Helena the climber...

Savannah "did" Helena's hair.  She didn't seem to mind.  She has been quite fun lately.  Just enjoys to be around her sisters.  She also realizes that she can leave a room and come and find me as long as she doesn't mind the hard tile floor.  :)

making cupcakes on one of the hot afternoons.  ugh bad idea with pink and purple food coloring

and she has discovered how fun it is to climb on Opa's plant holder just like her sisters did

heard her squealing with glee and found her like this, trying to hang out with the other girls

Momentus occasion for Helena--she took 4 ozs from a BOTTLE from Brian.  I know I know, pretty late on that, but better late than not at all like Evelyn !  It was pretty sweet actually.  

On our "rainy" day, it was about 60 outside, so we had to bundle up of course.  I'm getting weak I know.. ;)

Oh and yes, she also decided that she would like a plug now, at 7 months old.  Strange little baby! :)  I love it though, keeps non-food items out of her mouth.  

An artist in the making, her first chalk drawing, Erika aren't you proud.  :)

Outside living

Yea... they dressed themselves and were pretty proud of it.  I don't even know what those bottoms that Savannah is wearing are from.  

Helena is staring, just waiting for her turn to play dress up...

We have been able to be outside the last few weeks.  Wind seems to be a tiny bit less, and we haven't hit days on end of 100, so this has been lovely.  We know it can't last, but will enjoy it while we can.  

She enjoys it for awhile, until she wants to just crawl around and climb on stuff

 She wanted her picture taken by our flowers that bloomed so beautifully

um, nothing else to say except nice Evie...

we have reached the stage of awkward picture taking... 

POOL time!  the girls were and still are pretty excited about the pool coming out.  

Helena HAD to try it out too of course.  We will probably need a bigger pool next summer, this barely fits the 2 big ones, let alone baby too

she thought it was great until I put her toes in the freezing cold water

photo credit to Brian.  Dad, check out these photography skills!   We are pretty proud of our gorgeous cactus. It only blooms like this for about 3 days, once a year and we didn't get any pictures last year.  So we got some good ones this year.   

More Round Rock

We had a great trip to Round Rock.  Kids did great, Helena slept okay, and we bought a new car!  Traded in our Ford Fusion for a Toyota Sequoia.  We fit so much better in the sequoia, especially if the dog is with us!  

The kids had a blast in Nana's pool, hanging out with Skylar, and we all really enjoyed spending time with family, reacquainting ourselves with each other again.  It was also lovely to be able to have a few built in babysitters of course... something we appreciate more and more!  :)  

Great to witness Skylar's baptism, such an important day for her and her family, we were glad to make the trip and look forward to the next one, especially since we can travel in style now.  :)

Helena's photo shoot in her Easter dress...  still super super blond!  She has become quite a pleasant happy baby lately, napping not her favorite thing, but otherwise no major complaints right now! :)

 goofy grin

fun age she is right now

And all of the girl cousins together.  Williams' girls matchy matchy just in case you couldn't figure out who belongs with who... ;)

Check out Skylar's first valve stem... compliments of her Aunt Martina.  Making my own sisters proud......!  She really loved Evelyn, such fun to see them all interact. 

gets to be a bit chaotic getting pictures taken, all part of the fun though!

close enough to everyone looking.  Nana with her sons and granddaughters