on, and remains standing for a few seconds! She addresses Justin and me by our "names" (Mum, and 'Dada'), and calls Cinders "Daw". Funny, seeing as we rarely call Cinders 'dog', lol. She also gets a kick out of reading the animal noises book we now have, courtesy of her grandmother here, because she knows what a sheep says, and there's a sheep in the book!
I've been letting Rebecca play with a wooden spoon and some bowls the past couple of days, and she just loves to bang them! She will occupy herself for about 1/2 an hour banging away on the bowls. It's fun to watch her! She even sometimes stops, puts down her spoon, and claps her hands instead. Oh, that's right... clapping is a new thing this month as well! She loves to clap her hands! She'll clap a few times, and then get a big grin on her face and act "bashful" as I like to say... some would say she "plays shy". It's very cute!
We went to the beach on Saturday evening, and we found a little water turtle! It's an Eastern Mud Turtle, from what I can find (it's the only one found in VA that matches the description even a little), and so full grown at a mere 4-5 inches long! We picked up some turtle food for it, and it seems to like the fact it doesn't have to chase live food around the water anymore! It is quite friendly, though I have to say, whoever thinks a turtle is slow, never met this one! It can go about 20 feet in less than 30 seconds! Thankfully it also ducks inside its shell as soon as a shadow crosses it, so I am able to catch it again!! Now all we have to do is find a container that is shallow, but big enough for the little guy.
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