Summer 2012

 This summer has been so much fun! Life is so much different now that we have a baby, but it is so much more fun! Maelynn is changing so much, and has experienced a lot of "firsts" this summer. She is trying to figure out this whole "crawling" thing we've all been talking about. She gets up on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth. She scoots around the floor, and is pulling herself up on everything! She is dying to walk around, and will always choose to stand over crawl, so I'm a little nervous that she is going to walk before she crawls. Only time will tell.

On Memorial Day we drove around to visit gravesites with my sister Trish and her kids, my mom and dad and my sister Lisa's kids. It is a tradition that I hope to establish in our new little family. This year we even traveled to Logan to see my Postma grandparent's gravesites. It was a great day.

Emma Jo, Grandma Kathy, Maelynn, Brecken, Emery, Stella, Morgan, and Addison

We celebrated Matt's 30th birthday in June by spending the weekend up at my parent's cabin in Midway with a few friends. It was a lot of fun because Maelynn was able to spend some time with her "almost birthday buddy" Piper. It was her first playtime with a baby her age, and I just know that they will be great friends! Matt's birthday was a lot of fun. We spend the night at the cabin, and the boys golfed while the girls shopped in Park City. Then we all met up at Baja Cantina for dinner. It was so great to spend time with our friends and celebrate a big milestone in Matt's life with people we care about.

Maelynn and her friend Piper. Piper is 2 days older than Mae.

Maelynn experienced her first 4th of July by spending the whole day with her cousins and grandparents. We started the day by having breakfast at Black Bear Diner (yum!) followed by a movie at Jordan Commons. Madagascar 3 was Maelynn's first movie ever and she did great! She spent the whole time nursing, sleeping, and actually watching part of the movie. She loved dancing to the songs, and she would wait until it was really quiet, then she would talk nice and loud. At least it was a kids movie and everyone was doing the same thing, so she fit right in. After the movie we went to the Sandy City Parade where we ate lots of junk food and enjoyed walking around the shops and watching the parade. After such a long fun day, Mae passed out before the fireworks even started!  I guess we will have to wait until her next 4th of July to introduce her to fireworks.

I took Maelynn to her first park this summer. It was so much fun to see her excitment when I put her in the swings! She giggled, laughed, and people watched the whole time she was swinging. She absolutely loved it!! Such a fun afternoon with just me and my sweetheart. I know that going to the park will be one of the our favorite things to do together.

Maelynn loving the swings!!

Laughing and singing the whole time!

Last week we took Maelynn to the pool with her aunt Trish and cousins Addison, Emma, and Morgan. It was so much fun to see her play in the water with her cousins. She is definitley not afraid of the water, and wanted me to just let her swim in the deep end. She is already Miss Independent! (I'm in trouble. . . )

I have a few weeks until I go back to work (part time . . . yay!!) so I'm going to try and fill our time with even more "firsts," but I think it's been a very productive, fun, and exciting first summer with our little peanut!